A Guide To Beginner Guitar Songs
The whole reason for learning chords and strums on guitar is so that eventually you can start playing some beginner guitar songs but which ones should you begin with?
Well there are lots of them available. Assuming you have completed the necessary ground work youll be spoilt for choice and quickly building a list of easy guitar songs you can play.
It could be that you are already well versed in the standard beginner guitar songs such as Please Mr. Postman, Knockin on Heavens Door or Stand by Me however many more exist. Each era of music has dished up its own collection of simple guitar songs to choose from.
One of the most important things to own is a Capo. This simple device will allow you to play in many different keys and avoid, should you wish to, the challenge of mastering Barre chords.
A quick look through beginner guitar songs will show you that they are almost always built from open chords and not the harder Barre chords. Having said this, by using a capo even harder songs can be converted into open chords and made suitable for beginners to play!
It takes a little bit of music theory to be able to convert songs this way but if you cant do it on your own perhaps a tutor or sources on the internet can assist you. Its main advantage is to widen the number of beginner guitar songs you can play by 10 times or more.
Please put time into learning your basic chords and strumming patterns before attempting to play songs. I know its easy to want to rush into playing songs and these beginner guitar songs look very tempting! But honestly its a mistake to attempt them too soon and before you are ready.
As a guitar teacher I would say that 4 weeks of daily practice is enough for anyone with average ability for guitar to get properly prepared for beginner guitar songs.
Ive found that beginners respond best when each element required to play the songs is broken down and isolated before putting it all back together. This means that you should avoid trying to do everything all at once, master the chord progressions and strum required for the song separately.
So try to follow that process of practice and preparation, it really will make life easier in the long run. Once you get your first few beginner guitar songs down the rest will follow very quickly. - 18762
Well there are lots of them available. Assuming you have completed the necessary ground work youll be spoilt for choice and quickly building a list of easy guitar songs you can play.
It could be that you are already well versed in the standard beginner guitar songs such as Please Mr. Postman, Knockin on Heavens Door or Stand by Me however many more exist. Each era of music has dished up its own collection of simple guitar songs to choose from.
One of the most important things to own is a Capo. This simple device will allow you to play in many different keys and avoid, should you wish to, the challenge of mastering Barre chords.
A quick look through beginner guitar songs will show you that they are almost always built from open chords and not the harder Barre chords. Having said this, by using a capo even harder songs can be converted into open chords and made suitable for beginners to play!
It takes a little bit of music theory to be able to convert songs this way but if you cant do it on your own perhaps a tutor or sources on the internet can assist you. Its main advantage is to widen the number of beginner guitar songs you can play by 10 times or more.
Please put time into learning your basic chords and strumming patterns before attempting to play songs. I know its easy to want to rush into playing songs and these beginner guitar songs look very tempting! But honestly its a mistake to attempt them too soon and before you are ready.
As a guitar teacher I would say that 4 weeks of daily practice is enough for anyone with average ability for guitar to get properly prepared for beginner guitar songs.
Ive found that beginners respond best when each element required to play the songs is broken down and isolated before putting it all back together. This means that you should avoid trying to do everything all at once, master the chord progressions and strum required for the song separately.
So try to follow that process of practice and preparation, it really will make life easier in the long run. Once you get your first few beginner guitar songs down the rest will follow very quickly. - 18762
About the Author:
The writer is a professional guitar teacher and has used his expert knowledge to teach 1000s of students how to play guitar. Check out his great website Guitar in a Nutshell for lots of free tutorials on beginner guitar songs as well as tutorials on every aspect of guitar playing.
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