Learn Easy Guitar Songs in 7 Easy Steps
When you’re just starting to play guitar learning easy guitar songs is very exciting. You have to be careful though and make sure you’re picking the right songs. If you choose songs that are to hard it won’t be any fun at all.
When I first started studying guitar I went for a couple of lessons and I asked my guitar teacher to show me some cool guitar songs. Problem was I didn’t ask for “easy guitar songs” but instead I asked him to show me some of my favorite songs at the time which were far from easy. So the end result was that I battled immensely and got terribly frustrated. I felt like I just can’t do this and stopped playing for a whole month. Big mistake!
I went to a party with a friend of mine and everyone gathered around this guy strumming away on his guitar. They all joined him by singing along to all the tunes he played. I knew the guitarist as he also went for guitar lessons with my guitar teacher but he started a month after me. I had to wonder to myself why could he play all these songs and I couldn’t play any of the songs I asked my teacher to teach me. He recognized me and walked up to me. We started chatting and I asked him how he did it. He responded by saying “I only know 4 chords and a few strumming patterns! Luckily I can play loads of songs with those chords and strumming patterns. It dawned on me that the songs I was learning were far too difficult and that I should have focused easy guitar songs instead. Here are the 7 secret tips I wish I knew when I started.
1. Don’t try and learn all the chords at once. Take 3 or 4 chords that belong to a key and learn them extremely well. For e.g. G Em C D.
2. Learn a couple of different strumming patterns to so that you can cover a wide variety of tempos and different feels ranging from ballads to uptemo.
3. Find a couple of easy guitar songs and if necessary transpose songs that are in different keys to the key you chose to focus on in the beginning.
4. As soon as you can play these chord changes comfortably start by playing along to the Cd’s or mp3′s and use a capo if necessary.
5. Try and sing along or even going to jams and playing with friends so that you can get the hang of accompanying yourself or others singing whilst playing the guitar.
6. Make a note of all the songs you have learned so that you can have a repertoire handy of all the easy guitar songs you know.
7. Now that you can play a couple of tunes using the basic chords in your chosen key choose a new key and learn it’s 3 or 4 basic chords. Transpose all those tunes you already know to the new key. Once you have that down start with songs that are a bit more challenging.
So by following these steps you will quickly learn how to use the 3 or 4 chords along with the strumming patterns to play a couple of tunes. It’s a lot more fun to play loads of songs with a few chords than to know (or try to learn) loads of chords and not know any songs. This incremental increase in difficulty will serve you well in the long run. I’ll leave you with a joke.
What’s the difference between a jazz guitarist and a rock guitarist? A rock guitarist plays 3 chords to 1000′s of people and a jazz guitarist plays 1000′s of chords to 3 people.
The Author is a professional guitar instructor. He has free Easy Guitar Songs Video online to guideyou Learn Acoustic Guitar ASAP.
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