You can't just explain how to play. My best advice is to learn to read tab. Go to guitartabs.cc or tabcrawler and find a song you would like to play. When you start to see what they did in the song you'll begin to catch on. I started with "Nothing Else Matters" by metallica.

thin-------------0--------------7-7---7p0----
xxxx-----------0---0----------0--------------
xxxx--------0--------0------0----------------
xxxx-----------------------------------------
xxxx-----------------------------------------
thick---0----------------0--------0----------

The lines correspond to the strings of your guitar and the numbers tell you what fret to use so the"0" means open just play without fretting anything. the "7" means the bottom string on the 7th fret. "7p0" means to play the 7th fret then release it without hitting the string again. I hope this helps. Good luck and have fun.

[Edited by magicninja on 04-02-2002 at 10:49 AM]