[Dealdey]

Hello

I have only just signed up to the forum so please be nice!!!, Ive been playing for about 6 weeks and just about managed to learn the easier open chords, (a,g,c,d,e,em,am) However my strumming isnt too good and when I play it doesnt relly sound like the song!!!!!!

Sorry to bore the more advanced players, but could anyone please reccomend any easy to play songs using open the more basic open chords as Im getting bored of the songs that I have managed to find, ie Better Man, Hotel Yorba, Wonderwall....

Also has anyone got any tips or advice for devolping strum patterns???

[markigta]

First welcome to GTU.

If you do a search through the forum you'll find songs that people have already recommended.

You need to also tell us what music you like, then we can help better.

[knot4reel91]

Welcome,

The best way for someone to reccomend a song is for you to share with us what genre of music you prefer to play. Some pretty simple beginner songs would be: (Just takin a stab at some songs).

Good Riddance- Green Day
Run Around- Blues Traveler (pretty cool chord progression)
Knockin' on Heavens Door- Bob Dylan (his version is easier since you have a better chance to find the chords to that song that the original version).

This post has been edited by knot4reel91: 31 January 2006 - 05:09 PM

[dadfad]

A simplified version of the Hendrix tune "Hey Joe" is just repeating C-G-D-A-E. That's it.

[C]Hey, [G]Joe. [D]Where you [A]goin' with that [E]gun in your hand?

[C]Goin' down an' [G]shoot my ol' lady.[D] Caught her messin' [A]round with an[E]other man.

Hey Joe, can you tell me where you gonna go?

Hey Joe, won't ya tell me where you gonna go?

I'm runnin' down to Mexico, find a place where I can be free.

Find a place where there ain't no hangman tryin' to put his noose around me.

[Dealdey]

Thanks, I listen to all kinds of music pron among my fav artisits are Star Sailor, David Gray, Cold Play, Chilli Peppers, Kings of Leon and at the moment its all about Artic Monkeys. I also like a lot of older stuff, Neil Diamond, Bee Gees, Elvis, Queen.

I dont mind learning to play anything that has a good acoustic sound to it, Im not bothered about playing blues stuff!! At the moment Ive got a couple of tabs by the Verve, Dire Straits and Seal.

Any advice on developing good strumming patterns???

[markigta]

Thanks, I listen to all kinds of music pron among my fav artisits are Star Sailor, David Gray, Cold Play, Chilli Peppers, Kings of Leon and at the moment its all about Artic Monkeys.  I also like a lot of older stuff, Neil Diamond, Bee Gees, Elvis, Queen.

I dont mind learning to play anything that has a good acoustic sound to it, Im not bothered about playing blues stuff!! At the moment Ive got a couple of tabs by the Verve, Dire Straits and Seal.

Any advice on developing good strumming patterns???

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So David Gray's The one i love is quite simple, dodgy strumming pattern though. I just strum it DDU/UDU. Theres an F chord in there though which could prove a problem. The other guys'll explain partial barre chords better that i can. dadfad? anyone. EDIT my bad the F chord is in the no Capoed version

http://www.ultimate-...ve_ver2_crd.htm

capo on 5(im presuming you have a capo) if not then there a tab without a capo that starts with a C chord.

Dosent David Gray sound like Neil Diamond on the track "Aint No Love"

Coldplay are piece of piss to play, most anyway. Only problem is they never use standard tuning. If already use other tunings let me know. eg tuning the high e(thinnest string) down to a d.

This post has been edited by markigta: 01 February 2006 - 08:36 AM

[stewy baby]

[quote=markigta,Feb 1 2006, 02:32 PM]
[quote=Dealdey,Feb 1 2006, 08:31 AM]Thanks, I listen to all kinds of music pron among my fav artisits are Star Sailor, David Gray, Cold Play, Chilli Peppers, Kings of Leon and at the moment its all about Artic Monkeys.  I also like a lot of older stuff, Neil Diamond, Bee Gees, Elvis, Queen.

roll on arctic monkeys!!!!

sorry it had to be done

[Dealdey]

Markigta, Cheers mate that pattern for the David Gray pattern has worked a treat, yeah I have a capo so that was no probs. Yeah his vocals are a bit like Neil Diamond not as rough tho, I only listen The Hot August Night live album which is awesome!!!!

Ive not messed about with other tunings yet it takes me all day to get it tuned to standard!!!!!!

[markigta]

You like similar music to me. If you need any other tabs for songs you like let me know and i'll see if ive got a decent tab and strumming pattern. Im no expert but ok at strummin.

Try Neil Diamonds new album "12 Songs". Good old acoustic guitar, and some new classics on it.

[towniceman]

Welcome to the board
with the chords you have learn't their are tons of songs you could learn.
the first songs I learnt on the acoustic was pink floyd mother.and Gordon Lightfoot - wreck of the Edmind Fitzgerald
As for the strumming it will come to you .

