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Easy Songs To Play On The Guitar

Ricky — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:05:35 +0000

There are lots of easy guitar songs that can be learned in a short time. Horse With No Name by America is possibly THE easiest because you can get away with playing this song using only one chord.

Most songs have at least three chords but that does not make them hard to play. Bald Headed Woman was released in the sixties by firstly, The Kinks and then later The Who with session player Jimmy Page playing on both versions.

theeasyguitarsongs.com is a site designed for people who want to learn songs that are easy to sing and play along with. Here is the list of songs from the site:

Avril Lavigne: Complicated, I Will Be, I’m With You

Boys Like Girls: Two Is Better Than One

Coldplay: Clocks, Viva La Vida

David Cook: Always Be My Baby, Time Of My Life

Daughtry: Home, Life After You, No Surprise, Over You, What About Now

Eric Clapton: Wonderful Tonight

Green Day: When September Ends

Howie Day: Collide

Jason Mraz: I’m Yours, Lucky

Lady Gaga: Bad Romance, Poker Face

Lifehouse: You And Me

Ronan Keating: When You Say Nothing At All

Oasis: Wonderwall

Owl City: Fireflies

Plain White Ts: 1 2 3 4

Taylor Swift: Fifteen, Love Story, Teardrops On My Guitar, You Belong With Me

The Calling: Go Wherever You Will Go

The Script: The Man Who Cant Be Moved

U2: With Or Without You

guitarnoise.com has more lessons on how to play easy guitar songs but with maybe a little more depth than theeasyguitarsongs.com

Okay, you can learn to play a bunch of easy songs if you want to but you can also take a little time to learn the half a dozen chord shapes you need to play hundreds of songs. That’s right – contrary to popular opinion, playing popular songs on the guitar is not rocket surgery.

all-guitar-chords.com can generate the charts for any song you would care to learn. All you need to do is put in some practice time learning to finger them.

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Rhythm Guitar Lessons

Ricky — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:06:25 +0000

There’s more to playing rhythm than just guitar strumming lessons but learning to strum chords is a good start. If you want to learn to be a solo guitar player learning to play rhythm is important. It will give you an understanding of the guitar will help you to establish communication with the other members of the band.

If you can afford to pay a teacher for guitar lessons, group lessons will be a great way to learn rhythm. The conventional guitar learning wisdom says you should learn in one-on-one lessons but playing along in a group will quickly show you whether you are have a natural aptitude for rhythm or if you have to begin slowly and develop your rhythmic sense.

If you are taking free rhythm guitar lessons from YouTube for instance, you could introduce some variety by downloading the tab for your favorite songs and play the chords along to the song playing on a CD player. Hearing the original song in speakers along with your own efforts at playing the chords will be of more benefit than playing along to the song using earphones.

If you decide to learn rhythm guitar by playing along with songs, make sure you learn the chords to two or three songs at a time. Unlike the group guitar strumming lessons, at home alone it is easy to get stuck in a rut where you play the one song for weeks without making any real progress.

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Guitar Strum Patterns

Ricky — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:23:24 +0000

A typical issue that beginner guitar players come up against is the lack of guitar strum patterns in sheet music and tab. It sure would be nice if all tablature and sheet music had the guitar strum patterns included. It sounds logical, doesn’t it? You get the notes, the chords and the lyrics, but not strumming patterns.

You could even imagine a range of alternative strumming patterns included in written music. For example, you could have the pattern used by the artist on the record or a simplified version that would suit a beginner guitarist. You can tell from the sheet music where to change chords in a song, but for a beginner it would be much less of a chore if a strumming pattern was given.

This point of view seems to be purely that of a newbie guitar player. More experienced guitarists seem to hold the view that fooling around with guitar strum patterns is a natural part of the guitar player’s training. The key is to start with your own “near enough” idea of the song’s strumming just to give you enough practice to get the chord changes right. This process will give your muscles and your mind the kind of practice you need to make up your own strum patterns.

You can start the process of making up your own guitar strum patterns by listening to the song and getting the hang of the rhythm used by the guitarist. You should be able to come up with something that will at least fit in with the song. And remember to bear in mind the time signature of the song and to keep your metronome handy.

