Category: Guitar Songs

This song was a big hit from Tom Petty’s Full Moon Fever album. To learn how to play Free Fallin on guitar, all you need to know are three easy chords and simple strumming patterns.

How to Play Free Fallin

1. Listen to the song in the video above to remember how it goes.
2. Get the guitar chords and lyrics for Free Fallin’. The music indicates to use a capo at the 3rd fret to put it in the key of F like the original. Don’t let this confuse you, as you still use the fingerings for the easy D, G and Asus4 chords (as seen below). Feel free to play it without a capo. Note that the G chord below is different than in the sheet music, to make playing transitions from D to G easier.
3. Watch the video below to see how to play the chords and chord progression. It is good to use a metronome (as found in the eMedia Guitar Toolkit) to help you keep a steady tempo.

Watch this video from eMedia Interactive Rock Guitar, which uses the eMedia Animated Fretboard to make it even easier for you to see how to change between the D and G chords.

eMedia Interactive Rock Guitar also helps you master common guitar techniques like palm muting and barre chords, which are used in the middle section of Free Fallin’ and in many other rock, pop and country songs. It also includes Jam tracks to help you learn lead guitar and other great guitar songs like Tired of Waiting for You and You Really Got Me (Kinks), All Right Now (Free) and others.

Intermediate Version

If you would like to learn how to play Free Fallin’ on guitar with the same chord voicings as Tom Petty, then you will need to use slightly more difficult chord fingerings. This version has the guitar with a capo at the first fret and uses special E, Aadd9, and Bsus4 chord voicings that let the high B and E strings ring out as seen in the video below.

Learn How to Play Skip To My Lou on Guitar with Simple Guitar Chords

Skip To My Lou is a classic American folk song that is an easy guitar song for beginners to play. Note that learning this song is part of the award-winning eMedia Guitar Method, where you can learn to play this and over 70 great songs as you learn how to play guitar in a fun and interactive way.

How to Play the Guitar Chords for “Skip to My Lou”

This song uses the simple C and G7 chords seen below. These are incredibly easy guitar chords. So anyone young or old will be able to learn how to play Skip To My Lou on guitar.

Here is a video of how to play and strum the Simple C and Simple G7 guitar chords.

Remember to start slowly at first. It’s not easy learning how to change guitar chords but it will get a lot easier over time. it is better to play slowly than to miss a beat. Try to tap your foot so that you play in time at a slow tempo. Use a metronome if you have one to provide a steady click to play along with. If you don’t have a metronome yet, do remember that the eMedia guitar lesson software includes a complete set of great guitar practice tools that include an automatic guitar tuner, a metronome, an interactive chord dictionary  and an audio recorder so you can hear your progress as you get better. These practice tools are also available on their own for only $4.95 as the Guitar Toolkit for Mac and PC. This can be easily purchased as a download from the eMedia website.

 

 

Learn How To Play Greensleeves on Guitar

Greensleeves is a song that calls to mind  Elizabethan England, and a time of formal courtships, and romanticism. Those who learn how to play Greensleeves on guitar can consider themselves carriers of the fine minstrel tradition that dates back centuries to the days of the lute. The song is based on an Italian style of composition and was even mentioned by Shakespeare in his play The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Learn how to play Greensleeves on guitar using this tab (guitar tablature) transcription below. If you need help learning how to read tabs, then check out this post for learning How to Read Guitar Tabs . A great way to learn this piece the fastest is by using eMedia Guitar Method. This guitar tutorial software contains over 180 lessons and lets you see the notes to play on an Animated Fretboard, and easily slow down and loop any difficult areas in songs or exercises. Plus you learn fingerpicking, chords, strums, and other skills. Also you get over 70 great songs and practice tools like an automatic tuner, metronome and chord dictionary.

Note that this song is in a 3/4 time signature, with a 1/4 note arpeggiation of the chords. As you learn how to play Greensleeves on guitar be sure to use the Right Hand Pattern outlined below to let you play the piece smoothly. Remember to start slow and build tempo as you can easily change chords without hesitation.