[knot4reel91]

Welcome to the board
with the chords you have learn't their are tons of songs you could learn.
the first songs I learnt on the acoustic was pink floyd mother.and Gordon Lightfoot - wreck of the Edmind Fitzgerald
As for the strumming it will come to you .

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Another good Pink Floyd song is wish you were here, this is a relatively easy song. The only difficult part is the little solo in the beginning (this should teach you how to move your fingers a little quicker).

GOOD LUCK

[jstachowiak]

I've been playing about 8 months and I have found these songs reasonably easy to play:

City of New Orleans Steve Goodman
Thunder Road The Boss
Push & Back 2 Good Matchbox 20
Sounds of Silence Simon & Garfunkel
My Heroes have always been Cowboys Waylon Jennings performs

[simonlewis07]

here's the tab for Wish You Were Here, as someone mentioned before. the first solo is actually rather easy, but the second, ive never tried:

CODE

ARTIST: Pink Floyd
SONG: Wish You Were Here
Tabbed by : JEC147@yahoo.com

Guitar one intro
    -This part may be absent in some versions of the song, if not it is played with
in an electric with light distortion. On the album version the guitar has an AM radio
like effect, it’s easy to duplicate with some light distortion and soft strumming.

---------------:--3--3--3--------------------3-3--3------
---------------:--3--3--3--------------------3-3--3------
---------------:--0--0- 0------0-------------0-0--0------  play twice
---------0--2--:------------2-----2--0-------------------
----0h2--------:-----------------------------------------
--3------------:-----------------------------------------
   second time through guitar 2 enters at dotted line    

-----------------3--3--3--------------------3-3--3-------
-----------------3--3--3--------------------3-3--3-------
-----------------0--0- 0--------------------0-0--0-------  play twice, then lightly strum
---------0--2--------------2--0--------------------------   the G chord a couple of times,
----0h2-------------------------2--0---------------------   go back to beginning and play
--3------------------------------------------------------   over guitar 2's first solo.


Guitar two 1st solo( accurate )
    -accoustic

--------------------------------------3-/-5--5-\-3----------------------
-------3--5---3-----------------------3-/-5--5-\-3---3-/-5--5-\-3-------
--2/4-------4---4p2p0--------------------------------2-/-4--4-\-2--0----
-----------------------0-----0--0---------------------------------------
--------------------------/2--------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------
--3-/-5--5-\-3-------------3-----5--5b6r5p3------------3--5-------------
--2-/-4--4-\-2--4-----2/4-----4--------------4--2--4b5-------4b6--2-----
----------------5-------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------3-----5--5b6--5b6--3-------------------------------------------
---2/4------4------------------4--2--4b5---2----------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------

               end solo


        -The chorus is simple-


     G - C - D - Am - G - D - C - Am

also, here is a song by The Decemberists called '16 Military Wives' that has really easy chords as well as an easy strumming pattern. just listen to the song and youll get it

CODE

More tabs: http://www.geocities.com/indieguitartabs/

Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Picaresque
 Song: 16 Military Wives

(Intro:)
E

E                G
Sixteen military wives
          A                               E
Thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes
                       G
Staring at the national ten
          A                                E
Thirty-two gently clutching wrinkled little hands
A                 B
Seventeen company men
            C#m              D            A
Out of which only twelve will make it back again
E                          G
Sergeant sends a letter to five
        A                                        E
Military wives as tears drip down from ten little eyes
B
Cheer them onto their rivals

     A       E
Cause America can
   A       E         B
And America can't say no
   A       E
And America does
  A       E         B
If America says it's so

It's so
       F#m             A
And the anchorperson on TV
    E
Goes la de da de da

E                 G
Fifteen celebrity minds
             A                                 E
Leading their fifteen sordid wretched checkered lives
E                              G
Will they find the solution in time
           A                                 E
Using their fifteen pristine moderate liberal minds
A                B
Eighteen academy chairs
            C#m        D           A
Out of which only seven really even care
E                       G
Doling out a garland to five
         A                                 E
Celebrity minds, they're humbly taken by surprise
B
Cheer them onto their rivals

     A       E
Cause America can
   A       E         B
And America can't say no
   A       E
And America does
  A       E         B
If America says it's so

It's so
       F#m             A
And the anchorperson on TV
    E
Goes la de da de da de dade dade da

La de da de da de dade dade da

(Interlude:)
E G A E
E G A E

A                 B
Fourteen cannibal kings
         C#m               D                A
Wondering blithely what the dinner bell will bring
E                 G
Fifteen celebrity minds
           A                             E
Served on a leafy bed of sixteen military wives
B
Cheer them onto their rivals

     A       E
Cause America can
   A       E         B
And America can't say no
   A       E
And America does
  A       E         B
If America says it's so

It's so
       F#m             A
And the anchorperson on TV
    E
Goes la de da de da de dade dade da

La de da de da de dade dade da

La de da de da de dade dade

Da de da de da de dade dade

Da de da de da de dade dade da (Woo!)

(Outro:)
E G A E
E G A E
E G A E