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lucien762
09-20-2004, 05:30 PM
undefined Ok i got a guitar for X-mas a year or so ago and i used to take lesons but i gave up because my teacher wasnt showing me the things i wanted to learn. One of my friends from school is pretty good with his guitar so i asked him what good songs would be for a begginer and he said he had NO IDEA so im asking anyonw who can help me out by naming some songs for me that might be easy to pick up OTHER THAN smoke on the water lol :) :) :) anything will help


Thanx
arcane science
09-20-2004, 09:59 PM
Try "House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals.
Jolly McJollyson
09-20-2004, 10:25 PM
R.E.M.- Drive

The strokes-12:51

Franz Ferdinand- Take me out

Indie and alternative rock are SO perfect to teach the basics!!!
arcane science
09-20-2004, 10:29 PM
That Franz Ferdinand song has quite the catchy guitar part to it, I may have to check it out myself.
VintageReaper
09-20-2004, 11:07 PM
Metallica - Battery
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Megadeth - Angry Again
Norther - Endless War
Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno (heheheh)
Pink Floyd - Marooned
Europe - The Final Countdown...

Oh wait... easy songs? .... whoops.
Jolly McJollyson
09-20-2004, 11:35 PM
Metallica - Battery
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Megadeth - Angry Again
Norther - Endless War
Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno (heheheh)
Pink Floyd - Marooned
Europe - The Final Countdown...

Oh wait... easy songs? .... whoops.

Actually, the trooper's not bad if you're a beginning metal-head.
VintageReaper
09-20-2004, 11:42 PM
Unless you try the solos. For a beginner to play those... I'd be surprised to see it done.
Paul_20
09-25-2004, 08:58 AM
stairway to heaven is pretty easy well most of it but dont try the solo its hard :P
Simon-UK
09-25-2004, 02:30 PM
Depends really on ur style ive just started gettin back in to it all
i find greenday is pritty easy to play and pick up, some hendrix stuff is easy to.
That_Guy_NZ
09-26-2004, 06:23 PM
you could always try enter sandman or nothing else matters by metallica, their easy.
VintageReaper
09-26-2004, 09:02 PM
I swear I'm going to shoot myself next time someone requests I play Enter Sandman. Blegh.
Leedogg
09-28-2004, 01:05 AM
Try some power chordy songs in the beginning. For some lead work, start on some zeppelin riffs, they're pretty easy and recognizable. When I was a beginner I learned all the stuff on this site. (http://www.worldguitar.com/start.html)
Dr_simon
09-28-2004, 06:28 AM
Anything by Bob Dylan
Paul_20
09-29-2004, 04:35 AM
Try some power chordy songs in the beginning. For some lead work, start on some zeppelin riffs, they're pretty easy and recognizable. When I was a beginner I learned all the stuff on this site. (http://www.worldguitar.com/start.html)

hey thats an awesome site thanks :) although i dont understand most of the things like all i know is ^ or b means to bend the string i dont know what hammer on or off etc lol
bob-bobby
09-29-2004, 05:54 AM
@ leedogg , really cool site :)
Leedogg
09-29-2004, 11:57 AM
Thanks guys, glad I could be of help. Check out http://www.cyberfret.com for definitions of all the techniques you asked about Paul_20.
Paul_20
09-29-2004, 04:08 PM
Thanks guys, glad I could be of help. Check out http://www.cyberfret.com for definitions of all the techniques you asked about Paul_20.


cool but where? theres so much crap there i got no idea where to look
Leedogg
09-29-2004, 05:20 PM
click on techniques
Antwon
10-16-2004, 06:43 PM
songs with chords are better than playing songs with riffs. learn all the chords. play songs with easy chords. A, E, D, etc. theres not that many major chords that are hard. once u get chords down u can play many songs. for example, "wild thing" - A A, D D, E E, D D ,
VintageReaper
10-16-2004, 07:55 PM
Who on earth would want to play Wild Thing? :P
Jolly McJollyson
10-16-2004, 10:56 PM
Who on earth would want to play Wild Thing? :P
THIS GUY!!!
VintageReaper
10-16-2004, 11:36 PM
Sigh... besides you. (That was obvious Jolly.) :P
metalfaithfull
10-21-2004, 05:18 PM
easy songs to learn:
seven nation army
any punk song lol
as for metal i soppose you could easily learn one of those poser band songs from bands like slipknot evanesance basicaly any "nu-metal" is boringly easy to learn so go ahead enjoy
:D
VintageReaper
10-21-2004, 06:30 PM
Nu-metal makes my stomach churn.

Children and Bodom and Norther. Mmmm....
JUSTSOMEGUY
10-21-2004, 08:17 PM
First song i ever learned well proper song was probably
CKY - Shippensburg
JUSTSOMEGUY
10-21-2004, 08:18 PM
easy songs to learn:
seven nation army
any punk song lol
as for metal i soppose you could easily learn one of those poser band songs from bands like slipknot evanesance basicaly any "nu-metal" is boringly easy to learn so go ahead enjoy
:D

Your very mistaken check out the new slipknot song pulse of the maggots the solo in sounds pretty damn good and i think its unbelivebly hard but some of the older slipknot songs look pretty easy. :)

P.s. No i dont liek slipknot but that solo is good