[silverbullet5774]

I started learning completely by myself. I snatched my girlfriends Les Paul one day while I was waiting for her at her house, and grabbed a folder full of tablature she had printed off. Then I just began to fiddle around and try to understand what was going on. About two weeks later I couldn't get playing guitar out of my mind and was over their every day spending more time with the les paul than with her. Then she bought me my first guitar for our anniversary(I have such a kickass girlfriend). Next thing I did was borrow a master of puppets tab book from a friend and leanred some metallica. Since then I have taken private lessons(which were lame), researched books, magazines, dvds, websites, and picked peoples minds about things daily. Considering I have dealt with almost every format of lerning to play guitar(and in two years nonetheless), I have to say as long as you are learning SOMETHING new and keeping your old chops polished, you will become a better player. Something else I do is just pop in a cd and make my own leads and fills up, or at least attempt to. THis really helps the improv alot.