Easiest song on the guitar (For a beginner)

[Verse Chorus Verse]

What would be the easiest song for an absolute beginner on the guitar? And not just Guns N' Roses, but any band.

[Alan]

songbird by oasis is pretty simple.

[Lara]

^ cool avatar 

Nothing Else Matters

[Chris Axl]

Knockin' On Heavens Door, first real song I learnt.
Really easy,

[CheapJon]

as long as you only plays easy chords it aint that hard learning to play guitar, there is a bunch of easy songs far ya to learn

[chineseroses]

seven nation army.  the easiest song by miles.

[AXL 20]

the rythm to Back In Black. Like 6 single notes and a couple chord changes.

depends on what you listen to

[Bumblefeet]

some bucket is easy and the good thing is it makes you seem really good eg pirates life for me. Patience is a good play along. Anything by the beatles.

[T_Roxie]

use drop d tuning, cos then you only need one finger to play loads of songs! (Slither for example)

Make sure you know power chords before any 'proper' chords, new chords can take a while to get used to so its nice to have something to play in the meantime.

[Verse Chorus Verse]

use drop d tuning, cos then you only need one finger to play loads of songs! (Slither for example)

Make sure you know power chords before any 'proper' chords, new chords can take a while to get used to so its nice to have something to play in the meantime.

How do you tune to Drop D? I've seen plenty of songs tuned in it but down know how to do it myself.

[AdZ]

tune your low e string down a tone.

it should be an octave lower than your d string.

[Kov]

Eruption.

 

[AXL 20]

Eruption.

 

thats jsut unneccesary.

learn some green day if you like that crap. it's really easy though

[Danny Top Hat]

Any Blink 182 song lol

Lol!


My answer?

Wild Thing!

[kaasupoltin]

Blind Melon - No Rain

Great song, easy and fun to play.

[Neemo]

i'd say Poison-everyrose has it's thorn

[Vadin]

come as you are, by nirvana 

[superloconoriega]

Easy Verses :
Nirvana - Big Long Now

Easy Riffs :

AC/DC - Hells Bells
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Seek and Destroy
Led Zeppelin - Heart Breaker
Black Sabbath - Iron Man

Easy Chords

Nirvana - Lounge Act
Nirvana - Drain You
Nirvana - Pen Cap Chew
Guns N Roses - Out ta Get Me
Guns N Roses - You Could Be Mine
Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
The Ramones - My Brain's Hangin' Upside Down
The Ramones - Rock N Roll Highschool
AC/DC - TNT

[Chris Axl]

how can you say wttj got easy chords?

Ive been playing for like 4 months, and theyr not easy for a newbie!

[aimz]

Amazing grace...3/3 rhythm, and just A, D,and G chords..that is if your learning rhythm?

[01matthewst]

12 51 by the strokes both the rythmn and lead is very easy. Song 2 by blur

[Mal Brossard]

Horse With No Name
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Rockin' in the Free World

First lead guitar pieces I learned were the solo from Yellow Ledbetter, and most of SCOM.

[Lurk]

First song I learned was Used to Love Her.... Very easy chords

[T_Roxie]

The first song I learnt was the sex pistols - pretty vacant!  I was probably playing it wrong though (that is if you can play the sex pistols wrong)

[aimz]

Horse With No Name
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Rockin' in the Free World

First lead guitar pieces I learned were the solo from Yellow Ledbetter, and most of SCOM.

yeh knockin on heavens door is a great (and easy) song to learn

[Neemo]

nirvana about a girl is pretty easy as well

[Kov]

www.azchords.com

BEST site ever. 

lots of chords to a shitload of songs. I personally love it.

[Smoking Guns]

use drop d tuning, cos then you only need one finger to play loads of songs! (Slither for example)

Make sure you know power chords before any 'proper' chords, new chords can take a while to get used to so its nice to have something to play in the meantime.

How do you tune to Drop D? I've seen plenty of songs tuned in it but down know how to do it myself.

Tune you low E (top string) down to a D.  So then you have DADGBE.

Slither, Serial Killer, What I want (Chris Dautry with Slash).

But Remember, GNR plays a half step down.  So everything is flat from standard tuning.

Csharp = Dflat.... 

[Neemo]

use drop d tuning, cos then you only need one finger to play loads of songs! (Slither for example)

Make sure you know power chords before any 'proper' chords, new chords can take a while to get used to so its nice to have something to play in the meantime.

How do you tune to Drop D? I've seen plenty of songs tuned in it but down know how to do it myself.

Tune you low E (top string) down to a D. So then you have DADGBE.

Slither, Serial Killer, What I want (Chris Dautry with Slash).

But Remember, GNR plays a half step down. So everything is flat from standard tuning.

