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Andrey^
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Andrey^
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Joined: 01/31/02
Posts: 17
02/06/2002 11:41 pm
Well, you are even newer than me. I've started almost a month ago. According to a friend of mine who's been playing for years I'm doing great though. Anyway, I've started off on an acoustic, I'm most likely going to buy the electric in the summer.
Well, if you'd like to learn a song, my first was (I still work on it to improve speed) House of the Rising Sun, I'm sure you're familiar with it. You use 5 basic chords and you play appregios (I think I got it right, I'm rather new to the terminology). Appregio is when you play a chord not hitting all the strings but playing them in some sequence.
Anyway the chords are as follows Amin, C, D, F, Amin, C, E (2x), Amin, C, D, F, Amin, E, Amin, E
and you play them like this:
(I name the strings 1, 2,..., 6, 1 being bottom and 6 being top string)
When you're holding A minor you hit the 4th string (should be the top string you're holding), then run your finger or pick down all four strings kinda fast then go up the strings 1,2 and 3 a bit slower. You do the same on all the other chords except you start on the 5th string with chords C and E (always start on the top string you're holding).
Well, you can't learn to play the guitar overnight, 2 weeks is deffinitely nothing, but what you (as do I) need to accomplish is that you can play without having to look at the neck. I'm slowly getting there with the basic chords but I still need to work on it.
I've got a bunch of songs with chords, you can probably find everything on the net as well.
Oh, and if you like blues fiddle around with a pentatonic scale, that sounds great :)