Beginner songs on guitar..

Hort101

I start playing guitar at Christmas and iv learned songs like fast car, cannonball, wish you were her and easy ones like wonder wall..

Would anyone that plays guitar, mind listing out another few songs that they learned at first??

cloptrop

What are the easy chords for cannonball ,
Ill trade you knockin on heavens door.
G,G, D,D, C,C,C,C.
All the way through

Rigsy

Green Day, Time of your life (Good riddance) or Tom Petty, Freefallin'??

karaokeman

Try some of my suggestions with CAPO I and standard tuning;

Coldplay - Viva la Vida

C, D, G, Em strum down four times and strum up four times for each chord


Shania Twain - You're Still The One

D, G, Em, A, D, G, A


U2 - All I Want is You

G, Cadd9, Em, Cadd9


Good luck:)

Soundsphere

Most of the Nirvana stuff is fairly easy to play. "come as you are" was the first song I learned. It needs Drop D tuning, though. But it sounds OK with the standard tuning as well...

Malice

cloptrop wrote: »

knockin on heavens door.
G,G, D,D, C,C,C,C.
All the way through

Yeah, all the way through except for the parts where the C is replaced with an A minor.

Soundsphere wrote: »

Most of the Nirvana stuff is fairly easy to play. "come as you are" was the first song I learned. It needs Drop D tuning, though. But it sounds OK with the standard tuning as well...

Come As You Are isn't in drop D. Are you thinking of All Apologies?

Malice

Moved to Playing & Techniques & Theory.

DMG_49

Malice wrote: »

Yeah, all the way through except for the parts where the C is replaced with an A minor.

Come As You Are isn't in drop D. Are you thinking of All Apologies?

You sure drop D isn't the tuning for Come As You Are?

cloptrop

Malice wrote: »

Yeah, all the way through except for the parts where the C is replaced with an A minor.

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Its an a7 or something and its very close sounding to a C if you ask me , especially to a beginners ear , try it , fits perfectly fine G D C all the way through .

Malice

DMG_49 wrote: »

You sure drop D isn't the tuning for Come As You Are?

The Nevermind version of the song is in normal tuning but a full step down (DAFCGD) but there may well be a version out there in drop D.

Kurz

cloptrop wrote: »

Its an a7 or something and its very close sounding to a C if you ask me , especially to a beginners ear , try it , fits perfectly fine G D C all the way through .

It's A minor every second time.

Try All Along the Watchtower. Am, G, F, G repeat.

Malice

cloptrop wrote: »

Its an a7 or something and its very close sounding to a C if you ask me , especially to a beginners ear , try it , fits perfectly fine G D C all the way through .

I must admit that I am thinking specifically of the Guns N' Roses version so maybe they play it differently to the original.

Keeping up the Guns N' Roses theme, I found the intro to Don't Cry to be a useful riff. There are a few chord changes and you've got to organise your fingers properly to sound out all the notes properly:

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Soundsphere

I am actually not sure anymore since I haven't played this song for quite a while.
I am playing in C now, so it would sound rather weird anyway.
But as far as I can remember it sounded better in Drop D than in G tuning....

Hort101

Sorry but i learned cannonball the hard way.. it took me ages but i was told to keep trying it to get "the brake through feeling" then i was just addicted.. but im sure there are easy chords out there.. i use guitar in a nut shell website or ultimate guitar.com.. hope that helps.. thanks anyway

Hort101

Iv tried loads of cold play.. they seem simple enough thanks a million

cloptrop

Bob marley redemption song , great crowd pleaser too.

Malice

Soundsphere wrote: »

I am actually not sure anymore since I haven't played this song for quite a while.
I am playing in C now, so it would sound rather weird anyway.
But as far as I can remember it sounded better in Drop D than in G tuning....

Is this in relation to Come As You Are? If so how do you play it in Drop D?

cloptrop

`bLOWING IN THE WIND AND MR TAMBOURINE MAN - BOB DYLAN

oops capslock backwards

Mental Mickey

Beatles - Norwegian Wood

Trevor Kent

Horse with no name-America (Possibly the easiest song in the world)
Chasing cars - snow patrol...... A, E & D
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison.......G,C & D

If ya do a bit of googling, you will find loads and loads of easy stuff.

padd b1975

www.chordie.com is a great site, it even gives you versions in different keys if you want to get out of using the capo.

cloptrop

Yea I usually use ultimateguitar.com but it pisses me off with people doing complicated versions of songs . Seems it feeds their ego if the song has all minor 7 chords or dmaj7 over f and stuff . I wish they just had a beginner version of each song seperate.

Hort101

Yeah i website for beginner songs would be great. thanks for the help.

dm2k12

Closing Time By Semisonic

G D Am C the whole way through