Oh I'm not hell bent on any particular song. I might be hell bent on serenading the wife, but thats another discussion entirely. I'm a very fast learned so I will probably move faster than most do. However I also have learned some patients in my life.
What would you advise I start with? Keep in mind I Have 2 young daughters so that should provide some easy starting material.
I'd start with learning an A E D G C (then an F and B) chord in the open position. Then, something like Knocking on Heaven's Door - which is perfectly suitable for wife-serenading. I've swooned many a pair of bloomers off with that song in various formats. It's 3 chords, G D C. It's a 4 - 4 - 8 count.
G - 1, 2, 3, 4 D - 1, 2, 3, 4, C - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
That's a nice easy song to learn and nobody knows it well enough to be too critical.
And, I have a sneaky suspicion that it's going to be harder than you seem to think. I really don't want to make it sound easy, 'cause it's not. It'll be months before you're really able to transition fluidly from open chord to open chord. It gets worse when you get into weird barre chords and fucked up chord shapes.
Metallica is on the list of "Hard." They're not "Very Hard" or "Extreme." They're still pretty hard.
I hate to recommend it, but Wanted, Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi is also a pretty good starter song - as it will teach you some lead and to move your hand fluidly.
But, there's the tab for you.
Well I appreciate your encouragement thats what I will choose to take it as, I also think you may be slightly under estimating my ability to pick things up quickly. Or perhaps I am over estimating my ability that is also entirely possible. Either way, a bit a of a story, I managed to almost figure out the opening to Enter sandman when I was 12 on the guitar my uncle gave me. I listened to it over and over and tried to replicate it. Now I never had a large amount of success but I figured at least a bit of it out without any chords or music or instruction of any kind. My point being when I set my mind to something I usually can get it done(poal is an example of this). I guess what I am saying is, I will and can learn to play this instrument in the right way. Maybe it'll take a while but I will do it.
Yeah, there's a big difference between picking out a few similar notes and actually playing what the music calls for.
And this is encouragement - I just don't want you to believe you'll pick it up quickly and then give up when you don't. It can be insanely complicated, and even just replicating what's on the paper isn't easy. It's a journey that will last the rest of your life. I'm nearing five decades and I still learn new things and still work on the same drills I've been mastering for a lifetime.
That said, I eagerly await you sharing your first tune. I will be judging you - harshly. ;-)
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