Guitar lesson 3

Your first songs

Now that you can read music, let’s learn a song! I’ll give you the tab for the song an audio file so you know what it should sound like and finally a target time to play the song in. Remember keep practising, you will get faster and make less mistakes the more you play it.

Smoke on the water – Easy version

E-|-0--3--5-|-0--3--6--5-|-0--3--5--3--0-|
B-|-------------------------------------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------|

Target time: 10-12 seconds
Click here to listen to ‘Smoke on the water’

James Bond Theme

e:--------------|-----------|----------|
B:--------------|-----------|----------|
G:--------------|-----------|----------|
D:--------------|-----------|----------|
A:--------------|-----------|----------|
E:0----2222---|0000--3333|-210---|

e:------------------------|
B:------------------------|
G:2-0---------------------|
D:---------2-0-2----------|
A:------------------------|
E:------------------------|

(Repeat as many times as you want)

Estimated time:  20 secs

Click here to listen to 'James Bond Theme Song'

Come as you are - Nirvana

|-----|-----------------------------|
|-----|-----------------------------|
|-----|-----------------------------|
|-----|-----------------------------|
|-----|------0---0----------2-----2---|
|-0-0-|-1-2---2---2-2-1-0---0----0-|

(repeat)

Target time: 10 secs

Click here to listen to ‘Come as you are’