The final aim of learning to play songs on the guitar is to play YOUR way. Sure, many guitar players take pride in reproducing the sound of the original artist, but that’s already been done. You can come up with your own totally original arrangement of the song. Start with a basic pattern that fits the song’s rhythm. For a song in 4/4 time, as most popular songs are, a Down Down-Up Up-Down pattern works well. If you look on the internet for guitar strum patterns, you will see that the way of writing strum patterns is simply to use the initials like this: D DU UD.

Your search for guitar strum patterns will benefit greatly by a little visit to YouTube or a similar video host. Watching experienced guitar players play their versions of your favorite songs will be extremely helpful.

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Guitar Chords – How To Play Chords On A Guitar

Ricky — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:21:15 +0000

Guitar chords are combinations of notes. Every song you learn on the guitar will contain a group of chords. Some songs have only one or two, many songs have three chords, a few songs might make use of half a dozen guitar chords.

There are three ways to learn how to play chords on a guitar. The most time consuming way is to learn to read music. If you can read standard music notation you do not necessarily need to know the names of the chords you are playing. You will have the ability to recognize and play musical notes without hesitation. To learn to play chords this way takes a long time but the ability to sight-read music will make all your work at learning how to play the guitar much easier.

Another way to learn how to play chords on a guitar is to learn to read tablature. Guitar tablature, or “tabs”, is another musical language. Tabs show you where to put your fingers on the guitar fretboard. It only takes half an hour or so to learn the basic idea behind guitar tab, and although it has its limitations, it is a good way to learn how to play chords.

The simplest and most immediate way to learn chords is by chord charts. Chord charts are basically pictures of the guitar strings showing you where to put your fingers to play chords. Chord charts do not take any time to learn to understand and they give you the freedom to get on with the job of learning how much pressure to exert to play your chords and how to place your fingers so that you do not muffle the strings.

Once you have chosen a way of learning to read chords, the next step is the physical work of learning how to play chords on a guitar. The simplest way to begin is to strum the guitar with a pick while you make the chord shapes with the fingers of your left hand. The pick is held firmly between the thumb and first finger of your right hand. You must hold your hand so the pick strikes the strings cleanly without scraping.

When you first begin to play chords it is a good idea to choose a chord that is easy on the left hand like the E minor or C major chord in the first position. When you have your fingers in the correct positions, try strumming the chord. The sound should be clean with each of the strings sounding without the left hand fingers brushing against them causing the notes to stop sounding.

You have now played your first chord. The next step in learning how to play chords on a guitar is changing from one chord to another. Again, you should take care that your fingers only touch the strings they are supposed to touch, so careful practice is called for.

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Free Video Guitar Lessons On Playing Guitar Chords

Ricky — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:14:40 +0000

Today’s video guitar lesson is from Aaron of aaronsguitarlessons.com Aaron has taught hundreds of kids and adults to play guitar in his private guitar lessons. All of the video guitar lessons on aaronsguitarlessons.com are free. Aaron offers subscriptions for additional help plus custom videos and live webcam lessons.

The video lesson is for guitarists who want to be more focused in their use of chords. By selecting which notes you play in each chord you get the power to express yourself in a more individual way:

Here is the url for this lesson on chords so you can follow the rest of Aaron’s chord lessons on YouTube.

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Looking For Songs That Use Beginner Guitar Chords?

Ricky — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:46:51 +0000

Some beginner guitar players decide to learn to play chords before they learn some songs. Many experienced guitar players recommend finding some easy songs first and using the chord changes in the song as an exercise to learn how to play chords. But if you decided to learn some chords first and now you are able to string a few simple open guitar chords together after some intensive guitar practice, it’s time to look for some songs to play. Your first stop should be Chordie, which is a search engine for finding guitar chords and tabs. Let’s say you have learnt to play the A, E, G, D and A minor chords. You go to Chordie’s song list and find a song that interests you. If you click on a song and find it does not use the chords you are familiar with, Chordie has a handy Transpose Button which you keep clicking till the song appears in a key that has the chords you feel comfortable with. If you want to learn to play House Of The Rising Sun, go through the song list until you find the song which will be arranged using Am, C, D and F. If for some reason that arrangement does not suit you, you can go to the right of the page and transpose the song up five semitones and the tabs appear using Dm, F, G and Bb. You can also find the tabs for any song arranged for banjo, ukulele and mandolin.

