Beginner guitar tuts

[Chickletman]

Anyone know any good song tutorials for beginner guitarist D:?

[Hacken2k7]

mary had a little lam? jk ummm white wedding it seems like an ok song for beginners

[Eiliosdraye]

Well, if you look in Rock Band tutorials it should give you a simple and straightforward tutorial, if you are good with Drums and Mic you should do fine for rhythm. After that a good song is "Say it ain't so" by Weezer.

[WolfHowlz]

Look up:
Hey Julie by Fountains of Wayne tabs

Really easy song to learn and I think you might like the song.

[wut]

Can you read tabs?

If so,

read some simple songs.

Then go for harder crap like Smoke on the Water.

Then try speed metal.

:P

[JediLucas5]

We Bow In It's Aura - Veil Of Maya.

Seriously SOOOO easy.

[GiutarGuy]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/for_beginners/

http://www.8notes.com/theory/

http://www.myguitarsolo.com/scales.htm

Download PowerTab. It's free. Google it. Look up pentantonic scales on youtube.

Try doing this:
AC/DC - TNT (exclude solo)
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (main riff)
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral (Entire song)
3 Inches of Blood - Hydra's Teeth (Chorus/Solo)
AC/DC - TNT (solo) [You can learn this before or after learning the solo to Hydra's Teeth, but I suggest to learn the chorus to Hydra's Teeth before learning either solos]

That'll get your beginner stuff through quickly enough. I'm relatively sure you can find text tabs for all those songs (or the parts I'm suggesting anyway) on Ultimate Guitar. You may need PowerTab for Electric Funeral though.

[Killerrrrrr]

Anyone know any good song tutorials for beginner guitarist D:?

The first 2 songs I learned were the Candian & American Nation Anthems. Not hard.


Internet lessons on www.ultimate-guitars.com are good. But a lesson with a real professional is better (self-explanatory).



If, however, you don't take lessons, here's a few tips...


1- ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS go up and down and up and down, even if the song is slow. When you will try faster songs, you won't have the reflex of going always down, you will play much faster and you won't get string-mixed (Like you don't know where's the good string, if you know what I mean)


2- Practice is the key. Don't get frustrated if you don't nail what your trying to play. Stay calm and practice often.



3- Learn your major and minor chords. Also learn to switch between them fast (To make like a country song).

[GiutarGuy]

1- ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS go up and down and up and down, even if the song is slow. When you will try faster songs, you won't have the reflex of going always down, you will play much faster and you won't get string-mixed (Like you don't know where's the good string, if you know what I mean)

I disagree, there are a lot of songs where you are supposed to strum with all downstrokes (almost every Ramones songs, lots of metal songs, etc). Many teachers will teach you this excercise

e|-4-3-2-1
B|----------4-3-2-1

And continue doing that excercise until you reach the low E then go

A|-----------1-2-3-4
E|-1-2-3-4


And continue up to the high e string. Then move everything up a fret and repeat (you'd be playing 5-4-3-2 across the strings, then 2-3-4-5 back across the strings, and continue moving up a fret.)

And practice that first with all downstrokes, then all upstrokes, then alternate picking (down, up, down, up) starting on down, then do it again starting on up (up, down, up, down). And practice all that at whatever tempo you need to.

Then do the same picking thing with your scales.

3- Learn your major and minor chords. Also learn to switch between them fast (To make like a country song).

Learn the theory behind them too. It's really simple actually. For major chords, take a major scale. C major scale, for example (C is very easy major scale, it contains no sharps or flats) is C D E F G A B C.

--Major scales are constructed like this: "Root - Whole Step - Whole step - Half Step - Whole Step - Whole Step- Whole step - Half Step [you end up on the root again here].

Each note is named after a number (actually, they have distinct names, but I don't want to go into that)

The root note is the 1st. The following note is the 2nd. Then the 3rd. Then 4th, etc, until you get to the 8th, which is just the root an octave higher (you'll hear chords like add 9 or add 11 sometimes, just continue going up after 8. 9th is just the 2nd an octave higher, 10th is the 3rd an octave higher, etc).

Now to construct the major C chord. Major chords consist of the Root, then 3rd, and the 5th. The Major scale root is C, the 3rd is E, and the 5th is G. Put those three notes together and you have a C major chord. You can do this the same way with a minor chord, using the minor scale. You can look up the minor scale on your own.

[troll]

First song i ever learned was smoke on water, then i progressed into some jimmi hendrix.

[maggerz]

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

You probably know that, but meh.