Learning the guitar and/or keyboard
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I've no clue about keyboards or pianos, but been playing guitar guitar for close to 20 years.
I don't think there is a really good resource site or something you can just buy to "learn", and honestly 99% of the instructional stuff out there for guitar is useless since that 1% fits your musical preference.
Just learn the 7 basic chords and few extra ones to get you started (google "chord chart pdf"). I highly recommend buying Hal Leonard songbooks. Like lets say you want to learn all the songs to Radiohead's Kid A album... get this http://www.halleonard.com/produc…
They are probably the closest tabs out there. With these books not only do you learn the songs you want to learn, but it's great for reference showing you a lot of chords, common things like pull-offs, bending, pick scraping, harmonics, palm-muting, and you can start learning a thing or two about reading music.
Get a few of these books and you'll be playing the things you like and when you actually do that, you start unconsciously discovering and figuring out things and you'll start coming up with your own style and techniques.Do suggest you google a little about warming up exercises and pentatonic scales. Memorize and practice a few of these scales to gain a little dexterity.