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Easy Songs For Guitars

Keith Douglas — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:36:25 +0000

I always tell beginners to invest in a proper guitar learning system or a real live teacher if possible, rather than searching for free lessons from YouTube. There is some logic behind this:

Mainly, it's a lot more conducive to learning to have a system to follow. With paid lessons such as Jamorama and JamPlay you get a structure to follow which helps you see your progress and encourages you not to give up.

Compare that to randomly surfing round YouTube and getting distracted with ""related videos". The key to mastering guitar is focus and a well laid out course will help you do just that.

My partners over at JamPlay have kindly supplied some free lessons to showcase their teaching course. I'd highly recommend checking out JamPlay if you want to learn guitar songs - it's one of the best guitar learning systems out there.

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Here's a list of the free lessons of songs that I hope you'll like:

Lesson 1: Iron Maiden's The Trooper Guitar Lesson
Lesson 2: ACDC's Back In Black Tutorial
Lesson 3: Learn The Black Crowes' She Talks to Angels on Guitar
Lesson 4: How To Play The Star Spangled Banner on Guitar

How To Play The Star Spangled Banner on Guitar

Keith Douglas — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:06:25 +0000

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America.

Made popular by guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Joe Satriani, you too can learn it and hold your head patirotically high! Enjoy the long sustaining notes and savour the elegance of the melody.

Here's a free lesson on how to play The Star-Spangled Banner generously provided by our partners at JamPlay

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Learn The Black Crowes’ She Talks to Angels on Guitar

Keith Douglas — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:38:01 +0000

Here's an acoustic version of "She Talks to Angels", a song by The Black Crowes from their 1990 debut album, Shake Your Money Maker.

Extremely popular song back in the 90s, the song appears to be about a woman who lost a child (one of the "angels" of the title) and who now copes with her pain through the use of illegal drugs.

This is a great song to add to your bag of tricks because a lot of people are going to know it and be able to sing along.

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ACDC’s Back In Black Tutorial

Keith Douglas — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:23:29 +0000

AC/DC's Back In Black appears as the first song on the B side of the album, also entitled Back In Black and released in 1980.

Famous for the opening guitar riff played by Angus Young, the song is in fact a tribute to their ex-singer and friend Bon Scott.

Scott's replacement Brian Johnson who wrote the lyrics, was interviewed for Mojo magazine and said, “they said, ‘it can’t be morbid-it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration.’” He added: “I thought, ‘Well nae pressure there, then‘ (laughs). I just wrote what came into my head, which at the time seemed like mumbo, jumbo. ‘Nine lives. Cats eyes. Abusing every one of them and running wild.’ The boys got it though. They saw Bon’s life in that lyric.”

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Iron Maiden – The Trooper Guitar Lesson

Keith Douglas — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:22:46 +0000

"The Trooper" is a song written by Iron Maiden bass player Steve Harris. It's a cracking song and in my book goes down as a great song for beginners to learn.

It's generally considered by Maiden fans as one of their best songs and when they perform it live lead singer Bruce Dickinson often wields a giant Union flag and replica army jacket.

Based on a poem by Tennyson, Dickinson would read out parts of the poem as an introduction to the song. In their subsequent 2003 album Dance of Death, Iron Maiden reference the poem again in the song Pachendale.

The Trooper is also one of Maiden's few songs which was played a lot on commercial radio giving it the publicity need to reach no.28 in the US rock charts.

Get your axe out and enjoy The Trooper guitar lesson.

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Learning How To Read Guitar Tabs: Your Best Tool For Learning Songs

Keith Douglas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:25:23 +0000

One of the most important skills in learning to play guitar is to become intimately familiar with the neck of your guitar.

Hand in hand with becoming familiar with the notes on the neck of the guitar goes learning how to read guitar tabs. Guitar tabs represent a kind of short hand which is unique to those playing a guitar. It tells you which strings to hold down and which to leave open. The tabs also tell you which fret to place your finger on.

To learn to play guitar tabs you must first identify each string on the guitar. Starting with the thinnest first string you have an E which will be number 1. The second is B or number 2. The third is G or number three The fourth is D or number 4. The fifth is A or number 5 and the thickest string which is the sixth is E or number 6.

The boxes on the guitar neck which are known as frets are numbered from the far end (1) to the one nearest to you (usually about 19). Learning how to read guitar tabs means understanding which string to hold down and on which fret. For example, the notation might read 1-2 which means hold down the first string on the second fret. For example:

------ 2 ----------------------------------

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To play guitar chords you have to hold down several strings at the same time. Chords are very easy to learn if you follow the guitar tabs. To play a C chord, the tab would read like this: 2-1 4-2 5-3. For a G chord it would read: 1-3 2-2 6-3. Studying chord charts can help you easily pick up playing by tabs. When you see a 0 by the string it means play the string without holding it down (play the string 'open').

C Major

-------- 0 ------

-------- 1 ------

-------- 0 ------

-------- 2 ------

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G Major

-------- 3 ------

-------- 0 ------

-------- 2 ------

--------3 -------

To be able to learn guitar tabs there are several other symbols you will need to understand. If you see 'h' in the notation it means to hammer on the note, the opposite would be to pull off the note which is noted by the letter 'g'. The letter 'b' tells you to bend the string to give the note a wobble effect. The letter 'r' is the code for releasing a note and moving on to the next one. When you see a '/', slide down to the next note by moving your finger on to the next note in the tab.

Learning how to read guitar tabs is one of the best ways to start learning songs quickly and easily. There are dozens of websites out there that have guitar tabs for most any song you know so it's well worth learning how to read them.

Who Else Wants Easy Guitar Songs to Learn?

Keith Douglas — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:18:26 +0000

Do you already know how to strum a few major chords on the guitar?

If you know G, C and D you are ready to make music, some of the top songwriters of the last 40 years have built their entire careers around transitioning between those three chords.

Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry are among the performers who only used a few chords but still produced a string of chart topping hits. Even the Beatles started out with simple three chord arrangements; ever heard of Love, love me do? Learn the 7^th chords of A, E and B and you can play it. Don't believe it? Click here

There is nothing like learning a song to build a young guitarists confidence. New students are often given the chord progressions to “A Horse with No Name” because many consider it to be the single easiest song to play on guitar.

The song consists of two simple chords an E minor and a unique variation on a D. It is played in 4/4 time which means there are four beats per measure with a chord change after each measure.

The two chords involve holding down two strings inside the second fret, the Em has your fingers on the fourth and fifth strings while the D derivative has the fingers on the sixth and third strings. Strum the strings down on each beat and change chord every fourth beat and you have mastered the song that was a big hit for the group America.

There are a number of very well known songs that are composed of simple chords just like A Horse with No Name. Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay can be picked up in a short period of time. Pink Floyds Comfortably Numb is also a tune listed in most easy play guitar books; it is composed of five simple chords.

Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes is another song that can be learned on the guitar in a short period of time. If you know your root chords (CAGED) you are home free. Another popular song that you can learn with ease is Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's; a few simple chord progressions and you are home free.

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