What are some awesome acoustic guitar songs at intermediate to expert level?
Try these, and see if they fit the bill: Crazy On You - Heart Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin Dear Prudence - Beatles Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp - Led Zeppelin Dream On - Aerosmith Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
What advice would you give a beginner guitarist interested in playing Delta blues?
Delta blues is one of the hardest music forms to play, so be prepared for a long learning curve.A good way to start to get the feel of the blues is to listen to tons of music. Create a channel on your favorite music streaming service, buy a bunch of songs or CDs, and just listen to this form of music as much as you can.Some artists to consider:Robert JohnsonSon HouseCharley PattonJohn Lee HookerBukka WhiteSkip JamesElmore JamesMississippi John HurtMississippi Fred McDowellBig Joe WilliamsRobert Lockwood Jr.R.L. BurnsideHowlin WolfMuddy WatersNow start to play along with some of these songs, first just getting a sense of the shuffle rhythm patterns, and then starting to add triplets and turnaround phrases.There is a “blues scale” that involves 6 notes across each octave. You should learn the scale up and down and learn how to form phrases from the notes on the scale, using shapes up and down the neck depending on what key you are playing in.Lead and rhythm are very different skills - both are important, and it will take a lot of time before you can integrate both into your playing at the same time. Many players never get the integration, but a pair or players can swap roles, taking turns at 12 bars of lead and 12 bars of rhythm.Focus on being good when you are playing slowly, and then start to increase your tempo, making the song more dance-able. Your goal is to get your audience to move in their seats and feel inspired to get up and dance, not to be blinded by your technical prowess and speed.There are some technical skills you will want to develop as you improve - how to use a slide, how to hammer on, pull off, and how to trill notes. But the most important skill is to be able to communicate emotion through your playing and to keep a steady beat for your audience and band partners.Smile and have fun. Yes, it is hard to get good at playing the blues, so if you aren’t enjoying the process, take a break and just listen to other people play until your mind is ready to come back to it.
What are some intermediate/beginner songs on guitar?
Thanks for the A2A!It’s been a while since I’ve been a beginner, but here are the songs I remember first learning.Tom Petty - FreefallingFirst song I ever learned how to play, I remember it’s easy, just D, G, and A if I’m not mistaken. Very good song for beginners.Violent Femmes - Blister in the SunGood for beginners learning riffs as opposed to chords, very very easy to pick up at first. As a bonus, you basically learn La Bamba by learning to play this!ACDC - Back in BlackWas never a fan of ACDC (And honestly I don’t think I ever really sat down to learn this song, I digress) but this song is good for learning to transition from chords to single notes more easily. Pretty good for beginners.Flogging Molly - The Worst Day Since YesterdayOne of the very first songs I ever learned to play, and I still love to play it. A great song for learning to play and sing at the same time, and it’s a hit at drunken parties. ;)Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the ReaperSounds more difficult than it is, and it’s a great song to help train your right hand, good for learning to pick strings consecutively.Now into more intermediate songsACDC - ThunderstruckThe song that really taught me the secrets to pull offs, as a beginner it’s a great for practicing pinky strength when doing pull offs, and it teaches you precision when moving all up and down the fretboard after each note pulling off to 0.Metallica - Seek and DestroyNot only is this a fun song to play, it’s not terribly difficult (The solo is another story, but the main riff is intermediate at worst). Helps practice hammer ons, and palm muting.Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son One of my classic favorites, another fun one that everyone knows and it’s got a lot of different techniques in it.Hope this helps, it’s been a while since I’ve done any of these, but I remember these specifically being stepping stones. :)
Beginner Bass Guitar Player, help?
The Bottom string on a peice of tab, is the top string when looking down the guitar. G-------------------------------------... D----------------------------1-1-1-1--... A------------0-0-0-0------------------... E-3-3-3-3-----------------------------... WHERE THE NUMBER 3'S ARE, IT MEANS "3RD FRET". THE FRETS ARE THE DIVIDED SECTIONS ON THE NECK OF THE GUITAR, AND THE 3RD IS THE FIRST ONE WITH A DOT IN THE MIDDLE. THE DOTS ARE THERE SO YOU CAN TEL WHICH FRET IT IS EASIER. THE 0'S ARE OPEN STRINGS, YOU JUST PLAY THE STRING WITH NO FINGERS. SO ON THE TAB ABOVE - JUST PLAY 3RD FRET (BIGGEST STRING) 4 TIMES, AND SO ON. HOPE I HELPED :)
Guitar (electric) and gear for beginner - advices?
Depending on what style music you play, you can find a used Fender strat cheap enough, or an Epiphone Les Paul, or Ibanez RG series guitar. Strats are great for classic rock, blues, alternative and rock. Les Paul's will have a thicker, beefier and darker tone and Ibanez RG series guitars are going to be great for hard rock and metal. It all depends on the pickups you have, but it's a good reference to start from. For an amp, look into Blackstar amps. The HT-5r combo would be a great starter amp that you could keep forever. They have great distortion, good cleans and pretty good reverb. Not much else in terms of other effects, but you don't need to mess with effects until later on, and all the "modeling/hybrid" amps usually have terrible effects or the amp as a whole, sound bad. Blackstar is a newer company, founded by 2 guys from Marshall amps. They broke off and started their own company making good quality, yet affordable tube amps. As far as the amp and guitar go, you only need a good quality instrument cable (a.k.a. lead), guitar picks and maybe an extra set of strings.
