Convince me on not throwing in the garbage this amazon warehouse guitar… Extra points if you type the tab
The bass line from 7 nation army by the white stripes (can also be played on a guitar).
Two questions: do you want to be able to play the guitar?
If yes:
Can you turn the guitar sideways and take a picture so we can see the space between the strings and the fret board?
Do that and I’ll send you a link to a tab that is super easy but still a recognizable song. Then you can build from there.
No one mentioned “Smoke on the Water”! If you can’t play smoke on the water then you have my permission to smash the thing.
I saw the tab, I can’t play that. I still too complex. There has to be a song with just one string (one of the big ones)
This is a one string song it goes 035036503530 on E
There is no easy way. There is practice, and it is rewarding
“no skill, only play!” OP is wasting everyones time here, including himself. You can’t play the guitar if you refuse to learn how to play. Just go and return it while you still can.
Get a teacher, it really helps. My teacher has small group class, which IMO are the best bang for your bucks, 2-3 students make the class cheaper than one while letting you time to play. Then as intermediate you can have bob plays the chords and Alice the melody which is great.
With 2 weeks of self practices, don’t expect to play anything properly. It’s called being a beginner, it’s normal. At your level focus on switching open chords with a metronome (slow, like 40 bpm)
Easiest song I know would be come as you are by nirvana, usually the first new guitarists learn. Then here comes your man by pixies may be achievable(ospecially if you can play chords) then anything pop punk (the offspring) is super si le but may be fun r next year
Get in person lessons. You’ll learn more in 2 weeks than in 1 year of trying to teach yourself.
It took me 25 years before I took a lesson and I wish I’d done it sooner.
Come as You Are by Nirvana is a good one to start with.
Your fingers will hurt. That’s good. They’ll toughen up if you push through it.
Bingo!
I’ve played since junior school (1980’s). Since then I just learnt songs best I could but never very well. 4 years ago I got an instructor. More than anything this forces you to practice. I’m now almost proud of my own guitar skills, so this year I treated myself to a beautiful Taylor guitar.
I don’t have the money.
“oh but you bought a guitar” is not the same paying 30 bucks for a guitar than paying an obligatory fee in the hundreds of euro for something I don’t have that much Interest
YouTube is your friend of course. But the main thing is practice often. Your fingers will hurt but they will get better.
Learn pentatonic scales. And music theory is worth learning as well, but start with easy songs you actually want to play.
Learn standard blues. E A Bm7. You can play a million songs with that.
Wreckless Eric has a 2 chord song
You should take this opportunity to learn some really obscure guitar music to impress those around you… like Wonderwall.
Believe it or not I saw the tabs on that one and it’s complicated. Plus you need that thing on your fretboard that I don’t have to play that song
The intro to Space Oddity is Fmaj7 (easiest best chord) to Em (very easy chord) and with some C and Am. Tab here: https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/david-bowie-space-oddity-tab-s365
Strumming pattern is tricky, but it’s my favourite thing to casually strum if I’m sad.
A lot of old hard rock and metal with power chords is easy to play a simplified version of. I think Metallica - ‘For whom the bell tolls’ and ‘Enter Sandman’ were probably the first things I learnt. You can learn enough to have fun playing a riff like that even if you struggle to get your hand into position to do proper 6-string chords.
And that’s the problem
Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie, Doug and Carrie
I don’t play, but everyone I know who does, learned Smoke on the Water first.
The classic D-A-G-A or G-D-Em-C progression. Lots of songs use that chord configuration, and they are relatively easy to play (except maybe the G chord if you are a total beginner).
I have no clue of what are you saying, I can only read fretboard numbers dude
Here you go - DAGA:
An X aong the top means don’t play this string for this chord. A circle means play this string without any fingers on the frets. And obviously a numbered circle on a fret means put that finger in this spot.
It’s fairly simple to do those chords (and I suck at guitar, seriously), and they sound nice.
Hope that helps and you don’t chuck your guitar :-)
EDIT - just realised that that’s not even how I play G or A - same fret holds but I use different fingers for them.
I can only hold the first 3 strings, the thick ones correctly, the lower ones are impossible to use for me
Impossible in what sense?
Sounds bad, muted and I can’t keep the form, the fact is a small cheap guitar doesn’t help
Are you pressing hard enough on the strings?
Is this a problem even if you’re just playing that one string?
Feel free to share a recording of it. Might help to diagnose the issue.
I need a easy song without chords, just a single string and just the first 2 strings. The lower ones are a bitch.
Keep trying! You can do it, it just takes time and it very likely won’t click in an evening.
Practice that change super slow going from a G chord to a D chord. Four strums on each chord, taking as much time as you need to make them sound as good as you can. It will sound bad for a little while, but eventually, you will do it perfectly, and you will do it perfectly again and again and again until doing it wrong is more difficult than doing it well.
Keep at it, you will do it!
Nah I can’t, that’s why I asked for an extremely easy song
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that you were just trolling. Next time, just save everyone some time and post to some shitposting community.
In what part I’m saying I’m trolling? What’s wrong with you
Yeah, that’s a really weird way to finger a G major. I will play it with my second finger on the third fret of low E, first finger on the second fret of A, third finger barred across B and high E at third fret. If I’m playing a song that requires certain chord changes (like the way Wonderwall drops from G major to a G/F# to an Em7 to a Dsus to an A7sus) I will use third and fourth finger on the high strings instead of the barre because it’s easier to move the root notes around that way.
I know a lot of people that have started with Metallica - Nothing Else Matters.
So much so that it’s locally almost corny.
I can’t do it. I tried that one already 2 weeks ago.
If you had said ‘I can’t do it, I have been trying that for two weeks’.
I would have said ‘going great, keep on it’
Your fingers need to harden to play more than punk rock.
