Some of you might know I’ve been playing the guitar for quite some time now. Some time ago, I found a great resource for learning to play the guitar, called justinguitar.com. Justin, a great online guitar teacher, of which I spoke before, recommends listening to songs and try to find out how to play them; this to train your ears. Quite recently, I therefore started tabbing out some songs of my favourite artists, all of which I will start to share on the new page above called “Tabs”. Right now, I’ve added “Love Vigilantes” and “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” by Iron & Wine, hope you will enjoy them! Please let me know what you think (especially if you have improvements), and if you have any suggestions for songs, don’t hesitate to let me know. If they are not to extremely difficult I will try to figure them out for you. I will try to add some more tabs soon (Bob Marley & Foo Fighters coming up).
I wanted to blog about this already for quite some time, but somehow all the time something interfered…
It’s now already I think about 10 years ago that I’ve started to play guitar. If I remember correctly it was somewhere during November 1997, that after a admiring the beautiful instrument and especially some friends playing it, Pieter, an old-time friend of mine, taught me to play my first two rifs ever: the intros of one and fade to black, both songs of Metallica. After that, followed a period of enormous addiction which lasted until this day. I also still remember the days of struggling in the first couple of years; trying to teach myself to play the notes without buzzing, open chords, and finally the general-pain-in-the-arse of barre chords which took me something like a year to master. While I’ve come a long way already on my own, sometimes my enthousiasm was really lacking, just because there was no one around that could help me further with some of the techniques, and I had to figure it all out by myself. Partially, this of course was my own fault, because I’m too damn stubborn to go for music classes and prefer to teach myself. Now, finally, I’ve found some resources which, I feel, are really helping me further as a guitarist, and more importantly, have really sparked an even greater enthousiasm for playing that beautiful instrument.
