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When youre holding down a chord, you dont have to strum all the strings at once.

In fact, many great melodies are played by hitting individual strings out of a chord form. So, instead of doing one big strum.... you can hit only the first 3 strings, or only the last 3, for example. And, try just hitting the E string by itself.... and then the A string (with the chord held down) and then the D, and move up and down to create music. This is called an arpeggiation. Its a little lazy but its beautiful. Moonlight Sonata can be played that way.

Crazy Train is addictive, easy to learn the intro, and a little harder once he starts hitting the chords. So, thats a good goal for you in the long run.

Sweet Dreams & Mortal Kombat are actually realllly simple & similar to Crazy Train. Its just the minor scale, basically. A lot of music uses that template. Black Sunshine, like you name it. The Final Fantasy battle music, Seek & Destroy, etc

Grateful Dead has expert chord forms, but theyre challenging, but youll learn some nice chords with Jerrys music

Try splicing pieces of other songs together as well as learning full pieces