Learning guitar, looking for easyish songs to learn

Raphael

Title says it all, I'm just starting guitar, and I want to learn some songs. But I find tabs sites daunting, and was wondering if anyone could recommend some easier songs to start with

Hope this is the right forum ^^;

bassey

obviously seven nation army, iron man, smoke one the water. all the legend riffs

david

Try to learn a some different styles like rock, fingerpicking etc... seven nation is a good place to start and smells like teen spirit. I would suggest learning some open string chords (a,d,e,g,b,f, etc.) then minors rather than just playing tabs to begin with. when you have them pretty good you can play a load of songs. After all of that, learn the "a" and "e" barre chord shapes, power chords and progress to learn some scale shapes like pentatonics, major and minor. When you have all of this done... youre ready to start gettin the women and thrashin the hotel rooms!

Good luck Aonghus,

funk-you

if you're really stuck and find tab daunting try www.olga.net and there you can get tab or chords to tunes. handy place to start off and at least you'll be picking the tunes you want to learn because if you dont like what you're playing you wont practice and thats all you'll need man is practice. a good place to start learning rhythm is anything by oasis, it's all piss easy and you can always break them out at a drunken singalong cause everyone knows the tunes. when you get better learn some stones etc....not too difficult.
anyway,good luck with the playin and if you need to know anythin man pm me here and i'll see if i could help.
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Fusion251

Best thing to do to start is learn Amaj&min D Maj&min E Maj&min F Maj Gmaj and C maj in 1st position meaning around the 1st 3 frets.

Alot of tunes have very simple progressions.
Greenday - Time of your life for example consists of Gmaj Cmaj Dmaj and Emin.

Alot of tunes follow this formula using the 1st 4th and 5th chord in relation to the key of G.

Try learnin:

Wonderwall
Brown Eyed Girl
Whiskey in the Jar etc...

I wouldn't be into them tunes myself but they're good to start off with.

I am MAN

Seven nation army
teen spirit, about a girl, come as you are and most Nirvana stuff
Everybody hurts
wonderwall
johny cash - hurt - am, c, d - g, f, am

ferdi

please please please let me get what i want - the smiths

mr_angry

The whole Oasis back catalogue is pretty easy. You're best picking something you like, and getting yourself the band's chordbook.

ferdi

mr_angry wrote:

The whole Oasis back catalogue is pretty easy.

man, i hate the term 'back catalogue', its so ****ing poncy.

Dave

You're best off trying to play songs that you like. Print off a rake of tabs, it doesn't matter whether they look hard, or not. Then just try and play them. It's easier if you have the song to listen to aswell. The first song I learned fully was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

Once you start playing even bits of songs, your confidence will grow, so you'll want to start playing more, and then it just gets easier.

It wasn't me!

Radiohead- Street Spirit for fingerpicking and Karma Police for a nice easy strumming song.

Dave

Are you learning on acoustic or electric btw?

Raphael

Woah, thanks a lot guys, should be enough here to keep me going through the holidays

I'm learning acousitc, as I don't want to invest in a guitar yet, and there's one in my house already

darkened_corner

Good, always learn on acoustic first. It's easy enough to progress onto electric from there, but the number of people I know who started on electric and never got the hang of an acoustic is just astounding...

feylya

For a really nice, pretty easy neo-classical type piece, finger picked, have a listen to the intro of Blackstar by Yngwie Malmsteen.

parasite

loads of neil young'a acoustic songs are great for beginners

NotMe

darkened_corner wrote:

Good, always learn on acoustic first. It's easy enough to progress onto electric from there, but the number of people I know who started on electric and never got the hang of an acoustic is just astounding...

Not everyone wants to play acoustic though. :rolleyes:

magpie

Anything by the Mahavishnu Orchestra

Dave

NotMe wrote:

Not everyone wants to play acoustic though. :rolleyes:

Most people who would be interested in guitar as opposed to playing slipknot riffs with heavy distortion would start on acoustic.

Barryoh2004

Needle In The Hay by Elliott Smith

lilmissprincess

hey i can play mary had a little lamb...ur probably lukın 4 summat a bıt more ambitious but if u want the sheets say the word. ok??
I also hav sılent nıte n all the crap i crammed into 8 thursday lunchtimes...
I cud also do wıt help..

Johnny Storm

magpie wrote:

Anything by the Mahavishnu Orchestra

LOL

BizzyC

"Every rose has it's thorn......", by Poison.
Whole song is comprised of 4 chords, 1 of which is used only twice.

Repli

feylya wrote:

For a really nice, pretty easy neo-classical type piece, finger picked, have a listen to the intro of Blackstar by Yngwie Malmsteen.

Isn't the intro to that song full of harmonics? Or maybe I'm thinking of another one..

Anyway for the OP - a lot of nirvanas songs are easy to play and just use the basic chords A, C, D, E, G, etc

feylya

It has about 6 or 8 harmonics at the end of the intro. He has another identical song called Farewell where he has more harmonics.

Zip

another brick in the wall by pink floyd

lilmissprincess

Zip wrote:

another brick in the wall by pink floyd

I like that song..do you have the actual notes thingy to it?? Can you send it to me in private message if possible please..

Le Rack

BizzyC wrote:

"Every rose has it's thorn......", by Poison.
Whole song is comprised of 4 chords, 1 of which is used only twice.

cheese fest! I know Raph and a guy we know uses that as a pick up line thingy so I strongly advice NOT learning that! It is easy though!

voxpop

http://guitar.about.com/library/bleasysongs60s.htm