Topic: Some Advice
I am just a beginner and can play a few
chords (g d c) and i just bought my first
guitar and i was wonder what would be an easy
song to get me started and help me learn to
switch between chords.
- upyerkilt
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Hi Jason and welcome.
There are quite a few posts on this already. I think they might be in the songwrtiing section? or maybe in this section.
if you look thru you will find plenty of ideas.
but if you like white stripes, hotel yorba is just G C D all the way through.
knocking on heavens door is mostly G D C but wit hevery C you play, you play Am. look up the chord section in chordie, the chord chart. there are a lot more easy chords to learn.
Ken
ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
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i have been playing for maybe two weeks
completely self taugh from the internet so
any advice i can get is greatly appreciated
thanks
- alvee33
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Hi Jason, good luck on the journey that is learning to play guitar. I 1st started years and years ago and then never picked it up for nigh on 10 years so it's like starting all over. That was about 6 months ago and like you am self taught. I have found that with the help of internet lesson sites and the wonderful chordie I am already better now than I was then. Some would say that's not too hard. I would even advise joining your local library and checking out their music section. They usually have books for beginners which give songs to practice your chord changes. OK, so the songs they give are usually naff, but the practice is the thing. Chordie and like-minded sites are great. You say you know 3 chords; once you have mastered them find a song with maybe a couple more(say Am and F) and give yourself that extra challenge. Brings you on leaps and bounds.
Have fun.
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- upyerkilt
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yeah, some good advice from alvee there jason,
and I was thinking,
I have been playing for about 10 -15 years.
I am self taught. I decided on what songs i wanted to do, ones that sounded easy. Tehn I found out what chords were in them, then found out how to play the chords for that song.
some, or lots that I chose at first were too hard, so takes time to find the songs to suit you.
But with chordie, there is no need to go looking up chords, it shows you the chords for the song on the same page. Something I really like as I am still learning new chords every month. I might not remember them though if I dont carry on playing the song all the time.
When you learn a new chord or 2, start by just learning to chnge from one chord to another. like G to C. C to D D to G G to D etc.. .then when you learn A ( another basic chord) try changing from A to D, A to G G to A C to A etc etc.
I spent a long time doing this and still do sometimes when I find an unusual chord I have to learn. And sometimes I cheat when playing chords. I have quite stumpy fingers and find it hard to play the chord A, so I just hold down the string wit hone finger and try not to play the High E string. Doesnt sound as good as playing A properly but works for me and my style of playing.
good luck, hope some of this helps
KEn
ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
- alvee33
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Just a thought about your stubby fingers, Ken. When playing an open A chord try playing it with your 1st finger on the G string' 2nd finger on D string and 3rd on B string. Gives you a wee bit more space for those digits. Also gives you a headache of trying to forget 15 years of doing it the other way!!!!
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Hi, I restarted playng two years ago, I had left the guitar alone for over twenty five years and it was just like starting again. I played about a quarter of an hour each evening to start, well it does bite the fingers at first. I slowly built up the time I could play and now and hour or two is ok. I can get most of the general run of the mill chords and am trying to get the Barred chords now. thats a hard job. I cant seem to get the arpagio at all but I'll try to stay with that and hope it comes along too. There are really lots of easy songs to play , Bob Dylan has a few easy ones and so do the Beatles. for anyone just starting out, stay with it. you will get a hell of a lot of fun from it too.
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an easy song to start playing is a slow Simon and Garfunkel song called Scarborough Fair. it requires you to know how to play Am (A-Minor) which is not hard, and is provided next to the song when you look it up.
Good luck mate.
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leaving on a jet plane...yea that would be a suitable one for u
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