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4 Non Blondes Whats Up – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

May 10, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Today’s Guitar Lessons For Beginners Post is on the 4 Non Blondes hit song from the 90′s, “What’s Up” or most of us know it as “Hey, whats going on”. This song totally takes me back to 1995. I remember watching the music video of the lead singer from the 4 Non Blondes playing the song. I remember her outfit in the video… I think she was wearing a big oversized top hat with goggles strapped to it or something like that, ha! Anyways, this is one of those songs that was clearly a defining song of the decade. If you play this song for anyone, they can probably tell you exactly what decade it came from.

I actually learned this song in about 20 minutes right before I had filmed the Guitar Lessons For Beginners videos… Yes! It’s really that easy. Whenever I had heard this song on the radio, I always had thought that I should try to learn this song, just because its so easy to play. Just by listening to the song, you can tell that the song is made up of just a few guitar chords. So I sat down, listened to the song and figured it out by ear. 4 Non Blondes Whats Up literally took me 20 minutes to learn.

The Story Behind Whats Up?

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How To Play The Guitar – Guitar Made Easy

May 7, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Hey guys,

I’ve spent the weekend putting the finishing touches on my ebook “Guitar Made Easy” that teaches you How To Play The Guitar. It’s been a long weekend, I’ll tell you that much but I’m glad everything is done and over. My newly lasiked eyes are killing me from starring at this computer screen for two days, my fingers are all stiff from typing and promoting while at the same time I was able to squeeze out one more Guitar Lessons For Beginners posts on 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up. The post hasn’ been uploaded yet but the Guitar Lessons For Beginners videos are up and you can check them out on the GuitarMadeEZ YouTube Channel.

I’m really excited about this ebook because it’s exactly what I’ve envisioned as the right way to learning how to play the guitar. I broke everything down in such easy terms that even a baby could follow this book and learn How To Play The Guitar. I’m a firm believer that most people get discouraged from all the complex theory and complex technical stuff and this same stuff makes them give up on guitar playing altogether and very fast. You gotta have fun when learning How To Play The Guitar, you just have to. Why do it if its not fun?…

I also put a Guitar Made Easy – How To Play The Guitar promo video up on my YouTube channel. It’s the featured video on my channel.

I just wanted to fill you in. I’m still cranking out Guitar Lessons For Beginners as fast as I can and I wont stop. Once again I hope that your guitar playing is coming along well and I hope that your sticking with it and maintaining to have fun while practicing.

Enjoy,

Justin

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Neil Young Heart Of Gold – Guitar Lessons For Beginners – Heart Of Gold Chords

May 4, 2012 By admin 1 Comment

Here’s another Guitar Lessons For Beginners post on Neil Young Heart Of Gold. This has to be one of my top three favorite Neil Young songs. I love the harmonica in this song and the song altogether is classic rock at its best. In terms of guitar playing, the Heart Of Gold Chords are actually very simple. All the Heart Of Gold Chords are basic textbook chords. If you know you’re basic chords, you’ll know how to play this song. Heart Of Gold is a great song for any beginner to learn. I’ve got a couple more lessons I’m working on that cover Neil Young songs, both Old Man and Hey Hey My My . Give me some feedback though… I really like it when you (the reader) can tell me what you like and what you dislike about my Guitar Lessons For Beginners and my blog posts. Enjoy my Neil Young Heart Of Gold Guitar Lessons For Beginners!

A couple of cool facts about Neil Young Heart Of Gold

James Taylor and Linda Ronsdstat are both singing backup vocals on this track.
This song was recorded in Nashville Tennessee and both James Taylor and Linda Ronsdstat were in town to appear on the Johnny Cash Show.
Neil had James Taylor play the banjo on this track. It was the first time James had ever touched one.
He had wrote this song in 71 after he had suffered a back injury that made it possible to play the electric guitar.

Heart Of Gold Chords

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How The Pros Make Playing Guitar Look So Easy – Secrets Revealed!

