Suttle changes in guitar structure can have a large impact to the overall feel of a song. At first look, the guitar tab for Love Hurts by Incubus seems to be a repeating chord pattern, but once you stop and research further into the chord changes you start to see small, but very important root note [...]
Taylor Swift is actually a very good songwriter and is not afraid to stick to the basics when it comes to laying out the chord progressions for her songs. Many of the current pop writers are scared to put out such simple guitar song riffs, but Taylor has never runaway from the easy to listen [...]
Let’s keep things simple with a classic acoustic guitar song from the band America. “Horse With No Name” was written early in the career of the band, and their ability to write popular songs with the minimal of chords is a great start for many beginning guitar players. Once again this is a song that you [...]
Here is the guitar tab for The Who’s – Can’t Explain. Peter Townsend is considered of the best rock guitarist of all time, and has a lot of music to choose from for beginner guitar songs and has recorded just as many riffs that will take quite a lot of skill to master.
Neil Young has always been a good source for the beginning guitar player. He has always written a song as he feels it, and never feels a need to overdub or layer a song with more instruments for the sake of doing it just because he can. Rockin In The Free World is the type [...]
Here is a great song by Lynyrd Skynyrd, that was covered by Shinedown. Do you know that the band was named after a former teacher who when he pronounced his name it sounded like the band name, instead of his real name, Leonard Skinnard, so the story goes. Here is a video of the Shinedown [...]
Here is the classic song from Bob Dylan – “Heaven’s Door”. This is a must learn for beginning guitarists, as it has the three most used chords in songwriting, Dmajor, Cmajor and Gmajor.
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