Do you have any advice for playing the guitar?

I am going to learn how to play the guitar, I am teaching myself, but I have a friend who will occasinally help me out. Today was the first day I've ever even picked up a guitar. He showed me 3 basic chords- G, D, and A, and gave me a simple song to work on using those 3 chords.





Any advice you have for playing the guitar would be greatly appreciated. Or any information about frets and tuning would be helpful as well.Do you have any advice for playing the guitar?
im exactly like you- i just started to teach myself the acoustic. its actually easier to learn on the electric because you dont have to press the strings down quite as hard as the acoustic. but some tips would be to make sure to keep your nails short, and fingers straight so you dont run into any other notes while pressing down the strings. i found a great site for tuning your guitar- and if you dont keep it tuned it will make the songs tottaly different:








http://www.guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/getting_started/how_to_tune_a_guitar.htm





that site also has greattt online lessons:





http://guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/














good luck and just keep trying because i know its easy to get frusterated. :DDo you have any advice for playing the guitar?
Don't give up. It gets frustrating at times, but don't give up. It takes time. Good Luck and have fun.