May 3, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

It’s true. The pros definitely can take a song that a beginner has been working extremely hard on learning and play it 10 times faster, behind their back, with their guitar strap super low to the ground, with their teeth, etc.

em> “Well, how do they do this? I have been learning this song for 3 months and I can only play it with my guitar resting on my right knee while sitting down and almost looking directly at the frets with my face over the fret board”– you might find yourself saying…

I’ll explain…

1. Practice

I know you probably already know this one but it is the basic fundamental to learning and for learning any instrument. It’s all about the amount of time you put in, in the studio or in the “jam lab”. If you practice 1 hour a day every day for a week, you will get good but you won’t reach the “Jimmy Hendrix” or “Rhandy Rhodes” guitar skill level. These guys practiced atleast 8 hours a day. Van Halen would even practice more! It’s not so much having the musical skill right off the bat, it’s more about having that “drive” or motivation that makes you want to learn your instrument. The more practice you put in, the better. If you can’t practice for a long amount of time – make sure to be consistent, practice for small amounts of time but every single day.

2. Making precise playing look sloppy

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Bob Marley Redemption Song – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

May 2, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Finally, the lesson everyone’s been waiting for, GuitarMadeEZ.com’s Guitar Lessons For Beginners presents – Bob Marley Redemption Song. The first time I had ever heard Bob Marley Redemption Song was in the move “The Beach” with Leonardo Dicaprio. There’s a scene where there’s a funeral on the beach for one of the characters in the movie and this song is played by another character on acoustic guitar… This song made the movie! Such a great scene. Check it out on YouTube if you’ve never seen it.

Anyways this is a another great Bob Marley song that captures so much emotion and is such an intimate recording. This song is definitely a timeless song. Checkout the Free Guitar Lessons For Beginners posts below that teach you exactly how to play this timeless hit.

A few interesting facts about Bob Marley Redemption Song

This song was the last single before Bob Marley’s death on May 11^th 1981.
This song basically sums up everything that Bob stood for – freedom and redemption.
This was also the last song that he performed. He sung it on a stool at a show in Pittsburg in September 1980.
Both Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer covered this song

Redemption Song Guitar Chords And How It’s Played

The Redemption Song Guitar Chords are very basic. The Redemption Song Guitar Chords consist of G, Em, Am, D, C used with a basic strumming pattern and a few basic right handed techniques. He is basically down strumming a ton with his right hand and playing basic guitar chords with his left. Bob Marley strumming patterns are actually very simple, checkout the guitar lessons for beginners videos below to get it down. Any beginner can learn to play this song.

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Oasis Wonderwall – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

May 1, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

This Guitar Lessons For Beginners daily post is for Oasis Wonderwall. For the record, I bought my first guitar capo so I could play this song the correct way on my guitar. Yes, you will need a guitar capo to play this song the correct way FYI. Anyways, this song was a huge hit in the 90’s on the radio and Oasis was kind of like the “Beatles” of my generation. They’ve got a ton of great songs but a few other personal favorites are: “Don’t look back in anger”, “Champagne Supernova” and “All around the world”. This band has a killer sound and they actually use a lot of the same scales and tricks that a lot of bands used coming out of England in the 1960’s.

I love Oasis Wonderwall because the Oasis Wonderwall Guitar Chords are very basic but yet they sound different and give the song a great deal of emotional value. The Oasis Wonderwall chords are your basic textbook chords played with a killer strumming pattern and interesting pauses in parts which makes this song very unique from others.

This is one of my favorite 90’s songs and every time I hear it, it takes me right back to high school. This song is also a really fun song to play and I hope that you can take something from my free guitar lessons for beginners videos below.

What is Oasis Wonderwall About?

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Dave Matthews Band Crash Into Me – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 30, 2012 By admin 2 Comments

Guitar Lessons For Beginners presents… Dave Matthews Band Crash Into Me. This is an amazing song all around. It’s very peaceful and calm but picks up in moments and the lyrics definitely do not fit the song (you’ll see what I’m talking about in a little bit .This song was one of the first songs that sky-rocketed Dave Matthews’ Band into stardom. I remember the video being played on VH1 and MTV all the time.

This song is THE song to play for women. Women LOVE this song. I really don’t know what it is, maybe the mood, melody and timing… who knows… all you have to know is that women absolutely love this song. It’s just a very pretty acoustic song.

This song really isn’t that difficult to play but it does require some advanced left hand stretching. Most people think that this song will be a very easy song to play just because it is played on an acoustic guitar. If you’re just starting off learning how to play the guitar you gotta checkout my guitar ebook. It will definitely help you out with the basics that you will need in order to play this song. The strumming patter, melody and stretching makes it a little bit complex though. The crash into me guitar chords formations are also a little bit advanced. You’ll see a ton of guitar lessons online that will teach your how to play the song the wrong way. Watch the guitar lessons for beginners videos below, they’ll answer a lot of your questions.

