Songs for beginners

LukinFan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... f9SxtjvA5U

Hound Dog - Elvis

Just uses A, D, and E

LukinFan

"Throw Your Arms Around Me" - by The Hunters and Collectors (or Ed covering it)

**Capo 2nd**

D, G, D, A - Intro

Verse:
D, G, D, A (3)
D, G, D, A, A, A (1)

Chorus:
D, G, D, A
D, G, A, A - 1st chorus x2 , 2nd Chorus x4, Outro as many times as you want

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Without Capo

Verse:
E, A, E, B (3)
E, A, E, B, B, B

Chorus:
E, A, E, B
E, A, B, B

(same times as above)

DriftingByTheStorm

I just learned "Mind Riot" off of Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, and I think you could probably safely give it a go as a beginner.

The tuning is pretty fucking fucked up. Its
EEEeee (really no need for upper and lower case e's, just seemed like something to do here)
ITS ALL Es, and, at least the way i did it was:
e - duh
B - *way* down to E
G - down to E
D - up to E
A - down to E
E - duh

After you get the tuning straight.
Then strum a few times, bend some strings, then retune.
Then bend some more, and fine tune some more.

Then it's really fucking easy. And pretty.

Oh. And do NOT try this if you have a "floating bridge" (floyd rose, etc) ... lolzerz

"Mind Riot" tab on Songster
plain old tab easier to read tab
there's a good guitar pro file too, but i couldn't find it easily enough, sorry

LukinFan

rearviewross

Footsteps is a good PJ song.

If you want to build up hand strength find a Ramones song you like and try to get through it. Anything off of Loco Live. The live stuff is much faster paced then their studio recordings. You could do I believe in Miracles. Its also a PJ cover song.

LukinFan

rearviewross wrote:

Footsteps is a good PJ song.

If you want to build up hand strength find a Ramones song you like and try to get through it. Anything off of Loco Live. The live stuff is much faster paced then their studio recordings. You could do I believe in Miracles. Its also a PJ cover song.

What are the chords to Footsteps?

rearviewross

LukinFan wrote:

rearviewross wrote:

Footsteps is a good PJ song.

If you want to build up hand strength find a Ramones song you like and try to get through it. Anything off of Loco Live. The live stuff is much faster paced then their studio recordings. You could do I believe in Miracles. Its also a PJ cover song.

What are the chords to Footsteps?

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/pearl ... ps_tab.htm

drewdawgq

Another good thread bump.

nevmiles

I am 3 months into learning guitar and I have found that BLACK is a great (and easy) song to learn. It only uses 5 chords.....

E and A for the verses, then C, Em and D for the "chorus" (at least the version I am playing now).

The strumming pattern is the toughest part I find . . getting that rhythm down (especially when trying to sing it!) is tough....

Other versions have the Asus4 or Asus2 chord in there too...

LukinFan

nevmiles wrote:

I am 3 months into learning guitar and I have found that BLACK is a great (and easy) song to learn. It only uses 5 chords.....

E and A for the verses, then C, Em and D for the "chorus" (at least the version I am playing now).

The strumming pattern is the toughest part I find . . getting that rhythm down (especially when trying to sing it!) is tough....

Other versions have the Asus4 or Asus2 chord in there too...

I agree - the song is fun to play and is pretty easy, but with the strumming pattern, it's not the easiest to sing and play along to.