Easy songs?

[codeajohnson]

Hello,
I have been playing guitar for about a month now and I was wondering if there are any easy songs for me to learn to build up some confidence? any help is greatly appreciated http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif thank you

[BlaZinChoPs]

Try pink floyd's Wish you were here. Easy and will get you going fine.

Tab's readly available online.

Chaiyz

[Sixstring]

Just about any Tom Petty will be a good starter.

[codeajohnson]

thanks for the help http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif

[Melodic Dreamer]

Every Rose Has A Thorn - Poison
Knock'in On Heaven's Door - GNR'S
Almost anything by Nirvana or Blink 182
Bother - Stone Sour

[codeajohnson]

for Pink floyd's wish you were here, I can play the intro fine...but then it sounds funny after that...any ideas?

[bugman]

Try Cry Freedom by Dave Matthews. The rhythm is simple and it gets your hands adjusted to stretching.
http://www.dmbtabs.com/song.php?sid=32

[codeajohnson]

thanks bugman http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif

[guitarfun]

The easiest song in the world to learn, "Horse With No Name". Two cords and you feel like a pro!
Make an Em, then move both fingers out one string to make a F#m13. It is so easy and sounds SO great!

[guitwitit]

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[SmokeJaguar]

One thing that I find helps in getting started is REALLY simple songs. The kind that never leave your head no matter what. Stuff like "Baba Black Sheep" and other nursery rhymes. Just pick a key and work in and around the major scale. When you get one down from start to finish off the top of your head, you're set. Next thing you want to do is play some really easy minor pentatonic stuff in the same way. "*****" by the Rolling Stones is a good one to fiddle around with. The important part is that you figure it out for yourself, instead of grabbing a TAB. Now you certainly don't have to use nursery rhymes or "old people music", you can use whatever you like to hear or play (which you will find are not always the same thing), as long as it's simple enough that you can hear every note clearly and it helps if the tune repeats itself. If you ever played Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo, that's a good song to work out in C Major (I'm pretty sure). What I'm saying is, don't think for a second that "It's too tough for me", the fact is, after you play for a while, music will sound completely different. I used to think guys like Clapton and SRV were doing something totally off the wall, but now I can trace 95% of what they do back to "Boom boom boom", etc.

[Muckquaiker]

Depends on your taste in music but:

Blink 182 - Any song
Green Day - Any song
Nirvana - Any song
A - Nothing
Puddle Of Mudd - She Hates Me
RHCP - By The Way
RHCP - Californication
RHCP - Can't Stop
RHCP - Otherside
Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Puddle Of Mudd - She Hates Me
White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
Staind - Outside
Stereophonics - Local Boy In The Photograph
LIT - My Own Worst Enemy
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Feeder - Buck Rogers
New Found Glory - My Friends Over You
Offspring - Million Miles Away
Rival Schools - Used For Glue
Foo Fighters - All My Life
Foo Fighters - Up In Arms
Foo Fighters - Disenchanted Lullaby
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Four Star Mary - Pain
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (not the solo)
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi
Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling
Dum Dums - Until My Ship Comes In
Fenix*TX - Threesome
David Bowie - Jeanie Beanie
Stepphan Wolf - Born To Be Wild
Finch - Letters To You
3 Doors Down - Be Like That
Boxcar Racer - I Feel So
Weezer - Don't Let Go
Weezer - Hash Pipe
Muse - Feeling Good
Audioslave - Cochise
Audioslave - Like A Stone
Creed - My Own Prison
Creed - One Last Breath
Linkin Park - In The End
Muse - Plug In Baby
The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
Something Corporate - Punk Rock Princess
Silverchair - Freak
Silverchair - Anthem For The Year 2000
Hole - Celebrity Skin
American Hi-Fi - The Art Of Losing
Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
Papa Roach - Between Angels and Insects

Good Luck

Miranda
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[codeajohnson]

Thank you!!! very nice list...I will try some of the ones that I like out http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif

