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This song was written by C Stevens, and the version here is from the Best of Rod Stewart Album.
This lesson will add another song to your list with a few basic chord tricks thrown in to help relieve the boredom of normal strumming and give you something to play around with.
Here are the chords you’ll […]

 
This happens to be one of the first songs I learnt myself and I have found it to be a good starting place when teaching people to play the guitar from scratch. It contains quite a few possibilities for use, there are many examples of it existing to learn from, and it lends itself well […]

 
This song hardly needs an introduction as it is a Beatles classic.  It can be found on the album of the same name.  If you are ever going to play guitar at a party, its usually taken as a given that you have to play a Beatles song, and everyone can join in singing with […]

The majority of blues songs (but not all) are based around a very simple rhythm structure that consists of 12 bars, hence the name. As a starting point, the simplest form of this structure will be covered in this lesson, along with basic fingerings for playing the blues.
The structure given will be presented in the […]

This is a theory lesson based on ways of representing a chord structure without specifying the actual key of the song. I’ve included it because it is sometimes encountered. Its not essential but it will be used in one of the blues section lessons and hence its here for completeness. Its not a subject I […]

In general guitar playing and music you will only ever encounter twelve notes. A, B, C, D, E, F, G (we will call these even notes which probably isn’t a correct musical term, but will help during the explanation of this lesson) and their sharps and flats.
A flat (b) refers to a note that is […]

In normal tuning, the notes of the strings are EADGBE. 
For open E major you want the strings to be tuned to the notes of an E major chord (EBEG#BE). The easiest way to get to this is to tune the guitar to the normal tuning, then tune the A, D and G strings as follows:
The […]

This lesson discusses the structure of chords. Chords are easily explained through the use of the Major scale. Although scales will be introduced in more depth later, for ease of use we will refer to the major scale in the key of C. A scale is merely a sequence of notes in a particular key. […]

The slide. Not be confused with "playing slide" or "slide guitar" which involves using a slide (a metal, glass, or ceramic tube) instead of your fingers (or in addition to your fingers). The slide I’m referring to is a technique used in lead and rhythm. It’s a simple and effective technique that involves sliding your […]

Finger tapping is usually a combination of hammering and pulling off. The technique involves hammering notes with your ‘fret hand’ in conjunction with hammering notes with your picking hand. The concept was thrust into the bewildered ‘mainstream’ rock scene by Eddie Van Halen. In the space of about a minute and a half, Eruption launched […]