Besame Mucho is one of the most popular songs of all time, being recorded by an extraordinarily diverse range of singers and instrumentalists. It was written in 1940 by a sixteen-year-old Mexican girl called Consuelo Velasquez. The song was a steamy expression of a young girl’s longing to be kissed. The title of the song means “kiss me alot” and it stirred the imaginations of men and women all over the world. In 1944 a young American singer named Kitty Kallen sang the song with Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra and it stayed for six weeks on the charts of Billboard Magazine. Another key figure in the story of Besame Mucho is Sunny Skylar, composer and arranger who sang with big bands in the nieteen forties. He wrote music and lyrics for many popular songs including: Amor, And So To Sleep Again and Love Me With All Your Heart. There are other translations of the song but Skylar’s seems to be a favorite. Here are the lyrics as interpreted by Sunny Skylar: Bésame, bésame mucho Each time I cling to your kiss, I hear music divine Bésame mucho Hold me my darling and say that you’ll always be mine This joy is something new My arms enfolding you Never knew this thrill before Whoever thought I’d be Holding you close to me Whispering “It’s you I adore” Dearest one If you should leave me Each little dream would take wing, and my life would be through Bésame mucho Love me forever and make all my dreams come true At the time of writing the song Consuelo insisted she had never been kissed but she certainly sounds like she knew what she wanted. I think Skylar was wise in not translating the words “besane mucho” into literal English like “kiss me much” or “kiss me alot”. Just to get the feel of the song, here are Consuelo’s original words: And here are the original lyrics by Consuelo Velazquez: Bésame, bésame mucho Como si fuera esta noche la última vez Bésame mucho Que tengo miedo perderte, perderte otra vez Quiero tenerte muy Cerca, mirarme en tus Ojos, verte junto a mí Piensa que tal vez Mañana yo ya estaré Lejos, muy lejos de ti Bésame, bésame mucho Como si fuera esta noche la última vez Bésame mucho Que tengo miedo perderte, perderte después If you are a guitar player and you know how to play the A minor, D minor, A major and E major chords you will easily be able to play Besame Mucho. As for the composer of the song, she was supposed to have been a classical concert pianist having learnt the piano when she was four years old. Consuelo wrote many other popular Mexican songs including: Amar y vivir, Verdad amarga, Franqueza, Que seas feliz, Cachito and Enamorada. The list of vocal and instrumental artists who have recorded Besame Mucho goes on and on. Some notable ones are: Andrea Bocelli, Artie Shaw, The Beatles, Charles Aznavour, Chris Isaak, Edith Piaf, The Dead Brothers, Leslie Nielsen(!!), Sammy Davis Jr and Stan Getz. For lovers of acoustic guitar, Besame Mucho is included on an album of latin standards by flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia. Other tracks on the CD include: Malaguena, Mantilla De Feria, Granada, Manha De Carnaval, Perfidia, La Virgen De La Macarena and Moliendo Cafe. Paco is one of the world’s greatest guitarists and it would be well worth your while to have a listen to this excellent CD. Meanwhile, good luck with your own efforts at playing this luscious song.

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If you enjoy the idea of learning the guitar and you visualize yourself sitting down and playing your favorite songs for your own enjoyment, acoustic guitar tabs give you the possibility of realizing your dream. You can pick up an acoustic guitar any time of the day or night and play without disturbing your family or neighbors. Some people even play the acoustic guitar while the family is watching TV in the same room! Tablature, or tab, is the ideal way for any beginner guitar player to learn or for a more seasoned guitarist to learn new material quickly. A basic definition of guitar tab is a diagram showing the guitar strings with the frets where the guitarist is to play the notes indicated by numbers. Quite often a guitarist approaching a new piece of music will struggle with conventional music notation whereas tab is a quick and easy way of getting the feel of a new piece. Also a pianist or other musician can look at a piece of guitar sheet music and play it right away but would have no hope of playing from guitar tab because it is only written for one instrument. Another limitation of guitar tab is that you won’t be able to learn the rhythm from it. You will need a strumming pattern diagram or, having heard the song before, have some idea of how to approach the playing of the rhythm. If you are prepared to live with these limitations tablature will be a great tool for you to learn your favorite songs quickly. When you search the internet for acoustic guitar tab what kind of music can you expect to find? Well, the variety is astonishing. Basically acoustic guitar tab is written with the idea of the guitar supplying the basic accompaniment for the song. So if you are a singer wanting to interpret the lyrics, your interest in the guitar arrangement may be slight. The second thing acoustic guitar tab usually gives you is the notes for any distinctive melody or riff in the song – music that people recognize before they hear the words being sung. A simple example of this is the few notes repeated throughout the record of “Something” by The Beatles. Of course you are quite free to leave out or change any music to make the arrangement your own. Acoustic guitar tabs are often fingerstyle arrangements of songs. These arrangements will not be readily available in music stores or the usual sources of sheet music on the internet. Fingerstyle arrangements can give you some added depth to your guitar playing even if you don’t utilize all the techniques shown in the tab. Finally there is one advantage to using acoustic tab for electric guitar players. You can learn the muisc for the song without having to set up your guitar and amp. You can work on arranging your song for electric guitar once you know the chords and the basic structure. I hope I have given you something to think about if you have not given tabs for acoustic guitar much of a look so far. If you look around you will be quite amazed at the range of popular – and obscure – music available.

