This is a simple song to play, and should take some pressure of the beginning guitarist who thinks they have to know all of the chords and voicings that a guitar has to offer. For this you will need a capo, what’s a capo you ask? well here is an explanation of what a capo is and does for the guitar. Tom Petty is very confident about his ability to put together a song, and is not afraid to keep it simple.
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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 changes that make a C-major-chord and an A-minor-chord have an impact on how the singer Brandon Boyd changes the notes on the end of the of each of the verses.
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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 to hook lines in her music. When you write from the heart it does not matter that it is just a three or four chord song, people will see the truth behind what your saying and will get an emotional connection with the music, and that is how most stars get to where they are. If you write a song and do not feel any connection to rhythym and words, most fans will not either.
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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 can get a feel of the up and down strokes of the strings by practicing to the music.
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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.
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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 of song that you can really sound close to the original recording when you play it thru any electric guitar and amp with a little Gain or Distortion. Just because Neil writes a lot of simple songs, don’t think he is not an accomplished guitarist, Check out Cortez The Killer and Like A Hurricane on the Rust Never Sleeps Live album, and you get a feel for his melodic lead guitar playing.
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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 version of Simple Man.
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