by Jo Bywater | Jul 13, 2024 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons, Song Lessons
A beautiful Elvis Presley song released in 1961. Can’t Help Falling in Love. A slow-moving, singable, open chords, repetitive picking pattern. This song is perfect for practising your fingerpicking. A 6-note pattern that is used in many other songs including...
by Jo Bywater | Jul 9, 2024 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons, Song Lessons
An excellent 1960s guitar tune from The Mamas & The Papas. Today we’re learning the classic CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ just in time for summer. The song has a definitive melodic guitar intro and some good open strumming chords with a simple repetitive...
by Jo Bywater | Jun 29, 2024 | Online Guitar Lessons, Song Lessons, Teaching Guitar
Linger is an excellent song from 1993 to learn on guitar. The Cranberries picking intro really sets up and identifies the song. Today we’re looking at an acoustic guitar version that includes the 3-note Intro & Outro Riffs and the rhythm (as in the song...
by Jo Bywater | Jun 26, 2024 | Online Guitar Lessons, Song Lessons, Teaching Guitar
Que Sera, Sera is a fantastic 3 chord song for a bit of fun on the guitar. The wonderful Doris Day performed this in an easy, chirpy and light way that makes this a pleasure to play. We’re doing this as a simple ‘thumb-fingers’ picking version with a...
by Jo Bywater | Jun 19, 2024 | Online Guitar Lessons, Song Lessons, Teaching Guitar
Roy Orbison released Oh, Pretty Woman in 1964. This is a legendary song. Catchy. A perfect tune for your strumming & singing repertoire complete with a an opening riff that is known the world over. Today we’re going to break down the iconic riff and the...
