What is the best way to learn a song on guitar?

Answer 1

You must know the basic of strumming and chords. Then you must know how to read guitar TABS too. Then, you can go to some TAB site and start to play... here's the "Californication" TAB. Intro, and played throughout verse. The little trill is played by the bass,

NOT by the guitar.

RIFF 1:

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D-----------2---------------------------------------------------repeated-x4---

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Psychic spies from China

Try to steal your mind's elation

Little girls from Sweden

Dream of silver screen quotations

RIFF 2:

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And if you want these kind of dreams...It's

Californica.....................tion

Repeat RIFF1 x 2, and throughout 2nd verse.

It's the edge of the world

And all of western civilization

The sun may rise in the East

At least it settles in the final location

Repeat RIFF2.

It's understood that Hollywood

sells Californication

RIFF 3: strum chords Aminor followed by F(without the top f on the E string)

x 2, and

throughout following verse and beginning of Chorus:

Am

Pay your surgen very well

F

To break the spell of ageing

Am

Celebrity skin is this your chin

F

Or is that war your waging

Chorus:

Am F

First born unicorn

Am F

Hard core soft porn

C G Dm Am

Dream of Californication

C G Dm

Dream of Californication

Repeat RIFF 1 x2, and throughout next verse:

Marry me girl be my fairy to the world

Be my very own constellation

A teenage bride with a baby inside

Getting high on information

RIFF 2:

And buy me a star on the boulevard

It's Californication

Repeat RIFF 1 x2, and throughout verse:

Space may be the final frontier

But it's made in a Hollywood basement

Cobain can you hear the spheres

Singing songs off station to station

Repeat RIFF 2:

And Alderon's not far away

It's Californication

Repeat RIFF 3 x2, and throughout next verse as in previous 'strumming' verse:

Born and raised by those who praise

Control of population everybody's been there

and

I don't mean on vacation

Repeat Chorus

GUITAR SOLO

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Repeat RIFF 1 x 2 and throughout verse:

Destruction leads to a very rough road

But it also breeds creation

And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar

They're just another good vibration

Repeat RIFF 2

And tidal waves couldn't save the world

>From Californication

Repeat RIFF 3 x 2 and throughout verse:

Pay your surgeon very well

To break the spell of ageing

Sicker than the rest

There is no test

But this is what you're craving

Answer 2

Practice. Slowly at first, with a metronome. If you find a tough spot, stop and work on the measure. Try repeating it until you get the phrase down. Also, practicing for short amounts of time daily tend to encourage more improvement than trying to force in hours of practice.