Convince me on not throwing in the garbage this amazon warehouse guitar… Extra points if you type the tab
Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie
I know a lot of people that have started with Metallica - Nothing Else Matters.
So much so that it’s locally almost corny.
I can’t do it. I tried that one already 2 weeks ago.
If you had said ‘I can’t do it, I have been trying that for two weeks’.
I would have said ‘going great, keep on it’
Your fingers need to harden to play more than punk rock.
I don’t play, but everyone I know who does, learned Smoke on the Water first.
“Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys is the same Ab7 chord for the whole song. Lock in that one chord shape and then all you have to do is get the strumming pattern. Put a capo across four strings on the first fret to make life even easier for your left hand.
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/beastie-boys/sabotage-chords-3688055
This page says there are slight changes in the chorus. Just don’t strum the low E string for that part. If you or your friends are belting out the lyrics then it won’t matter anyway.The intro and verse to “About A Girl” by Nirvana is also easy. You go back and forth between Em and G, and it’s a relaxed tempo. To play the chorus you have to learn a few bar chords. https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nirvana/about-a-girl-tabs-36242
The classic D-A-G-A or G-D-Em-C progression. Lots of songs use that chord configuration, and they are relatively easy to play (except maybe the G chord if you are a total beginner).
I have no clue of what are you saying, I can only read fretboard numbers dude
Here you go - DAGA:
An X aong the top means don’t play this string for this chord. A circle means play this string without any fingers on the frets. And obviously a numbered circle on a fret means put that finger in this spot.
It’s fairly simple to do those chords (and I suck at guitar, seriously), and they sound nice.
Hope that helps and you don’t chuck your guitar :-)
EDIT - just realised that that’s not even how I play G or A - same fret holds but I use different fingers for them.
Yeah, that’s a really weird way to finger a G major. I will play it with my second finger on the third fret of low E, first finger on the second fret of A, third finger barred across B and high E at third fret. If I’m playing a song that requires certain chord changes (like the way Wonderwall drops from G major to a G/F# to an Em7 to a Dsus to an A7sus) I will use third and fourth finger on the high strings instead of the barre because it’s easier to move the root notes around that way.
I can only hold the first 3 strings, the thick ones correctly, the lower ones are impossible to use for me
“Chasing Cars” by Snowpatrol is pretty easy to play.
A lot of old hard rock and metal with power chords is easy to play a simplified version of. I think Metallica - ‘For whom the bell tolls’ and ‘Enter Sandman’ were probably the first things I learnt. You can learn enough to have fun playing a riff like that even if you struggle to get your hand into position to do proper 6-string chords.
I should stop making these impulsive acquisitions
You should take this opportunity to learn some really obscure guitar music to impress those around you… like Wonderwall.
