Songs every guitarist should know how to play...
 

Post, and add whether it's for an amateur, rookie, or steve vai-wannabee.


Wonderwall (Oasis) - amateur

Soldier's poem (Muse) - amateur





As you can see, I'm an amateur...

Why should everyone know such a boring song to play like Soldier's Poem

I agree with 'Paul43 it's pretty boring.

But I think everyone DOES know Smoke On The Water, but obviously you don't HAVE to know it just most people do.

That's what I would've said... I think it's just a song that most guitarists first learn how to play. Also Smells Like Teen Spirit, every decent guitarist I've met plays that song.

Well yeah, I'm an amateur myself, it was one of the first songs that sounded easy, so I taught myself. It's emotional bondage I guess. :laughing:

sweet child o' mine, johnny b good, master of puppets, smoke on the water, 007 theme, etc. just random easy bollocks.

Iron Man hook.

Everyone should learn this - Pachabel's 'Canon in D':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5f...d&search=canon

I'm surprised noone has said Stairway to heaven yet. Almost every novice knows how to play atleast the beginning of it

Enter Sandman is a very easy one that most people can play. I recommend learning Master Of Puppets, its pretty good and somewhat difficult.

Beginner - Pyscho Killer by the Talking Heads on acoustic. Simple and effective...it was my first tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqBlpd4mxAA... only for Gypsies and God.

All they usually know is the first riff and by the way it is on distorted hammond organ not guitar.

For electric guitar:

The "whole lotta love" riff is good value.

Sabbath's "Paranoid" is classic.

ACDC "back in black" is also tasty.

Master of puppets is great but to play it right is pretty tricky.

Eventually every guitarist should build up a list of theme tunes to fill the boredom gap,

my list,

pink panther, the flinstones, star wars, tetris, the muppets, 007, mission imposible, lord of the rings....etc. as you can see i tend to get bored quite easily :)
and it's always fun to learn these if you happen to have an incredibly short attention span.

*Doesn't say anything, just coughs slightly*

Time of Your Life is a fun song to learn too:p:

10+ Songs that are either good, easy or both:

1. "Sunshine Of Your Love" by Eric Clapton.

2. "Paranoid" by Tony Iommi.

3. The whole Nevermind album by Kurt Cobain.

4. "Enter Sandman" by James Hetfield.

5. "Iron Man" by Tony Iommi.

6. "Crazy Train" by Randy Rhoads.

7. "Thunder Kiss 65" by White Zombie.

8. "Back In Black" by Angus Young.

9. "Hell's Bells" by Angus Young.

10. "Riff Raff" by Angus Young.



All of the above songs were fun to learn when I was developing my guitar skills.Some are more easier than others, so try to perfect every one with time.Good luck to yall.:beer:

Dirty Dancing?:laughing:

Yup I totally agree, when I started that was probably the 3rd song I learned...next to Pens and Needles by Hawthorne Heights

Great list.
No Zeppelin though.
How about "Whole lotta love"?

High satisfaction rating on that one.

The furst song/solo i learned wus the solo from what i got by sublime. Surprisingly it wus easy enough for me to learn...haha...then i started learning three doors down songs, which are easy too....nd some green day. Green Day is mainly power chords tho....so those songs are easy.

Anything by Green Day.

How I Wrote Elastic Man by The Fall

Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria

Super rad riffs, lots of fun to play

Oh Shenandoah. It's easy and fun as hell to sing.

nirvana - smells like teen spirits

foo fighters - monkey wrench

i can do the both on bass but on the normal guitar theyre hard but good.

Iron maiden - the trooper (main riff)

Oh yeah baby!! I used to rock out with that one in high school jammin with my buds.

It's so easy and fun to play :D

Stairway To Heaven
 

Sure learn it. But don't play it in the music store LOL!!

my favorite is little wing by jimi hendrix

My Iron Lung by Radiohead's pretty easy. Really fun to play, too.

Iron Man
Smoke on The Water
Brown Eyed Girl
Kashmir
Back In Black
War Pigs
Black Sabbath
Stairway to heaven
Purple Haze

Wild thing.........troggs good easy song

bad to the bone

nancy boy
hey joe
Oh my god I cant believe it

just a few that are easy to play.

Alright Now by Free.
Hard to Handle by the Black Crowes.
Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
any song by Thin Lizzy or Metallica.

All stuff that you need to have the basics right to make sound good

How long does it take to get reasonable good on guitar
 

Just started playing 2 months ago and I am making good progress as I have been praticing at least one hour a day but I'm wondering how long should I expect before I can play well?

The more you practice, the better you'll get, and the more you'll realise you have so much more to learn.
Try and play with other, more experienced players, wo will help with hints about techniqe, and teach you new things.

REMEMBER - nothing worth doing ever comes easy.

One day soon, you'll be passing on your knowlege to people in the same place you are now, so stick at it, and above all, ENJOY!!!