A stupendous smorgasbord of my students’ astute song selections! The following songs are either new or updated versions of previously-posted songs.
And if you’d like to see all of the songs I offer, go to my main chord chart page.
The Arrogant Worms – “Happy Birthday”
The Beatles – “Yellow Submarine”
Jimmy Buffett – “Margaritaville”
Cary Brothers – “Blue Eyes”
Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues” – MP3′s of step-by-step explanations of how to play this song can be found on my Jam Track page.
The Charlatans – “How High”
Coldplay – “Fix You”
Sheryl Crow – “Soak Up the Sun”
Sheryl Crow – “The First Cut is the Deepest”
The Decemberists – “Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right”
John Denver – “Leaving on a Jet Plane” (in C)
The Eagles – “Already Gone” (in A)
Guns ‘N Roses – “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Guster – “Amsterdam”
Billy Joel – “Only the Good Die Young”
Diana Jones – “A Hold on Me”
Lyle Lovett – “If You Were to Wake Up” – Here’s a recording of my performance of this song at the 2006 Puget Sound Guitar Workshop
Nickelback – “Savin’ Me”
Sinead O’Connor – “Black Boys on Mopeds”
Brad Paisley – “Little Moments”
Pearl Jam – “Nothingman”
Tom Petty – “Wildflowers”
The Ramones – “Blitzkrieg Bop”
REM – “(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville”
Rise Against – “Swing Life Away”
Son Volt – “Windfall”
Bruce Springsteen – “Two For the Road”
Steppenwolf – “Born to be Wild”
The Troggs – “Wild Thing”
The Turtles – “Happy Together”
Uncle Tupelo – “Screen Door”
Uncle Tupelo – “Still Be Around”
Van Morrison – “Into the Mystic”
Weezer – “Beverly Hills”
Weezer – “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here”
Gillian Welch – “Orphan Girl”
Phew!
September 21st, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Rob,
I don’t know if I’ve told you this lately, but it’s such a great service you offer with all those leadsheets. I tell all my students to check your charts first. Keep up the good work.
September 21st, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Thanks, man! I’m glad you’re finding them useful.
September 25th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Hi Rob! While I’m thinking of it, I wanted to let you know that the Lucinda Williams cover of “Can’t Let Go” is by Randy Weeks, not Randy Travis. Here is a link to the guitar chords:
Can’t Let Go. It looks quite doable. I’ll let someone else tackle the guitar solo…
September 25th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Cool, Farida–Thanks! Two chords can’t be too bad…
October 2nd, 2006 at 4:20 pm
how do you post tabs on your blog without screwing up the alinement? if someone would let me know it would be great.
October 2nd, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Hey Jimmy,
I type up my chord charts in Word and then save them as web pages (use the Save As… function).
November 8th, 2006 at 8:39 am
It would be very nice to be able to actually read the subject matter this stinking site… What’s up with all of the sites with font so Go- D—- small absolutly no one can read it. Don’t want any body to read it, why put it up to begin with?… I’m near having a seizure…
November 15th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
these are great! this is my first comment, so I will also add that i am a big fan of your blog.
as a full-time musician I have about 15 students, about 1/2 are beginners and 4 are under the age of 10. your blog is great for inspiration in teaching the young and young at heart!
anyway i could get a .zip file of your chord charts? these are great tunes for beginners!
thanks,
teddy
December 9th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
First off – I love your site. It’s very helpful.
But I have a question, and I don’t know if it’s me being so new, or something else, but:
In your tab Swing Life Away by Rise Against
Why is it that the strum pattern only has three counts? Is the song written that way?