Papa Kehte Hain

This entry is part 7 of 42 in the series Guitar

This is the famous hindi song, It has a standard and a wonderful strumming pattern that one must know.

Key Signature: C Major Scale
Time Signature: 4/4

| C | Am | F | G | x2
| C | % | Am | % | F | % | G | % |

The “x2” play the whole line twice
The “%” symbol means that play the chord twice.

Rhythm (Strumming Pattern)

1&  2&  3&  4&
?   ?V rest V?V

So it goes like
Down, Down-Up, Rest, Up-Down-Up…Down, Down-Up, Rest, Up-Down-Up…and on…

Happy Birthday

This entry is part 6 of 42 in the series Guitar

The first song that you’ll ever learn in your life is Happy Birthday. So we too will start with it.

Key Signature: C Major Scale
Time Signature: 3/4
Count: 3 counts in a bar | 1& 2& 3& |

Melody (Tabs)

E||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B||-----------------|-------1----0----|-----------------|
G||--0----0----2----|--0--------------|--0----0----2----|
D||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

-----------------|------------3----|--0--------------|
-------3----1----|-----------------|-------1----0----|
--0--------------|--0----0---------|-----------------|
-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

-------1----1----|--0--------------|-------||
-----------------|-------1----3----|--1----||
--2--------------|-----------------|-------||
-----------------|-----------------|-------||
-----------------|-----------------|-------||
-----------------|-----------------|-------||

Play all the strokes downwards, when you are doing it for the first time, Get the feel of the song. Once you are OK with it you can do that with alternate strokes.

Chords

| C  | G7 |
| G7 | C  |
| C  | F  |
| C C G7 | C |

Rhythm

1& 2& 3&
?  ?v ?

The “?” indicates a downstroke (strum) and the “V” indicates an upward strum.
So it goes Down, Down-Up, Down…Down, Down-Up, Down… and so on…
The last sequence is
Down(C chord), Down(C) – Up(G7), Down(C)

Songs

This entry is part 4 of 42 in the series Guitar

Over here I’ll be putting all the songs that I learned during my course.
The songs range from easy to difficult level (at least for me)

  • Happy Birthday
  • Wonderful Tonight
  • Nothing Else Matters
  • and more…


The songs are also the part of the diary, I’ll be hyperlinking all the course, to the particular song that I learnt after a particular lesson

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