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Hungarian Scale...

    When you pinpoint the key and tuning of a song then you can then figure out (most times) what chords are being used, You will be shocked to find that alot of times you will be playing the simple basic chords...

   The 'key' that you found will tell what chord to play when you land on what tone, This is when you have to 'hunt' and pick tones and we can only speculate unless we use specific songs, I have always like songs that have the guitar playing pretty loud in the mix so I am assuming you can hear the chords that are being played, Notice I said 'hear' because I'm also assuming you are listening and not watching...

   When you hear a specific tone you want to find then the best string to start on is the top or bottom, These two strings (thankfully) are both the same tone which makes things a little easier...

   You start on the bottom string because if you know the main chord shapes then you try the three main chord types from 'that tone', You initially just play 'any fret' because you don't know what fret to play...

First pick 'any' tone...

   Let's go on to say that it sounded too low and after fishing around you land on the 10th fret, Assuming you don't know the key you can play the bottom part of the basic chords and hear if it sounds right...

   We say 'sounds right' because if the chord you hear in the song is the same 'type' that you are playing then it will sound really good, The worse fact about the guitar is that there are numerous duplicate tones which makes learning the guitar somewhat hard, Let's assume that you play a 'D major' chord and it sounds really good but isn't quite the chord, You then go on trying to find right chord and doing it by ear can take a while...

Chord one (Tonically the same as Chord two)...

Chord two (Tonically the same as Chord one)...

  The process for the top string is pretty much the same where you fish around for a tone and then search for the chord, Let's assume you have pinpointed a lower tone like 'A'...

   Assuming again that you found a chord then theres the issue of duplicates which is something you have to take in consideration, If you find a partial chord and you are past the fifth fret then there is most likely a duplicate position...

Chord one (Tonically the same as Chord two)...

Chord two (Tonically the same as Chord one)...

   The most common way people learn songs is from someone else which is also the easiest way, If a freind tells you that a song uses a "G major" and "D major" then you only have to find out which one, Our chords database shows 'five positions' of each chord...

   You should learn the chord shapes that use the bottom string or the top string and there really aren't that many, Not learning any chord shapes at all and learning by ear takes a long long time...