Learning to play guitar, any tips

Well, I'm learning to play guitar, and I barely have the tuning down. My uncle is supposed to help me but he's kind of flaky. So I've been trying to learn on my own, I've found a couple sites and a book, but I'm incredibly confused. I have an acoustic guitar, so if you have any tips could you send them my way. I could really use some tips, people are so confusing. I really wanna learn how to play, so I can write my own music and lyrics, but it's turned out to be uber confusing and hard. I just got the guitar for my birthday on the 11th, and so far all I did was tune it. Lemme tell you that took me at least an hour XD. It was impossible and I think 1E or the littlest string on the guitar is out of tune again. Well, if you can help it'd be greatly appreciated.
ttyl
<3 Felicia
July 14th, 2008 at 03:09am