Apr 04 2009
Easy Guitar Songs Welcomes You
Why Easy Guitar Songs for Beginners?
Are you a beginning guitar player frustrated with your progress? Are you learning a lot of technique, exercises, theory, how to read music etc? Don’t you just want to learn some easy guitar songs? Well, you’ve come to the right place. First, a little about me. I’ve been playing guitar and teaching music for years. I teach beginners exclusively. It’s not the most glamorous job in music, but it’s the most rewarding. You get to see your students go from not knowing anything to being guitar players.
How Long Before You’re Playing Songs on Guitar?
I can teach unmotivated beginners to play songs after only a month or two. If they’re motivated - much less. I have students who have been playing for less then 6 months that are writing their own songs. Unfortunately, I can’t come to your house and teach you, but I can show you some of the resources I use for my own students. If you can play open position chords on guitar then you have the tools to play a lot of songs. I’m not talking about complicated chords, just your ordinary A, D, and E majors, minors and sevenths, along with a few other chords like C, G, B7, etc. That’s all you need to get started.
Why You Shouldn’t Start With Guitar Theory and Reading Music.
A lot of teachers will teach students to read music at the same time they teach a beginning guitarist to play. I started out in band, on trombone, and that’s how I learned. I actually learned guitar after I could read music, so I don’t think reading music is a bad thing. However, learning to read music as you learn to play guitar is not the best way to teach music by far. Here’s why:
Think about a baby learning to speak. That baby spends almost 2 years listening to language before s/he learns to speak. Not only that, the parents are talking baby talk to the baby, imitating it’s sounds and using facial expression, gestures, etc while doing it. Then when the baby says it’s first word it imitates what it heard someone else said. Later it attaches meaning to words then puts those words together.
Imagine if you taught a baby to speak the same way you taught them them to play guitar. You’d first teach him the alphabet and letter sounds. Then you’d teach him to read. Then he could learn to speak. That’s why I teach guitar chords and easy songs first. Songs are the natural language of music. Reading and writing music comes later. In fact I advocate learning to write songs before you read music. Remember the baby makes sentences before he reads, he reads before he writes. It’s not hard to write a song on guitar, but you need to learn to play some songs before you write them.
So, enjoy learning some easy guitar songs and have fun.
