Some Beginner Help...

[a7xdrummer00]

Hey guys, I'm actually a drummer who came to the other side of the forum lol. But ah, my brother is learning guitar and I'm somewhat helping him through my little knowledge of guitar. I came here askin' you guys for some help. Alright, the kid only enjoys rock music. He's really gotten into bands like Avenged Sevenfold, System of a Down, Rise Against... Stuff like that to my knoweldge. In years I hope to convert him into Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, and all that good stuff haha. But I was wondering if you guys could help me out on these questions. He has some cheap guitar you get for a package in all those AMS mags, a Behringer or something. I was wondering what would be a good guitar/guitarpackage to get... Maybe limiting the price range to 300 bucks or so, just so he has more to work with. Also if you know a certain pedal he may want in the future for his playing, hit me up. And at the moment I have him working on Smells like Teen Spirit and some Green Day song, Wake Me Up When Semptember Ends or something, easy stuff y'know. Maybe you guys could name some songs that would interest him that you'd think would be fairly easy.

[Insomniac20k]

I started with Greenday and Nirvana. They're fun and easy but go for the old greenday stuff, pretty much anything off Dookie or Insomniac is good for a beginner (and anything off American Idiot is no good for anybody) Check out http://www.rondomusic.net if you need a step up guitar, they're of great quality and they're very reasonably priced.

Of course everyone gets one of those boss distortion pedals eventually ;)

[GreyHam]

a distortion box would be pretty helpful, theres probably very few guitarists who DONT have one of some kind

[Devil Inferno]

Perhaps you want to try some multi-fx instead of single pedals. Don't buy extremely cheap ones, but don't get those 1 million dollar ones (unless you're rich). Get a mid range, zoom, digitech and boss make some good multi-efx for starters, and you can get flangers, choruses, delays, noise gates, compression, different kinds of distortion, wah, even pitch shifters, volume control and much much more with multi-efx nowadys.

Oh yes and songs.

Yeah, try out the punk rock stuff, and the nirvana. (you know, green day, nirvana, blink182)

And use that to lead him into more lead playing or complicated playing. There's lots of melodic punk rock/metal out there today, Avenged sevenfold, etc, while staying at the green day type of thing, try to use a similar genre to bring him into more complicated pieces.

Eg, from 4 power chord punk songs into a more complicated, riff based metalcore song (a7x - unholy confessions) whilst still remaining in the punkish mood.