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Wicked Game Guitar Lesson

Wicked game - Chris Isaak - easy guitar lesson

Today I’m going to teach you how to play “Wicked game” by Chris Isaak from his third studio album “Heart Shaped World”. This is a beautiful laid back song with a lovely vibe to it.

This is an easy guitar lesson that is great for beginners and for those of you who just like to play great classics. The song contains 3 open chords and a basic popular strumming pattern that you can apply to many others songs as well.

How to Play Wicked Game

Wicked game is played with 3 chords: Bm – A – E

You can learn the chords on The 8 Most Important Guitar Chords for Beginners and on

The second 8 Most Important Guitar Chords for Beginners

The chord progression is / Bm / A / E / E /

Here is strumming pattern you can use to play the song:

↓↓↑↑↓↑ = down – down – up – up – down – up

Watch the video guitar lesson below to learn the entire song. I explain it slowly, clearly and in close up.

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Enjoy!

Knocking on Heavens Door Guitar Lesson

By Klaus Crow 5 Comments

Knocking on heavens door - Bob Dylan / Guns 'n Roses - Guitar Lesson

Hi Folks,

Today I’m going to teach you how to play “Knocking on heavens door” by Bob Dylan, also covered by Guns ‘n Roses. This is a great song to learn on the guitar and a “must” to have on your repertoire :)

It’s an easy version for beginners using open chords and a basic strumming pattern to make the learning process as smooth as possible.

How to Play “Knocking on heavens door” on Guitar

Knocking on heavens door is played with 4 chords: G – D – Am – C

You can learn the chords on The 8 Most Important Guitar Chords for Beginners

Here are two basic strumming patterns you can use to play the song:

Basic strumming pattern #1:
/ G ↓↓ D ↓↓ / Am ↓↓↓↓ / G ↓↓ D ↓↓ / C ↓↓↓↓ /

Basic strumming pattern #2:
/ G ↓↓↑ D ↓↓↑ / Am ↓↓↓↑↓↓↓↑ / G ↓↓ D ↓↓ / C ↓↓↓↑↓↓↓↑ /

Watch the video guitar lesson below to learn the entire song step by step.

4 Chord Guitar Songs

By Klaus Crow 5 Comments

Learning to play guitar can seem a bit challenging, but did you know you can play millions of songs with just four easy guitar chords? Yes you can, absolutely!

With 4 simple guitar chords you can play songs from any genre like pop, rock, campfire or 60’s songs. Choose your pick.

4 Chords for Most Songs

The 4 chords, 4 chord progression and 4 chord songs are related to the 80/20 principle. It means that 20% of causes / input (20% of all chords and progressions) leads to 80% of results / output (80% of the songs). The 80/20 principle, als called the Pareto principle, can be applied to all things in life, and for guitar playing we can see it in learning 4 chord songs.

There are a few basic chords that you need to learn. With those basic chords you can build the most common 4-chord-progressions to play almost any song you want.

4 Chord Progressions

You can build a 4 chord progression from the notes of the major scale or natural minor scale. In music we use roman numerals to indicate the order of chords in a chord progression. Let’s take the chords built of the C Major scale for example – The key of C:

I = C Major
ii = D minor
iii = E minor
IV = F Major
V = G Major
vi = A minor
vii = Bdim.

Now one of the most common 4 chord progression is I – V – vi – IV ( 1 – 5 – 6 – 4 ) If we follow the numeral numbers in the key of C we end up with the chord progression: C – G – Am – F. You can follow this chord progression throughout the whole song.

Top 35 Wonderful Christmas Guitar Songs

By Klaus Crow 6 Comments

In this crazy time we need Christmas more than ever. A feeling of joy, warmth and nostalgia is what we all heavily long for. Playing Christmas songs is a good start and will get you in the right mood. It works wonders.

In this Top 35 Wonderful Christmas Guitar Songs list we got some great Christmas classics, but also a few oldies and new ones you might not have heard before, just to spice things up a bit.

If you just want the Christmas classics and learn the songs we’re all familiar with check out Top 35 Easy Christmas Guitar Songs, but if you already got those under your belt and you want to expand your Christmas repertoire then be my guest and read on.

Now first pour yourself a nice warm mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows, turn on those Christmas lights, grab your favorite guitar (don’t forget to put on a new set of good sounding strings for some extra feel good) and then pick your favorites from the list and indulge yourself into the Christmas spirit.

I’ve put a Youtube link on each song title and two chord links next to it. The “Chords” link will take you to the chords & lyrics for the song and the “More Chords” link will show you chord and tablature song books from Amazon if you want to learn more songs of the artist concerned.

Note: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Enjoy the songs and happy holidays everyone! Look out for each other and give people a smile. They need it.

1 – The Christmas song – Nat King Cole – Chords – More Chords

2 – Please Come Home For Christmas – The Eagles – C hords – More Chords

3 – Merry Christmas baby – Bruce Springsteen – Chords – More Chords

4 – Do you hear what I hear – Bing Crosby – Chords – More Chords

5 – Run Rudolph Run – Chuck Berry – Chords – More Chords

6 – Christmas lights – Coldplay – Chords – More Chords

7 – Pretty paper – Roy Orbison – Chords – More Chords

8 – If it doesn’t snow on Christmas – Gene Autry – Chords – More Chords

9 – A Marshmallow World – Dean Martin – Chords

10 – Santa baby – Eartha Kitt – Chords

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