Quote (bob(Cs2) @ Feb 27 2011 06:32am)

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/animals/house%5Fof%5Fthe%5Frising%5Fsun%5Fcrd.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrPOCqO3xIg

This song incorporates some very important chords, and in a great progression because the song is awesome! Once you've learned the chords, you can try and play it the way the lead guitarist plays it.

From there - it depends on your musical taste, but OBV I RECOMMEND TEH METALZ!

Iron Maiden is great to learn. The reason for this is first and foremost, powerchords. Very important chords to learn, but I just know them as the sounds and numbers (i.e. 7-9, 5-7 etc)

If you know Maidens catalogue then you know they never really stop doing what they do (albeit the new album strays a fair bit from the coup) but Run To The Hills, The Wicker Man, Brave New World - AWESOME songs with everything a guitarist could want. Calm clean breakdowns, epic pentatonic solo's and ofcourse, the almighty gallop which always sounds great.


Acoustic open chords are the most important IMO. Without them, you just don't have a clue whats actually going on on the fretboard when you play.

Quote (bob(Cs2) @ Feb 27 2011 05:47pm)

Ahh good call. Pride And Joy is a really great rhythm song, but is a challenge for the most part.

As far as Clapton, Layla/Bad Love/Cocaine are great songs to learn for that.

Quote (bob(Cs2) @ Feb 27 2011 07:32am)

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/animals/house%5Fof%5Fthe%5Frising%5Fsun%5Fcrd.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrPOCqO3xIg

This song incorporates some very important chords, and in a great progression because the song is awesome! Once you've learned the chords, you can try and play it the way the lead guitarist plays it.

From there - it depends on your musical taste, but OBV I RECOMMEND TEH METALZ!

Iron Maiden is great to learn. The reason for this is first and foremost, powerchords. Very important chords to learn, but I just know them as the sounds and numbers (i.e. 7-9, 5-7 etc)

If you know Maidens catalogue then you know they never really stop doing what they do (albeit the new album strays a fair bit from the coup) but Run To The Hills, The Wicker Man, Brave New World - AWESOME songs with everything a guitarist could want. Calm clean breakdowns, epic pentatonic solo's and ofcourse, the almighty gallop which always sounds great.


Acoustic open chords are the most important IMO. Without them, you just don't have a clue whats actually going on on the fretboard when you play.

Quote (Phisherman @ 28 Feb 2011 04:45)

Power chords are retarded.  Just letting you know.

Quote (Phisherman @ Feb 27 2011 11:45pm)

Power chords are retarded. Just letting you know.

Quote (bob(Cs2) @ Feb 28 2011 07:34am)

Er.......... lolwut?

Power chords are important chords. You gotta learn them to start to improvise them