easy pj songs?
dylan rain
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So I had my first guitar lesson this week and my instructor was really nice about letting me pick what I wanted to play. He told me to bring my ipod with my favorite "easy" songs...
Anyone want to suggest the "easiest" pearl jam songs to play?
thanks!
Anyone want to suggest the "easiest" pearl jam songs to play?
thanks!
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Not For You
Small Town
live like your dying today
I think my first PJ song was Not For You. I know Wishlist came pretty early too.
there's a really nice n' easy way to play indifference too - just back and forth from Em to D for the verses and then G D Em for the chorus. This is how Ben HArper plays it and it sound s great. As you get better, you can throw in little embellishments here and there to sweeten it up
96: Cork, Dublin
00: Dublin
06: London, Dublin
07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
09: Manchester, London
10: Dublin, Belfast, London & Berlin
11: San José
12: Isle of Wight, Copenhagen, Ed in Manchester & London x2
Black (chords)
Rearview Mirror (first PJ song I ever learned)
Small Town (chords)
Not For You
Immortality
Nothingman (chords)
Corduroy
Sometimes
Off He Goes
Lukin
Long Road
Wishlist
MFC
World Wide Suicide
Comatose
Big Wave
Last Kiss (chords)
Leaving Here
Don't Gimmie No Lip
Wash
Black
Immortality
Not For You
Small Town
Nothingman
Indifference (just the chords, not the arpegios)
Last Kiss
- and once you really get the capo thing going...
Wash
Footsteps
SOLAT (even the solo is alright)
Breath
Lukin'
No Way
WWS
Big Wave
o.k. I'm done
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its not that its wrong its just that theres many different ways to play it
I dont play it with a capo I play the main riff like this
Life Wasted is easy but for someone just starting out, it's really not
e
b---7--66
g---6--66---9
d---4--44---9--99
a
7--99
e
77
1.Not for you
2.Long road
3.wishlist
4.elderly woman
5.down
6.wishlist
7.betterman (especially chorus)
8.immortality
9.bushleaguer
10.corduroy
e
b
g--11
9
d--11----11
9----9
a--9
11
7----9
e
9
7
just do the actual timing:)
that's how it is on given to wail...the way I play it is based on not playing with a capo, if you play it with a capo you put it on the 4th fret and play it exactly my way, but I just don't feel like putting a capo on it when I'm in the middle of playing
Another great song to start with is Nothing Else MAtters of course, because there is no fretting at all, just finger picking, which proves the point about where the music comes from.
Apart from that, I would suggest sticking with open chords for a bit, because they teach your hands good. You did not say if you are on electric or acoustic, cause that makes a difference as well. The hardest chords to get are B and F, so you can cheat a little with power chords there until your hand gets better.
Cheers
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very easy, although not Pearl Jam
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hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks
thanks for the advice.
oh, he's letting me learn on my telecaster
gives me goose skin after all these years. The riffs contains almost everything a guitar player likes doing: a chord, slides, arpegg., bending, vibrato.
So begin with Alive to get that feeling of never stop learning to play pj songs.
The dude who said that Alive contains all those different technical elements, as well as being an amazing riff is dead right too, but it does have a lot of hand movement in it, which takes a littel while to master.
Remember, always tune your guitar perfectly every time you play !!
Happy Playing
as for easy songs mate, some of the ones they listed above arent easy at all for someone who is a full beginner like you
put these songs on your ipod
-elderly woman
-long road
-last kiss
-release
-not for you
-corduroy
-wishlist
that should be plenty to get you started, and shouldnt be too hard
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that's funny i showed my instructor the guitar legends mag, that had alive, animal, black, not for you, and yellow ledbetter.
he said animal was too hard, so he stuck me with the task of learning yellow ledbetter! let me tell you guys, bending is really really hard. first of all he made me chop off all my nails (I'm a girl so this was a little sad for me) and now my fingers are purple.
Do any of you guys have any tips for nailing the art of bending? I'm sure it's just practice, practice, practice, but maybe I'm missing something that would make my life easier.
Bending is an advanced technique and not really for beginners. Yes, you do have to cut teh nails on your fretting hand, whihc is a big reason why girls don't play as much as guys.