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This article will show you how to make the best use of free guitar chord charts that you can find online. As the internet changes, sites go down and new ones come up, so I won’t risk this resource going out of date by discussing where to find your free guitar chord charts, just how to use them to kick start your guitar playing. You can easily get together a nice collection of chord charts and lyrics to your favorite songs to help you learn to play the guitar. If you feel that you should be learning a whole bunch of musical theory and how to read musical notation, but somehow feel it’s just not you, then that’s okay – start with what you feel most enthusiastic about. Once you have started to learn using guitar chord charts you have bought or downloaded for free, you might see as you go along that you will need to know a little bit about musical theory to see how chords and scales fit together. If, however, you are comfortable learning chords to your favorite songs, then keep at it. So let’s start with the basic baby steps and work up to some really useful knowledge about guitar chords and how the dots on the charts relate to musical sounds. You know the frets on your guitar’s neck somehow show you where the notes are, so let’s get a little more technical. You will see when you use scale charts to learn to play guitar tunes that in a given position on the fret board, you will sometimes need to move up or down one fret or two frets. If you play the note at the first fret, and then move up to the second fret, you have moved up a semitone. If you have moved up two frets, it is called a tone. The distance between the notes E and F or B and C is a tone. The distance between the notes C and D is a tone. So as you learn songs in different keys you will start to see that what you are playing when you play scales is different patterns of tones or semi tones on the guitar neck. If you have watched guitarists play you will have noticed that sometimes they place their index finger across all six strings. This is called a barre. When you begin to learn songs you will be making use of chords played in the FIRST position on the fret board. These are mostly open chords, that is chords that do not make use of the barre. You can try to play barre chords any time, but it’s a bit ambitious to expect to be able to use them until after your hands have done some practice with open chords. When you are learning chords to accompany songs, you will probably make use of your chord charts showing you chords that use all the guitar’s strings. But if you want to get into playing solos start with the three note chords called triads. The three notes in a triad are the basic notes of your chord, so by learning triads you will begin to see how the guitar chords are structured. Also you can move your triads up and down the fret board to make new chords. Here’s an example: The chord of A Major is made up of the notes A C# and E shown in tab form as: E—————————————– B————–2————————– G————–2————————– D————–2————————– A—————————————– E—————————————– Move that shape one semitone (one fret) up the neck and you get A# or Bb. E—————————————– B————–3————————– G————–3————————– D————–3————————– A—————————————– E—————————————– One fret higher is B Major. E—————————————– B————–4————————– G————–4————————– D————–4————————– A—————————————– E—————————————– This shape played anywhere on the neck will give you a major chord. The fret it is played at tells you the key it is in. Here are the notes for the triads of the basic chords: C Major – C E G D Major – D F# A E Major – B E G# F Major – C F A G Major – G B D A Major – A C# E B Major – B D# F# Now the minor chords: C Minor – C Eb G D Minor – D F A E Minor – B E G F Minor – C F Ab G Minor – G Bb D A Minor – A C E B Minor – B D F# Naturally, there will be some points you need to make a little clearer, so you will find more descriptions and illustrations available for free on the internet.

