Easy pearl jam songs??

JesusTheTerrorist

Or any good songs. I cant think of any songs all of us might know, Me and a few friends are starting a band but we know none of the same songs. It's only for the sake of having a girl rock band for a local rock concert thing thats mainly dominated by guys. What could we all learn thats easy, the bassist and I aren't that good.

gotz id

wish list

rocking in the free world (cover, you can probably learn this in one practice)

spin the black circle (if your fingers are buff enough for the constant power chords)

leaving here (no solos?)

Fatal

I am Mine

Last Kiss (cover, just as easy as RITFW)

crazy mary... lots of easy pj stuff.

Bart138

Not for You is pretty easy, although it might be a hard song to sing. Pretty much just moving up and down in the shape of an E chord.
The chords in Elderly Woman(...) are easy, but the strumming takes work.

As for other bands, Death of Glory by the Clash is one of my favorites, and very easy to play. Thats the case with most punk rock.

Any Nirvana song will be easy, as Kurt was not a technical player.

Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) can be loosely played pretty easily, if you use drop-D.

There are tons more...

onelinedrawingFan

There are so man PEarl Jam songs the 2 of you could pull off depending on how technical and how close you want the songs to sound like the real thing.
My first suggestion would be to go over to http://www.giventowail.com and look up some songs that are tabbed with just chords.. and go from there. I can play most pearl jam songs on guitar, now singing them and playing them at the same time is difficult for quite a few of them. I just make a few of the songs my own little version, put my own spin on it. Like the slow version of COrduroy or the slower version of In my tree.. Just have fun with it.

So many songs that sound difficult to play, are easily translated into a simple few chords that you can work the words right over... I'll give a few of my favs to play

Garden ( just play the chords, don't worry about the lead part)

Given to FLy ( I simply strum a G to a D for the verses)

Off he goes ( now the pattern to this song is a tad tricky but easy)

Yellow Ledbetter ( 3 chords for pretty much the whole song, the solo.. can be as simple as you want, or as much like mikes as you want)

Who you are (super simple yet, a beautiful song and your friend would have her own semi-bass solo)

Those are just a few.. i could suggest some more if you'd like.. maybe even a few of the Rockin variety.. Hope this helps..

OceansJenny

Long Road - Easy as hell, but also a very long and slow song
Small Town- Has two chords and one variation; if you find a version with Cs in it, it's wrong, Stone never plays any Cs; only D, G, and a D variation
Lukin- All you gotta do is slide
Cordoroy- If you can barr
You've Got to Hide You're love away- if you can get the rhythm
Off He Goes- Easy and fun
Rockin in the Free World- If you can switch fast and don't mind lots and lots of repeating
Release- Puh
Not for You- Easy
Rearview Mirror- Only a repeating riff and some power chords

...thats about it.

Oh yeah, I just learned Oceans in the last 5 minutes, very easy as well

Good luck!

Tav

Pearl Jam cover "It's OK." I forget who it is originally by but it is a very easy song to play indeed. You could try that with "Rocking In The Free World" it's a great song by Neil Young originally...it's very hip just now what with being featured in Farenhiet 9/11 film.

T-Case

Last Exit is a good one and is pretty easy,mainly power chords and no solo, but you could adlib one in there if you wanted to, the bass isnt hard in it and the Drums aren't that hard either. You guys could deffinately perfect it in one practice, i play guitar and i learned this song in 5 minutes just by ear. Its off of Vitalogy

ucsb

not 4 u....obviously this is an easy song cuz vedder wrote it and technically he is not the best guitarist out there. Its pretty much the E major chord played at different places on the neck...check it out...if vedder can play it..so u can u!!

Flying2Give

parting ways!!

Flying2Give

Betterman
Nothingman
Untitled and MFC are dead easy and are nearly the same

BlackCorduroy

last kiss, off he goes, small town, i am mine, faithful, release, long road
those are some pretty easy ones

The Man

smells like teen spirit, nirvana, very easy, very very easy solo.

Astarte

Wishlist....I learned to play it on bass in like 2 minutes. It's basically just one note except for the chorus and guitar solo. If I can play it, anyone can.

Low Light is pretty easy too, not sure about how it is on guitar though.

Polly or In Bloom by Nirvana aren't too bad either. Most Nirvana songs aren't too hard, as most people have already mentioned.

Lots of pop/punk songs are pretty easy too...Dammit by Blink 182 for example or When I Come Around by Green Day are fairly simple.

HailHailVitalogy

pj covers:

sonic reducer
rockin in the free world (we covered it, took 1 practice to get the basics and 2 more just to get it all down with a few parts of our versions)
fuckin up


well if you can find the lyrics...crapshoot is fuckin easy as hell

Pearl Jam and toast

gotz id wrote:

wish list

rocking in the free world (cover, you can probably learn this in one practice)

spin the black circle (if your fingers are buff enough for the constant power chords)

leaving here (no solos?)

Fatal

I am Mine

Last Kiss (cover, just as easy as RITFW)

crazy mary... lots of easy pj stuff.

adding to that..

off he goes
down
elderlywomen behind a counter in a small town
untitled
MFC is pretty easy i think
not for you
betterman

you should talk to me... im on msn all the time...

Pearl Jam and toast

Astarte wrote:

Wishlist....I learned to play it on bass in like 2 minutes. It's basically just one note except for the chorus and guitar solo. If I can play it, anyone can.

Low Light is pretty easy too, not sure about how it is on guitar though.

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low light on guitar is kind of advanced.

theres an alternate tuning that would drive a novice nuts.

Black Circle

Every now and then I like to play the easy ones, like Wishlist and Black. Especially when I'm singing and playing at the same time, because I'm not too good at it...