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Boonjovi
Title: Electric Sex Pants
Joined: Dec 30 2009
PostPosted: Dec 30 2009 05:04 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Hey, if anyone plays guitar here, think you could tell me some easy-ish songs to learn on guitar? I think my skills are intermediate, and the last thing I learned was probably the main riff from The Trooper.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks Very Happy
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
PostPosted: Dec 30 2009 10:43 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Smoke on the Water seems to be fairly easy
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 09:01 am Reply with quote Back to top

Literally anything by Green Day or Nirvana.


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jerknut
Joined: Sep 18 2009
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 09:31 am Reply with quote Back to top

What bands do you like? I'd put forth a guess that they have some songs that are easy to play. Playing things that you like will keep you interested longer than simply playing things just because they're easy. When I used to teach guitar, we'd focus on learning things that the student was interested in and that seemed to work fairly well.


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Boonjovi
Title: Electric Sex Pants
Joined: Dec 30 2009
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 10:34 am Reply with quote Back to top

jerknut wrote:
What bands do you like? I'd put forth a guess that they have some songs that are easy to play. Playing things that you like will keep you interested longer than simply playing things just because they're easy. When I used to teach guitar, we'd focus on learning things that the student was interested in and that seemed to work fairly well.


I like Nirvana, Green Day (only putting these in cause someone suggested, but I do like them) Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses, NoFX, Van Halen. I like almost all grunge, and something with powerchords is something I'd like more.
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Chile Guy
Title: Token Latino Otaku
Joined: Apr 14 2008
Location: Fortaleza, Brazil
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 11:23 am Reply with quote Back to top

The entirety of In The Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.
No, seriously. Not only it's built on basic chords, all the songs are damn effective.


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Boonjovi
Title: Electric Sex Pants
Joined: Dec 30 2009
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 11:33 am Reply with quote Back to top

Wow.. Thanks lol.


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jerknut
Joined: Sep 18 2009
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 11:46 am Reply with quote Back to top

Boonjovi wrote:
I like Nirvana, Green Day (only putting these in cause someone suggested, but I do like them) Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses, NoFX, Van Halen. I like almost all grunge, and something with powerchords is something I'd like more.


Nirvana is pretty simple and fun. Green day is also pretty simple, but some of it might be too fast for you at first (at least their first few albums? Same goes for NoFX). Shit, you could get teen spirit in one sitting most likely.


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Boonjovi
Title: Electric Sex Pants
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PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 11:48 am Reply with quote Back to top

But I already know Teen Spirit and Come As You Are Smile


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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 12:26 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Try "Welcome to the Jungle". Some parts of it should be a bit of a workout, but it's a lot easier than you'd think. All of the solos you should be able to do with a bit of practice, as well.


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Boonjovi
Title: Electric Sex Pants
Joined: Dec 30 2009
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 12:27 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Okay Smile


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jerknut
Joined: Sep 18 2009
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 03:50 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Boonjovi wrote:
But I already know Teen Spirit and Come As You Are Smile


Razz

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Boonjovi
Title: Electric Sex Pants
Joined: Dec 30 2009
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 04:05 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Captain_Pollution wrote:
Try "Welcome to the Jungle". Some parts of it should be a bit of a workout, but it's a lot easier than you'd think. All of the solos you should be able to do with a bit of practice, as well.


Just did my first runthrough of it. Nailed the chorus and second solo, still working on the rest. Thanks a bunch Smile
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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
PostPosted: Dec 31 2009 09:35 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Very Happy Good work, keep at it. Best of luck.


<Drew_Linky> Well, I've eaten vegetables all of once in my life.

 
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: Jan 01 2010 01:12 am Reply with quote Back to top

joshwoodzell wrote:
Literally anything by Green Day or Nirvana.

Nirvana is easy if you use half ass power chords, if you use the bar chords like you're supposed to they're a little harder. (or maybe I just suck at bar chords)

Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Svperstar is written almost entirely around the same riff, Little Horn is the Beautiful People riff reversed and sped up.



 
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Alowishus
Joined: Aug 04 2009
PostPosted: Jan 01 2010 09:52 am Reply with quote Back to top

Alice in Chains isn't all that hard as well as Pearl Jam. Sonic Youth is pretty easy shapes if you don't mind retuning your guitar into ridiculous tunings.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: Jan 02 2010 02:31 am Reply with quote Back to top

Skull Full Of Maggots is an easy to learn fast death metal song, if you want to play stuff like that start there.



 
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TheThunderThief
Joined: Jun 07 2009
Location: Ditka's Moustache
PostPosted: Jan 02 2010 01:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Van Halen's "Aint Talkin' 'Bout Love" is kind of easy, it follows a Am, G, Em pattern sort of.
Also, UFO's "Rock Bottom" is a bitchin, yet fairly simple riff. Black sabbath stuff is awesome too like the song named after the band, the main riff is a play on the fucking devil's interval (diminished fifth), plus it has that cool palm muted pre solo riff


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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: Jan 03 2010 03:35 am Reply with quote Back to top

Learning to palm mute tremolo pick was a bastard when I started playing.



 
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TheThunderThief
Joined: Jun 07 2009
Location: Ditka's Moustache
PostPosted: Jan 03 2010 04:07 am Reply with quote Back to top

As a result of not learning the intricacies of economy picking early on, I play a lot of stuff purely with downstrokes, mostly because I had heard Hetfield played a lot of stuff downpicked, that and at the time I figured it made the riffs I learned sound heavier (Rotten to the Core, Master of Puppets, etc..) on my crappy amp. Sometimes it's faster and easier for me than playing in an up/down pattern.


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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: Jan 03 2010 02:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Yeah I tried that too at first, trying to be super fast with heavy downpicking resulted in a lot of broken strings when I was starting out.

Anybody ever get good at those hammer off tremelo chords (not sure of the actual technical term please correct me if I'm wrong) that Cannibal started doing around The Bleeding? I can do them but it's really slow when I try. Sad

Example 1 (around 00:29 - 00:32, you can kind of see the bald guitarist do it, the long haired guitarist fingers move around more making it easier to see but his wall of headbanging hair obscures it.)


Example 2 (around 1:40 in the video, it's that weird down shifting hammer off out of a chord and back in to one, also just really Shocked at the whole thing, watch that fuckers fingers! )



 
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Boonjovi
Title: Electric Sex Pants
Joined: Dec 30 2009
PostPosted: Jan 03 2010 04:52 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Palm muting kills my wrist, but I can do it on songs like Blink-182's Dammit and Green Day's Basket Case.


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pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
Location: Cajun Country
PostPosted: Jan 03 2010 06:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Man, I have an acoustic-electric guitar that I got for a graduation gift that has been sitting on its stand for awhile now. I pick it up and play it every once in awhile but that's it.
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Boonjovi
Title: Electric Sex Pants
Joined: Dec 30 2009
PostPosted: Jan 03 2010 09:40 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I wish I had an acoustic-electric.


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pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
Location: Cajun Country
PostPosted: Jan 04 2010 12:04 am Reply with quote Back to top

Razz I'm sure the guitar you have now will be fine for a couple years.
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