I use these easy and fun guitar songs to teach my beginning guitar students chords E, A & B7. As the songs progress, they also learn some addition chords, like B5 and Esus along with a couple of great easy guitar riffs.
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More Easy Christmas Songs
First Song
As Christmas approaches, so does the need for easy Christmas songs to play on the guitar. This post is right on the heels of an earlier post Easy Christmas Songs for Guitar. Below, you’ll find 5 additional beginner Christmas songs that can also help you learn to play the guitar. Two of these songs are easy fingerstyle arrangements if you would prefer to play the melody instead of sing it.
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Easy Christmas Songs for Guitar
The holidays are a great time to show off your guitar skills! Even if you are a beginner guitar player, you can still learn some Christmas songs to sing and strum for others. In this post, you will find FOUR easy guitar songs for you to print off and add to your Christmas repertoire. Enjoy!
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4 Easy Songs for the Beginning Guitarist to learn Fingerpicking Accompaniment Patterns
Pattern picking, is a type of accompaniment style. This method is also called fingerpicking accompaniment style. To play this, you hold a chord and then play the strings with your fingers (instead of a guitar pick) in a specific order and then repeat that order until the next chord. It’s easiest to divide these patterns into three categories; 4-string, 5-string, and 6-string chords.
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Learn to play Alternating Bass
I was 5 years old when I started playing the guitar. Along with the guitar came cowboy boots, a fur lined suede vest and a cowboy hat. To my parents, the guitar and country music just went together.
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Easy Pop Songs for Guitar
These easy pop songs by Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons and Bruno Mars will keep your tween and teen students busy for weeks! They use simple chords and teach great musical concepts to help learn accompaniment and tablature techniques without even realizing that you are learning. Songs are listed in order from easiest to hardest.
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