Chords Guide

I’ve met a lot of people over the years who were intimidated by learning a musical instrument, or frustrated by the tedious nature of traditional instructional methods used in most music lessons so I’ve sort of begun a crusade to let people know that there is an alternative that isn’t hard or frustrating, and with it anyone can learn guitar easy.

The basic idea is that traditional teaching methods focus first on learning all the basics. This makes sense, however doesn’t appeal to the average student who really just wants to start playing and having some fun.

What I’m a fan of, and what I myself have done to learn not only the guitar, but also to play bass, piano and keyboards is to begin with a teach yourself type of course that focuses first on actually playing some simple but familiar songs.

Often a complete newbie can go from never strumming the guitar to being able to play along to several songs in a single sitting, and this provides a sense of accomplishment as well as it’s just plain fun.

A good teach yourself course will gradually progress from simple songs to more challenging ones, and as the student works through them (s)he is actually learning the basic fundamentals that a traditional instructor would have focused on first.

In other words, both methods will take the student to the same goal, but the teach yourself method tends to be more fun for the student and encourages them to stick with it better as a result.

So, if you’ve been wanting to learn how to play the guitar but were intimidated or perhaps tried learning but became frustrated by the traditional style of lessons, then my advice is to pick up a good teach yourself to play type of course and give it another go. You can learn guitar easy and fast, and have fun doing it.

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The easiest way to learn acoustic guitar is to have some fun and actually learn to play a few easy but familiar songs.

You can usually do this by simply learning how to strum a couple of chords that naturally “go together”.

Chords are nothing more than 3 or more notes played together. There is a lot of theory and mechanics behind how notes make up chords and which chords best fit together, but you don’t need to learn all of that when just starting out.

All you need to learn is 3 or 4 very basic chords–meaning learn the fingering positions for where to place the fingers of your left hand over the strings, and start strumming.

Many full and well known songs can be played with just 4 or fewer chords, for example Neil Young’s “Rockin’ In The Free World”, or just about any John Mellencamp song, several Madonna songs and nearly every pop-rock song recorded in the 1950′s and 1960′s…