You must have a different tab to YLB to me, cause mine sure ain't got much bending, also YLB is one of the most difficult PJ songs to play properly, certainly not an easy beginners song.
If you must bend, start around that 7th to 9th position, don't go near the nut. You really need to build some fingere strength and decent calluses before considering bending.
Good luck !
i should have mentioned that i wasn't learning the lead guitar part. he basically wanted me to learn the basic F chord (barring with the index finger), apparently guitar 2 on that song is really only 3 chords, B A E.
he does however, want me to learn the solo (well atleast part of it) which is where the bending comes in. according to my instructor "this guitarist is heavily influenced by hendrix"... i thought no kidding, he plays the star spangled banner right after yellow ledbetter all the time now.
Oh dear, I had a feeling you were going to say that, as the solo is only place where bent notes come in. Well he's your teacher, but learning guitar by learning the YLB solo is like learning to snowboard on a black mogul run, possibly not impossible, but ceratinly not ideal.
You may have noted some of my discussion on GTW where I lament the lack of timing notation in the tabs there. How the fuck, I say, HOW the fuck are you supposed to learn this solo without knowing how long to play each note for ?? Learning the basic chords is probably OK, though as I said F and B are teh hardest, because you need to barre close to the nut for both, and again, this is a technique which takes a lot of practice and most guitarists would be playing for a year or so before they could barre a full F comfortably and easily. NOthing succeeds like success, so starting with something you can play more easily is more likely to encourage you. I would suggest something basic to just learn how to drive your fingers. The chorus to 'Betterman" is great, D A G , and singing along helps you place the changes. If you leran a 4 fingered G, with your ring finger on teh d ( 3rd fret, second string), then it doesn't move as you change from G to D.
Mike is more heavily influenced by SRV than Hendrix, though some would argue there is little difference.
YLB is very similar in musical structure to "Little Wing", a song Hendrix wrote in memory of his mother, and an amazing version of which SRV won a Grammy for , found on "The Sky is Crying" ( actually I have ordered the tab book of this album just for that song, should arrive any day).
Little Wing is a beautiful song to play, but a bit of a fingerful for a beginner.
YLB is certainly a beautiful nod to SRV/Hendrix and one of my favourite PJ songs, along with Black. I particularly love it at the end of "Live at the Garden", where Mike accompanies himself to the delay with the lights on and everyone just sitting around slack-jawed, just amazing !!!
Anyway, happy practising, I'm still at it after 26yrs, I'm trying to learn the YLB solo too.
for me, if i know the song well enough ... ie. all of PJ songs
i see your point if its a less familiar song though... but the ear is a good tool when learning solos as the timing of each note is on the record.
Man this chick is just having her first lesson, and she's trying to play the YLB solo. It is a lot harder to accurately place notes in a solo than it seems. It is easy to get close, but the discipline of getting it exactly right is what makes a great player. Every great player has done the hard yards of learning to play classic pieces precisely, not "kinda", no matter what the instrument.
I am really confused that so many people on this forum think that learning to play accurately by following written music is so uncool. I like to root around and have fun too, but a dose of organised disciplined practise boosts my playing hugely. My playing was held back for years by a lack of "as recorded" written music.
Actually, if she got the tab from a magazine, it probably has the timing notation, but I still think it is a dubious place to start learning. I would hate to see her get put off by too steep a hill.
well that was my second lesson, haha. on the first one he made me practice the smells like teen spirit riffs, basically 3 power chords. and another song from nickelback (which i hate them of course) photograph, again 3 chords. i think his reasoning is that he wants me to play music i like instead of it being a drag to practice, although i'm not so sure that an assignment of bending up and down the neck is too much fun either...
that magazine does have the timing on it, i would get it if you don't have it already.
Yeah music you can relate to is improtant if it's gonna be fun.. Whem I teach friends I always try to include 3 elements in each lesson
1 a piece of music theory
2 an exercise
3 a piece of music, so when a friend says, what did you learn, you can play a piece of music
Cheers, keep on playing, I picked up a mag teh other day with YLB, it's on my list of things to do, maybe this weekend.