I taught a neighbor's kid this tune on guitar; "Strange Days" by Doors

[zulchzulu]

A nice jam tune...

Strange Days
The Doors
Strange Days Album


Opening Em5


Em5     Am9       Em5     Am9
Strange Days have found us

Em5     Am9       Em5            F#
Strange Days have tracked us down

G             C      G    c
They're going to destroy

G     C G     
Our Casual joys

G              B          Bb  Am          G
We shall go on playing or find a new town.

G B Bb Am G  G B Bb Am G

Em5     Am9       Em5     Am9
Strange days have found us

Em5                    Am9      Em5         F#
And with their strange hours we linger alone

G  C             G   C           G
Bodies confused  Memories misused

      G            B        Bb
As we run from the day to a strange 

Am       G
night of stone.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. My next goal in life is to learn guitar.

[chaplainM]

2. Here's lesson number one

The side with the stringy things faces away from you.

[Kerrytravelers]

5. That's why I couldn't figure out how to strum the durn thing!

[HeeBGBz]

3. Ooh, teach me, teach me

I bought a guitar a year ago and I can't do a thing with it.

[zulchzulu]

6. You need to just find a song you like and hang out with it

Hopefully you have a decent guitar...if you get one that has the "action" too high, i.e. the distance of the strings to the fretboard, it can make it even harder.

Some of the best songs to learn first only involve learning a few chords. It's the strumming and rhythm that really are the test.

It's also hard to teach guitar in an HTML text area form. :->

[taught_me_patience]

4. Great song...

and very appropriate given the bushista regime and american politics.

[zulchzulu]

7. So true

The kid is going through the Dylan and Guthrie songbook too. He's even written a song called "Bush is a monkey" that needs some work, but offer promise.