Beginner guitar tips for fast progression. 10 points?

Sorry in advance if this sounds rude but you don't mention actually learning to play the guitar - that's the most important thing. Over the years we've had lots of questions from people who've missed out that essential step and have just tried to learn indiviual songs (often from tab) but soon reach a stage where they are stuck.

Learning the basics, especially from a good teacher is the first step.

Get lessons with a professional guitar teacher.

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Practice. Repeat forever.

Also:

Look at some things like the old Shadows instrumentals. They are very distinctive and mostly fairly easy to learn the lead part.

eg.

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/the-shadows-apache...

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/the-shadows-riders...

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/the-shadows-fbi-ta...

(Use the top button in the right column to play each piece).

For more complex pieces, look at the "Lick Library" tutorials.

They take you through complete songs literally note-by-note, showing the exact fretting and techniques involved.

They have videos / DVDs for just about every major artist or band there is.

Just be careful when choosing pieces; think what they will sound like with just a single guitar. Quite a lot of music is not really distinctive as a simple instrumental - it's fine for backing if you are going to sing over it, but not often for guitar only, many are simple and repetitive.

For casual playing, such as sitting around a campfire with friends, find songs with repetitive chord progressions and basic chords -- C G C F etc -- that can be easily remembered and strummed, maybe learn a couple different picking styles, look on YouTube for "folk finger picking pattern" or something like that. Work your way up to more complicated songs.