Musical Instrument Guide

Learning how to play guitar is not entirely fun and enjoyable for beginners; the learning curve is steep and tough, especially for people who totally don’t have any experience in playing any musical instrument. In the beginning stage, you need to learn thing like reading guitar tablature, strumming, guitar chords and most beginners will likely to have sore and pain in their fingers.

And those are not the only obstacles; you will need to learn how to pick guitar songs to play as well. As a beginner starting to play song on guitar, you need to ensure that you pick the right song or you might get dishearten by the difficulty level of the song and give up eventually.

For this reason, I have compiled a list of easy guitar songs suitable for beginners to play.

1. Heart Of Gold – Neil Young (Chords used: C, D, Em, G)
2. Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton (Chords used: G, D, C, Em)
3. What A Good Boy – Bare Naked Ladies (Chords used: C, D, G)
4. Horse With No Name – America (Chords used: Em, F#m7sus)
5. Harvest Moon – Neil Young (Chords used: A, D, G)
6. Leaving On A Jet Plane – John Denver (Chords used: G, C, D)
7. No Rain – Blind Melon (Chords used: E, D, A, G)
8. Every Rose Has It’s Thorns – Poison (Chords used: G, C, D, Em)
9. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan/ Guns N’ Roses (Chords used: G, C, D, Am)
10. One – U2 (Chords used: Am, D7, FM7, G)
11 I Remember You – Skid Row (Chords used: G, C, D, Am, Em)
12 Come As You Are – Nirvana (Chords used: Em, D, G, Am, C)

The above list of beginner guitar songs, as the name implies, is meant for beginner and that is why every song has only 3 or 4 chords. They are easy to play and all you have to do is to search for the guitar tablature online, which is quite easily available.

Learning how to play easy guitar song is crucial for beginner, don’t try to play songs that have more than 4 chords. You are not ready for that yet. Take one step at a time and until you are very comfortable with playing these beginner songs, then you moved on.

This article is a bit weird as it really has nothing to do with playing songs on a physical real guitar, a type of musical instruments. But, there is similarity in some ways between a real guitar and the Guitar Hero, a rhythm-based game for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 which is extremely popularity with consumer,

The similarity lies in the resemblance of the player controller and a guitar, your senses toward the music’s beat and flexi finger skills.

Whereas you just need a guitar to start strumming and playing songs, there is more equipment required for playing the guitar hero game.
• A TV(or a pc monitor if you have a 360 and the correct cable)
• A Playstation 2 (PS2) or Xbox 360, or for the third game a PS3 or Wii
• A Guitar Hero 1 or Guitar Hero 2 or Guitar Hero Rocks The Eighties or Guitar Hero 3 game disc
• Its accompanying controller: a mini Gibson SG (Playstation 2) or Gibson X-Plorer (Xbox 360)

The shape of the controller is similar to an electric guitar, but, not as big or complicated as the real one. Holding of the guitar, regardless standing or sitting is the same as when you hold a real guitar. The white two-directional switch in the center of the guitar, known as the strum bar, will play a note when you push or pull this up or down; the note being played will be determined by pressing combinations of the five coloured fret buttons on the guitar’s neck at the time of playing.

Then, there is this small stick near the strum bar known as a whammy bar which you can move to modulate the sound produced. Finally, the typical PlaySation Start and Select buttons have been formed as fake volume and tone knobs. Just don’t try to turn the volume down with them.

Starting the Game must be relatively easy for all enthusiast gamers. You just need to plug the guitar into the controller port, turn on the TV, PlayStation or Xbox 360, insert the game disk and you are on the way. Watch the intro that comes with it and played around with the various settings and options. There are options like name of band, career, single play, multiplayer, tutorial and others options, so, click around and get yourself familiar with them before starting to play.

The best way to start playing the game is always to start from the simplest songs, which are always at the very beginning of the lists. Don’t attempt the hardest as you may be discourage by the difficulties encountered as it will take a while for you to get used to the guitar, even if you are a trained guitarist. And once you are able to string a few notes together, you should be on your way to playing the game with fun.

As in any game, the Guitar Hero also has many different stages and there will be some which will be too hard for you to crack and get passed them. Don’t give up. But in the events that you really think that you can’t, there is a way out. Searching for guitar hero cheats online will give you the guide and steps on how to cheat the system and unlock all the songs.

Although Guitar Hero 4, the fourth game in the guitar hero, will only be released in October 2008, there are already many rumor of possibility lists of song being reported online, indicating the huge expectation and popularity of the game. There are also many Guitar Hero songs download site coming up which allow people to buy and download the songs. You can do a search for Guitar Hero online to find out all the list of songs and packs available and where to download them.

Are you ready to play Guitar Hero songs?