Help me and Follow me on my quest to learn Guitar through PJ

mjd327 · November 2013

Last Kiss seemed a little complicated to me, since it's not just strumming, he's playing pretty specific notes it sounds like and the tabs seem to show the same. I dunno how to do that really.

I think I'll work on elderly woman and check out thumbing my way and thin air. And keep practicing Driftin.

Anybody have advice on what to do with garageband? Is there a way I can get tones similar to the ones they use? I really have no idea how that program works at all.

lyears · November 2013

In Hiding is a good one to learn: http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/yield/in-hiding

Good luck!

BHealy · November 2013

Try Brain of J! I just found the tab today on the Given to Wail site. Just tune your guitar to Open- D (D-A-D-F#-A-D, I think) and start wailing away barring across all the strings on the 9, 8, 7th frets. Its fun. Here's a clip I made:

https://soundcloud.com/bhealy31/brain

P.s. I probably have the up/down strum direction wrong on the intro (among other things).

PJStatTracker · November 2013

mjd327 wrote:

Last Kiss seemed a little complicated to me, since it's not just strumming, he's playing pretty specific notes it sounds like and the tabs seem to show the same. I dunno how to do that really.

I wouldn't worry yourself too much about that. All the specific notes being played are just hitting different sets of strings from within the base chords, or doing some improvised noodling around those chords. At this point you should be focusing on getting the rhythm of the song, not getting lost in the tabs.

The basic structure of Last Kiss (G-Em-C-D) is very easy. Start by strumming those along with the song and eventually you will learn which strings to hit and what noodling to do to make it sound more like how they play it.

MayDay10 · November 2013

the rhythm to black is easy as pie too and a great way to get good practice at those open chords.

nevmiles · November 2013

There's an entire section of this forum dedicated to guitar, you know:
http://community.pearljam.com/viewforum.php?f=8

That said, I took up guitar in January and found that there are some relatively easy PJ songs.

- Black is easy if you play just the chords (E, A, C, D and Em): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAFUUKMAE_E
- The intro to Immortality is pretty easy once you figure out which strings to pluck (your fingers stay stationary pretty much the whole time).
- The intro to Corduroy is pretty easy too.

Ultimate Guitar is another good site I use to find PJ (and other) tabs: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

I also recommend Justin Guitar as a few others have pointed out (http://www.justinguitar.com/). I honestly would not limit your learning to JUST PJ songs . . . watch Justin's beginner lessons and it will help a ton: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCAAA4629624F20D8

There are other songs & sites too . . . just have a search through this forum and the web. You'll find tons of resources! Keep practicing! The chords will come. 10 months ago I thought there would be no way I could figure out the chords and know which strings to hold and at what point . . . . but it comes, believe me. I'm far from an expert and have A LOT to learn still, but I have come super far in less than a year....

DMvanHof · November 2013

A year ago I picked up a guitar for the first time as well. And like you, I bought rocksmith which was great for learning your technique.
For learning songs it didn't really work for me, just can't seem to remember any song I play with that game.

What does work for me is Martyjamz
http://www.youtube.com/user/martyzsongs

mjd327 · November 2013

So I've been going through JustinGuitar's beginner course now, along with doing some work on PJ songs too. I like his course and I've gone through the first beginner stage, where you learn D,A, and E chords. I don't want to go too fast but I feel like I'm beyond this stage because the songs he teaches are pretty easy and VERY simplified versions. So I'm thinking I'll go a bit further and move on quickly so I can get to some more interesting songs to learn. But it has been helpful because his way of teaching the A chord is way better than the ways I tried to do it. I always glossed over that chord and never could really play it but now I can and I also like how he teaches switching between those 3 chords.

His one minute changes exercise has also been helpful.

I think I'll work on Last Kiss next, and continue working on Driftin' which I think is the first one I can probably pretty much complete if I can perfect the C and G chord switches (G to D is pretty easy).

I thank the people recommending JustinGuitar because it's been helpful.

BHealy · November 2013

Right on!! I'm glad you're finding your way! Have a blast. I am.

themayor · November 2013

The first song I played along with when I was learning was Long Road. It's a very easy song, the chord changes are nice and slow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDth-pt9hk

mjd327 · November 2013

Ive been still going through Justin's beginner course.

Im on Stage 2 and doing well. I know all of these chords so far, and so I think Im going to to the next stage (3) so I can start working on one-minute changes with G and C. Stage 4 has the major 7 chords, and I don't actually know those.

I don't have that much experience with Barre chords, I have played them a bit though when I first was learning a couple years ago before I dropped it and so I couldn't help but try one of my favorite Pearl Jam songs. I mean cmon, sure it's above my skill level but I had to at least give the intro a shot:

Stage of Love and Trust Intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjtf1LT7JSw

NadjaZ · November 2013

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thank you so much for this support,
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mjd327 · December 2013

So I haven't had much time due to Thanksgiving, and have now picked up the guitar once more for more practice. The one minute change chord exercizes on justinguitar are so useful. I enjoy going through his course.

Anyways, since I was getting better on making the chords clear I recorded myself doing Elderly Woman the whole thing. I dunno what happened on the first chorus...Strangely enough I think I sounded best on the last verse which is weird since that's the hardest part vocally and I'm not a singer. But I think I held the rhythym pretty consistently. This comes from playing rock band guitar on Xbox while doing vocals I guess lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIGtz8SAsK4

(edit: For some reason the audio gets distorted on youtube a bit. On photo booth my "Here I aaaaaam" sounded pretty great, but for some reason it sounds like it's too loud or distorts the audio on youtube. It didn't happen on photobooth...weird)

Help me and Follow me on my quest to learn Guitar through PJ

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