How to Play the Acoustic Guitar
Here are the basics and chords you will need to learn if you want o know how to play the acoustic guitar. Start from the beginning and then slowly move onto chords and eventually on to the easy acoustic guitar songs.
Acoustic Guitar Basics:
#1: Types of Acoustic Guitar
#2: Parts of an Acoustic Guitar
#3: Notes on the guitar
#4: Tuning your guitar
#5: Styles of picking
#6: The Slide
#7: The Hammer On
#8: The Pull-Off
#9: The Bend
Acoustic Guitar Chords (Major):
Open Chords
The C Major Chord
The E Major Chord
The A Major Chord
The G Major Chord
The D Major Chord
Acoustic Guitar Chords (Minor):
The E Minor Chord
The A Minor Chord
The D Minor Chord
Easy Acoustic Guitar Songs
If you have managed to learn the basic open chords and can play them relatively comfortably, then its time you tried some easy acoustic guitar songs. I’ve added a few so that you can try some out and once you get a feel for it you can try a few more. If you find it difficult don’t lose heart, while i call these easy songs, you might not pick up how to play it immediately, just listen to original song and play along, then once you have a feel for the rythym and the tempo then try it out on your own. Trust me, once you get the hang of it, you’ll be hooked.
Jamorama Review
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Other than the video, the other thing that really sets it apart are the jam tracks. After you learn a specific set of chords, there are CD’s with jam tracks so you can play along. No need to practice on your own anymore, just play one of the tracks and you can play along like you’re part of an actual band.
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Matchbox Twenty - Hang
Here’s another easy acoustic guitar song to play, its by one of my alltime favorite bands, Matchbox Twenty. Its an absolutely awesome song and is not that hard to play once you get the melody.
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#This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 97 14:00:40 Romance Standard Time
From: Don Kurelich
Subject: Corrections: Hang by Matchbox 20
Band : Matchbox 20
Song : Hang
Album : Yourself or Someone like you
Tuning : Normal - No Capo
Transcribed by: Steven Batchelder
Corrected by : Don Kurelich
I’m improving on the basic transcription that SB did. It was basicaly
there, but some of the chords were wrong and I’m showing a few
enhancements. These are subtle changes in the basic chords and a
change in strum. The chord differences are noted below and change
only the tone of what’s being played. The strum in the intro and first
verse is using your fingers (i.e. no pick, either your thumb or first
finger). At the second verse he switches to a flat pick.
Chords:
G* G* C* CaddG Em* Em D
E:|–3– –3– –3– —– –3– —– –2–
B:|–3– —– –3– –1– –3– —– –3–
G:|—– —– —– —– —– —– –2–
D:|—– —– –2– –2– –2– –2– —–
A:|–2– –2– –3– –3– –2– –2– —–
E:|–3– –3– —– –3– —– —– —–
(*With finger strum*)
Intro: G* C* (play 2 times)
G* C*
She grabs her magazines, she packs her things and she goes.
Em* D G* C*
She leaves the pictures hangin’ on the wall. She burns all her notes
G* D CaddG
And she knows, she’s been here too few years, to feel this old.
(Switch to flat pick)
G* C*
He smokes his cigarette, he stays outside ’til it’s gone.
Em* D G* C*
If anybody ever had a heart, well, he wouldn’t be alone.
G D CaddG
He knows, she’s been here too few years, to be gone.
D G Am CaddG G Am CaddG
And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday,
Em D
But if there’s nothin’ there to make things change,
CaddG CaddG (hammer-on E)
if it’s the same for you I’ll just hang.
Solo fill: G, CaddG (notice switch to G)
G CaddG
The trouble understand, is she’s got reasons he don’t.
Em D G CaddG
Funny how I couldn’t see it all, ’til she grabbed up her coat,
G D G CaddG
And she goes. She’s been here too few years, to take it all in stride.
G D CaddG
Yeah, but still it’s much too long, to let hurt go (you let her go).
Am G Am CaddG G Am CaddG
And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday,
Em D
Yeah but if there’s nothin’ there to make things change,
CaddG D
if it’s the same for you I’ll just hang, same to you I’ll always hang.
G Am CaddG G Am CaddG
Well I always say, it would be good to go away,
Em D
But if things don’t work out like we think and
Em D
There’s nothing there to ease this achin’, but if
Em D
There’s nothing there to make things change,
CaddG CaddG
If it’s the same for you I’ll just hang.