The Fender Guitar Method - Tom Dooley - Lesson 34

Well I have finally started to learn some chords in The Fender Guitar Method book.  The song Tom Dooley in this lesson only changes between 2 chords 3 times so to the more experienced person, this would be extremely easy.  But to me, it was a little more difficult to get used to.  I had to practice playing each chord C and G7 one at a time over and over again and changing between each of them.  So it took a little time to get used to.  So with this blog entry I play the chords and then I play the melody. 

From the Lesson and the notes above, I interpreted it as only playing downward notes.  If anyone else would interpret it dfferently, please let me know.  So here are the chords.

And here is the Melody.

I think that the trick to getting the chords is to just keep practicing.

Enjoy.  Next up I will be learning the G chord and the D7 chord.

The Fender Guitar Method - Worried Man Blues - Lesson 31

Well it has been a little over a week since I last posted a new blog entry.  We have been pretty busy during the last few Days.  Well, this next song is called Worried Man Blues.  I did some brief research on this song and I think that Johnny Cash sang it once but I don't know if he was the original one to sing it or not. 

Lukily for you guys reading this, and as promised in my last blog entry, you get a chance to see me sing this song.  It will probably not be as good as Johnny Cash but it is bearable to listen to as long as you have earplugs in.  

The notes for this song was really not very difficult.  The lesson added in the fourth string, but since it was pretty easy to learn.  I didn't even look at any of the  my notes when I played this song either. 

Anyways....

Here are the notes...

Here is the song without singing....

And here is the song with me singing....

The Fender Guitar Method - He's A Jolly Good Fellow - Lesson 27

You would think that since "He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is a common song, it would not take so long to learn but for some reason this was difficult for me.  The notes were not that difficult since it is what I have been practicing and learning throughout the entire book.  But since this was using 3/4 time, it was somewhat difficult for me to get the beat down.  But anyways, I got the beat down on the guitar pretty good, I think.

As noted in the previous blog entry, this song is a tribute to my dad because he is a jolly good fellow. 

On a side note, I got this cool book from my parents called "Country Classics For Easy Guitar" and I am slowly trying to learn some full songs in the meantime.  Those will take a while to learn so don't expect anything anytime soon.  The first song I am learning is "Achy Breaky Heart" by the one and only Mr. Mullet himself, Mr. Billy Ray Cyrus.  Hopefully we will get some really embarrasing singing of that song on here in the next couple of months

Anyways, back to the video and the notes for "He's a Jolly Good Fellow"

Here are the notes.....

Here is the video.

The next blog entry I will be learning notes on the fourth string (notes D, E, F) and I will be embarrasing my self singing a song called "Worried Man Blues".  Stay tuned...