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We have an old Yamaha G-55a that my mom got way back, thats been collecting dust in my sisters room, and since i dont do anything at home except listen to music and play games when im bored, i decided I should try and learn to play guitar. Plus I wanna try and impress a girl, just so she knows i do something other then nothing in my life. I think this would be beneficial cause i've always tapped along to music when I listen to it, I know how to read piano music for the most part from my piano days, and i mostly understand guitar chords.

Only problem is; i have trouble placing my fingers around, AND also, how on a guitar chord, it says the number of which fret you should be playing on (with 0 meaning the string is free) but I dont know if they number frets from the top of the neck or from the bottom, so i can't actually understand the chords i've seen thus far.

Right now im trying to learn "Far Away by Jose Gonzales cause it's an awesome song, i picked up the first to lines using guess work and tunning of the guitar, so, if we're going from the top of the neck down to the base, I do string 5 on the 2nd fret followed by sting 6 open, but then, even with trying to tune the other strings, I can't find the other notes! I suppose I could try and tune the entire guitar with the piano, but i think it's an octave lower (as in below middle C) then the piano, and im use to using C (for trumpet and what not) to tune, not anything else

Any suggestions on my course of action?