midchuck, what a fascinating typo: I didn't know they made cameras in Fiji!

Gloredhel, when I got my first guitar (I was a second-year med student and had a roommate who came home from class every day and played his guitar for an hour and I said, "I wanna do that!"), I got a Simon and Garfunkel songbook and a Gordon Lightfoot songbook and a Peter Paul and Mary songbook, and a few songs and chords from my sister who had just learned guitar. Then I sat down every day for an hour or so and forced my fingers to do these things that they had never done before...and after a while it started to sound like music! Or, there's the other method, if you live within 500 miles of Toronto: go take lessons from Rick Fielding! Oh, wait a minute....you said "in future". That means you're probably on the older side of the pond. So you'll have to wait until Rick comes back there. Of course, you can probably find someone there to give you a lesson or two. Just don't do it in a pub, or they'll arrest you. (But at least you'll have a clean and well-preserved guitar! Glad you found the link useful.)

Aloha,
Mark