I’ve been playing guitar since I was 12(I’m now over 40) and I picked it up from learning chords and watchin guys who had played a while. Then, you bought books or tapes etc and got the basics right and then progressed. But it would hurt your fingers but you practised on. I give lessons now and still play rock and blues.

Anyway, if you’re really keen, you’ll need to practice like mad but still enjoy it – whether you learn with CD’s, books or over the Internet. Here’s a couple of sites which will be useful and should do the trick. Let me know how you get on in your quest to become another Eric Clapton or Jimi hendrix.

http://www.onlineguitarlessons.co.uk/
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa071200a.htm
http://www.guitarbasics.com/guitar/daily/introduction.htm

The first is good, the third one is a bit more advanced but good too.

They wont mess up your PC cos I’ve checked them bur always make sure your antivirus is up to date and make sure your firewall settings are set to “on”.