What is Dave Matthews’ Band Crash Into Me about?

The Killers Mr Brightside – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 28, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

For today’s guitar lessons for beginner post, I’ve decided to do a tutorial for The Killers’ song Mr. Brightside. This vegas based band is great! I’ve always been a big Killers fan. They’ve had some great albums and have been around for little while. I even love how every Christmas they decide to record a new Christmas song. If you haven’t heard any of their yearly Christmas hits, you gotta checkout the song they did a few years back “Happy Bithday Guadelupe”. I think I had originally heard the song at a Tillys clothing shop and its been one of my favorites ever since.

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GreenDay Good Riddance – Guitar Lessons For Beginners – Time Of Your Life Chords

April 27, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

This guitar lessons for beginners is on the Greenday Song Good Riddance or “Time Of Your Life”. This song was huge and still is pretty huge. I remember this song being used in the series finale of Seinfeld and also being used in EVERY graduation to ever happen since 2002. It really is a very well written song for being as simple as it is to play. Anyone can really play this song, it’s got a bit of basic right hand sloppy pick/strumming and the left hand is all basic guitar chords. All the Time Of Your Life Chords are all basic guitar chords. I especially love the intro to this song. It’s great how Billy tries twice to get the strumming pattern down and then you can faintly hear him say “f**k” like he screwed up the song. This is a great song to learn also if you know your basic guitar chords and you want to work on a little bit more complex strumming pattern, or if you know how to strum but you don’t necessarily know how to pick the notes within the guitar chord with your right hand. Learn this song and checkout the free guitar lessons for beginners videos below on this song. You’ll be very surprised how easy those videos make the song to learn.

What is Greenday Time Of Your Life about?

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Bob Seger Night Moves – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 27, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Welcome back for yet Seger another Guitar Lessons For Beginners! Today this guitar lesson is for Bob Seger Night Moves. This song has always been a big favorite of mine. It for some reason reminds me of camping in the desert. I know Bob Seger owns a house near where I live in Arizona, but I think the main reason is because in high school friends and I would camp out in the desert and listen to Bob Seger CD’s over and over. Night Moves and Mainstreet were definitely two huge favorites for camping in the desert… Ok enough about me; let’s talk more about the song. This song has been taught online a ton of ways and YES… most of them are wrong. But today I’m going to teach you the RIGHT WAY to play Bob Seger Night Moves. There’s a couple little guitar tricks Bob uses to create a left hand mute which makes the song sound the way it does. You got to get this technique down or else the song just won’t sound right (you’ll see what I mean, just watch the guitar lessons for beginners videos below). Anyways, this is a great song that the ladies seem to love and a classic rock favorite of mine. I hope you can take something from and enjoy my guitar lessons for beginners tutorial for Bob Seger Night Moves.

What’s Bob Seger Night Moves About?

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Jane’s Addiction Jane Says – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 25, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

This GuitarMadeEZ.com guitar lessons for beginners brand new post is dedicated to the Jane’s Addiction song Jane Says. I really like this song because it makes me feel like Im in a tropical place and not at work. It’s got to be the steel drums or the light strings on the acoustic guitar in the song. The interesting thing about this song is that it is basically the same thing over and over again. It basically just had a verse and a chorus and that’s it (which is good for you and me… less to remember . Anyways, this is probably my favorite Jane’s Addiction song. The one song that I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT STAND is “Been Caught Stealing”. That song has been way overplayed and is just so annoying to me with the dogs barking, etc. I hope you like these guitar lessons for beginners below and let me know what you think.

What is Jane’s Addiction Jane Says about?

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Dave Matthews Band Grey Street – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 25, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

For this Guitar Lessons For Beginners post I’ve chosen to dissect Dave Matthews Band’s Grey Street. This song is awesome and definitely one of my favorite Dave Matthews songs. I really love how both the album version and the Dave with Tim Reynolds live version are so different (listen to both versions… almost two totally different songs… – the album one is happier, the live one is a little bit mellower. The great thing about Dave Matthews’s songs is that he uses more unique guitar chords than most artists out there. It’s also usually a lot easier to play, especially Grey Street because of the easy chord formations…. Thanks Dave! Don’t get me wrong, Dave has a ton of more complicated songs, this one however is probably the easiest. Anyways I hope you really enjoy these absolutely free guitar lessons for beginners for Dave Matthews’ song Grey Street.

