request - some very very very easy songs

OK then go here http://www.houlston.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm

You find something there ! :wink:

anything in gp4 format?

you can get gp4 songs on http://www.mysongbook.com

i know, but any augestions for easy songs?

If you learn the 12 bar blues shuffle rhythm you can play hundreds of blues songs in minutes, you just have to learn the lyrics
the easiest is A A A A D D A A E D A A
alfsevic

"Wish You Were Here"-Pink Floyd
"More Than A Feeling"-Boston
"One"-Metallica

Your already in the right place absonic.

Go back to the home page on this site and take a look at the "Easy Songs For Beginners" page. David Hodge has posted quite brilliant lessons with mp3's on most of them. Take "Horse With No Name" for example, just two chords. Work your way through them you can't go wrong and you can always ask questions on the Beginners Q&A forum if you get stuck.

After you've learned a few of David's lessons you can then come back to this forum and tackle most of the songs here.

Welcome aboard absonic, we are all on the same journey here.

Chris

Guns N Roses "Used to Love Her"

Blowing in the wind - Bob Dylan (3 chords - G,C,D):
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/b/bob_dylan/blowing_in_the_wind_ver2_crd.htm

Knocking on Heavans Door - Bob Dylan (4 chords - G,D,Am,C):
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/b/bob_dylan/knockin_on_heavens_door_ver4_crd.htm

Country Roads - John Denver (5 chords - G,Em,D,C, also F, so a bit tricky for 1 bar):
http://www.jaybuckey.com/Take%20Me%20Home,%20Country%20Roads%20(Guitar).pdf

And something more recent, just in case the 3 above don't 'float your boat'....
All about you - McFly - (10 chords - C,Am, D,D7, Dm,G,E,C7*,F,Fm*):
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/m/mcfly/all_about_you_ver4_crd.htm
*you can get away with not playing these chords. Its a good fun song, and there are lots of tab versions for it on Ultimate Guitar so there might be a better one.

Hi

to me there are not "easy" songs around, it all depens which is your level. Of course if a song is made of two or three open chords it is easier than say one which is made of by eight barre chords (but maybe you could change the key to avoid most of the barre), but this not means that it is necessarily easier than the eight chord song because maybe the three chord-song has a more difficult pattern, or chord changes are anticipated. i.e. "Sweet home alabama" or "knocking on heaven's door" are made of 3 or 4 chords only, but to play them properly you should be able to deal with sixteen notes, of course you could also play them with simpler patterns (ex. only four downstrum per bar) but they're not quite the same of the orginal recording. Or take "sitting on the dock of the bay" it is four chords (six to play the bridge) but it is easy only if you can play barre chords and you can anticipate chord changes (the same goes for other supposedly easy song like Nirvana"s "About a girl" and "Polly).

So to me there are a few things to consider to target a song as a easy one:

a) number of chords involved: the lowest usually the easier the song
b) kind of chords: it is easier to play Am than say B7
c) how often the chord change: it is easier if they change evry measure, than half measure or every beat or worse
d) when the chord change: on the main beat or on the offbeat ("Anticipation")
e) strummin pattern: does it involve sixteen notes or syncopation?

Anyway, to me the first skilness to develop is being able to play properly a simple syncopated pattern like d/du/u/Du. If you can already do this, there are literally hudreds of songs with no more of three or four open chords, changing every measure that can be played with that pattern.

"Horse with no name" is a simple song that can be played with a du/du/du/du pattern, even if the result is better if played with a syncopated one

Check this easy song database and you could find several "quite easy" songs

Matteo

Hey Matteo,

Good point, but arises a question...

What is the signifigance of the capitol D in d/du/u/Du ?

Keith

Hi keith

sorry I did not read the post again

what i meant was to play the following pattern (d means downstrum, u means upstrum)

I'll give you the beats

beat 1: d
beat 2: du
beat 3: u
beat 4: du

This is one of the most common pattern in pop/folk/rock music because it gives the song a nice sense of movement. What you have to do is basically skip the third beat downstrum in order to make the second beat upstrum to ring for a full quarter. the resultin sound is something like

ton-ta-ton-ta-ta-ta

To hear it by yourself how it should sound check both Nils site or the first mp3 in "Sitting on the dock of the bay" lesson by David hodge in the beginners song section of this forum

Matteo

Hi Matteo,

Thanks I understand all that but what intruiges me is that often I'll see a pattern but it will have a CAPITOL "D" in it somewhere
as in d/du/u/Du ..

Does the capitol "D" signify a suncopated strum or more accent on it?

Thanks

Keith

in this specific post the capital D was mistake. It usually means a quarter note like

D du udu

An accented strum is usually indicated like that ^

Matteo