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First song you learned to play on the geeetar!
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Posted 2 years ago #
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looks like i'm in for some fun with this! or more likely a trip to the carboot sale to get rid of the bloody thing when i cant do it!
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mickasaki...you need to find yourself a teacher. I started when I was about 10, and learned a few basic chords. Stopped after a couple of years.
I've just started having lessons again, and am loving it.Posted 2 years ago # -
I was thinking that too! Its the first time i have even picked up a guitar, let alone play the thing! I just need to get over my phobia of paying someone to do things! i'll give it a couple of weeks and see how i get on. I was given a starter pack with a book, dvd etc aswell, so we'll see! I dont have any aspirations to be a rockgod (cant be good at everything :lol:) I would just like to play a bit as it looks quite relaxing when you know how.
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cheers timdrayton, can't believe i never looked there. just had a quick search for 'man who sold the world' and i see what you mean - bl@@dy F chord though!!!
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LabWormy speaks the truth.
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mickasaki...I pay £8 for about 25 minutes. Worth every penny. I've only had 3 lessons, and I'm doing stuff I wouldn't have believed I was capable of! (My guitar skills are coming on as well!!
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He gives me music to practise for the next week.
I'm becoming a bit addicted to practising though, and the tips of my fingers on my left hand are a bit numb!
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that's cheap Angela, is he/she anywhere near the Midlands?
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Thankyou WayneKerr.
I was trawling YouTube looking for a lesson on how to play an old Lindisfarne song (Winter Song, as you ask) and Justin caught my eye as he had the Darwin/Evolve fish on his guitar.
His website, with its links to YouTube, is just fantastic. Due to him I have practised so much during a few months on the dole that I now have some form of tendonitis in my left hand.
I just secured a new job today, and some of the first pay packet is going for some Justin DVDs (the strumming ones I think).
His "Wish You Were Here" lesson is just epic.
I'm sure the 1:1 service offered by Guitar Hero and colleagues is better, but as a second best, Justin is very very good.
....and no, I am not related to him.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Nah F is a Barre chord init? No open strings.
That's obviously the first place I am going wrong then.
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Sorry Rocketdog...in South Lakes.
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oh yea, if you'd kept your old login name i'd have realised and not asked
Posted 2 years ago # -
Smoooookeee on the Waaaateerrrr.... Da Da Daaaa Da Da D Daaaaaa!!!!!
Rock on
It all went wrong from there, obviously. I blame the drug fuelled hedonism of it all, that's all I am saying....
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i can play (the more common) chords not a prob, but for the life of me i can't figure out how to play something like wonderwall. where am i going wrong?
Wonderwall is best played with a capo at the 2nd fret.
For technique in a limited time get this
And for a real explanation of whats going on this.
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I would say B flat at the first fret is one of the hardest chords for a new player although that is quite clearly not an open chord either.
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f is a barre choord he said G was the hardest Open chord. That is correct
Think it was probably Knocking on Heavens door
Personally I would concentrate on technique - bad technique is hard to unlearn and will limit you at the extreme end of playing.
Worth practicising scales and arpeggios to get your fingers going relatively independently of each other and single note stuff will make you feel like a guitarist quicker but you wont really be that good!
I play classical so not much to add to this unles syou want to play classical stuff.Posted 2 years ago # -
Horse with no name an absolute beginner can knock this out within 5 minutes of picking up a guitar.
go to guitarnoise easy songs for beginners and there's over 40 decent lesson to go through
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Yeah you need to know all the chords. Learn all the open chords, if you're able to change between them all effortlessly then you can play basically any song you want (at a basic level).
I think Wonderwall was the first song I learned, about 4 chords which are all very similar. That was about 10 years ago now, doesn't seem that long!
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Learn the "power chord" shape. Then when you've got your fingers round that and moving it round the neck a world of rock is literally at your fingertips
sprinkle with the cheap distortion pedal of your choice (to cover all your bad technqnique) et voila!
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RobS is the only one telling the truth.
We all know we all played smoke on the water first as it is piss easy and doable with one finger
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Puddle of mud - She Hates Me, is a great way of getting your head around power chords.
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Learn the "power chord" shape.
I thought the power chords were A C E and G played with the open strings ringing.
The most common ones to get taken up to the dusty end of the neck are the F shape and the B flat shape.
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a power chord is another name for a 5th chord - so a chord made up of just the root and the 5th note. The 3rd is left out
This means the chord is neither major nor minor, and sounds good through a distorted guitar.
The shape I mean is the just the lowest 3 notes of your F and b flat shapes - (by playing the lowest 3 notes only you are just playing the root, the 5th and the root again an octave higher)
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Like "Come as You Are" by Nirvana, you mean?
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