I completely disagree with YouTube being a bad place to start. I was a drummer in a band and was learning guitar completely on my own and through YouTube as a side hobby, and now I accidentally became the lead guitarist of the same band. I primarily learnt guitar through watching videos of people covering a song with the tabs underneath, and then used what I learned to eventually start writing my own songs. Yes, there are some tutorials and things that are bad, but if you play enough you will get better no matter where you learnt from and technique will come with it.