Guitar How-To

If you are like most people, you probably want to learn as many songs as possible as soon as possible. If you learn your first song well, you will be ready to make your second song a way of learning more. Say you choose House Of The Rising Sun as your first song. This song uses the chords A minor, C major, D major, E major and F major.

Am C D F
There is a house in New Orleans,
Am C E E
They call the Rising Sun
Am C D F
It’s been the ruin of many a poor boy
Am E Am
And God, I know, I’m one

These are all easy chords except for F which will be your first barre chord. If you think barre chords are far too scary, you can just go back to A minor again instead. So what you are learning is some open chords and one barre chord. If you go ahead and learn the F chord, that’s barre chords learnt. Once you have gone through the discomfort and the discipline of learning one barre chord, your muscles have done the work – they don’t have to do it again. You have also learnt a strumming pattern if you choose not to learn the arpeggio pattern The Animals played. Or you could just strum the chords first, you can learn the arpeggio later. So that’s the next thing you learnt – strumming. And hopefully, you got the hang of practicing your material with a metronome. That’s another knack you will never have to learn again.

So with every song you learn a number of lessons. And when you learn a new song you learn a new chord or two, a new strumming or picking pattern, and so on . . .

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