Mike Moxcey ©2005

How to Play A Chorded Stringed Instrument

This is written as a tutorial so you can go page to page but I didn't want to mess with all the navigation stuff either at the bottom or as a frame. After going to any page, hit the back button on your browser (Alt-Left Arrow works on most, too) or just click the JamPage Index link at the bottom to get back to this page.

Overview: The Folk Song Jampage
Introduction:: Music as a Hobby: Talent; Jamming: The Language of Music; Reading Music Different Ways; Buying Instruments: Left-Handed vs. Right-Handed; Learning Music vs. Learning an Instrument
Playing Songs with Chords: 1 Chord Song : Shortnin Bread : Rhythm; Strumming, Flat-pick vs. Fingerpicks : Strum Patterns; Chord Pairs; Training Your Ear : More 2-Chord Songs : Tips for Practicing : All I:V Chord Pairs; Singing. Finding Your Natural Key; A Different Chord Type: 7th; More Strum Patterns
Three Chord Songs: Intro: This Old Man; Bile Dem Cabbage Down; She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain; Camptown Races; Crawdad Song; Mama Don't Allow; Old Cotton Fields Back Home; Oh Susanna; Cindy; Do Lord : Old Time Religion; Hand Me Down My Walking Cane; Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad; Golden Slippers; Red River Valley; Little Brown Jug; Yankee Doodle; The Battle Hymn of the Republic : John Brown’s Body; Study War No More (Down by the Riverside); Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; When the Saints Go Marching In; Mountain Dew; Nine Pound Hammer; Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Playing Any Three Chord Song: A Short List of Three Chord (I-IV-V) Songs; How to Learn the Songs; How to Learn Your Instrument; Three-Four Time : Clementine
More Chords: The Two Chord; Minor Chords : When Johnny Comes Marching Home The Ants Go Marching; Relative Minors; The Ragtime Progression
Learning By Ear: Learning Songs by Ear : Developing Your Ear : Hearing Chord Changes : Hearing Pitch; Using a Capo; Learning at a Jam : Improvising at a Jam : Jam Etiquette; Jamming : Your First Jam Session Necessary Skills :Types of Jams : Joining a Jam Session : How a Jam Works : Skills Needed to Jam; Common Jam Songs

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