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These mini guitar lessons have been put together for the beginner acoustic guitar student who feels a need to play music but is a bit short on direction. Lesson One – What kind of guitar are you going to buy? If you have a rough idea of what kind of music you want to play, the next step is to find yourself a guitar. Let’s start with the basics – nylon string or steel string. A nylon string guitar was made to play classical and folk music. Acoustic guitars make their music by sending the vibration of the strings to the soundboard. The vibrations are then amplified in the body of the guitar. Nylon string guitars make a mellow tone; steel string guitars make a brighter, more metallic sound. One of the main things that will influence you in deciding what kind of sound you want is the guitar your favorite performer plays. If you are just starting out you will not need a top of the range guitar but it is best to get the nicest one in your price range. A cheap, poorly made guitar will be an uphill battle to play. A good instrument will make your practice sessions something to look forward to. Try different guitars. See how the neck feels. Check out if one neck feels more comfortable to play than others. Another consideration is the distance of the strings from the fret board which is called the “action”. Low action is easier to play but if you are planning on strumming enthusiastically or picking loudly the guitar may have a tendency to buzz. Lesson Two – Go ahead and learn. The very first step toward learning to play acoustic guitar is to develop confidence and to overcome your natural reluctance to try new things. Lack of money, lack of time, or lack of a good teacher are three big obstacles to your guitar learning progress. The other three big obstacles are all you. You may be your own worst enemy. How do you react to a challenge? Challenges are your friends. If you find yourself getting frustrated, and not wanting to continue your practice, it might be time to downsize your goal, at least for a while. If you have two chords that you have trouble with, work on the first one alone for a while. Once you have improved a little, go to the next one. Lesson Three – Daily Practice As far as your daily practice goes look at starting with half an hour a day. If you can do more, great, you’ll become a guitarist faster. The way you carry out your practice is crucial. Putting in the time isn’t the only requirement. If you rush or try to fit too much in, then you’re working against yourself. Err on the side of too little material at first. If you really are accomplishing what you set out to do in less than thirty minutes, then add a little more. Lesson Four – Tuning Your Guitar You can find online guitar tuners to help you get your acoustic guitar in tune. Take a day or two of your practice time to get the knack of tuning. When you start to develop an ear for tuning, try tuning the guitar without the tuner. Lesson Five – Holding Your Acoustic Guitar Long hours of practice can take their toll. Learning how to sit and play your acoustic guitar is an art in itself. There are places on the internet that have illustrations showing you how to sit when you’re playing, but it would be good to find somebody with a little experience to show you. But don’t just go with the way one person plays. If he’s self-taught, then you don’t want to pick up his bad habits!

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Bass guitar tab is an extremely popular way of writing bass guitar music. If you are interested in becoming a bass guitarist you need to get familiar with bass guitar music by playing the bass lines of some of your favorite songs before you let your inner bass player off the chain. Utilizing this handy tool you can learn how to be the bass player in a band quickly without getting too much into boring theory. The bass player’s job is simply to keep time. Nothing could be easier. Until you try to do it. So what is actually involved? The bass guitar player keeps time by playing a ‘bassline’ which is usually a rhythmic’ sequence of notes. The bass player brings together the rhythmic playing of the drummer with the melodies and chords played by the lead guitarist. Do you need to be a talented musician to do this? Yes you do. The bass guitar player is the guy who switches off his brain and becomes one with the flow of the music. He then switches his brain back on and become the designated driver for the rest of the band. A novice bass guitarist may not immediately be able to follow (or lead) the rest of the band right from the start. You might need some material to work with while you ease into the job. Bass guitar tab gives the guitar player written directions on what to play to give the bass line to a song. Tablature is a written representation of the strings of the guitar using numbers to show the frets. If you want to learn the bass guitar quickly tab will help you. It is easy to pick up and to remember, and it enables you to learn the riffs and phrases you need to give structure to your band’s music. A bass guitar tab is a picture of the fret board which can be drawn using Notepad on your computer or, if you like, by hand. The frets are numbered on lines representing the guitar strings. If you have a four string bass, the upper string is the G string, next the D string, the A string, and the E string. The numbers below the lines are the frets where the notes are played. If there is zero below the line it means the open string is played. A chord is represented in bass guitar tabs by two numbers, one above the other. Most bass guitar tabs contain a legend which explains any unfamiliar terms. With the history of rock music going back for generations tabs are available for any song you can think of. The internet is by far the best source for bass guitar tabs. Just do a Google search and you will have more material than you will ever need. All you have to do is learn and practice. Learn and practice your favorite songs first. Bass guitar is not a musical instrument you can approach without passion. Bass guitar riffs can be learnt from tab books but should be played from the heart.

