Real beginner

Hmm.... the title of this group is alt.guitar.beginner but you all seem
frighteningly advanced to me :-)

I, on the other hand, am a beginner in the truest sense of the word -
52-years old, completely tone deaf, can't hold a tune to save my life and
fingers like sausages. I'd never even held a guitar in my hands at all, not
ever in my life, until ten days ago when I was the winning bidder on an Ebay
auction - the princely sum of 25 quid (that's GBP sterling for anyone
outside the UK) got me an Encore Strat, 10W practice amp, lead, stand, strap
and headphones!! Oh, and I also got a Marshal MG30DFX for decent money as
well.

Had my very first ever guitar lesson on Wednesday and it's going to be a
weekly thing with lots of practice between the lessons - finger ends are a
bit tender :-)

Anyway, what I'm finding most difficult at the moment is coming off a string
cleanly. I can hold the string down, get the note I want, but then as I
release the string it sounds the open note. Is that just something that I'll
learn not to do as I get better or is it down to the guitar not being a very
good one? I don't want to spend a lot of money at this stage in case I don't
take to it and give up.

Cheers,

John


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