Bought an electric guitar but just wondering the best way to go about learning.

My idea is to just learn songs I know and love and go from there. But what’s the best theory to learn like scales and stuff?

The more research I do the more it’s like a foreign language

Just go on youtube and learn some songs you like, as your curiosity grows about what you're actually doing you'll go into more theory and technique but just have fun and practice as much as you can starting off. Enjoy it man

I don’t play guitar but I know about learning an instrument and I would saying learning the notes, chords and scales first are essential to actually becoming good at an instrument. You have to have the foundation first, even if you just copy the hand positions from a YouTube video, you won’t truly understand what you’re doing until you learn the fundamentals. Unfortunately that’s the boring and tedious part of learning an instrument and it’s usually where a lot of people quit but I do believe it’s rewarding if you keep up at it.

Consistency.

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Learning chord progressions is step 1 for sure

Leave your guitar out and available at all times so it won’t be a hassle to pick up. You don’t need to force yourself to play for hours a day if you don’t feel like it. That may backfire instead. Just try picking it up every hour or so for about 10 or so minutes just to make a habit of it.

All solid advice

Think I’m going to start with the basics and work from the ground up.

Notes, scales, keys, progressions.

Then I actually know what I’m playing and why I’m playing it.

come back when u can play wonderwall

Same question but for piano

Does someone know a good site or YouTube channel

Its gonna hurt your fingers

i'd say the basic progression would be learning what the open strings are and how the notes change up the neck, then like open chord finger patterns, then onto bar chords, then being able to play the major and minor scales outta those chords(up the neck), then learning the CAGED system, then the pentatonic scale(which a LOTTA songs use in their solos). after allat, i'd say you'd be a pretty dangerous beginner/intermediate

there's a lot of nuance in between of course but i think those are the main beginner s***s

As others have said, find songs you want to play with 3-4 chords and learn them. Then move on to others. I've been playing guitar since I was little and nothing beats practicing consistently. You won't do that unless you're working towards something.

just do it. 1 hour a day, 365hrs a year of experience ,you'll definitely see a difference if you were to start today. only look up something that you're stuck on and just dive in and practice.

Focus on learning to form chords for now I'd say if you just got it. Find some easy 2/3/4 chord songs and work on those. As other user said leave your guitar on a stand so you can pick it up & play any time, that is a massive help.

i started with that rocksmith game. Was really good for the first 2 months. I developed a bunch of bad habits though so I then went to lessons.