I can't stress enough how important it is for you to learn to play along with a good recording of a song! Listening and playing along helps you to learn the song, gives you practice changing the chords, and helps you play in rhythm.
"Jambalya" is usually the first song that I teach beginning guitar students. I know that a lot of younger people have never heard of Hank Williams, but this is a great first song to learn on the guitar for many reasons:
1. It's really easy - it only has two chords (C and G7) and those chords can be played on the three thin strings of the guitar with only one finger to fret the chords. Nearly anyone can learn to play the chords for this song in the first lesson.
2. It's a real song--one of Hank's greatest hits. It's not a nursery-rhyme song.
3. After you learn power chords and other rock and blues techniques, we can revisit this song to play it in a more modern style.
The video above is the original recording by Hank Williams. The video below shows a special recital by the Group Guitar Lessons students of all ages from all three courses.
Enjoy!
- Mark
"Jambalya" is usually the first song that I teach beginning guitar students. I know that a lot of younger people have never heard of Hank Williams, but this is a great first song to learn on the guitar for many reasons:
1. It's really easy - it only has two chords (C and G7) and those chords can be played on the three thin strings of the guitar with only one finger to fret the chords. Nearly anyone can learn to play the chords for this song in the first lesson.
2. It's a real song--one of Hank's greatest hits. It's not a nursery-rhyme song.
3. After you learn power chords and other rock and blues techniques, we can revisit this song to play it in a more modern style.
The video above is the original recording by Hank Williams. The video below shows a special recital by the Group Guitar Lessons students of all ages from all three courses.
Enjoy!
- Mark
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