Songs to play an on acoustic guitar
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Topic: Songs to play an on acoustic guitar
Posted By: StrengthandWisdom
Subject: Songs to play an on acoustic guitar
Date Posted: August 05 2012 at 19:07
| Can you give me some suggestions for good and easy songs to learn on an acoustic? |
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 05 2012 at 20:58
Have you tried improvising? You never know you might make up some good stuff on your own. 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 05 2012 at 21:16
"If the World" is easy.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
StrengthandWisdom wrote:Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 05 2012 at 21:29
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Trains by Porcupine Tree. Mystic Queen by Camel Both come to mind, but i'm unsure about how "easy" you need them to be. Snakes and Arrows (album) has great material too. You could pick out segments for training.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 05 2012 at 23:07
| The Trees by Rush was something I recall picking up without too much stress |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 07:40
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I used to play the following and I'm not a very good player:
Genesis (Hackett's) Horizons
ELP (Lake's) The Sage
Rush The Trees with Broon's Bane (the acoustic intro Lifeson plays in Exit Stage Left)
Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven (well only the first part is in acoustic)
Queen's White Queen
On YouTube you will probably find some useful videos, I remember having seen some for ELP's From The Beginning which is not difficult either.
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 11:21
| A very easy piece would be "Juila" by the Beatles. The simple and easy way to play it would be to finger all the chords in the first position. Play it in the key of D major. The bar chords are easy for example F# minor and B minor. The A minor chord changes to an A minor 7th and that is accomplished in the first position. I eventually worked out different positions playing it more Classical style ..so that leaves you with an option to progress with the piece, but for now..try playing it in the first position. It's very easy. |
Posted By: lmaorofllollmao
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 11:23
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"Leaving Entropia"- Pain of salvation.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 12:45
Oh, it's also a beautiful song. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 16:14
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Hey, I teach guitar to students at school. I taught them lots of songs such as I can see Clearly Now, I'm A Believer, and show tunes There are some really hard songs and most of these are prog or things like Paul McCartney's solo stuff like Blackbird, or Master's Apprentices 'Because I Love You', but only because they use very unusual chord structures. The songs I struggled with were in unusual keys like Eb, or C#m, however I can play them easily now. 20 years ago when I started playing I was playing very easy songs in the key of G , C, or E; I avoided F and Bb. Most of the songs I played were Creedence Clearwater Revival or country even though I am not a country fan, bit they were playable. Then I used to kanoodle playing chords like A, D, E, B7 to create blues. One chord structure you can try is Em, C, D, G - or a fave of mine is Dm, Am, E, Am, Dm, Am, B7, Am Just have fun or guitar becomes tedious. I love it and would never switch. ------------- 
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 16:25
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Kumbaya!
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 17:01
Haha.....What key is it in? C? I remember playing that in High School and I was playing Euphonium! -------------
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 18:59
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There are several easy songs to play that are also very cool. AtomicCrimsonRush was right on when mentioning Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and "Mother", and you can throw in "Pigs on the Wing" and then "Fearless" when you get more adventurous . Also John Lennon's "Working Class Hero", and about 100 Neil Young songs, and also Cat Stevens. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: kludge
Date Posted: August 15 2012 at 23:59
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Good and easy? That's much of Bob Dylan's repertoire. Don't poo-poo it because it isn't prog... Dylan didn't become the most influential songwriter in the history of rock music for nothing. Learn lyrical structure and dynamic flow from him. ------------- Why doesn't the Earth fall? How can you walk upon it? It's the music. It's the music of the Earth, and the Sun, and the Stars. It's the music of yourself, vibrating. -Sun Ra |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 16 2012 at 08:16
No idea of the original key. I tend to play most songs in D because my voice sits nicely there. -------------
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