Monday 10 January 2011

Minneapolis Music Lessons - Easy Guitar Tabs

By Gerald Halk


Guitar tabs are a quick solution for you if you have no idea of how to read sheet music but are constantly bugged by the notion that you want to be a guitarist. Guitar tabs are easy to learn and enable you to start playing songs immediately, even when you're unfamiliar with them. As soon as you've bought your first guitar, it's time to begin searching for easy guitar tab versions of some songs to find out what it feels like to be a guitar player. Which songs you need tabs for depends on how you see yourself as a musician. Do you want to play your favorite songs chiefly for your own amusement or do you want to aim your repertoire at a potential audience? Let us look at your audience for a minute. The most popular songs in the world are all from years gone by. If you sit a number of people aged between ten and fifty down and play songs at them you will find a few universal favorites, and they'll all be old songs. If you want to please a random audience, your greatest goal should be to have about one hundred popular songs which range from the 1940's to the present, but you could most likely narrow the range to just include songs going back to the 60s.

So what are the easiest songs to learn from tabs? What can a beginner guitarist learn quickly without a lot of problems? Well, I did a bit searching on the internet concerning that question, and I found that "Horse With No Name" contains only 2 chords, and dead simple ones at that! You can be playing that song in a convincing fashion these days! "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" makes use of the chords G D C and Am - all easy chords. Building on chords you've got learning these songs, you could go onto "House Of The Rising Sun" which makes use of Am C D F E and E7. As soon as you've learnt that, it is just natural to go onto another beautiful song, "California Dreamin'" which has the same chords. If you do not like the idea of beginning your guitar playing with these songs, do a web search in the country music and blues genres. Actually a working knowledge of 12 bar blues is extremely useful for a guitar player basically getting started.

Now for a short list of songs that are both easy to play and have shown to be popular with audiences of any age. You could find tab arrangements for these songs by keying in the titles into a search engine. "Angie" by The Rolling Stones "Blowin' In the Wind" by Bob Dylan "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison "A Day In the Life", "Here, There And Everywhere" and "Hey Jude" by The Beatles "I Walk The Line" by Johnny Cash "Tears In Heaven" by Eric Clapton "Gloria" by Van Morrison "Hotel California" by The Eagles "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who "Scarborough Fair" by any number of performers, and "White Room" by Cream

Once you have some guitar songs under your belt, you can learn more popular favorites which do not fit into the "Easy Guitar Tabs" category. Wilson Pickett's "Dock Of The Bay" and "American Pie" by Don Mclean come to mind. But do not allow tastes of the masses be your lone guide. If, for instance, you choose you would like to do a folk guitar arrangement of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" then you can use tabs for the original electric guitar version as a basis for your new work. With a bunch of easy guitar tabs at your disposal, the only limits to your musical achievements are your imagination and your audience's supply of tomatoes.






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