What are good songs for a beginner guitar player to learn?

I’m a beginner, and I wanna have songs I’ll like to play and practice with. I’m a classic rock, rock and roll and blues kinda player. Any recommendations?

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5 Responses to “What are good songs for a beginner guitar player to learn?”

1. gtarczar says:

   September 1, 2010 at 2:41 pm

   The easiest songs to play are basic folk songs and Christmas carols and stuff like that. Not to terribly interesting but very easy and these are essentially songs that you have known all your life so they are easy to figure out and remember. They almost always use only three chords that are grouped together in a specific key. The relationship between these chords is known as a 1-4-5 relationship. This a standard progression in any key and is the heart of basic rock and all blues. It is very easy to figure out, just take a chord like A and count 4 away to D and then 5 away to E and you get a I-IV-V relation ship in the key of A (A-D-E) the same thing in the key of C is C,F,G. In the key of E is E,A,B. In the key of G is G,C,D. In the key of D is D,G,A. you get the picture. This is the most basic chord progression there is and you should learn to play it in the keys I mention here. This way you can really hear this relationship and recognize it in many songs. You will be blown away at how many songs use this basic progression with some slight alterations. Once you get these down fairly well you can literally learn hundreds of basic songs in rock and blues as well as country and pop. You should also go to your local music store and buy some song books by band you like or some “greatest hits of” books that are compilations of many artists
2. Eric S says:

   September 1, 2010 at 2:57 pm

   check out music from the rolling stones, aerosmith, hendrix, clapton, led zepplin, van halen, allman bros, stevie ray vaughan… all that stuff has awesome guitar riffs and rhythms. either go online and look up tabs, or get the tab books, or you can do it the best way which is just pick out the riffs by ear, it is hard, but you will get good and it will increase your playing and ear a ton! also, what I did when i was a beginner was buy tab books and even if I couldn’t play the whole song, just find a cool looking riff and learn it… either with the music playing or without… an example is when I first started I got a stevie ray vaughan tab book with all his albums… I only had texas flood, but I went through all the other songs in there, playing the notes and using my own rhythms… therefore I had all the golden notes and made up my own rhythmic licks around them and bam, I had my own style… what happened later when I got all the SRV albums… well, as you can imagine, none of my licks sounded like SRV’s, but they were still cool and mine
3. Bud says:

   September 1, 2010 at 3:15 pm

   Try some easy Hendrix and Floyd, here’s a simple free lesson that tabs them out and shows you what to do:

   http://www.findguitarteachers.com/easy-guitar-songs-2.html
4. big dawg says:

   September 1, 2010 at 3:56 pm

   try some greenday songs there all pretty easy.there jus power chords
5. Michael says:

   September 1, 2010 at 4:19 pm

   Learn a couple of open chords and nirvana songs such as teen spirit, come as you are and in bloom are good.