About to start back into guitar, suggestions? sites?

I tried getting into guitar but my electric's D string snapped, so now after a while I have ordered a new set of string. Are there any good tutorial sites that you guys know of? I don't want to learn just songs, I want to learn how to read music with guitar, not just memorize songs and not know what chords/notes I'm playing. Thanks for any help!

I taught myself how to read guitar music through Wikipedia, Guitar Pro (a program which shows you the sheet music and tabs side by side), and some elementary school theory. I find using tabs easier though.

All Guitar Chords.

I find this particularly helpful.

It's alot easier to develop muscle memory and learn chords and notes by ear and tabalature before you take on theory.

Soon you can match chords with their same note on the low E string, and go on from there. After this learn anything that inspires you, pay for a teacher, take classes at school, and play every single day.

After you've physically learned your instrument and tuned your ear, it might be much easier to observe and learn theory. It will all fall into place and you'll discover theory that will advance you to even higher levels of playing.

Keep yourself interested, every once in awhile challenge yourself with a new trick or technique.

I reccommend two handed tapping, pinch harmonics(those screaming squeals got to get the sweet spot on the string with your thumb and pick), pentatonic scale play it up and down, and soon it will turn into a field of rock n roll or blues lead and solo notes and bends. And lastly sweep picking, remember to focus on the picking hand because you are just playing a chord one note at a time in a fluid strum.

Keep rocking and my last advice is too remember other musicians or famous ones when you struggle, and that it's playing and practicing whenever possible. And the thing about muscle memory is that after you've played so much you can rock riffs or progressions with the axe on your back, or blindfolded, or while even talking to another person. After that you can begin singing and playing at the same time, alot of people struggle with starting that because you need to learn the instrument first.

PM me if you have a question I've been playing for a long time.

It's all natural to memorize the chords to where your hand will fall into place right away so you can even watch someone play a chord progression and instantly play along with them.

I never mentioned any "heavy metal" aspects of playing. Most metal music is always downtuned, to make a powerchord accessable with one finger for fast power chord playing. Things like palm muting to get crunching notes and alternating, and down picking practice are the road to metal.

For example the intro the A7X's song Unholy Confessions is a wonderful example of down picking and palm muting one string while playing the other open.

Metallica's Master of Puppets :20 seconds into the song the riff is a phenomenal example of good up and down alternate picking between two strings to create the desired rapid notes flying at your face effect.

Another mention, many people regard Kirk Hammett as an pentatonic abuser, a simple but effect blues and rock scale that you should learn. That said, mastering that scale will enable to you learn many solos just by ear even.

Also for the A7X player, his opening to solos sound amazingly complex but it's only quick quintuplet notes down on one string, then the next one after, then the next string after, followed by a sweep to lead to another quick descent of more quintuplets producing a crazy sounding solo.

It's all really simple stuff, and sorry for ranting about the two guitarists up top I enjoy both bands I'm just cynical when it comes to guitar playing,

"heavy metal" aspects of playing. Most metal music is always downtuned, to make a powerchord accessable with one finger for fast power chord playing. Things like palm muting to get crunching notes and alternating, and down picking practice are the road to metal.

CattiJack