WOW!!!! Thank you so much for all of this. It truly does help and now I have a lot of "work" to do with getting into to all of this. Just to answer some of your questions: I live in the Denver, Colorado area, I sing,and am interested in learning the guitar. And also, if you reccomend (or have reccommended) an artist or group, can you tell me a little bit about them and what's good about them? Thanks a lot everybody.