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songs to learn for a begginer.

so i thought i would ask you nice folks the best songs for total begginers to learn with?
If we could compile a list of songs with tabs or notes that would be great and hopefully stop guitar meeting the wall at force with the 1000th poor rendition of smoke on the water

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Permalink Reply by Wichita Sam on October 9, 2012 at 2:11pm

learn with any song you like. find it on youtube and play the heck out of it. I used "Sweet Home Chicago" to tune and play in every one of the CBGs I built in my first year. It was helpful to learn with.

Other than that go to McNally's Strumstick website and look up their folk song play book. Simple 2 and 3 chord songs are also helpful...

hope this helps,

the best,

wichita sam

Permalink Reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry on October 9, 2012 at 4:39pm

Three string fretless is what I'm working on. Done a bunch of noodling, but easy blues songs are my next goal.

Permalink Reply by Wichita Sam on October 10, 2012 at 2:07am

Thomas,

for starting out on any fretless, make sure that you are properly tuned...(I use get-tuned.com's guitar tuner), get a slide that your comfortable with (I'd advice starting on the pinky or ring finger, you'll want the other two later for fretting behind the slide and it's a bitch to unlearn what you've begun with) and make sure you technique is good (slide square across the neck in all positions).

Then learn the 1-IV-V positions in every key (song that you play), including inverted chord positions (where IV and V might be below the 1 position on the neck....

Then just play and play. nothing like the wood shed to get you playing fast... oh, and... had fun!!!!!

the best,

Wichita Sam

Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on October 9, 2012 at 10:10pm

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/scales-are-fun
Try that. Learning 'songs' one at a time may seem to be the way forward..
This is a very 'guitar centric' way of thinking in my experience. There is no substitute for running scales :)

Permalink Reply by Keith Stanford on October 10, 2012 at 5:44pm

Howdy TPK, and thank you for re-posting that video, as many of us had not even heard of a CBG when you first made that video.

So thank you:

(1) for taking the time to make that video back in 2011

(2) for making the effort here today in trying to help us

PS - I'll bet there is a follow up video in making soon....right?....please.

Now it is up the us 'newbies' to quit moaning, stop looking for shortcuts, and start PRACTICING ON A REGULAR BASIS! That way we will be ready for your next video in a few months.

Kind regards....

kieta

Permalink Reply by Patrick Curley on January 4, 2013 at 11:23pm