Leanring a new song.

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#1  Edited By MrAwsum

I've recently got back into playing my guitar, and have been searching round for an easy going acoustic song that I could ease myself into.  
I don't want chords I want finger picking style.  ( Or a mix between chords and finger picking. Like Computer man ) 
I'm not amazing ( Just awesome).  
Any songs would be a great help.

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#2  Edited By breadfan

Blackbird - The Beatles.

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#3  Edited By Pie
@Br3adfan said:
" Blackbird - The Beatles. "
Yes and Yes
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#5  Edited By JammyJesus

Leanring to spell.
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#6  Edited By Jambones

I was learning guitar but got caught up on the appropriately named F Chord. :-) You've inspired me to have another go; I need to go get some strings :-)

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#7  Edited By MrAwsum
@Jambones: Hehe, I remember that damned F chord.  
But wait until you try 'B'... 
You'll give up again, Juuuust like I did.
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#8  Edited By arbitRage

The best way to learn F is to finger an open E chord, then refinger it in the same shape but without your index finger, slide this position up one fret and bar across. Same thing with learning a B chord. Finger an open A, then refinger it without the index finger and slide up one fret, add the index finger as a bar. When I say refinger, I mean the index finger gets replaced by middle, middle by ring, and ring by pinky, ohhh damn that pinky.
 
The bar itself is difficult to play at first but if you keep practicing it will totally open up the guitar.  I learned by strumming all open strings and then trying to create the bar chord as quickly as possible.  
 
As an appropriate reward ,one of you can teach me to sing and play at the same time.  :(
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#10  Edited By MrAwsum
@arbitRage: I already could play them, but I did have problems when I was learning I meant. Thanks anyway though. 
And learning to sing and play is easy. Just forget about your guitar... Concentrate on the lyrics. 
Getting it in tune is the hard part though. 
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#11  Edited By Jambones
@arbitRage: Thanks. I will try that out. :-)
 
MrAwsum: Haha, thanks for the 'encouragement.' And sorry, I didn't mean to hijack the topic.
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#12  Edited By MrAwsum
@Jambones: Haha, Don't worry about it. And I mean-... YOu'll get the B chord easy. Don't worry about it. *shifty eyes*  
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#13  Edited By Muttinus_Rump
@arbitRage: Hmm, singing and playing at the same time. I've performed alot doing this on piano, so this may help. Obviously having an easier piece makes it a lot easier to concentrate on the singing, but as always, just practicing the music till you can play it without even thinking seems to be the way it works for me. Having music that uses chords rather than separate notes also helps (again this comes down to complexity, you don't see many lead singers who play lead guitar) but this can't be changed if you're dead set on a certain piece.
 
Practice.
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#14  Edited By tombp92

I am trying to break your heart- Wilco

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#15  Edited By redace25

Radar Love by Golden Earring. Just started learning it myself. It is a lot of fun to play.

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#16  Edited By stratzilla

No idea if you're into classical guitar (primarily what I play), but a few I've been practicing lately:
 
Dieter Kriedler - Salida del Sol
Frederich Handel - Sarabande (from Keyboard suite)
JS Bach - Preludium (from Cello Suite no. 5)
JS Bach - Aria (colloquially known as Air on a G string)
Paul Gilbert - Flamingo
 
All involve finger picking and some chords (Sarabande, Flamingo = pretty chord heavy).

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#17  Edited By BigBoss1911
  Very fun and easy song to play.
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#18  Edited By flaminghobo

Classico, you know it baby.

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#19  Edited By MrAwsum
@FlamingHobo said:
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Classico, you know it baby.

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Your right, I do know it -baby-!
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#20  Edited By JakJ

Hehe I hear ya. I just gave up, got an electric guitar and started playing pop songs that use mostly power chords (ie: all of them). Bitches love pop songs :)

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#21  Edited By Hamst3r

Learn the pimp-nasty Spanish flamenco style:  
 
   
If you figure that out, you'll be awesome enough to murder people with your face.
 
Also, I have no idea who that guy is, he's just who popped up when I searched for Spanish guitar. There's no specific song you should learn, just the traditional Spanish guitar styles in general. 
 
This guy is awesome too, haha:
 
 
 
 
Edit: oh and if you want simpler stuff to start with, there's plenty of that. Just look for ballads and also look for Bossa Nova music like Vinicius De Moraes.
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#23  Edited By OutOfBounds9000

 

  An awesome song and not too hard.
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#24  Edited By MrAwsum
@Nick said:
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You could try to learn Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, it's got a capo on the 5th fret but you could play it without the capo and it would still sound ok.  
Here's a link to the tab http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/j/jeff_buckley/hallelujah_ver2_tab.htm      
 
  
    "
Damn amazing song, I'll have a go at learning it, and you might even see a video on you tube of me playing. Lets see how well I do, eh?
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#25  Edited By Nick

Yeah it's a great song to play in front of people too, except that I can't sing and play at the same time. And also I'm not that great at singing, hah.    
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#26  Edited By linkster7

The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm             

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/s/smashing_pumpkins/disarm_crd.htm

 
  Easy, and it sounds pretty close to the record with guitar only.

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive  
http://www.911tabs.com/link/?1595937

  Not that hard if you get down the rhythm, and good sing along song for parties.

      


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