10 Songs To Learn On Guitar That Everyone Will Know For Once....
I kept running into the same problem over and over again when teaching at guitar center…..
They didn’t know Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin.
They were fans of Taylor Swift but only had chord diagrams to help play her songs.
Or I didn’t have time to make arrangements of songs they did know from artists like Kendrick Lamar or Morgan Wallen.
It’s a huge problem for the guitar world that we haven’t kept up with what music people are interested in.
And yes I can hear some of you now….
“We don’t care about the mainstream” or “Those artists suck” or “They don’t know these artists because they’re dumb.”
IMO this is a cop out. No you don’t have to like Dream Theater to be a legit guitar player….
But one of my goals of Play It Loud is to make the guitar as accessible to everyone as possible.
So in this article, I’m going to show some exciting ways to play many of the most popular songs ever…..
How You Remind Me Tab by Nickelback
I’ve always wanted to make an arrangement for this song and I hope you’re going to have as much fun playing it as I did making it.
The first thing to notice about this song is that it’s basically four chords: C5, Eb5, Bb5, and F5 in different orders or slightly different voicings.
To make this arrangement, I used a concept called voice leading as well as passing and neighboring chords.
To do this, I needed to have a solid repertoire of chord shapes as well as an understanding of key signatures and chord construction.
This article though, I’m only focused on how to play it, and to do so I’d do use these tips:
Use hybrid picking throughout in order to easily go from using a pick on chords to playing single notes on higher strings
Figure out the best places to mute the strings and let chord tones ring out. The tab is quite meticulous in where the best places to do this are
Practice some of the chord voicings you may not be familiar with like 43111X, XX356X, XX3366, and the sus2 shape of XX1341.