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The simple answer Mark @the-old-coach , is yes, absolutely. In fact, most songs that say they are for beginners are actually simplified. What’s important is the sound, not the technical aspects of how you play something.
And it is also a yes that many, if not all, people have difficulty at first putting singing and playing together. It is tough to learn. At first, it’s easier if the lyrics line up with the beat and you just do simple down strums. But, you pretty much gotta memorize something. I like to memorize the chord progression first. But others with memorize the lyrics first. Something has to be gotten off the pile of stuff your brain has to remember. It’s too much. Especially if you don’t have the chords down automatically and you have to think about making the chord shapes. That would be nearly impossible. So absolutely, use simple chord shapes.
I hope this helps. Oh, and there are a blue million sites for free on YouTube that teach how to play popular songs. Just type in the name of the song followed by tutorial and you’ll get a bunch of options. Pretty soon, you’ll run across the same sites and decide which ones are your favorites.
Eventually, you want to reach the point where you can work up a song on your own just by looking at sheet music and listening to a recording. Or, maybe just listening to a recording. That’s how a lot of sheet music is created in the first place. An awful lot of popular bands never actually wrote down their scores in the first place. Someone else wrote them down by listening and learning the song from ear only.
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