How to play “Something” on guitar. Play the first part of this lovely Lennon/McCartney song for solo guitar. The chord changes are fairly easy and the melody can be picked right out of the chord shapes! The think I really like about it is that beautiful chromatic drop- CM, CM7, C7 to the F, so we’re dropping the notes from C to C to Bb to A. I find it’s a great way to introduce the CMm CM7 and C7 chords to new guitar players!
How to play jinglebell rock on guitar fingerstyle for solo guitar. What a great holiday song to get under your hands… and not too hard to do.
This version is simpler to do- hand friendly chords mostly in the first position.
This version is a bit more complicated. we are moving up and down the neck to find the melody notes and the correct voicings more precisely.
Watch the video to see how to play “All My Lovin”, fingerstyle on guitar. This is a great Beatles tune and not too hard to play. It’s an excellent example of how to choose different chord voicings to present the melody in the best way. Click the image below for the chords and lyrics:
How to play country roads fingerstyle on guitar This is a great John Denver tune – beloved around the world and not too hard to get under your hand. “Country Roads” is a terrific introduction to finger-style guitar playing because the changes are easy and the melody is so identifiable. And if you’re just getting started with reading tabs you can learn the melody line pretty quickly. Here’s a sheet with chords, tabs and notation for “Take me home, country roads” for guitar in the key of C.
This pdf has chord shapes with finger positions for the chords. country roads chords
Download tabs and notation pdf
How to play “La Vie en Rose” fingerstyle on ukulele.
how to play love of my life fingerstyle on guitar
The audio above is the midi playback from a Musescore file and the pdf below is the notation for it. In other words, the notes are written in MuseScore and we are able to output both the pdf of the sheet music/tablature and the audio as an .mpg file directly from that! Musescore, btw is an excellent tool for any guitarist and it is completely free, which is amazing to me considering what you can do with it. Find out for yourself- download the program from musescore.org
Love of my life tabs and chords part 1
A rhythm guitar and drum track to play along with.
Navajo Rug
A
Well it’s two eggs up on whiskey toast
F#m
Home fries on the side
D
Wash it down with a road house coffee
E
Man it burns up your insides
A
It was a Canyon Colorado diner
F#m
and a waitress I did love||
D
she sat beside me ‘neath an old stuffed bear
E
and a worn out navajo rug
Chorus:
E A F#m
Well, Aye aye aye, Katy
D E
Shades of red and blue
A F#m
Well, Aye aye aye, Katy
D E A
Whatever became of your navajo rug and you
Ol’ Jack the boss he leaves about six
and it’s Katy bar the door
she’d pull down that navajo rug
and spread it across that floor
Well I saw lightning across the sacred mountains
You can get a lot of mileage out of using thumb and index finger! Travis picking: named after country-and-western pioneer Merle Travis, it’s a style of fingerpicking characterized by the steady thump of an alternating bass that underscores rhythmic patterns and melodies on the treble strings. Moving the thumb to an adjacent string lets you play more “plectrum-style” as well, so you can certainly make your playing more interesting than either style separately.
Wishing you major holiday greetings and an awesome new year!
…and heartfelt thanks to all my students, present and past.
The simple truth is that you have made this journey possible.
