After learning all the needed major and minor chords, I think I have enough knowledge to try my hand at most songs. Even the ones that have some kind of 7th, sus 4 or 9th chord should only have one or two types of them in a song so my current plan for learning guitar is to test my knowledge in actual song settings.
I chose to learn country roads by John Denver this week because it introduces the D7 chord for me, and also because I’m very familiar with the song so I should be able to know when I’m wrong straight away, rather than making small mistakes and not being aware that it shouldn’t sound like that.
I am also not an overly confident singer, but so I can make my chord changes more accurate with the song and so I don’t have to always play along to a backing track I will sing along to the guitar when I learn a song. The guitar part is the one I’m actually learning tho and the vocal part is more to pull it together so it isn’t very well practiced.
When I was learning this song I also found that the suggested strumming pattern was fairly boring and didn’t sound to much like the original, so I tried to imitate the vibe of the original more and came up with my own patterns.
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