What is Dave Matthews’ Band’s Grey Street About?

This song is said to be about the struggle to “get out and survive”. Also, he changes the lyrics around frequently when he plays it live. Some also say that it has some references to Julia Grey, an ex-girlfriend of Dave’s. It’s a very abstract song and you can pretty much make what you want out of it.

Dave Matthews Band Grey Street Guitar Chords

Sublime Rivers Of Babylon – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 24, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Out of all my Guitar Lessons For Beginners, Sublime Rivers Of Babylon is up there with the favorites. This is a great song altogether. It has very simple lyrics and is very simple to play. I first learned this song while jamming with some friends who loved to play reggae. They taught it to me so we could cover it for a show. It’s got a great melody and very easy to play so I gladly learned it. It even has a cool little fill in the intro and the solo (the intro and the solo are basically the same thing). Sublimes Rivers Of Babylon is a must learn for any beginner and is made extremely easy in the Guitar Lessons For Beginners.

What is Rivers of Babylon about?

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The Beatles Blackbird Guitar Lesson – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 22, 2012 By admin 1 Comment

Here’s a new Guitar Lessons For Beginners tutorial for The Beatles’ Song “Blackbird”. This is a great song altogether. It was one of the first finger picking songs that I had learned on guitar. It’s really not that hard of a song to play at all. You just gotta realize that your right hand is doing a lot of work the whole entire time. This song is one of those “pretty acoustic songs” that is great to show off or advertise how well you can play guitar. If you’ve never played a basic finger picking song before, it might take a little bit of time to get down. If you know how to play a couple finger picking songs already, this song shouldn’t be very hard at all to learn to play. The song is played in standard E guitar tuning which is normal compared to the tunings of some of the other Beatles songs. I’ve also, as usual posted my YouTube videos of my Beatles Blackbird Guitar Cover and my Blackbird Guitar Lesson. I hope you enjoy this guitar lessons for beginners tutorial.

What is The Beatles’ Song Blackbird About?

According to various sources, this song was written about African Americans and the civil rights movement in the US at the time. I always thought it was just about a blackbird, who knew. Paul even stated that it was about the movement that the world was immersed in at the time. He had been reading about the movement in the UK at the time. What else is very unusual or unique about this song is that the track has the vocals, the guitar part and then a ”tapping beat”. The tapping beat was actually caused by scratches in the recording. The birds chirping were added later.

What’s going on in the song?

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Guitar Lessons For Beginners – Guitar Maintenance, Guitar Repair, Guitar Setup

April 22, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

This is probably one of the most valuable Guitar Lessons For Beginners that I’ll post this month! Guitar Maintenance is as easy or as complicated as you want it to be. I put this little guide together so that if you follow it, you will not spend a ton of time and money or listening to the guys at the guitar shop when it comes to what you need to do and how much you need to spend when it comes to maintaining a guitar.

When I started playing guitar, I spent hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars on guitar maintenance. A few years into guitar playing I bought a bunch of guitars. I didn’t know anything about guitar maintenance really, I just thought that if you kept them on a stand and didn’t drop them and that was all you really needed to know. Boy was I wrong. After one hot summer in AZ, taking guitars camping & playing around a bon fire and then keeping them near AC vents during summer – I knew I had to change something. All my guitars were ruined! Tons of individual notes within the frets were sounding horrible and “twangy”. But why?! There’s a few things to know about this topic and if there’s one thing that I wish you can take from this lesson, it’s this… “keep your guitars in a controlled and consistent environment!”. What I mean by that is that you should never take your guitars from one climate extreme to another. You should really avoid taking your guitars out in ANY extreme. When you take your guitar out to the beach or camping you definitely risk damaging that guitar. Not just from the sand, dirt, humidity, etc., but from the heat or cold. TV shows, movies and popular culture tell us that it’s ok to do this… if you do, you’ll find yourself paying tons in guitar setup fees. Why did these extremes or environments ruin or “mess up” your guitar? It’s all because of heat and cold.