Csharp = Dflat....

the way i drop d tune is pluck the top E string and the D string at the same time and then detune the top e until they resonate the same....its real easy to hear

[Smoking Guns]

use drop d tuning, cos then you only need one finger to play loads of songs! (Slither for example)

Make sure you know power chords before any 'proper' chords, new chords can take a while to get used to so its nice to have something to play in the meantime.

How do you tune to Drop D? I've seen plenty of songs tuned in it but down know how to do it myself.

Tune you low E (top string) down to a D. So then you have DADGBE.

Slither, Serial Killer, What I want (Chris Dautry with Slash).

But Remember, GNR plays a half step down. So everything is flat from standard tuning.

Csharp = Dflat....

the way i drop d tune is pluck the top E string and the D string at the same time and then detune the top e until they resonate the same....its real easy to hear

Neemo, that is easy, if you have developed an ear, if not there yet, just use a tuner.  Wow, what a run on sentence.  I think a tuner is good so that they can see what is going on. 

[Neemo]

yeah i cant tune by ear but i can drop-d tune by ear...how messed up is that?

[makane]

use drop d tuning, cos then you only need one finger to play loads of songs! (Slither for example)

Make sure you know power chords before any 'proper' chords, new chords can take a while to get used to so its nice to have something to play in the meantime.

How do you tune to Drop D? I've seen plenty of songs tuned in it but down know how to do it myself.

Tune you low E (top string) down to a D.? So then you have DADGBE.

Slither, Serial Killer, What I want (Chris Dautry with Slash).

But Remember, GNR plays a half step down.? So everything is flat from standard tuning.

Csharp = Dflat....?

Got correct tabs for Serial Killer? (whole song)

[Butch Français]

smells like teen spirit

[Axlfreek]

First song i ever learned was day tripper by the beatles.

[2112]

smells like teen spirit

horrible song but great for beginners

[kaasupoltin]

Patience is actually pretty easy with chords.. and it's also fun to play

[Genesis]

Patience is actually pretty easy with chords.. and it's also fun to play

The solo and fill ins are easy too, if u are a perfectionist.

[Neemo]

its got neat little chord runs too, but i dunno if a beginner could pull them off easily

[kaasupoltin]

its got neat little chord runs too, but i dunno if a beginner could pull them off easily

I practiced with Patience when I started to learn chords.. of course it was hard first, but I just needed a little patience I think it's a great song for learning.

[polluxlm]

Zombie by the Cranberries has to be the easiest song ever. You can play it using only one finger. Not a good song for learning though

[Axlfreek]

Amazing grace...3/3 rhythm, and just A, D,and G chords..that is if your learning rhythm?

what instrument do you play ?

[chineseroses]

try the one note song by tenacious D

[CheapJon]

try the one note song by tenacious D

yeah, don't ferget to bend it every now and then

[JohnMorrison73]

the solo on bucketheads "the ballad of buckethead"

[01matthewst]

The chorus to my michelle is easy, the main riff in coma is a nice too

[The Estranged MrFlashbax]

the intro to Blind Melon's No Rain and the intro to Civil War were pretty easy for me to pick up by ear.. so try those.. oh and Dream of Mirrors by Iron Maiden

[stolat]

Took me years to train my ear. Might try it. If I can sing it.........

[The Estranged MrFlashbax]

its fun to learn songs by ear.. cuz after i play the intro to civil war, i can play the "look at your young men fighting.. look at your women crying.. look at your young men dying.. the way they've always done before..." and keep going with the song.. i can play the vocals (the ups and downs and melody i guess, i dunno what its called) on the guitar cuz i learned it by ear rather than by tabs.. its not that impressive to play for people but its fun to play nonetheless.

[stolat]

That sounds really good. So you play the vocal line note for note ("look at your young men....etc") and then rip into the chords for ("my hands are tied...)?

[The Estranged MrFlashbax]

i can play the vocal parts until "...and history hides the lies of our civil war" 

[stolat]

i can play the vocal parts until "...and history hides the lies of our civil war"?

If your guitar is electric you could do that with a wa wa pedal. 

[The Estranged MrFlashbax]

i can play the vocal parts until "...and history hides the lies of our civil war" 

If your guitar is electric you could do that with a wa wa pedal. 

it is but i'm either technologically retarded or my pedal SUCKS! haha. it sounds sorta like it tho

[stolat]

i can play the vocal parts until "...and history hides the lies of our civil war"?

If your guitar is electric you could do that with a wa wa pedal.?

it is but i'm either technologically retarded or my pedal SUCKS! haha. it sounds sorta like it tho

OR, Peter Frampton could distort notes via a tube thing that he could blow into - it was attached to his guitar. Listen to Frampton Comes Alive or Live (something like that). There is also a (Steiner?) guitar, very 80s in its look that had a distortion bar on it. But in the meantime, listen to Frampton......

