Guitar Lesson: Mary Had A Little Lamb For Beginners
Have you ever played a melody on a guitar? Well, if not let this
be the first time! I will show you how to play Mary Had A Little
Lamb on one string with one finger on your left hand and one
finger on your right.
What string you use on your or somebody elses guitar doesn't
matter. It's a matter of personal choice.
As you know Mary Had A Little Lamb is a popular nursery rhyme.
Here is the first verse:
Mary had a little lamb little lamb, little lamb Mary had a
little lamb its fleece was white as snow
Thomas Edison used this poem in testing his invention of the
phonograph in 1877. It became the first audio recording to be
successfully made and played back.
Let's start by playing on a string of your choice. Play the
string with the thumb. If you play the string three times with
your right hand thumb we can write it down like this:
0-0-0
If you press down the string on the second fret with your left
hand first finger and play it three times and then lift your
finger and play on the open string three times like you did
before it will look like this:
2-2-2-0-0-0
Got the idea? Well, to play Mary Had A Little Lamb you need two
more notes. Press down your first finger on the fourth fret and
then on your seventh fret and you have all the necessary notes.
The song looks like this:
4-2-0-2-4-4-4--2-2-2--4-7-7
4-2-0-2-4-4-4-4-2-2-4-2-0
If you still have questions you can ask a guitar playing friend
to help you. She or he will probably be proud to help you.
If this melody is a little bit to easy for you, you can show it
to a not guitar playing friend. Many people start to smile when
they can play something on the guitar for the first time!