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Meh, lessons are only good if you aren't a good self-learner. In this day and age, guitar notes are useless, unless you plan on playing other peoples work. In my opinion, the ultimate goal of playing the guitar is composing your own songs/riffs etc. Start with learning the basic chords and understand how the chords are each constructed. Use online sources such as www.looknohands.com or buy a chord book from your local music store. Once you've mastered basic open chords then try barring them across the fret board. This is very tricky, and many people never truly learn to do this properly. However, once you do master them, boy do they sound better than open chords! Try to learn some really unorthodox chords. They may be difficult to remember and position, but when time comes to compose, they sound real neat.
If you still haven't learned how to strum properly after learning chords, learn how to! Strumming is what makes a chord if you ask me. DO NOT STRUM WITH THE PALM OF YOUR THUMB! Learn how to strum with/without a pick. Learn to keep a rhythm. Picking is another technique you must master. Learn to properly pick. Not the two-finger pick. Grabbing a guitar lessons book on picking could be useful.
Now that you know chords, chord construction, strumming and picking, you can download almost any guitar tab and play it with ease. Doing the aforementioned things, will allow you to pick up tabs sooo much more easier, than just learning tabs before you've learned anything else.
Now, this is where most poeple end their guitaring adventure. But the fun just starts now. SCALES! Scales are fundamental in guitar. Mastering the scales and understanding how riffs are made can make you incredibly amazing. Once you've learned the fundamental scales of guitar, try "improv"ing on them and try playing them in different patterns, adding bends, fast tapping (is that what they call it) etc. If you can learn how to improve well on scales, then you can begin your soloing career. Pick up some Jimi Hendrix, Slash, etc tabs and learn some of their genius solos. Get some pointers from those guys. Then record countless different rhythms on your computer/tape or whatever, then play the rhythms and just solo over them, add licks, try different stuff, the fun is endless. Oh, one more thing, you have to learn keys and understand that your improv scale must be in the right key of the chord progression. Picking the key in a song isn't very difficult, and is GENERALLY either the first or last chord. But that is NOT always true.
Then use your knownledge of chords, come up with a good chord pattern. Adding a picking scheme to those chords. Create a couple of riffs inbetween the chords if you like. Compose a solo from the scales you learned. And voila you are a guitar player that has just composed a song.
Now its not that easy. Learning all the stuff I've talked about takes years, or decades for some people. But get learning!
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