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A Free Guitar Lesson on How to Play Popular Songs
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Yvonne Chow
Aug 6, 2009, 4:22:02 AM8/6/09
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Most popular songs are also fairly easy to play, especially in the
blues or rock genres. There's a bunch of free guitar lessons on the
internet so if you have a list of favorites songs I'd suggest typing
them into a search engine together with the words 'free tabs' or 'free
chord charts'. Also, as the saying goes, don't forget the lyrics, you
can usually get those for free, too.
I've gone around to a few websites to see what songs were considered
both popular and easy, and there really is quite a large range out
there for a beginner guitarist with half an hour a day to practice and
some enthusiasm for learning to play some songs. Here's a few I've
found: About A Girl By Nirvana, Take It Easy by The Eagles, Mister
Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan, The Gambler by Kenny Rogers, Brown Eyed
Girl by Van Morrison, House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals and
Leaving On A Jet Plane by John Denver.
You will be able to play all these songs if you learn these chords: A
major, A minor, C major, D major, D minor, E major, E minor, F major
and G major.
For many people a big difficulty in learning to play songs is getting
the knack of playing guitar and singing at the same time. As there is
not much point learning to sing without being able to play the guitar,
you can afford to spend a bit of time working on your collection of
guitar chords without worrying too much about singing the words. There
are many tutorials on learning chords and chord changes so if you have
any trouble in this area do a web search on guitar chord lessons,
particularly on YouTube because video lessons are much more easy to
understand than text when it comes to a physical skill like chord
changing.
Once you have your chord changes smooth - not necessarily fast - learn
the words to your song. Learning song lyrics isn't rocket surgery so
you shouldn't have to rely on reading from a piece of paper, that will
just add to your hassles. The next skill you are going to learn is
playing guitar, singing the song and tapping your foot at the same
time. Use a metronome to keep the time accurate. Don't start with
singing but count the beats out loud to the metronome while you play
the chords. If there are any hiccups in your chord changes this kind
of practice should help iron them out.
If you are having real trouble counting, saying the 'and' out loud
between the beats will help. After a while you will be able to keep
time with your foot without saying the beats, so you can now begin to
sing the words.
blues or rock genres. There's a bunch of free guitar lessons on the
internet so if you have a list of favorites songs I'd suggest typing
them into a search engine together with the words 'free tabs' or 'free
chord charts'. Also, as the saying goes, don't forget the lyrics, you
can usually get those for free, too.
I've gone around to a few websites to see what songs were considered
both popular and easy, and there really is quite a large range out
there for a beginner guitarist with half an hour a day to practice and
some enthusiasm for learning to play some songs. Here's a few I've
found: About A Girl By Nirvana, Take It Easy by The Eagles, Mister
Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan, The Gambler by Kenny Rogers, Brown Eyed
Girl by Van Morrison, House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals and
Leaving On A Jet Plane by John Denver.
You will be able to play all these songs if you learn these chords: A
major, A minor, C major, D major, D minor, E major, E minor, F major
and G major.
For many people a big difficulty in learning to play songs is getting
the knack of playing guitar and singing at the same time. As there is
not much point learning to sing without being able to play the guitar,
you can afford to spend a bit of time working on your collection of
guitar chords without worrying too much about singing the words. There
are many tutorials on learning chords and chord changes so if you have
any trouble in this area do a web search on guitar chord lessons,
particularly on YouTube because video lessons are much more easy to
understand than text when it comes to a physical skill like chord
changing.
Once you have your chord changes smooth - not necessarily fast - learn
the words to your song. Learning song lyrics isn't rocket surgery so
you shouldn't have to rely on reading from a piece of paper, that will
just add to your hassles. The next skill you are going to learn is
playing guitar, singing the song and tapping your foot at the same
time. Use a metronome to keep the time accurate. Don't start with
singing but count the beats out loud to the metronome while you play
the chords. If there are any hiccups in your chord changes this kind
of practice should help iron them out.
If you are having real trouble counting, saying the 'and' out loud
between the beats will help. After a while you will be able to keep
time with your foot without saying the beats, so you can now begin to
sing the words.
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