Help me learn to play guitar :o!

[Don Carlos]

So got me a guitar that i stole from my Dad when he was at work.
No i would like to play Mr Brightside in 2 weeks if possible.
Got me the tabs, but i cant really work out how to use them?!

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Intro 
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Verse 
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Bridge - "Chest now..."

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Chorus - "Jealousy..."
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Solo Right after 2nd chorus - Ending
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(3x) - "I never..."
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(1x)
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hope those come out ok

Any tips from u lovely people? :icon32:

[busetibi]

dont give up your day job

[Freakaloin]

what kind of a moron steals from their own dad?

[Don Carlos]

what kind of a moron steals from their own dad?

I am sure you stole you Dads faith in humanity after he had you

[Deji]

Tune your guitar to what the notes say(standard tuning here), and then remember the highest string on the tab is the thinnest string on the guitar. Number 9 means play the 9th fret starting from the nut. (the head of the guitar).
Notes after eachother to be played in succession, notes excactly over eachother to be played together.

[Don Carlos]

Tune your guitar to what the notes say(standard tuning here), and then remember the highest string on the tab is the thinnest string on the guitar. Number 9 means play the 9th fret starting from the nut. (the head of the guitar)

excellent work my friend, i am half way there already! :icon30:

[Deji]

Ooh, and fingering tips:
Play the intro and the verse with your index finger playing all the 9th frets, the middle finger all the 10th frets and the ring finger all the 11th frets.

Play the bridge part (power chords) so that your index finger plays the lowest note, ring finger the middle and the 4th finger the highest note. Okay and the chorus, the parts where you have 11th frets on 2/3 different strings, I suggest you just hold all 3 strings with 3 fingers on the 11th frets. Not how I would play it, but it would probably sound the best considering you only have 2 weeks

[Geebs]

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I'd play it this way because:

1) fingering is much better
2) the notes are actually right

Quite a lot of the rest of that tab is wrong as well, I'd look for another.

edit: although, the chorus is *nearly* right - misses a pedal point a flat on the last bit.

[[FTF]Pyro]

also make sure that instead of playing the notes using the same finger or per note fingering its prolly played in some sort of chord formation IE work out the chord and save the hassle of moving fingers around

[[FTF]Pyro]

oh and once you've "finished" make sure that you can play the song literally with your eyes shut. then you've properly finished as you have not only commited the song to memory but muscle memory too.

[PhoeniX]

Bit of an optimistic first song to learn

[PhoeniX]

I also recommend http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php with http://www.mysongbook.com helps you work out the songs easier: as you can slow down the notes / repeat sections and whatever.

[Don Carlos]

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I'd play it this way because:

1) fingering is much better
2) the notes are actually right

Quite a lot of the rest of that tab is wrong as well, I'd look for another.

edit: although, the chorus is *nearly* right - misses a pedal point a flat on the last bit.

Yeh noticed earlier it wasnt sounding quite right
Cheers man

[Guest]

So got me a guitar that i stole from my Dad when he was at work.
No i would like to play Mr Brightside in 2 weeks if possible.
Got me the tabs, but i cant really work out how to use them?!

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Intro 
(2x)

E-------9-----11--9------------9------11--9----]
B-----9-----9-------9--------9-------9------9--]
G---------10---------------------10------------]
D--11--------------------10--------------------]
A----------------------------------------------]
E----------------------------------------------]

E-------9-----11--9------------9------11--9----]
B-----9-----9-------9--------9-------9------9--]
G---------10---------------------10------------]
D----------------------------------------------]
A--9----------------------9--------------------]
E----------------------------------------------]


Verse 
(4x)

E-------9-----11--9------------9------11--9----]
B-----9-----9-------9--------9-------9------9--]
G---------10---------------------10------------]
D--11--------------------10--------------------]
A----------------------------------------------]
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E-------9-----11--9------------9------11--9----]
B-----9-----9-------9--------9-------9------9--]
G---------10---------------------10------------]
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A--9----------------------9--------------------]
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Bridge - "Chest now..."

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Chorus - "Jealousy..."
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(2x)
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Solo Right after 2nd chorus - Ending
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(3x) - "I never..."
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(1x)
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hope those come out ok

Any tips from u lovely people? :icon32:

Playing the guitar is much more difficult then just being a PC neird, believe me.
At PC there is no emotion or the likes.
On a guitar you need your soul to work with it.
On another ''braket'' It is just with your emotions that you will find your ''YOU'' you to be. To be distinguished from all the rest.
You can be a real pro at IT but music is in the soul.
Good luck my friend, I know you can do it.
Keep us posted.
Pete

[R00k]

So how much of it can you play from memory yet?

[Don Carlos]

gimmie chance mate!!!
Was out last night at a concert so was not practicing! Gimmie a few days to own the first 10 second of the song

[R00k]

Well, that's a pretty tricky one to learn for just beginning. Don't let it frustrate you, if you're really trying to learn to play.

[Geebs]

Best thing you could ever do is drop tab asap and learn to read real music and start playing scales for an hour every day, then learn chords.

[+JuggerNaut+]

Best thing you could ever do is drop tab asap and learn to read real music and start playing scales for an hour every day, then learn chords.

"learn to read real music"?

the end result is the same which is real music. it's GOOD to learn, but not necessary.

and you have it backwards. i would recommend learning the basic chords first, THEN you can work on scales and dexterity.

[+JuggerNaut+]

Best thing you could ever do is drop tab asap and learn to read real music and start playing scales for an hour every day, then learn chords.

lol bastard, i started typing mine awhile ago, but decided to eat before finishing.

[Mogul]

-------- Classical guitar major.

[+JuggerNaut+]

thats why most people who read tab cant hang with chord changes in impromptu situations and know next to nothing about music theory. I'm speaking from experience.

Jugg, from where exactly do you think chords originate?

i know exactly where chords originate from, but most people will not stick with wanting to learn to play by playing scales an hour a day and learning music theory.

thanks for the lesson riddla.

[+JuggerNaut+]

make that 5. you forgot the skin flute.

i play guitar man.

[plained]

ey doen taught alot o people to play and it brings great great joy yo.

i doen teach them my way, i demonstrate thier way

[Geebs]

-------- Classical guitar major.

speaking of which, reading standard notation for classical guitar is a real bitch, isn't it?