subject: Work Your Way up to Easy Guitar Songs [print this page] Work Your Way up to Easy Guitar Songs Work Your Way up to Easy Guitar Songs
When learning a new skill it is easy to get carried away with excitement. If you move too fast, however, you may find that you have skipped over essential elements or that your skills are not well developed because you did not master the basics first. This principle applies to many things, including learning to play the guitar. Many guitarists, when they are just starting to learn, want to progress quickly and jump right in to reading guitar tabs and playing their favorite songs. Before you can reach this level of skill, however, you must take the time to master the basics and to play easy guitar songs for beginners before you graduate to the higher levels of music. It will be especially rewarding when you do because you will be much better prepared for the challenges that await you. And preparation is key to success.As any guitarist learns, the way you manipulate the strings on the guitar results in a variety of sounds. Plucking a single string sounds a note and, if you place pressure at various points along the string, the pitch of the resulting sound will change. Before you can even begin playing easy guitar songs you must learn to recognize and play individual notes. Many guitarists find this difficult at first because their fingers are not used to the type of movement required by the guitar. Once you have gained mastery over individual notes you can feel confident in moving along to chords - playing multiple notes at one time. At this point, easy guitar songs for beginners (such as "Wipeout" or "A Horse With No Name") come in handy. Many easy guitar songs are meant to simply provide direction for practice, guiding the beginning guitarist through exercises or simple melodies in order to gain familiarity and comfort with different notes and chords.Learning to play the guitar can be a long, strenuous process but if you are able to succeed in the end it is very rewarding. In order to get there, you need to establish a practicing routine of at least 4 or 5 days a week, perhaps for an hour each session. If you practice as much as you can and take your beginner's lessons seriously you will be surprised by how good you get at your instrument within just a few weeks. Your friends and family will truly be impressed by your skill!