Heat and Cold

Guitar Lessons For Beginners – “What To Look For When Buying Your First Guitar”

April 20, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Guitar Lessons For Beginners and Buying Your First Guitar – Buying your first guitar can be very overwhelming. You probably don’t want to spend a whole bunch of money because afterall: your just starting out, you don’t know if you’ll stick with it for very long, you’re not not even sure if playing and learning guitar is something you’ll want to pursue. However, be very careful because this way of thinking can end up being a BIG mistake and waste of money. I want to set you up for success so here’s my beginner’s guide to buying your first guitar.

Guitar Buying Tip #1 “Always start off on an acoustic guitar, don’t jump to electric”

If you start off on an acoustic, you’ll be setup for success when it’s time to “graduate” to electric. The acoustic guitar naturally has thicker strings, a thicker fret board and builds strength and dexterity in your fingers. The acoustic also toughens up your fingers and makes the skin thicker.

Guitar Buying Tip #2 “Buy From A Lower Inventory/Mom and Pop guitar shop, not the big guys”

Goo Goo Dolls Name Guitar Lesson – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 19, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

More Guitar Lessons For Beginners – this one for the Goo Goo Dolls song Name. For the record, I love this song. It is such a great acoustic song to play. Also, when I think of acoustic songs, Goo Goo Dolls Name is one of the first ones to popup in my mind. The most interesting aspect of this goo goo dolls song is that it’s in a super funky alternate tuning (Don’t worry, we’ll cover that below). Most people think they can play it in standard E guitar tuning… these people are greatly mistaken. I’ve seen tons of different ways to play this song online but I got to give it to Brent Persia and his YouTube video. I based my over and lesson after his with a few minor modifications. Well done Brent! Checkout Brent’s video on YouTube if you haven’t already. To make Name sound like the way the Goo Goo Dolls make it, you gotta be in the alternate tuning, be able to master the solo (the solo makes the song) and be good at softly plucking and strumming individual notes. It’s really not a hard song to play, you just have to be in the right guitar tuning.

Why was Goo Goo Dolls Name written?

Apparently, this song is about the lead singer Johnny Reznick’s childhood and about how his sisters had to raise him. His parents died when he was young and certain lyrics in the song depict what he had felt at the time.

What’s the music and guitar theory behind the song?

ACDC You Shook Me All Night Long Guitar Lesson – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 18, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

This is my guitar lesson for beginners I threw together for ACDC’s You Shook Me All Night Long, I hope you like it. This song IS the backbone for rock guitar. This song I had also learned a long time ago but it wasn’t exactly played the way that I play it now. When I played it, I used basic chords and not the chord variations that Angus Young uses (this makes all the difference in the world! When playing this song). Angus uses specific variations of basic chords usually and he’s also about timing… If you don’t mute a chord the same way he does, the song just won’t sound right – you’ll see what I’m talking about in the Guitar Lessons For Beginners videos below. This song is basically a feel good rock song. It’s a blast to play and I hope you like it.

What is ACDC’s You Shook Me All Night Long About?

It’s about girls… basically that’s it. ACDC isn’t necessarily known for their “deep” lyrics. I read song thing kind cool on songfacts.com though – Johnson wrote the lyric “She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean” to compare cars to women obviously – “they go fast, let you down, but then make you happy again when you see the new model” they said. This also was the first ACDC song to make the US top 40. In case you didn’t know this song was sung by Brian Johnson and not the original singer Bon Scott who drank himself to death in 1980.

What’s going on musically in the song?

Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man Guitar Lesson – Guitar Lessons For Beginners

April 17, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Here’s my guitar lessons for beginners for Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man. I first heard this song in high school and whenever I listen to it, it takes me right back to junior year. I learned how to play the basics a long time ago (Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man was actually one of the first songs that I had learned to play on guitar). The great thing about learning Simple Man is that is really teaches you how to use alternate picking with your right hand and gets you really good at making sure you hit the individual guitar strings and the right guitar strings at the same time. I also love the fact that this is one of those guitar songs that makes you sound like a legendary guitarist even if you haven’t been playing for that long. This song has been in a ton of movies and is a classic rock favorite. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man is definitely a must know and every beginner should try to learn this song and or take a peek at the guitar lessons for beginners.

What is Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man About?

I’ve heard a few different stories about this song. I’ve heard that the lyrics were something that was said to Ronnie Van Zant or Gary Rossington by their mothers. Ronnie actually said that it was a great model to live by.

What’s going on in the song?

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