And here is the amazing Justin Sandercoe with a video guitar lesson on the A and E chords.

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Learning How To Change Guitar Chords

Ricky — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:34:18 +0000

When you first pick up your guitar, you are going to want to learn how to play songs as soon as possible. There are two sides to this natural longing to progress as a guitar player. First, you will not become a guitarist if you rush guitar chord changes. You need to learn how to move between chords without making small, unnecessary movements in your fingers, hands, arm and even your face. This requires lots of slow practice. The good news is that learning to change guitar chords within the context of learning songs is a much more engaging process. If your brain and your feelings are working along with your muscle memory to create smooth chord changes, your guitar practice time will be a lot more enjoyable. Today’s video goes through the process of learning how to change chords, and here is the link to the page on YouTube that contains many more videos on changing chords.

There is more info at the Basics Of Guitar blog on how to change chords fast.

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Learn To Play Barre Chords

Ricky — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:04:24 +0000

Learning how to play the guitar is a process of learning how your body works while you gradually put it into increasingly unnatural positions. As you learn to play barre chords you will find yourself wanting to force you fingers into position and at the same time gripping the guitar neck so you can produce a clean sound.

You can make learning barre chords less arduous by relaxing your arm as you finger the chord shapes and seeing how best to place your arm and you hand to grip the guitar with only the necessary amount of force. For some reason many learner guitar players try to place the first finger flat and straight on the fretboard to play barre chords. You will find that if you allow your first finger to move a little in the direction of your thumb so that it is sitting almost on its side, your hand will be more comfortable and you sound cleaner.

Here is a video from justinguitar on getting your barre chords right:

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Learn To Play Guitar Chord Solos

Ricky — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:09:49 +0000

You can bring out many musical possibilities in yourself and in simple tunes if you take some time to learn guitar chord solos. Basically, you will be playing the tune of a piece using the accompanying chords. A simple way of trying this is to grab a piece of tab or sheet music with the chords on top of the page, and try strumming the chords with the notes to the tune on the highest string. For instance, the first few notes of House Of The Rising Sun using notes and melody will be:

e————————|

B————1———–|

G—–2——0———–|

D—–2——2———–|

A—–0—2–3———–|

E-0———————-|

The chords we use for these notes are A minor and C major.

This video gives an intro to guitar chord solo playing using Three Blind Mice:

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Do I Need Chords To Learn Guitar?

Ricky — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:21:27 +0000

Many beginner guitar players, anxious to get through the hard stuff and start playing ask if they really need chords to learn guitar. There’s also the question of how many chords are really necessary. Some people have actually bought their first guitar, downloaded some tabs and learnt to play them. So for people who have been able to learn guitar without chords, the question is whether they can just keep going in this way.

If you are going to be a guitar player with some understanding and mastery of not only your guitar, but also of music, you are going to have to learn some chords. The good news is that of the blinding number of chords you will find in a chord dictionary or jazz guitar tutor, there is only a handful that are really necessary to learn today’s music.

You will need to learn the chords A B C D E F and G - major and minor. You can start with the open chords which means you will be playing within the first three frets on the guitar, and stay with these as you learn how seventh and ninth chords enhance your playing. After that, you can learn the basic barre chord shapes and the way they can make your playing sound more interesting.

As you learn new chords, you will be putting them to use in songs that you like. Otherwise you are going to get bored learning and practicing chord fingerings alone. The open chords are all pretty easy once you get the knack of pressing down on the strings without muffling the adjacent strings.

Here is a video on learning and practicing new chords:

Bear in mind that as you get a collection of chords to learn guitar you totally ignore any impulse you might have to play fast. Speed comes by itself the more you practice. You main concerns at the moment are precision and relaxation. It will seem like impossibly slow work, but that’s the way you need to do it.

If you want to speed up the job of trying to learn chords for guitar, it is best to allocate half an hour a day to practice. At least. Remember that you are not only learning the chord fingerings but also practicing changing from one chord to another.

As you learn your chords, you will gradually be able to change chords while you keep in time with the music. Again, you will be playing slowly at first as you become more convinced that you DO need chords to learn guitar, your confidence and speed will both grow.

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