Would you consider yourself a beginner, intermediate, or advanced guitar player?
I think I’m fairly advanced by now.I mean, don’t get me wrong, I���m no Yngwie Malsteem, but I can play along to bangers like “The Trooper” (Iron Maiden), “Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne), etc.Of course, technical ability is only one facet of a talented guitarist, or any musician for that matter. My favorite guitarist, bar none, is Jimmy Page. He isn’t/wasn’t the most technically able guitarist, at least not when you compare him to latter-day metalists like Dave Murray/Adrian Smith, Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett etc. And most certainly not when you compare him to hallowed “masters” like Steve Vai, Yngwie, John Petrucci, Nuno Bettencourt etc.But here’s the funny part: I’m not that big of an Iron Maiden fan; I like just a few of their songs, but that’s about it. I like a few Ozzy Osbourne songs, of course, but I’m really much more inclined to early Black Sabbath. I like a few Metallica songs too, but that’s about it.Steve Vai? There’s maybe, I don’t know, one song of his I actually really like. Yngwie? Uh, “Black Star”’s kind of fun. I can’t name one Dream Theater song so I haven’t a clue if I like them or not (probably not). I do like a few Extreme songs, but again it’s not like I’m a huge fan.So, if you haven’t guessed the theme here by now, it’s that a talented guitarist is only worth as much as the band he/she is in or the music he/she creates. Sure, they’re fun to listen to and “wow” at, but if they don’t have the tunes to back it up, I’m just not going to pay much attention to them.Gary Moore is an excellent example of a technically superb guitarist with some pretty great tunes as well.
Learning the blues guitar?
One of the best things about blues (and jazz) is not about reading music sheet and playing what it says. Most blues and jazz you are given just chord progression and perhaps a melody, and its on the guitarists ownus to bring it to life. Look up "comping" on the guitar, gets funky when you are playing around chords but linking in to the next ones with various fills (think hendirx or any classic acoustic blues -- there's an underlying chord progression going on but the guitarist is doing so much more) Best way to start would be to parrot learn some songs, have fun get used to rhythm/blues/slide. To do it more "properly", you need to have a fairly good knowledge of scales + chords and some theory to link all this together (or be so gifted you just take to the blues / sounds without knowing anythings except your feel, I think only a small number of people fall in the world into this category) For scales, simple scales like the pentatonics are a good start, going a little more diatonic things like mixolydian are very useful scales to learn. If you start looking into some more complex blues (i.e. not all just 7th chords) you can approach it from a jazzier way and stick in some different scales (melodic minor and mixolydian alterations) For chords, trying to get away from full bar chords + open chords is a good start. Learning inversions of the chords really helps to create more open + fluidic sounding comping. Two things to remember is to get some good blues rhythm in there and always play to the chords to make the progression heard. Some players it is well worth checking out for this kind of stuff: Derek Trucks (good slide) Robben ford (more jazzier blues) Of course hendrix, SRV etc for a bit more rockier blues And theres a bunch of classic blues, Robert Johnson etc. Not to sure of other great slide players.
Good gear for blues guitar?
The advice with the Fender Strat is a good way to go. Gibsons are great guitars, but a ridiculously expensive. The Epiphone, gibson copies (Les Pauls, and SGs) might be a good choice. (quality can be hit or miss) As far a strings go, it's really a matter of choice and ability. There is a lot of bending in blues, so a thinner string (.009) will be easier. But a heavier string (.011) will give you a fatter tone. But be warned, once you start putting heavier strings on a guitar, you will have to make adjustments on the set up (truss rod, bridge tremelo, pick-up height, etc.) With slides, try a glass and a brass slide first. They're not that expensive and give you a good contrast in sound and feel. More importantly, you should look into open tunings to play slide. Here is a great site I found with a built in tuner for bass and guitar. Just click on the "6 String guitar" tab and then select what ever open tuning you want to do. Hold the cursor over each string and tune your guitar to it's tone. http://www.tunemybass.com/ good luck!
What is the best online guitar course?
Justinguitar.com is the most reliable, well-documented beginner friendly site on the internet. Everyone else will try to make you suffer by demanding money or special favors for their site. Justin won’t. If you want to raise your level to THE ntermediate or expert, He has free courses for you too.He has Free different sections for:Blues,Funk Guitar,Folk ,Rock and Metal,Jazz ,Songwriting,Transcribing,Arpeggios and So on…No, He hasn’t paid me anything. I’m writing this because everyone has a different kind of learning pattern. When I decided to learn guitar, I came to Quora to know reliable online courses, but couldn’t find any. Then I found Justin and started learning.But, deep in my mind I was having this confusion if I was missing out something that a teacher could teach me practically. I went to a teacher and he taught me only four chords over a period of 2 months and I was so annoyed I had to stop attending his class and resumed learning on Justin Guitar!!And within five weeks, I was writing my own song. I know it’s not like “Wonderwall”, but seems good to me. HahaI’m writing this so that you don’t have to rediscover the wheel. If teaching guitar online was a religion, this guy would be the Jesus of it. Happy playing.