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Some people think that if you want to change the world you don’t become a bass player, but go into something more challenging and stimulating like the Post Office. But does this myth portray how bass players really are? Let’s step back from our habitual way of seeing bass guitar players as necessary but boring members of the group. Like accountants. Sure we acknowledge the fine contribution they make to their bands by supplying the bass lines and paying for the beer, but do they actually do anything really creative? This brief listing of some prominent men (and woman) of bass will allow you to see that this apparently self effacing member of a musical group could be the creative powerhouse. Let’s start with the leather jacketed but overpoweringly feminine Suzi Quatro. A vocalist and bass player who had a bunch of hits in Australia and Europe in the early seventies, her popularity in the USA stemmed from her role as Leather Tuscadero in Happy Days. John Entwistle pioneered the use of the electric bass guitar as an instrument for soloists. His aggressive approach to the bass guitar influenced many other bassists. Flea of The Red Hot Chili Peppers impressed a lot of musicians with his popping and slapping technique which was originally invented by Larry Graham of Sly And The Family Stone. Flea’s innovative use of effects pedals has also influenced many bass players. Jack Bruce wrote most of supergroup Cream’s hit songs. Among his other achievements are fighting constantly with Cream’s drummer, Ginger Baker and surviving a liver transplant. Greg Lake is another artist of the early seventies who played with a number of innovators from the glam rock era. Lake is best known for his vocals, bass and guitar work with Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Rob Bailey is a bassist who plays loud and aggressive. His bass playing is an important element in the music of AC/DC. Benny Rietveld, a Dutch musician who went to college in Hawaii, is admired for his musical and individualistic style of playing. He worked with Barney Kessell, Sheila E, Huey Lewis and Miles Davis. He has also made an album featuring Carlos Santana. Talk about diverse. Paul McCartney played bass with The Beatles. Many bass players say he’s quite good, but he changed the world with his romantic song lyrics. Considered by some to be the king of bass players, Stanley Clarke employs a variation of the pop and slap technique to produce some truly innovative bass guitar music. His 1976 album, School Days, is acclaimed by many critics as one of the greatest bass albums ever. A true bass lead guitar player, Billy Sheehan has won Guitar Player Magazine’s “Best Rock Bass Player” readers’ poll five times. Why a “bass lead guitar player”? Because Billy plays bass as if he were playing lead. So if you are not familiar with bass guitar players I hope this article has whetted your appetite. Why not spend your next rainy Sunday watching some of their work on YouTube?

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So you have decided the acoustic guitar is the instrument for you. What are the first steps to take to get your guitar playing off to a flying start? How about we cover the really basic stuff here, like what kind of music will I be playing? Am I aiming to be a professional guitarist? What type of amplifier do acoustic guitar players use, and what strings are best for which genre of music? After we have covered these topics you will have a clear idea of the way ahead in your guitar playing career. Right, so what is your acoustic guitar repertoire going to consist of? Which music attracted you to the acoustic guitar should really be your guide here. The most obvious acoustic genre for many people is folk music. This genre really took off as a form of popular music in the 1960’s and now there’s a tremendous volume of material for you to choose from. A lot of musicians who are interested in singing ballads go for the acoustic guitar because it’s so easy to pick up the instrument and go ahead and sing. Providing your guitar is in tune of course. But in general the acoustic guitar is a great companion for the ballad singer because it won’t compete with your vocals. While we are on the subject of repertoire, don’t forget the acoustic guitar is ideal for singing your own simple arrangements of popular songs from many styles of music. Two examples of rock and roll songs that were hits all over again as acoustic ballads are “Layla” by Eric Clapton and “Light My Fire” originally recorded by The Doors, and reworked by Jose Feliciano. To let your audience hear your playing, you can choose to amplify your guitar by simply playing into a microphone as classical or flamenco guitarists do, or make use of a pickup and an amplifier. The question of which amp to use is a matter for experimentation and talking it over with more experienced guitarists. Generally speaking you wouldn’t need any kind of effects for acoustic guitar music; it just needs to have the volume to reach your audience in a restaurant or hall. So just bear in mind you are looking for a nice clear sound from your amp to help carry your vocals rather than set up shop in competition with them. The choice of strings for the beginner acoustic guitarist is a no-brainer. Learn on nylon strings till your fingers are toughened up. You will form callouses on the tips of your fingers during the first few weeks of playing, after that you can start on a steel string guitar if you wish without slicing your fingers. Regarding the sound of the different kinds of strings, nylon will give you a mellow, unobtrusive sound, and steel strings have a sharper sound which demands attention from the audience. This can augment your vocals and enable you to do solos if you want to. Now you have got the basic topics covered all that’s left for you to do is enjoy your journey as an acoustic guitar player.

