April 24, 2009
Beginners Easy Guitar Songs
Assuming you’ve put the work into learning your basic chords and strums the next step is where the fun begins – finding some easy guitar songs for beginners.
Effective learning comes from having just the right amount of challenge, too much and you’ll only end up frustrated. Easy guitar songs will ensure that your transition from learning into actually playing is smooth and enjoyable.
Let’s look at some specific easy guitar songs for beginners. Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison or Please Mr. Postman by the Beatles would both be excellent easy guitar songs. Each contains no more than 4 chords and both share a simple strumming pattern.
A lot of easy guitar songs for beginners have just one or two progressions which simply repeat throughout the entire duration of the song; this means you can add your first easy guitar songs with little effort and gain some confidence.
Its very important to play along to the original recordings, staying in time and strumming evenly. In fact all the different elements should be practiced individually.
Start with the chords and do a single down stroke in time with the entry of each new chord. The following step would be to play the strum on its own in time with the song using muted strings.
Stage 2 is to apply just half of the strum to each chord. This is a great intermediate step before finally attempting to do the full strum. The technique is to gradually build up to playing the song by isolating each element first.
This process gives you the best possible chance of mastering easy guitar songs for beginners.
There are sites online where you can download the lyrics and chords for songs but the problem is that they give you little or no guidance on the strumming. Often all you need is a system of 4 – 5 strums and once learned these will become universal and allow you to play 100′s of easy guitar songs for beginners.
Of course its worth noting that its a mistake to attempt any kind of song, even easy guitar songs for beginners, too soon and before you have correctly learned your chords and strums.
If you find that even easy songs are too hard for you then it’s time to go back to your chords and strumming. You haven’t spent enough time learning them! Once that’s done you’ll find that playing easy guitar songs for beginners is a breeze.[youtube:gn-nKql1-3I;How To [link:Easy Guitar Songs For Beginners];http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn-nKql1-3I&feature=related]
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