Everyone has a different way of learning. I've been playing since i was 9 and i'm hitting 24 in a weeks time. Been playing as a professional since 19.

In all honesty its about what you want to play. Forget learning chords or scales just yet. They are not important when starting out.

Best way to learn is to learn to play what you want to play and you'll start to learn more and more. When you start to learn your chords, you'll realize that most the stuff you've been playing is whatever chord you maybe learning.

Everyone is suggesting to learn Scales and Chords straight out but trust me when i say you'll give up learning because its not what you want to play.

I've been teaching for the past year now and i found students losing motivation when you tell them what to learn. Now i ask them to bring in a piece they want to learn and i'll break down to make it easier to teach.

Here's me playing a piece i wrote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HMQhuml0uc