Step by Step Guitar Lessons?

Posted in guitar lessons on 28. Aug, 2010

I just love answering these guitar lessons questions. Here’s another:

Question: I have no patience to actually properly learn how to play the guitar, so I was wondering if there was a website or youtube channel where you can learn guitar songs step by step? I just want to know how to play songs and not have to learn all the chords and shi*. Thanks.
Answer: Yeah just learn how to read guitar tabs and dive right in. Here is a detailed video on how to read guitar tabs:

http://www.FuzzyMonkeyTabs.com/HowToReadTab.html

and they also have videos where the tabs light up while a guitar plays the song, here is the link to the simplified Fur Elise by beethoven tab video:

http://www.FuzzyMonkeyTabs.com/FurEliseSimple.html

or they have a simplified version of the Super Mario Bros music:

http://www.FuzzyMonkeyTabs.com/MarioSimple.html

You will need to practice a lot if you want to be good, but you can be playing songs from the radio in just a few hours of learning.

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What to Do when Guitar Lessons Get Tough and Difficult and I Feel Like Quitting?

Posted in guitar lessons on 20. Jun, 2010

What’s this week’s guitar lessons question? Let’s dive straight in…

Question: It happened 2 times already. I quit then took a year off then started all over again and recently quit again.

I want to learn everything very fast and I have no patience so feel like quitting again. What to do?

Answer: Teach yourself patience and discipline by not quitting. If you really like it then stick with it when it’s hard, if you aren’t in love with it then don’t bother with it anymore.
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Is Sabotage by the Beasty Boys Easy to Learn on the Electric Guitar?

Posted in learn guitar on 20. Jun, 2010

What’s this week’s question? Let’s dive straight in…

Question: I am a beginner guitar player and want to know if the song Sabotage by the Beasty Boys is a good and easy song that I can learn. I want to know if someone at my level of playing electric guitar could learn that song through hard work and patience.
Thank you
Answer: Extremely. It’s only a single guitar chord, with the exception of some harmonics and the really brief solo about a minute in.

The main riff that defines the song is actually the bass guitar with a little bit of distortion. The normal guitar part is really simple.

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