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Learning to Sing and Play Guitar


shoremac

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Right now, what I enjoy the most is singing while playing my guitar.

While I've just started, here are a couple songs I can sing and play so far:

 

She Loves You - The Beatles

Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana

Welcome to Paradise - Green Day

I Want to be Sedated - The Ramones

 

I'm looking for suggestions of songs/bands to check out where the lead singer plays guitar. I'd like to go purchase some CDs soon to learn the material.

My goal hopefully is to one day front a band, or sing backup vocals while playing my guitar. Right now, it's purely just for my enjoyment. :)

 

Thanks!

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Really, any song can work....I've played for years in cover bands where I have been a lead singer and there aren't too many songs that can't be played and sung together...the Ramones/Green Day type stuff is good to get started because the rhythms for alot of those songs are usually pretty simple and they are usually pretty downpicked.

 

Some songs that work well for the alternate strumming eighth note feel could be something like Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffet or Time of Your Life by Green Day. They also easy to arrange for singing and playing guitar by yourself....

 

The next step would be finding songs with a sixteenth note strumming pattern like Drive by Incubus or something funkier but pretty repetitive like Play that Funky Music White Boy by Wild Cherry

 

Keep in mind that these are just examples I pulled from playing bars in a cover band and having to sing for many years..you'll probably see the list and start thinking of songs that you like that would fill the same uses just as well....the most important thing is to learn to strum in time...know how to count and feel rhythms properly. When I play and sing the guitar really becomes secondary and needs to be largely on autopilot, so those skills need to be solidly ingrained to the point where you don't have to think about it.....like learning to ride a bike or driving a car....

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