There are a LOT of good Blender tutorials on YouTube! The ones I frequent the most are Andrew Price (he's the Blender Guru after all, what could be more appropriate?) Blender for Noobs, BornCG, Blender Cookie, and Sardi Pax. There are many others, though!
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