House Of The Rising Sun Tabs And Chords

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In our never-ending search for interesting ways to approach learning to play the guitar, we’ve found an old song that every guitarist, electric or acoustic, drunk or sober, should know how to play. It’s featured in “Easy Songs For Beginners” on Guitar Noise . . .
“For those of you who have always thought fingerpicking guitar might prove too difficult for you, delude yourselves no longer. Like anything else, it simply takes time, practice, and a good push in the right direction. And while the first two items are pretty much under your own control, I can at least try to help out with the third.
And here to assist with the pushing is another old chestnut, The House Of The Rising Sun, a song performed by the Animals waaaaaay back in the sixties.
Just to make matters even more interesting, we’re going to learn two different fingerpicking patterns for House of the Rising Sun. The first will be very straightforward, simply arpeggiating the chords in a very easy finger style. Then we will go on and doctor that version up a bit, throwing in slightly more complex picking which will include a bit of a moving bassline as well as using a standard alternating bassline (which we learned about last time) in a few spots. Are you ready?”
See the complete free guitar lesson with chords, sheet music and tab.

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