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Learning Guitar - Lesson Ten
Part 6: Learning Songs
 More of this Feature
• Part 1: overview
• Part 2: palm muting
• Part 3: major chord inversions
• Part 4: chord quiz
• Part 5: advanced string bends
• Part 6: learning songs
• Part 7: practice schedule
 
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• Index of Guitar Lessons
• Buying Your First Guitar
• How to Read Guitar Tab
• Easy to Play Songs
 
We learned quite a bit about specific guitar techniques this week, so let's try to put some of these principles into practice, while still having some fun! As usual, you can find about 200 other songs to play in the easy song tabs archive.

If you need a refresher on the chords we've learned so far, glance over the open major and minor chords, power chords, 7th chords, barre chords, and sus4 chords.

NOTE: A few of the following song transcriptions use tablature. If you are unfamiliar with this term, take a moment to learn how to read guitar tablature.

Hash Pipe - performed by Weezer
NOTES: this was the clip used in the illustration of palm-muting. Lots of chunky power chords to play. Make sure you keep the palm mute happening! Although playable on acoustic, this is more suited to electric guitar.
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Better Be Home Soon - performed by Crowded House
NOTES: A very nice song, with a fairly large assortment of chords. This one is perfectly suited to acoustic guitar.
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Desperado - performed by The Eagles
NOTES: A bit of a challenge, to be sure. Originally played on piano, this one has LOTS of different chords, almost all of which you probably already know.
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Stairway to Heaven Guitar Solo - performed by Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)
NOTES: for electric guitarists only. Okay, so this isn't easy, by any standards. But, we've gotta start somewhere! Be patient, and give this a shot - bit by bit.

 

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