Songs for beginners

LukinFan

Started working on Green Day's "Time of Your Life" this morning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdlg_lbB5yE

Professor Earthtones

I didn't read through every post, but here's my list of semi-popular, easy songs for the guitar that I still enjoy listening to, and playing...sorry for any duplicates from previous posts.

If you know power chords (and you should!), then every song by Green Day is cake (although Palm Muting is a skill that takes some developing, and you do need a quicker picking hand). They are a much better band when you START playing guitar. Also, drop D tuning is the friend of the beginning guitarist that wants to play some easy songs, or even better, playing your own easy songs/jams.

Other easy songs off the top of my head:
Soundgarden: Outshined (Drop D)
Local H: Eddie Vedder
Pantera/Sabbath: Planet Caravan
Jimi Hendrix: Wind Cries Mary
Pearl Jam: Corduroy, Release, In My Tree
Mad Season: River of Deceit
TOTD: Hunger Strike (Drop D)
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Foo Fighters: For All the Cows
Alice in Chains: Down in a Hole, Nutshell
Metllica: Enter Sandman, Fade to Black, Nothing Else Matters (first 5 notes SUPER EASY! lol... other parts not too difficult for beginners either)
Nirvana: almost everything's easy...About a Girl is a very easy one with easy to find video of them playing it
Tool: older stuff is very easy for guitar...mostly in drop D (I don't know any new stuff)

mfc2006

a few others...

Beck-Lost Cause
My Morning Jacket-a lot of it is easy, you just need a capo
Soul Asylum-Runaway Train, Homesick

LukinFan

anyone have any good videos for "Wishlist"?

mfc2006

LukinFan wrote:

anyone have any good videos for "Wishlist"?

pm me your email address & i'll record one for ya, Roger.

LukinFan

mfc2006 wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

anyone have any good videos for "Wishlist"?

pm me your email address & i'll record one for ya, Roger.

Matt - you rock! PM sent

magga1976

Harvest Moon is a great song for beginners IMO
This tab works pretty well
The riff and the chords sound pretty spot on
i don't think the arpeggio is right (maybe supposed to be harmonic on the 12th fret) just leave it out

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/n/neil_young/harvest_moon_crd.htm

play along with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1DFifr7iYg

LukinFan

I started messing around with this one today:

http://www.justinguitar.com/en/BS-305-Y ... eatles.php

Hugh Freaking Dillon

Tweeter and the Monkeyman (by the Travelling Wilburys, but redone by the Headstones in a punk sorta way).

LukinFan

phungi

Blackbird by the Beatles is much easier than I expected...

LukinFan

Horse with No Name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Jki9Ga ... re=related

YgoWash

try learning just about any song from

Iggy and the Stooges " Funhouse " album

all are pretty easy !!!

LukinFan

Been working working on Times Like These by the Foo Fighters. Pretty easy chords. Still trying to get down the strumming for the verses

DriftingByTheStorm

mfc2006 wrote:

Soul Asylum-Homesick

Hell YEAH.

I still feel like i have to apologize to myself for liking this album.

Somebody to Shove, Keep It Up, and Black Gold all rock so fairly-hard,

and the above mentioned Homesick along with Without a Trace are hauntingly beautiful (imho).

It's a shame they got this "kind've lame \ kind've 'kid friendly' rock vibe" mostly cuz of Runaway Train.
They put out some bitchin' tunes on this record, if you ask me.

Somebody to Shove is "pretty easy" to play, and helluva fun to CRANK.

ed243421

some are easier than others



all night
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/lo ... /all-night



big wave
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/pearl-jam/big-wave


dead man
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/lost-dogs/dead-man


footsteps
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/lo ... /footsteps


gods dice
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/binaural/gods-dice


i got id
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/me ... l/i-got-id


in my tree
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/no-code/in-my-tree


masters of war
http://giventowail.com/tab/eddie-vedder ... ers-of-war


off he goes
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/no ... ff-he-goes


sometimes
http://giventowail.com/tab/pearl-jam/no-code/sometimes
(just stick to ed's part)

DriftingByTheStorm

Bob Seger - Night Moves

Oh yeah.
SoOooo easy.

LukinFan

I've been working on "I am Mine" for the past couple of days, I think I pretty much have it down. Fun and easy song to play

LukinFan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd0vIT0GaEE

Neil Young Keep on rockin' in the free world acoustic

DriftingByTheStorm

Pretty sure these have yet to be mentioned:

The Weight - by The Band ... is one of those classics, and it is pretty dang easy to play.

also

The Ballad of Curtis Loew - Lynyrd Skynyrd (only played ONCE LIVE by original band!!!) is pretty dang easy for the rythm, and messing around with the slide section (even if you aren't using a slide!) is super fun. The picking or "lead" section in general is a fairly straight forward, SLOW, and easy way to start understanding how chords and leads overlay a scale together. Song on youtube

simple and pretty darn accurate chording ... mouse over B7 to see the chord shape.

This song also gives you an idea of how you can take 4 or 5 relatively simple parts and string them together to transcend the individual simplistic pieces and create an organic sound that is more than the sum of it's parts alone.