Which theory would you learn first as a beginner?

[red lair]

Hey guys and girls,

I have just started playing guitar and have bought a strat, a vox ac4tv tube amp, and a mxr carbon copy delay. My goal is to be able to cover Edges guitar in U2 songs and also make songs with similar sounds to the work of Edges. I would like to know which theory would most help to first learn if this is what I would like to accomplish? If you as a more experienced guitarist than I, looked back, which parts of theory have you found has helped you the most in creating your own guitar riffs and songs in a similar nature to Edges?

Many thanks for any opinions
Joel

 

[celticfc09]

well hopefully you know about building a chord, scales, keys (circle of fifths) timing notation, but if not learn that. (If you actually want to know how to play guitar versus knowing how to use a guitar to play a song, which it sounds like you do.)

after all that look up dissonance and consonance, these are the key to melody


for anything on Edge's delay use this site A Study of The Edge’s Guitar Delay (U2)