Surfing Waves

Now then,

I've picked up a 2nd hand guitar and over the last few weeks I've been trying to teach myself. fu*ck me, I've heard of slow learning curves, but this is just a horizontal line!!!! I'm learning chords to play mul of kintyre, how the flesh does that go. At the moment it sounds a little like this:

Gring...........................gring.................gring gring............gring......gring

Need someone to point me in the direction of the pic of destiny!!!!

Does anyone know any easy to play tabs to well known songs?

Cheers

there are lots and lots of free tab sites on the net just go to google put in free tab and then the song u want to lean and see if you can do it. it is not easy to lean too play gutair just do not give up. play as much as u can and buy your self a chord book and lean the easy main chords i.e start with G A D C E as most songs are just made up of these chords. hope this helps if u need anything just yell

essex

The first song i learnt was knocking on heavens door. It's basically G, D and C, which are useful chords to know....and you can pretend your slash...cool as!

ya, it takes some patience, and a lot of practice, but hang in there, it's worth it. I agree with Essex, learn the basic chords, practice them so you know them inside and out, learn to move from each chord to all the others. Start learning some easy songs, presto! You've learned the guitar.
Okay so maybe it isn't quite that easy, but I have taught a few people how to start out and that is how I have done it and it has worked every time.
Here are some helpful (at least I thought so) webpages that you can throw into your favorites list and start perusing them at your pleasure.

www.chordguide.com
www.chordbook.com
www.guitarnoise.com awesome site! hundreds of FREE lessons
www.911tabs.com tab search engine, millions of tabs

If you like older tunes, try out some of the Beatles first songs. They are fun, catchy, everyone has heard them, and you can usually find easy versions of them. Or try some Johnny Cash. Everybody loves Johnny.
Or try Through the Glass, by Stone Sour. Fairly easy, catchy, popular, chicks will love it.

Hope this helps.

good one first song i leaned was hay u got to hide your love away by the beatles which is G D C F but i spent a long time before that just leaning the chords have fun with it

mark

Yeah, I've got three books and was just wondering if anyone had a quick little tune I could learn just to cheers me up. My mate taught me a quick little tune, but I've played it to death. Been on the net, but they all seem to OTT for now.

Guess its back to gring......................gring.........gring.....gring.......................................gring......gring

essex sucks wrote:first song i leaned was hay u got to hide your love away by the beatles which is G D C F but i spent a long time before that just leaning the chords have fun with it

Man, I love that song. Gotta be one of their best

Bwgan

What kind of music do you want to play? Maybe we could help find you a short, sweet, smokin' soundin' song to learn, just let us know your musical tastes.

sod this, what kind of guitar have you got?

I've got an accoustic guitar. I'm into anything and everything, Nirvana, Peral Jam, Jack Johnson, chili peppers etc. Currenty trying to learn Bob Marley 'Could You be loved' and 4non blondes 'whats up', but its gring...................................gring..............gring etc.
Any help would be great, i totally know its practice practice practice, but its just to save me from the boredom and monotony of gring............gring............gring...........gring,

jethrodog wrote:

essex sucks wrote:first song i leaned was hay u got to hide your love away by the beatles which is G D C F but i spent a long time before that just leaning the chords have fun with it

Man, I love that song. Gotta be one of their best

it is a sweet song do not know why it was not one of there hits lol
easy to play too

what make is it

As everyone else has said, start with easy songs with basic chords, and then I'd say work into power chords (very easy) which sets up the stage for barre chords, and then go to www.worldguitar.com and play those riffs. They have the clip with it, so its nice to hear, play, hear, play, etc till you get it.

Everyone I talk to who is just learning always says "how do you change chords so fast?" Well I guess I do change chords fast, but I also think you need to figure out some filler between the chords. Hard to explain, but different songs you can do random strums, etc. while you are trying to switch chords.

Dangit, now I've gotta play Knockin' on heavens door (Gn'R style)

just played it and i add them little bits in to tommo i tink its a must

Its a Prince?!?!?

G5 D C
|-3---3--------------2-0-------|-----------------0--------------------|
|-3-----3---3------3-----3---3-|----------1--------------1------------|
|-0-------0------2---------2---|-0------0---0----------0---0-0------0-|
|-0------------0---------------|-0h2----------2------2-------0h2------|
|------------------------------|------3---------------------------3---|
|-3----------------------------|--------------------------------------|

fill 1 (used only in verses)
G5 D Am
|-3--------------2-------2-0-------|-0-------------0----------------------|
|-3---3-------3--3-------3-------0-|-1----0h1-------------1---------------|
|-0---0-----0----2----2-------2----|-2--2-----2---------2---2------0---0--|
|-0---0-----0----0----0------------|-2----------2-----2-------0h2----2----|
|----------------------------------|-0------------------------------------|
|-3--------------------------------|--------------------------------------|

WTF????????????

Dangit, now I've gotta play Knockin' on heavens door (Gn'R style)

Don't resist it dude. Full volume!!!

then play the intro to sweet child of mine...over and over and over and over........

Bwgan wrote:G5 D C
|-3---3--------------2-0-------|-----------------0--------------------|
|-3-----3---3------3-----3---3-|----------1--------------1------------|
|-0-------0------2---------2---|-0------0---0----------0---0-0------0-|
|-0------------0---------------|-0h2----------2------2-------0h2------|
|------------------------------|------3---------------------------3---|
|-3----------------------------|--------------------------------------|

fill 1 (used only in verses)
G5 D Am
|-3--------------2-------2-0-------|-0-------------0----------------------|
|-3---3-------3--3-------3-------0-|-1----0h1-------------1---------------|
|-0---0-----0----2----2-------2----|-2--2-----2---------2---2------0---0--|
|-0---0-----0----0----0------------|-2----------2-----2-------0h2----2----|
|----------------------------------|-0------------------------------------|
|-3--------------------------------|--------------------------------------|

WTF????????????

Looks fine to me. Just played it, sounds rather accurate.


And Sweet Child o' Mine..........oooohhhh yeahhhh

Awww, hell, I'm playing Welcome to the Jungle now.....

Ya'll got me going. And I'm really not a GnR guy.

well, wrock on

Its not the accuracy that I am doubting, its what the hell do you do with it. The tabs in my book have black dots where you have to place your fingers, but this has numbers???