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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Easy Guitar Songs For Beginners

By Payo W Perry

One of the common problems a lot of people just learning guitar encounter is trying to find easy guitar songs for beginners.

The learning process is all about maintaining an even learning curve and for this reason its important to make a smooth transition out of chords and into suitable easy guitar songs.

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.

It's vital to play along with original recordings when you practice the songs. Strumming should be smooth and even. Pay attention to your chords and ensure they are changing correctly with the lyrics.

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.

It would be a mistake to try to play all the various elements at once so next we apply just half of the strum to each chord before finally attempting the full strum. You can see from the above example that each element was practised on its own.

By building each part individually you give yourself a real chance of playing easy guitar songs for beginners without frustration.

An obvious resource for chords and lyrics are the many sites online where you can search and download the song sheets for free. The only problem is that often there are no indications for strumming. For this reason you should learn your set system of strums, often 4 -5 will do, separately. With those strums it'll be possible to play 100's of easy guitar songs for beginners.

Please bear in mind that you should avoid songs which are still too hard for your current level of guitar playing. Use wisdom and stick to easy guitar songs for beginners until such time as your technically able to attempt more difficult pieces.

So what if you find these so called easy songs really hard? Well that's a sure sign you haven't done enough work on your basic chords and strumming. Go back! Once your foundation in the basics is well practiced everything else, including all these easy guitar songs for beginners, will flow effortlessly. - 18758

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