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What is the best way to teach yourself to play guitar?

So i got a brand new gibson acoustic guitar, and im going to be taking professional lessons once school starts but in the meantime i want to try and teach myself. any suggestions?

Fast Track Music Instruction has books on Guitar ,bass ,keyboards and drums, I got one for the bass and think it’s really good . They start you out with the basics, ie, put this finger on this fret and that this note, it sounds cheesy but for me its been great. It also comes with a cd that you can play along to once you get past the basics. It shows you riffs scales and runs plus after a few lessons puts the notes you’ve learned into a song to get you playing and the songs are on the cd in either full instrumental or with the bass line or whichever instrument left out. I had a lot of fun with this. Plus they come in stages 1,2 and 3 .

Kim Mitchell plays with the new Gibson Robot Guitar