Page saved. I'll do that. I Just payed over 200$ for a something while technically unemployed. If I don't learn it I'll have some explaining to do to the wife. However I think I am motivated enough to learn it. I have every intention of learning to play and then someday maybe I can serenade the wife on a acoustic.
Yeah... Umm... Just so you know, that's probably going to take you a couple of years before you're able to play it well - unless you devote yourself to learning just that one song. Then, maybe a year. Maybe...
I really don't advise you start with that one. No... But, I've got the tab somewhere, if you're hell bent on it!
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.
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