easiest song to practice on acoustic guitar

[petemurphy]

Hi,

I have an acoustic guitar but i'm useless at practicing. I'm thinking if i have some chords up on the wall of a song i know i can just repeat those again and again till I get more confident.

Any suggestions of a song that might be easy to play - i like radiohead, new model army, cure, u2 kind of thing

thanks

[Mr Kitten]

Fake plastic trees is nice and easy.

Most of the cure stuff is pretty straight-forward too... depends how happy you are with barre chords.

[petemurphy]

erm whats a barre chord! any recommended sites with the instructions on?

thanks

[davepoth]

petemurphy said:

erm whats a barre chord! any recommended sites with the instructions on?

thanks

You are new then. A barre chord is where you put the index finger across the whole neck, which enables you to fret all the stings at the same time. You'll need it for fun chords like F, G#, Bb, C# and Eb.

Learn "The House of the Rising Sun", it's sort of compulsory.

[Burty88]

davepoth said:

petemurphy said:

erm whats a barre chord! any recommended sites with the instructions on?

thanks

You are new then. A barre chord is where you put the index finger across the whole neck, which enables you to fret all the stings at the same time. You'll need it for fun chords like F, G#, Bb, C# and Eb.

Learn "The House of the Rising Sun", it's sort of compulsory.

Start here - http://www.justinguitar.com/en/BC-000-BeginnersCou...

Barre chords start around stage 6, depending on how much you know about open (non-barred) chords you might want to start at an earlier stage.

The songs he recommends aren't great, but they're better than most guitar books. And, I think once you move onto the intermediate course the first song he tells you to try is Creep - although you'll have to source the tabs and learn it yourself in which case see here (www.ultimate-guitar.com).

Plus it's all free - although you'll have to put up with the odd plug of his book/dvd etc.

[kiteless]

A classic "learner" tune to strum is Lying Eyes by The Eagles.

Personally, I've always thought that Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out by Clapton is better: good mix of chord changes (with a cheeky, but relatively easy, diminished chord thrown into the mix), and once strummed you can play at fingerpicking it.

Good call on House Of The Rising Sun as well.

[55allgold]

Super easy strumalongs include:
Knocking on Heaven's Door: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/bob_dylan/knocki...
Brown Eyed Girl: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/v/van_morrison...
Let It Be (halfway down this page): http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/beatles/let_it_b...
Hey Hey My My: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/n/neil_young/hey_h...
Don't Look Back in Anger: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/o/oasis/dont_look_...

Also, some of Presley's best slow ballads have fantastic chord sequences that can be tricky to get right, but very rewarding when you do, like Love Me Tender.

Have fun and keep strumming!

[petemurphy]

thanks will get them fingers bleeding!