A Simple Way To Play Your Favorite Songs With A Guitar

Are you also struggling to

play

songs

from start to finish and make them sound good? That's what we ultimately want to do as beginners. We want to pick up our

guitar

, start strumming,

play

a song from start to finish and be like that. Sounds great. being able to play it in front of our loved ones, our friends get approval, that's a big milestone and it's not difficult to achieve with the approach that I'm going to show you in this video. Well, a lot of people when I started and I see. This with my beginners I also tried to learn the song line by line, so you get the song right and then you say, okay, what's the first chord? okay, it's whatever a G is, okay, now what's the next chord?

Hey, C, you can see what it is. It doesn't sound like a song because I have G and then C what other lyrics is okay, what's the strumming pattern okay, what's the next chord D okay, the next chord is C okay, so I try to piece it together, it's a big mess and that's just the first line is fine and then you have to go to the second line to the third line to the fourth line and you go on like this and you spend like an hour trying to get through each line, there's no way You manage to memorize all those things and that's just one song, imagine if you want to play four five six a set of 10

songs

, it becomes like an Odyssey, something extremely difficult to do, but it shouldn't be right, so let me show you what. that I teach my students, I put together a couple of videos for you and 25 easy campfire songs that you can download if you want to check them out, it comes with videos, it comes with course graphics like that, okay, if you want it, the link is somewhere there, but this.

I'm going to let me show you the gist of that book and how I teach my students, so the first thing you want to do is choose songs that only use chords that you're comfortable with, so I see this with all my beginners. I want to learn cool and amazing Hotel California songs, do you know how to play an F? No, no, you can't play Hotel California yet, so I mean it makes sense once you get to it, if you won't be able to. To play it you won't be able to change to that F fast enough and you'll have to practice until you can play Hotel California, but there are thousands and thousands and thousands of other songs that are great, some by The Eagles. also that doesn't use an F so imagine if you only know how to play C G and G or c g d and a minor or a e a and d just with three three chords you can play thousands of songs and there's a really cool website called Chord Genome Project.

Add some chords to the search and it will return songs that only use those chords, nice, so it makes sense that if we only know a couple of chords, we'd use those chords to play the songs we want to play instead of searching. for a song and then discover that there is a chord that we are not comfortable with, the second thing I teach my students is to structure the song into manageable chunks and for that we are going to dive into my computer, come with me and I will show you exactly what . I'm doing it right, so I chose the G, C, and D chords.

Those are chords that I feel comfortable with and that I feel safe changing with, so I just threw those chords into the Genome Project core and it spit out some songs and I chose the To start, Joker by Steve Miller Band is a great song, it's Okay, so what are we going to do? Let's structure the song in a way that we can handle properly. The way I do this is that songs are usually created in several parts. verses that are like the story chorus that's like the beat that's the one everyone sings Welcome to the hotel that's the chorus right um and then sometimes you have an intro and an outro like an intro is just the little part that comes before the song and an outro is just the end of the song and sometimes we have a bridge which is like a twist to the song okay so basically we have to play the song Verse Chorus and sometimes Bridge.

Okay, this song The Joker just has versus and choose, okay. So here's the trick. I have an ID of how the song moves. So is there a verse? Does it start with a verse? Does it start with A Chorus? Does it start with the bridge? Does it start with an introduction? This song starts with a verse. Alright? it probably starts with an intro but I didn't get it anyway let's start with the verse okay so I'm just going to write the verse here excuse my writing because I'm typing with the mouse that's the verse now I can see that there's another verse, okay, so I'll write the verse again, but this will be the trick and then I'll write what's next.

Chorus, okay, so I have a chorus here like this and then if I continue. and look at the site I'm going to see there's another verse there's another chorus maybe there's two choruses so here I know how I'm G to move through the song but here's the trick now let's find out what the chords are in the verse, okay so I'm going to write the verse and I have g c d c g but this G here is the same so I'm just going to write GC DC okay GC d c excuse my writing so that's the chord sequence in the first line, so just looking at that on

your

little piece of paper, if you write it down, it's a lot easier than looking at

your

screen and then trying it, you can take your paper and just put it here, okay, but look at the second line g c DC and G again which is equal to this so we are going to discard that GC DC eh, the same I am not going to write anything else the third line GC d DC the same fourth line GC DC H so instead of looking at each line we discover what the chord sequence and we write it on a little piece of paper.

Now if I want to play The Joker I still haven't figured out when to change the chords but if I want to play The Joker I just need g c d c to play four times and that's my first verse but this is where it gets really interesting let's look at verse two GC DC, huh? GC DC, what GC DC, excuse me, gcdc, so verse one and verse two are exactly. Same thing and I'm telling you verse three is exactly the same, so you learn GC DC, watch that sequence and you can play the three Joker verses like that, much easier than trying to remember the whole song, right? the chorus now, so that's my verse, I'm just going to play this times four for every verse that I find, so I'm going to play this times four for verse one, this times four for verse two and then I'm going to jump to the chorus let's see the course chords so we have G because I'm a G picker I'm a C I'm a G and I'm a C so I have G C G C a little bit different than then the verse but now we just have You have to remember two lines, right?

GC DC for the verse GC GC for the chorus, let's continue I play my music in the sun Okay g c DC GC d c which is exactly the same as the verse, so we have The verse of that little chorus sequence is a little different, where first play g c g c and then go back to the original GC DC, so you can see with this we can play the whole song, okay, that's how I like to structure my songs in a little bit. piece of paper I just grab put GC DC and and for the chorus GC GC and GC DC and that's it, that's my complete song and now I know I have to play two verses, a chorus, a verse, a chorus, a chorus.

I've finished now. the song is great, okay, so now step number three is to keep things as

simple

as possible again if you're trying to change the chords sing create a strumming pattern change the strumming patterns in the chorus it's just not going to work so you want to be I can play the song from the beginning to the end and the easiest way to do it is to just play the strums one downum per beat let me show you some people call me the space cowboy some call me the love gangster. how easy is a downum its rhythm, well now inside the caravan

guitar

ist I teach something I call Eternal shump and that's just a fancy name because instead of playing one downum per beat, you play two downums per beat if you're a little bit more advanced, but trust me, a timed shump helps you complete the song very easily.

Just look at your little piece of paper, that little sequence that you wrote a little bit for time and you can play the whole song. This song, by the way, has two beats per chord, so two strums per chord one two 1 two one two one two some call me the love ganger 2 one two some people call me plus one two okay, very

simple

, also the I'm playing really slow at first, I'll be able to play it faster later, okay, let me show you how playing two strums per beat really fills the space and works for any song.

I call this eternal strumming because it works for any song. any intro any bridge any chorus anything is good look at this some people call me this space cowboy some call me the gang I love it so people call me Morris look how it fills the space this is a little more advanced there's nothing wrong with playing just one down Strom per time, but if you can play two, it really fills the gap. I hope it clarifies and demystifies what it takes to play songs because I really want you to play songs if you want to download this little book with 21. songs that only use three chords, okay and we'll go over some of the topics that we covered in this video.

The link will be somewhere down there. Let me know what you think. Let me know if this makes playing songs easier and at least. It gives you hope that you can do well, thanks for watching. See you at the next ciao.