[hardstarter]

lol some of those arent sooo easy

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[new@thegame]

i am looking for a really good song that isnt hard to play. I want to learn a song for my girlfriend that sounds pretty good.
i am pretty new at playing guitar so any advice would help...thanx

[guitwitit]

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[new@thegame]

thanx for the song, that one sounds pretty good, and do u know any really love songs that have a lot of strumming and not just picking...i appreciate the help

[guitwitit]

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[new@thegame]

thank you!!! im new at playing and i need help pretty much whenever i can get it, i think i am going to take lessons sometime soon...how long have u been playing? And does it get easier, because i need some advice...right now i just pick some songs and try to learn the chords and thats about all i do...should i be doing anything else?
thanx for the advice again...

[guitwitit]

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[charvelallstars]

How 'bout a spot of 'Can't Get Enough of Your Love', by Bad Company?

Nice and easy and a bit rocky...
http://www.tabcrawler.com/archive.php?action=view&file_id=2523

[elly131]

hey
good riddince by green day is an awsome song 4 beginners and is really easy they r basic chords.
the easiest pattern is :
dduududdu
d=down u=up
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[PureHeavyMetalGuy]

Try "nothing else matters" by metallica, it's easy.

also try black sabbath (ofcourse if you like classic heavy metal). Actually none of black sabbath songs are hard, except solo from N.I.B (still can't play it)

If not, go with classic riff of "Smoke on the water" by deep purple or try to play "I love rock'n'roll" - Joan Jett

[PurpleHaze]

Out of all these posts I'm Suprised no one mentioned any Alice in Chains or Blind Melon.
Try some of these
Rooster - AIC
Got me wrong - AIC
Nutshell - AIC
Angry Chair - AIC
Walk - Blind Melon
Change - Blind Melon
No Rain - Blind Melon
Run Around - Blues Traveler
Mountain Wins Again - Blues traveler
Used to Love Her - Guns & Roses
Throw Your Arms Around Me - Pearl Jam
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
Rivers of babylon - Bob Marley
No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley
Mr Bake-O - Adam Sandler (People Love this)
Fire - Jimi Hendrix
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix

Let me know if you need help or the Correct way to play any of these. Tabs on the internet arn't alway right.

[socialparasite]

nutshell is one of my all time fav songs! Big Aic fan here

[in_the_basement]

I may have been overly ambitious by as my first full song I am learning Sweet Home Alabama. I'm learning it from a video tutorial and there are some slides, hammer ons, and pull offs in it, but I have to say that the process of learning this song has taught me a lot. I have not mastered it yet but I think that one more week and I will have it. My point is that learning an easy song teaches you easy stuff that may quickly get boring. A harder song may take longer but will offer more reward.

[braziliant]

Try: Here, There, and Everywhere, by the Beatles. It's a gentle introduction to bar chords, and the steady rhythm is helpful in developing fluidity in your changes. It also introduces mi7 and 7 chords (which are accomplished by leaving certain fingers off -- actually easier than major chords), which makes you feel like a pro, even though it's really simple. I learned it when I was 15, and 15 years later I still enjoy playing that song occasionally. Plus your girlfriend will swoon, which is a nice bonus.

[Firestone]

try smoke on the water i just started about two months it was the first song i started with and it took about hour to make it song good its really easy :headband

[in_the_basement]

OK, here it is. The easiest song to play is Cocaine. Four bar chords. E,D,C,B. I have only been playing for about 6 months and I learned it last night in about 30 minutes. The basic song that is. I learned it from a video tutorial and the dude said that this is a great song to use for practicing your soloing because you can learn the basic song quicky and then just work in some soloing type stuff. Throw in some good distortion and make sure to get some good slides from the D to the E and you will be sounding like Clapton himself in no time. Use root 5 bar chords for the whole thing.

DEDEED DEDEED DEDEED DEDEED DEDCB D.....

[RHCPFreak]

A really easy song is Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[RHCPFreak]

Oh yeah, and

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Give it Away

[badbilly15]

Green Day Time Of Your Life Is A Pretty Easy Song Just 4 Cords I Think