Convince me on not throwing in the garbage this amazon warehouse guitar… Extra points if you type the tab
Get in person lessons. You’ll learn more in 2 weeks than in 1 year of trying to teach yourself.
It took me 25 years before I took a lesson and I wish I’d done it sooner.
Come as You Are by Nirvana is a good one to start with.
Your fingers will hurt. That’s good. They’ll toughen up if you push through it.
Bingo!
I’ve played since junior school (1980’s). Since then I just learnt songs best I could but never very well. 4 years ago I got an instructor. More than anything this forces you to practice. I’m now almost proud of my own guitar skills, so this year I treated myself to a beautiful Taylor guitar.
I don’t have the money.
“oh but you bought a guitar” is not the same paying 30 bucks for a guitar than paying an obligatory fee in the hundreds of euro for something I don’t have that much Interest
YouTube is your friend of course. But the main thing is practice often. Your fingers will hurt but they will get better.
Learn pentatonic scales. And music theory is worth learning as well, but start with easy songs you actually want to play.
I know a lot of people that have started with Metallica - Nothing Else Matters.
So much so that it’s locally almost corny.
I can’t do it. I tried that one already 2 weeks ago.
If you had said ‘I can’t do it, I have been trying that for two weeks’.
I would have said ‘going great, keep on it’
Your fingers need to harden to play more than punk rock.
The classic D-A-G-A or G-D-Em-C progression. Lots of songs use that chord configuration, and they are relatively easy to play (except maybe the G chord if you are a total beginner).
I have no clue of what are you saying, I can only read fretboard numbers dude
Here you go - DAGA:
An X aong the top means don’t play this string for this chord. A circle means play this string without any fingers on the frets. And obviously a numbered circle on a fret means put that finger in this spot.
It’s fairly simple to do those chords (and I suck at guitar, seriously), and they sound nice.
Hope that helps and you don’t chuck your guitar :-)
EDIT - just realised that that’s not even how I play G or A - same fret holds but I use different fingers for them.
I can only hold the first 3 strings, the thick ones correctly, the lower ones are impossible to use for me
Impossible in what sense?
Sounds bad, muted and I can’t keep the form, the fact is a small cheap guitar doesn’t help
Are you pressing hard enough on the strings?
Is this a problem even if you’re just playing that one string?
Feel free to share a recording of it. Might help to diagnose the issue.
I need a easy song without chords, just a single string and just the first 2 strings. The lower ones are a bitch.
Keep trying! You can do it, it just takes time and it very likely won’t click in an evening.
Practice that change super slow going from a G chord to a D chord. Four strums on each chord, taking as much time as you need to make them sound as good as you can. It will sound bad for a little while, but eventually, you will do it perfectly, and you will do it perfectly again and again and again until doing it wrong is more difficult than doing it well.
Keep at it, you will do it!
Nah I can’t, that’s why I asked for an extremely easy song
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that you were just trolling. Next time, just save everyone some time and post to some shitposting community.
In what part I’m saying I’m trolling? What’s wrong with you
Yeah, that’s a really weird way to finger a G major. I will play it with my second finger on the third fret of low E, first finger on the second fret of A, third finger barred across B and high E at third fret. If I’m playing a song that requires certain chord changes (like the way Wonderwall drops from G major to a G/F# to an Em7 to a Dsus to an A7sus) I will use third and fourth finger on the high strings instead of the barre because it’s easier to move the root notes around that way.
“Chasing Cars” by Snowpatrol is pretty easy to play.
“Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys is the same Ab7 chord for the whole song. Lock in that one chord shape and then all you have to do is get the strumming pattern. Put a capo across four strings on the first fret to make life even easier for your left hand.
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/beastie-boys/sabotage-chords-3688055
This page says there are slight changes in the chorus. Just don’t strum the low E string for that part. If you or your friends are belting out the lyrics then it won’t matter anyway.The intro and verse to “About A Girl” by Nirvana is also easy. You go back and forth between Em and G, and it’s a relaxed tempo. To play the chorus you have to learn a few bar chords. https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nirvana/about-a-girl-tabs-36242
I don’t play, but everyone I know who does, learned Smoke on the Water first.
Two questions: do you want to be able to play the guitar?
If yes:
Can you turn the guitar sideways and take a picture so we can see the space between the strings and the fret board?
Do that and I’ll send you a link to a tab that is super easy but still a recognizable song. Then you can build from there.
Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie
The bass line from 7 nation army by the white stripes (can also be played on a guitar).
A lot of old hard rock and metal with power chords is easy to play a simplified version of. I think Metallica - ‘For whom the bell tolls’ and ‘Enter Sandman’ were probably the first things I learnt. You can learn enough to have fun playing a riff like that even if you struggle to get your hand into position to do proper 6-string chords.
And that’s the problem
No one mentioned “Smoke on the Water”! If you can’t play smoke on the water then you have my permission to smash the thing.
I saw the tab, I can’t play that. I still too complex. There has to be a song with just one string (one of the big ones)
This is a one string song it goes 035036503530 on E
You should take this opportunity to learn some really obscure guitar music to impress those around you… like Wonderwall.
Believe it or not I saw the tabs on that one and it’s complicated. Plus you need that thing on your fretboard that I don’t have to play that song
Get a teacher, it really helps. My teacher has small group class, which IMO are the best bang for your bucks, 2-3 students make the class cheaper than one while letting you time to play. Then as intermediate you can have bob plays the chords and Alice the melody which is great.
With 2 weeks of self practices, don’t expect to play anything properly. It’s called being a beginner, it’s normal. At your level focus on switching open chords with a metronome (slow, like 40 bpm)
Easiest song I know would be come as you are by nirvana, usually the first new guitarists learn. Then here comes your man by pixies may be achievable(ospecially if you can play chords) then anything pop punk (the offspring) is super si le but may be fun r next year
I should stop making these impulsive acquisitions
the only impulsive part of this acquisition is how willing you seem to be to give up. just try it again. and then if you’re not satisfied by how it’s going, that’s an excellent excuse to do it again. and the cycle repeats until one day, you are satisfied by how it’s going
I’m sorry but that sounds tortuous.
if it was torturous then nobody would bother learning instruments
For many is their livelihood and entire life. That’s not me
It doesn’t become your livelihood and life until you’ve gone through the effort of learning it
There is no easy way. There is practice, and it is rewarding
“no skill, only play!” OP is wasting everyones time here, including himself. You can’t play the guitar if you refuse to learn how to play. Just go and return it while you still can.