[gcluskey]

Sweet Child O' Mine...if you want to play just an acoustic version without the intro try this...for the first part there's just 3 chords D, C9 & G...get that first and then the chords change for the 'where do we go' bit at the end...they're like Em (where do we go) G (where do we go now) A (where to we go) followed by a C & D then back to Em...etc. It goes something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyQ3B58kLF8

[2112]

If this is a thread dedicated to easy songs. For beginners.
Why than people speak about crap like Civil War, Coma and Bucketheadstuff?

If you are a beginner struggling with barr?chords etc etc, you dont sit down and play Civil War, or something similar thats riffbased.


If you are a beginner I would suggest you to play easy chordbased songs like, I used to love her, patience, sweet child o mine, knocking on heavens door etc etc in order to train fingermovement during chordprogressions.

Than you start playing stuff like smells like teen spirit in order to learn the art of quintchords.


+ its Em, G, A, C, D, G during the "where do we go " part.

[CheapJon]

hog bitch stomp

[spank]

GNR-Used to love her
Bob Dylan- Knocking on heaven?s door
Nirvana-Come as you are
John Lennon-Imagine

[stolat]

Any types of blues

[stolat]

If this is a thread dedicated to easy songs. For beginners.
Why than people speak about crap like Civil War, Coma and Bucketheadstuff?

If you are a beginner struggling with barr?chords etc etc, you dont sit down and play Civil War, or something similar thats riffbased.


If you are a beginner I would suggest you to play easy chordbased songs like, I used to love her, patience, sweet child o mine, knocking on heavens door etc etc in order to train fingermovement during chordprogressions.

Than you start playing stuff like smells like teen spirit in order to learn the art of quintchords.


+ its Em, G, A, C, D, G during the "where do we go " part.

I learnt how to do barrechords in 14 weeks! Easy when the theory is explained. You just think 4 frets up.

[Vadin]

I'd say "Come as you are" by nirvana.. That's the first song I ever learned

I actually learned how to play the SCOM-intro right after that.. 

[2112]

If this is a thread dedicated to easy songs. For beginners.
Why than people speak about crap like Civil War, Coma and Bucketheadstuff?

If you are a beginner struggling with barr?chords etc etc, you dont sit down and play Civil War, or something similar thats riffbased.


If you are a beginner I would suggest you to play easy chordbased songs like, I used to love her, patience, sweet child o mine, knocking on heavens door etc etc in order to train fingermovement during chordprogressions.

Than you start playing stuff like smells like teen spirit in order to learn the art of quintchords.


+ its Em, G, A, C, D, G during the "where do we go " part.

I learnt how to do barrechords in 14 weeks! Easy when the theory is explained. You just think 4 frets up.

Its alot of muscle memory too.
But you knew how to play other chords before learning to play an Fm etc etc.

What I meant was that this thread had gotten braggieful.

[stolat]

If this is a thread dedicated to easy songs. For beginners.
Why than people speak about crap like Civil War, Coma and Bucketheadstuff?

If you are a beginner struggling with barr?chords etc etc, you dont sit down and play Civil War, or something similar thats riffbased.


If you are a beginner I would suggest you to play easy chordbased songs like, I used to love her, patience, sweet child o mine, knocking on heavens door etc etc in order to train fingermovement during chordprogressions.

Than you start playing stuff like smells like teen spirit in order to learn the art of quintchords.


+ its Em, G, A, C, D, G during the "where do we go " part.

I learnt how to do barrechords in 14 weeks! Easy when the theory is explained. You just think 4 frets up.

Its alot of muscle memory too.
But you knew how to play other chords before learning to play an Fm etc etc.

What I meant was that this thread had gotten braggieful.

Braggieful! I'll give you braggieful!!!! Good thing I've been playing the piano since 8 and dabbled in the violin as well!!  Just letting people know that barrechords can be done in that time. A lecturer at uni can teaches basic guitar for 1 semester and then in second semester uses that theory to teach barre chords. By the end of that semester they make alot of sense. Not a bad course!

By the way, an easy song for a beginner using barre chords is Saltwater by Julian Lennon. 

[dr.kool]

Stand by me is quite easy, the first song i ever learned.

[Verasa]

If you know your open chords/ barre chords take your pick...theres thousands.. my first songs were smoke on the water, iron man, back in black, turn the page, old man... they are all real simple songs to learn.

[AXL 20]

I was bored one day and there is this guy in Canada posting "Learn a song a day" stuff on youtube so if you search "LASAD guitar" you'll find a bunch of his lessons. Steppenwolf's born to be wild is up there. Not for absolute beginners, but when you get your slides and finger stretches down its really easy and fun.