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Guitar lessons for Beginners – What does Michael Jackson, Keith Urban and Creedence have in common?
By Mike Hayes | November 7, 2009
With the media’s focus on visual presentation for music promotion
it’s easy to understand how somebody learning to play guitar can
miss the important clues in learning how to play quickly and
easily.
Today’s music buying public tend to “listen with their eyes”; if
you want to learn guitar fast you need to develop your ability to
focus on the audio and develop your musical perception skills.
Learning how to bypass the visual presentation and quickly notice
the similarities in the music is an essential skill for the
advancing guitarist.
Whilst the majority of guitarists will be either confused or
discouraged with the information they are learning from TAB or
sheet music you will be able to mentally pigeon-hole songs as you
hear them; making it a breeze to remember and instantly recall
songs.
To illustrate my point, here are three songs that on the surface
all appear to be different; different artists, different music
styles … ever different video clips!
But … dig a little deeper and you will discover they are all
based on the blues; the same blues chord progression, even the
same key, how’s that for high speed memorization? Three songs in
an instant; just add guitar!
Here we go:
Michael Jackson’s – Black or White
E /// | E /// | E /// | E /// |
A /// | A /// | E /// | E /// |
B7/// | A /// | E /// | E /// ||
Keith Urban’s – Somebody like You
E /// | E /// | E /// | E /// |
A /// | A /// | E /// | E /// |
B7/// | A /// | E /// | E /// ||
Creedence Clearwater Revival – The Night Time is the Right Time
E /// | E /// | E /// | E /// |
A /// | A /// | E /// | E /// |
B7/// | A /// | E /// | E /// ||
One of the biggest issues to overcome is how music is often
stereotyped by the music marketing people in an effort to create
soaring sales. When you think of the blues what visual image
comes into your head? For many it’s some smokey bar in New
Orleans or a Jazz band playing in a nightclub in New York.
The last thing that would cross many guitarist’s mind would be
how the blues could have an influence on a pop or country song,
but as you can see the blues is a universal language that can
speak to all audiences and age groups.
Sometimes the newbie guitarist does not notice the similarities
because a song is preformed in a different key.
Ray Charles plays “The Night Time is the Right Time” in the key
of Eb.
Ray Charles – The Night Time is the Right Time
Eb /// | Eb /// | Eb /// | Eb /// |
Ab /// | Ab /// | Eb /// | Eb /// |
Bb7/// | Ab /// | Eb /// | Eb /// ||
Can you see the similarities? Would you have noticed that?
There are thousands of other songs that use exactly the same
blues chord progressions and even more songs will be added to the
list over time as songwriters continue to utilize this proven
musical form.
Keep your ears wide open and you will have much more fun playing
the guitar.
By now I bet you are ready to start cranking out more songs on
the guitar in less time than you ever thought possible, right?
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From Mike Hayes – The Guitar Coaching Guy & the Express Guitar
System
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