Easy songs for guitar players? Define easy! I’ve spent the last 20 years of my career as a guitar teacher trying to find gold in the stacks of cds that I have and my various roommates owned. “Gold” refers to songs by popular artists that are easy for beginners to play, and they’re gold because easy songs by popular artists …
Extra G Chord exercises
Other open chord exercises to practice with G Once you’ve mastered the G chord and are ready to start working on songs using A, D, E, and G, there are of course more chords that you’ll run into. I’ve compiled a list of extra G chord exercises you can work on to prepare you for some of the different chord …
Easy Led Zeppelin Guitar Songs
Led Zeppelin For Beginner Guitar Players This month’s post will focus on songs by Led Zeppelin guitar riff songs, like Whole Lotta Love or Misty Mountain Hop. I’m actually going to do a few posts about Led Zeppelin since they’re my favorite band, and there’s a lot of great songs to do by them in a few different playing styles …
Easy U2 Songs to Play on Guitar
U2 Songs for Beginners A lot of U2 songs require the use of a delay pedal, but most of the ones on this list can be played without one. I tried to find songs that were basic strumming songs, or had some sort of guitar riff. Staring At The Sun This one is a good one for acoustic guitar players. …
Easy Rolling Stones Songs
Rolling Stones songs for beginners This list of songs consists of songs from the Stone’s early days through the Sticky Fingers album, mainly because I own the “Singles Collection: The London Years” guitar tab book. I combed through that list of songs and then added a few more from some of the other albums. There is not as many easy …
Pavoh.org, a new online resource for teenage musicians
I recently found a new website to help aspiring young musicians showcase their talents, find other musicians, and even win cash prizes in one of their contests. It’s called Pavoh.org, and you can also find them on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. Part of the website “Learn” is dedicated to helping students learn about different genres of music including …
Easy Beatles Songs
Looking for easy Beatles songs to play on the guitar? The other day I did a search on Google for “Easy Beatles Songs” to see what would come up; the top 5 entries that I looked at had pretty bad information about this subject. One post on a chat room recommended Yesterday and I Feel Fine, and another one listed …
Easy AC/DC Songs
One band that a lot of beginning acoustic guitar players overlook is AC/DC. Bon Scott-era AC/DC has a surprising amount of songs that are primarily based on open chords like A, D, and G. This weeks blog post covers their album, “Let There Be Rock.” I’ve listed the songs in their order on the cd, and noted what song group …
Tips on Buying Your First Acoustic Guitar
A lot of people start on acoustic because the start-up costs are lower. You just buy the guitar, case, and a few extras and you’re done. If you buy an electric guitar, you’ll have to also get an amp, or some sort of device so you can listen to it through headphones like a Line 6 Pod. Your decision to …
Mozart Symphony 40 Guitar Tab
Mozart’s 40th Symphony Arranged for Lead Guitar Classical music can most definitely rock. This is one of my favorite pieces to teach students who are taking private guitar lessons and are working on improving their lead guitar playing abilities. The melodies aren’t too difficult, and the tempo of this is just fast enough to be challenging but not so fast …