Time to Face The Music

Mystique · #1 January 26th, 2006

Hey everyone...I believe that there's no sweeter sound than the sound of an acoustic guitar being played...(by someone that knows how).

A couple of years back I started taking guitar lessons. At the same time I discovered that a few of my 12-13 year old students were having lessons by my guitar teacher as well....

Often while I attempted to teach them art, we'd talk about how our guitar lessons were progressing...this was great, for about a few weeks...then my students started to advance in their guitar playing way faster than me... (it was at about this time that I started asking for 'silent painting' in class)...

Anyway, they seemed to get the hang of things easily, while I just struggled.

One of my resolutions for 2006 is to learn how to play, and not give up until I can impress people with at least one tune... (my friends are easily impressed, so I won't have to be that good!)

I love the Beatles and wonder if anyone can suggest any 'easy' tune to start with...

Cheers, and the best of luck with your learning...

~Mystique

allthumbs · #2 January 26th, 2006

Look through the lessons Mystique. You will find some beatles stuff there. Welcome.

Clancy · #3 January 26th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Mystique

Often while I attempted to teach them art, we'd talk about how our guitar lessons were progressing...this was great, for about a few weeks...then my students started to advance in their guitar playing way faster than me... (it was at about this time that I started asking for 'silent painting' in class)...

Good move.

Welcome to the forum Mystique, I think we can help you here to reach your goal.

You can find the beginners guitar lessons here - http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/fo...splay.php?f=34 - There is a John Lennon song included there.

Also there is a finger-style lesson of yesterday here - Yesterday >> part 1

Hope that helps. Any other questions, just ask.

Cheers

Clancy

justinthyme · #4 January 26th, 2006

Hi Mystique - glad you dropped by

You just arrived at the world's most helpful and supportive guitar-players forum (IMHO, of course). Learning about the PT shapes before you get involved with too much theory could just be the shortcut to carefree enjoyment of playing guitar that you, and every beginner *should* get.

And there are so many helpful ppl around here and the PT forum - I wish I'd found this site years ago. Do yourself a favour and buy Kirk's book and DVD - they are invaluable.

<Kirk - that'll be a 10% finder's fee, thx -

)>

No kidding, Mystique - totally unsolicited!

Happy noodling ...

allthumbs · #5 January 26th, 2006

Hi Mystique. Just a tip about Plane Talk. It is best to have your chords more or less down including bar chords. Be able to play a couple of tunes and feel comfortable moving around the fret board a bit. P.T. is great,but you need to have your basics well in hand or you may get frustrated with it. If the above holds true for you then go for it,if not, then take your time here and learn what you need to first.

bluesguy · #6 January 26th, 2006

Yesterday is a pretty easy Beatles song to learn to play.

Bigred1951 · #7 January 26th, 2006

Norwegian Wood is pretty easy. Without getting into fancy chords., you can get by with D, C, G, D. (2x) Chorus is: Dm, G, Dm, Em (or Em7) and A. Oh, yeah, you want to have Capo on 2nd fret.

nagukush · #8 January 27th, 2006

i would like to suggest you a song here, try KIRK'S ARRANGEMENT OF "UNCHAINED MELODY", its really beautiful to listen to and to play. As far as i remember even Mr.Kirk loves to play it, (as he says in the lesson)

PickNGrin · #9 January 27th, 2006

Yay! A Beatles fan! I learned all of my basic chords, strumming, keeping rythem etc by playing two books of Beatle songs. There was enough material to keep me from getting bored, I was familier with all of the songs, and there was a wide variety of degree of difficulty to keep me challanged....that was a long, long time ago

Mystique · #10 January 27th, 2006

Thank you for your replies. They are much appreciated. I guess, as allthumbs suggested, I really need to start at the basics and work from there... 'Easy' is such a relative term, and what might seem like a simple tune to some, is in fact difficult for others. Thanks for all your suggestions, I'll certainly keep them in mind.

(Glad to read that you are also a Beatles fan PickNGrin)

Cheers,

~Mystique

chuckswood2001 · #11 January 27th, 2006

i have a pdf of a beatles song book with tabs, dont remember where i got it, it was free, supposed to have all the beatles songs in it, it's 1.8 mb long dont know if its alrite to put as an attch or not, will have to check on that

chuck

nagukush · #12 January 27th, 2006

Yes Even i want to share some e-books and other stuff. Can anyone please advice whether its ok to attach things like that to share.....

allthumbs · #13 January 27th, 2006

Copy righted material is not allowed on this forum,but public domain stuff is fine.

chuckswood2001 · #14 January 27th, 2006

i was just checking out the pdf, it is a collections of tabs off the net, its not a book that sold in stores or anything, but i would not want to post anything that might get this site in trouble, still cant find out where i got it from, checked my google search that i did the other day and its not on any of the sites i visited

chuck

nagukush · #15 January 27th, 2006

Then i better not post any attachments, i too dont want to harm the site, its our home !!!