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Guitar tabs are an easy solution for you if you have no idea how to read music, but they are constantly seized by the idea that wants to be a guitarist. Guitar tabs are easy to learn and allow you to start playing the songs immediately, even if you are not familiar with them. Once you have bought your first guitar, it's time to start looking for the easy tab guitar versions of some songs to discover how it feels to be a guitarist. Which songs you need tabs for depends on how you see yourself as a musician. Would you play your favorite songs, mainly for his own amusement or want to point your repertoire to a potential audience? Let's look at your audience for a minute. The most popular songs in the world are all in years past. If you feel a group of people between ten and fifty down and play the songs where you can find some universal favorites, and all will be old songs. If you want to please an audience at random, your ultimate goal should be to have hundreds of popular songs, ranging from 1940 to the present, but you could probably reduce the range to include only songs that goes back to the years sixties. So what songs are the easiest to learn from here? What can a beginner guitarist quickly learn without too much trouble? Well, I did a little Internet search on this issue, and I found that "Horse With No Name", contains only two chords, and dead simple at that! You might be playing that song in a convincing way today! "Knockin 'On Heaven's Door" uses the chords GDC and Am – all easy chords. On the basis of chords that have acquired the learning of these songs, go to "House Of The Rising Sun," I'm using CDFE and E7. Once you've learned from that, it is natural to go to another beautiful song, "California Dreamin '" which has the same chords. If you do not like the idea of starting your guitar to these songs, do an Internet search on country music and blues genres. In fact, a working knowledge of twelve Blues Bar is very useful for a guitarist just beginning. Now, for a short list of songs that are easy to play and have proved popular with audiences of all ages. You can find tab arrangements for these songs to write the titles in a search engine. "Angie" by The Rolling Stones "Blowin 'In The Wind" by Bob Dylan "Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison's "A Day in the Life", "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Hey Jude" ; of The Beatles "I Walk The Line" Johnny Cash's "Tears In Heaven" Eric Clapton's "Gloria" Van Morrison's "Hotel California" by The Eagles "Behind Blue Eyes" The Who "Scarborough Fair "of any number of performers, and" White Room "by Cream Once you have some guitar songs under his belt, you could learn most popular favorites that do not fit the" Easy Guitar Tabs " category. "Wilson Pickett's Dock of the Bay" and "American Pie" by Don McLean come to mind. But do not let the tastes of the masses be your guide. If, for example, you decide that you would make an array of popular guitar in Black Sabbath "Iron Man", then you can use here for the original version of the electric guitar as the basis for his new job. With plenty of easy guitar tabs available, the only limits to his musical achievements are the imagination and offer its audience of tomatoes.

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Tablature as a way of writing music down has been with us for hundreds of years, but many people today look down on the tabs as a third method of musical communication. In fact, the tablature is not an intellectual level version of the conventional musical notation, but what we call a rose sheet music to a need for greater versatility in the music notation became more complex in medieval times. Electric Guitar here have been very helpful to the many people who have taken the guitar and wanted to get to the task of playing as quickly as possible. Conventional musical notation has much more to report from here, but if you know more or less how the song sounds, and are willing to work on his own interpretation, then there is nothing wrong with using tablature. Guitarists compose music scores and share the results of their work on the Internet has brought a wide range of music within reach of amateur musicians who never learned to read music. For some players learn to read music is a waste of time that would be a better use to express their feelings through music. This attitude is in contradiction with the idea that more theoretical knowledge you have, the greater the pool of resources at their disposal to express their ideas. Tablature, moreover, allows the guitarist to meet the basic piece of music your way, and using his musical intuition and talent for improvisation to produce a musical work that will be both his own work as an original composer. For that reason guitar tabs are a boon to the electric guitar player who not only want a copy of someone else's work. You can find scores of electric guitar in music stores alongside conventional written music, but the quickest and best place to look for guitar tabs is on the Internet. Although there is a legal battle going on about Publishers tab infringe the rights of the original composer, many are still available here for free. However, it should exercise its discretion, to make use of guitar tablature produced by amateurs. You may need to change things around a bit if you do not sound right. As for the electric guitar that wants to expand his musical knowledge, tablature also allows the guitarist to learn new chords, scales or modes very quickly. Finally, a reminder that the use of electric guitar tabs to learn the new material is not a walk in the park – you need to supply some of the information otherwise written in the scores. You need to have an idea of note values and a basic understanding of time signatures and tempo. What it boils down to that play the music in your head, and you just want to know where to put their fingers on the fret board. That's what scores of guitar was originally made for.

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