How do I play Blackbird by The Beatles?

The internet contains numerous sites dedicated to teach and share how to play specific songs on guitar. I too play the guitar, just for fun, don’t perform anywhere.

Now for starters, I’d like to recommend chordie.com. Here you will tabs and chords, sometimes lyrics too for a huge number of songs – and you can even make the page auto-scroll down, while progressing playing the tune of your choise.

Here e.g. is a detailed tablature for the lovely song Blackbird by The Beatles.

The weakness of the tablature is, that it is not quite obvious how the notes are to be played, rhythmically, or for how long, they each should be held – so, a video might just be nice, to help us out. Well, YouTube contains lots of material by fully or semi-amateur guitarists, who are only happy to teach us, what they know. Just look at the example below, which is a bit atypical, because it really just seems to ripped from a commercial DVD, and thereby hardly legal.

So, what is left? Well you may want to know the full lyrics for Blackbird – find it here for example at LyricsFreak - and now, combining it all together, you can play one more song today, compared to yesterday.

- oh, and why not end this by taking a look at, and listen to, how Paul McCartney delivers the song himself:

Finally the best news of all: The site Video-tabs.com is already doing this job of gathering video tutorials and tabs together in one site, so look at their archive, and see, if there are other songs that you’d like to learn to play on guitar.

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