Guitar Uebern00bness of Guitar Uebern00bery

[Bizman]

Wurz has a point there but an even better motivator is a band. Especially if the others already know what and how to play. You'd just have to learn! Yet I repeat that knowing some theory and automating some basic motor skills on the fretboard are of great help.

[MrGeezer]

If you don't start by drilling your fingers with exercises you will limit your progress.
Get a tuner and always tune first. Drill for two weeks at least before you start trying chords.
Play every note, use all 4 fingers to cover 4 frets then go up a string, after the high E string go up
4 frets and repeat for the whole neck, up and down. Do this as often as you can. As you learn some
theory you can add major and pentatonic scales and chords.

This^^^^^ Is Prime.   Starting this NOW.  Thank you!!!

[Charge]

Despite my suggestinon suffering from slight USB lag issues I'd like to recommend a "game" which you can play with a real guitar.

It's called Rocksmith and it lets you learn many different kinds of songs from the very basics to more advanced level.

By advanced I mean something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiw6YB3ZHE0

-C+