
I finally took the plunge into the guitar world in the summer of 2010. Although I didn't start to learn songs until a few months in, I routinely practiced the five main major chords over and over and over again. When my junior year of college started, I began to learn full songs from artists such as Sublime, ACDC, Cream, Bob Marley, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This blog is to show my progress as I attempt to teach myself the ins and outs of the guitar.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Sixth Sense, I mean Chord
This next song I worked on had a mixture of both focuses: chords and finger picking. If you've ever heard Blister in the Sun by the Violent Femmes, it's a fun and bouncy song to play and it only introduces one chord that isn't a major. The Em (or E minor) chord is reeally easy to play, since it's just the E Major chord but with the third string from the bottom (the G string, ha) played open. With this song, I finally was able to play a sixth chord, and successfully learned my first whole song. Here's the Em chord layout, followed by the tab!


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