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If you want to learn digital photography then here are some resources you might find to be helpful

You can use a search engine like Google to find many free tutorials, forums and other information

Digital photography tutorial

How use digital camera

Consumer Reports has useful informaton for digital cameras and etc.

You can go to your local library or store or an online store like www.amazon.com to find many good books, DVDs, and etc. for learning about photography

The book publisher Visual has many good books for learning various computer skills

Visual books for learning about digital photography

YouTube has many video tutorials

Digital camera

Good luck and I hope this will help!

I want to learn how to play the electric guitar. Any tips or pointers?

Hello there,

Kind to buy? Any will do to learn on. Look around at guitars in whatever price range you want to spend. Stick to the known brands and you will be all right. Brands such as Fender/Squier, Epiphone, Ibanez and the like. Any guitar that strikes your fancy will do. Too much is made about what is the best model to learn on.

Amp? Absolutely. An electric guitar is not very loud. You will need an amp. As a beginner you want a combo amp. That means the amplifier and speaker are in the same cabinet. Tube amps are great, but I do not recommend them for a beginner. Too much care and maintenance involved. A solid state amp is simple to use. Flip the switch and start playing. I believe digital modeling amps are great for beginners. These have the sounds of several classic amps programmed in. That means they are versatile. They also have several commonly used effects built in. That saves you the cost of buying separate pedals. Fender, Vox, Peavey, Line 6 and Marshall all make comparable models. All are good. They are priced the same. I think the Fender Mustang is the better buy because it has more power and more features. For instance, at the $100 level, there is the Peavey Vypyr 15, the Line 6 Spider 15 and the others are 15 watts also. But the Mustang I is 20 watts.

The Mustang I is a 20 watt 1x8 (one 8 inch speaker) that costs $100. The Mustang II is a 40 watt 1x12 that costs $200.

What to learn? If you are serious about learning you will find a way to take lessons. Going on your own has a much steeper learning curve. You tend to develop improper technique and bad habits that limit your ability to progress. It can take years to unlearn a bad habit.

Youtube? There are good videos on Youtube. Do not make the mistake of thinking they are a substitute for private instruction. They are not. The videos can help you learn. But a good instructor is the most important factor (aside from your dedication to practice).

This guy has a series of 12 lessons on Youtube. About as good as any. He covers the basics very well. He used to email you the lessons. Now he has them all on Youtube.

How long to play a song? You will learn to play songs almost immediately. Some on the Water is an easy song. You can learn the intro riff in about 2 minutes.

There is so much more to learning the guitar than just playing simple chords and playing basic songs. There are so many techniques to learn. You probably already understand some theory. But with the trumpet, you do not learn about chords. Also, as you will soon find out, the guitar more complex. With the trumpet there is only one middle C. If a song calls for middle C, you know exactly what to play. With the guitar, you will find it several places on the fretboard. The great thing about the guitar is the challenge it presents. You can learn to play some songs in a day or so. But after playing for 50 years, you will realize how much more there is to learn. No matter how much you have learned, there is always more you can learn.

Other items you should get: an electronic tuner (it makes life so much easier), a couple picks (try different ones), extra set of strings (same size as what came on your guitar), a strap (so you can play standing up), and an instrument cord (to connect the guitar to the amp).

I have no statistical data to support this, just my own observation during over 50 years of playing. About 8 to 10 out of every 100 kids who get a guitar actually learn to play decent. Out of every 10 who make it to play decent, only 2 or 3 every become really good. It takes desire, dedication and effort. It does not come easy. You do not pick up the guitar and magically start making beautiful music. You need to learn a lot of seemingly boring stuff. Those boring drills are exercises to give you a solid understanding of the basics. There is where most of the kids fail. They want to skip over that and just strum a few chords to play a song. It is like building a house, but not bothering to put a solid foundation down first. The structure is collapses. So if you are serious about learning and want to be one of the 8 who get to play decent, get some lessons.

Later,

Digital Cable?

You usually go to your local cable company to get the digital box although there are aftermarket digital cable boxes available. In case you were wondering, you can't steal digital cable with any aftermarket box because the signal is a two way signal and comes from the cable company (unlike in the old days with the old analog cable boxes). If you weren't worried about that, then sorry. Then just another FYI something trivial you learn everyday on Yahoo Answers.

Getting your box thru the cable company will cost you about $8/month. Buying it at Best Buy might cost you $250. In the long long run, you'd save money buying it on your own. But that would by years down the road. So most people just rent it thru the cable company at $7-$10/month depending on where you live and how expensive your cable company is.

Really just sounds like you should just get an extra cable box for another $7/month. Some cable companies let you extra boxes at a discount after the first box. Others, it's all the same price for additional boxes.