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Playing the guitar is a great way to pass the time and exercise your creative juices. It get’s even more fun when you move beyond the stage of learning to play the chords, to learning to play actual songs. If you are a beginner, it may be easier than you think to move to the stage of learning any song you want. It’s as easy as 7 simple steps and 3 or so tools on your computer to learn any song. This article outlines a great method to use right away!

Step 1- Before you even BEGIN to attempt figuring out a song from scratch, your guitar must be in tune! Actually, it must really be in tune, and not just in tune with itself. No problem if you don’t have a tuner, just Google “online guitar tuners” and tune it there. Otherwise, tune with your electronic tuner. Moving on…

Step 2- Open iTunes, or the place where you can listen to the song on your computer. Start the song and listen to the first few seconds.

Step 3- Open a guitar tablature website and look up the song you want to learn. Just Google “free guitar tabs” and choose a site.

Step 4- Now take a moment and learn all the chords for the beginning of the song. Do you know how to play each chord or is it a chord you don’t know? No? No problem…just Google “guitar chord finder”, or “guitar chord builder” and choose a website. Enter the chord name that is on the tablature and there you go!

Step 5- Feasibility check…Did this person do a good job of making the song tablature? MANY tabs are completely wrong, but most of them are pretty spot on, just choose another version of the tab if it seems wrong.

Step 6- Learn the rest of the song in increments, always starting from the beginning and adding more and more of the song as you go. As you get better, you can simply listen to the song, open up the tab site and play along with the tab by “site reading” it.

Step 7- Memorization process…Now try and memorize the song and play along with it instead of having the crutch of the guitar tab.

There you have a fool proof method for learning any song you want anytime. You can obviously check out YouTube versions of how people play songs as well. For some songs YouTube will work, others…no way. So now you see that learning guitar can become so easy when you make the computer your free teacher!

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I have been playing the flute for about 6 years (I started in 4th grade) and needless to say, I can read treble clef very well and bass clef incredibly slowly. I started at my high school and noticed most people there could play the piano beautifully, also at my church many girls my age were playing hymns very well. I started picking up sheet music at my house and slowly started to play them, still struggling with bass clef. My 3 brothers have taken Suzuki piano method for a while, but my older brother quit several years ago. My younger brothers are still going. My mother saw I had taken an interest in piano and signed me up for lessons. I am about 1/4 the way through the first book but getting frustrated because you have to memorize every song and I really wanted to read. I keep trying to get my parents to get me regular piano lessons, but they say Suzuki or nothing, and I really want to play the piano. Please only answer if you have experience with the Suzuki method.

I agree with Art Psycho. Suzuki method is for very young kids who can’t read music. So they learn from imitation and memorization, until they are old enough to read music. You are at least 14-15 years old now? You can’t use the Suzuki method!

Read more about Suzuki method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method

I definitely think you have the right idea with what you need. You need a teacher who can show you technical exercises that will strengthen your left hand. For example: Scales (major, minor, chromatic) and arpeggios, they are boring, but they work. Do them in different and varied ways: legato, staccato, regular rhythm, alternative rhythm, alternative accents…etc.

Try sight reading just the base line of different pieces. Do it at a slow and comfortable tempo. The goal is to train your hand-eye coordination, not for speed. So, the slower and more precise, the better. Use a metronome if you need to for rhythm.

When you are learning a new piece, try to concentrate on your left hand. You can even try to play left hand and hum the right hand melody! When I went to Juilliard, they had me doing that in my musicianship class and it really help!

Good Luck!