What Are Some Fun, EASY Songs to Learn on the Guitar?

Posted in learn guitar on 21. Jul, 2010

This week’s question is a good one. Let’s have a look:

Question: I am 14, and I just had my first guitar lesson Last Friday, so far, I can play smoke on the water perfect, and the inspector gadget theme song (… my teacher asked me to learn them so I would learn the basics.) I practise about 4 times a day, just playing around and I’m getting bored of playing the SAME thing over and over … are there any other fun songs like these I would be able to learn?g Nothing too hard… I’d like something fun to learn. Or maybe a site that would have the TAB so I could see it? I am hoping to play mostly rock music… but anything would be great :)

Thank you in advance :)

Answer: There’s a lot of punk songs are easy which use mostly 5th chords like smoke on the water and there’s a lot of other easy songs too. Go to www.ultimate-guitar.com for tabs.

Sheena is A Punk Rocker – The Ramones (try any Ramones song)
Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
Sunshine of your Love – Cream
You Really Got Me – The Kinks
All These Things I’ve Done – The Killers
Play With Fire – The Rolling Stones
Hard to Explain – The Strokes
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
Seven Nation Army – White Stripes
More Than A Feeling – Boston
Death Or Glory – The Clash
Highway to Hell – AC/DC
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Karma Police – Radiohead
Pieces of What – MGMT
The Kooks – Love it All

Here’s my advice to you as a beginner. Find any simple melody you hear that you really like and learn how to play it by ear. Just explore the songs you like and if you learn how to play them it will be so gratifying. So just try and play the music that you love and it will be much easier to learn. That’s how I did it and I know that if the passion is there anyone can. Learning by a combination of your ear and tabs will make you a much better player. Plus its more fun trust me so good luck and just don’t give up!

3 Responses to “What Are Some Fun, EASY Songs to Learn on the Guitar?”

  1. Author says:
    July 21, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    Our Song – Taylor Swift

    it’s very easy and only uses like 5 beginner chords

  2. Pinky says:
    July 21, 2010 at 1:17 pm

    Time of your life by Greenday

  3. Tommy Whited says:
    July 21, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    Creedence Clearwater Revival have alot of great songs that are good for beginners. Try "Bad Moon Rising" or "Proud Mary". Once you can manage an F chord, you could do "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" and atleast the rhythm for "Fortunate Son". "My Generation" and "I Can’t Explain" (both by The Who) are two other good ones. "Stand By Me" (the Ben E. King classic) is another real good one. And most any classic punk song is simple. Just go wild.

    (*I recommend the website "ultimate-guitar.com" to find the best chords and tabs.)

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