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| faroo7luvsmetallica | January 15, 2011, 8:10 am Post #1 |
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Girl You Stank Take a BATH!
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Hi guys, i really need your help,i used to play guitar when i was 8 yrs old till a few yrs ago,i lost my guitar notebook,i'm learning again online,but its really hard,because i dont know how to play chords,so can anyone give me a link that teaches basic notes again??and links for songs i can play by note,not chord! please & thank you! i'd appreciate the help,
Edited by faroo7luvsmetallica, January 15, 2011, 8:12 am.
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| Spoken Silence | January 15, 2011, 3:35 pm Post #2 |
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Okay, so what you're looking for is basically a map of the fretboard- a "note-by-note" play, if you will. And songs that go by note and not chords. Okay. Gotcha. Well, As far as roadmapping the fretboard goes, there are a great deal of tools that would help you out. But let's talk about chords for a moment. Chords are simply the combination of three (or more!) notes played at the same time. A chord can never have less than three notes, because another name for a chord is a triad. If you have a single note, than it's just a note. A single tone. And if you have two notes, you are playing a dyad. A great example of dyads would be to look at how the verse is played on "The Unforgiven." James uses a combination of changing dyads throughout the verse, building suspension without a closed chord structure. Seeing as you used to play, I figure you'll get back into the swing of things soon enough! If you google "Fretboard Map," you'll get a ton of useful information and tools that may aid you in playing notes. I ran a search through images- here's one of the best maps I could find: ![]() Now, you should really work on basic chord formations. The simplest ones tend to be the basic forms of C, G, D, A, E, and Em. I find that sometimes, people struggle with formations of F and B, so I would start with these first. Here's a website (linked to the D chord) that you should really check out. It gives you a picture of a hand playing the chord, and then the "tabbed" chord: http://www.iplaymusic.com/guitar_d_chord.html Are you familiar with tab? You should be. Reading sheet music is important to guitarists as much as any other musician, but tab is our quick-and-easy method of laying out a song without "sticks and dots," as an old friend of mine used to call written notes. Just about any song you could wish to play has been tabbed out and is available either for purchase or online for free by fellow fans. To give you an idea of what tab looks like, I'll share the tab to one of my favorite songs with you. The song is "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains, and I scanned this tab for my friends out of an issue of Guitar World magazine. All you have to do is download it and open it. If it doesn't open, you need Adobe Reader. Just google it and download the program. It's free of charge, no strings attached. http://rapidshare.com/#!download|927l34|442232257|Man_in_the_Box.pdf|21368 When you look at the tab, you're going to see a bunch of numbers and lines, and occasionally letters, that might look really confusing. Here's a tabbed portion of the song for you to look at: Man in the Box Written by Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley Tabbed by: Lupe Galvan Tune Down 1/2 step 1=Eb 4=Db 2=Bb 5=Ab 3=Gb 6=Eb Intro Moderately= 108 (0:01) Driving Beat Guitar 1 (Rhythm Fig. 1) P.M.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | |----------------------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------| |----------------------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------| |----------------------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------| |----------------------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------| |-5----x--5-----5------|-5----x---5----5-------|-5---x--5---5-----|--5--x---5--------5-| |-0----x--0-----0---0--|-0----x---0----0----0--|-0---x--0---0---0-|--0--x---0--0-5h7---| Here's what you're looking at. When playing this song along with the recording, or trying to be accurate, you tune your guitar down 1/2 step for each string- or turn the standard EADGBE turning into EbAbDbGbBbEb instead. The P.M. at the top of the tab means palm mute. Deaden the noise of the strings with your right hand when you strum. Now, all those little lines and bars and whatnot? Those represent the strings of a guitar, starting at high E on top and ending on low E at the bottom. Basically, if you took your guitar from your lap and held up the fretboard to your face upside down, that's what we're looking at. The numbers that aren't 0 (so, in this case, 5 and 7) are on specific strings- here they're positioned on the low E and A strings. These are frets. You put your finger down on the fret number it dictates, on the string it shows you. 0's mean you play that string, but don't put your fingers down on it anywhere. It is known as an "open" note or an open string. So the first DYAD I would play here would be a combination of the low E string and the A string on the 5th fret. Get it? I won't explain the x's and the h's and the other random symbols you're bound to come across, because there are tools online that explain it if you google it. As for simple songs, It would all depend on HOW simple and what style you're looking for. I hope this helped! -Sam |
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| faroo7luvsmetallica | January 17, 2011, 8:01 am Post #3 |
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Girl You Stank Take a BATH!
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thank you,thank you! :horns2 but one question,sorry if i sound stupid ,i didnt get this? |----------------------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------| |----------------------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------| |----------------------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------| |----------------------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------| |-5----x--5-----5------|-5----x---5----5-------|-5---x--5---5-----|--5--x---5--------5-| |-0----x--0-----0---0--|-0----x---0----0----0--|-0---x--0---0---0-|--0--x---0--0-5h7---| |
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| Aki of the Dead | January 17, 2011, 3:56 pm Post #4 |
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Stardog Chump
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Look at that like your guitar. The lines represent your guitar strings, from bottom to top E-A-D-G-B-E. The line represents what string you play. The number represents what fret you hold down on that string. So the 5 on the 2nd line means that while you're holding down the 5th fret, you play the 2nd string. If the line has a 0, don't hold down any frets, just play that string. When the 5 is on top of the 0 like that, it means hold down the 5th fret of the A string (the 2nd string) while not holding anything down (or holding 0 frets) on the E string (the 1st string). That's the very quick chord you play. The x's mean you use your right hand to kind of stop the chord short. That's how you get that choppy crunchy sound. If you didn't do that, the chord would kind of ring out. It would sound less metal and more like a folky acoustic song. For 5h7, that's getting more into technique. The h stands for hammer, which is what you'll do with your finger. While you hold down the 5th fret with your pointer finger, as you're playing that string, WITHOUT LETTING GO OF THE 5TH FRET, you use your ring finger to "hammer" onto the 7th chord. It sounds really cool once you get the hang of it. I apologize if it sounds like I'm talking down to you, I'm just trying to put it in simple terms. Edited by Aki of the Dead, January 17, 2011, 4:03 pm.
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| faroo7luvsmetallica | January 17, 2011, 4:40 pm Post #5 |
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Girl You Stank Take a BATH!
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atleast your not like my math or sience teacher,they both talk too quickly,that u cant even understand anything,in the end of the period you'd be like"huh?". naahh,dont sweat it!thanx for explaining,becuz if you talked to me like i'm a professional not bigenner,i'll probably ask so many questions that you'll throw your computer outta the window. now i understand,i'll read it again bright and early in the morning,becuz right now i have a hell of a headache. Edited by faroo7luvsmetallica, January 17, 2011, 4:43 pm.
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