Beginner stuff

[Kevin Taylor]

I'm putting together some beginner stuff for the site and need some ideas on easy songs to tab out. ie, 5 songs each with easy chords and easy riffs.
Something equivalent to Smoke on the Water or Satisfaction but more up-to-date so that guys today would recognize them.
Any suggestions?

[Hammurabi]

"When I come around" by green day is about as easy as it gets. Pretty much every song by Bush is good for beginners.

[Akira]

I remember "Good Ridance (Time of your life)", by Greenday, being one of the first songs I learnt with regards to easy chords.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

just about anything punk rock..... and I'm serious too... they just have like 3 or 4 power chords in the entire fricken song... or, "la-la" by ashlee simspon... awesome song! yet freakishly easy

[Kevin Taylor]

Well, this is what I got so far.


Nirvana About a Girl
All Apologies
Come As You Are
Smells Like Teen Spirit

Pearl Jam Alive
Better Man

Coldplay See You Soon

Green Day Time of Your Life

Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine
Paradise

Animals House of The Rising Sun

Black Sabbath Iron Man

Van Halen Ain't Talking 'Bout Love

Rush Xanadu (beginning riff)
La Villa Strangiato (beginning guitar chord)

Triumph/Joe Walsh Rocky Mountain Way

[Akira]

That sounds great so far.

[CW14]

Metallica
-Nothing Else Matters
-Enter Sandman

Led Zep
- STARIWOT 2 H34V3N

Black Sabbath
- Paranoid

Pink Floyd
- Is there Anybody Out There?
- Another Brick in the Wall
- Comfortably Numb

[Akira]

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

[Kevin Taylor]

I'm having a heck of a time trying to find stuff that's easy enough for somebody who's never played guitar before.
ie, preferably single string riffs or simple open chords... no barre chords.

[ren]

What about the Nirvana unplugged album? or Bob Dylan? My missus can't play guitar, but she can still throw out some Dylan tunes....

Knocking on heaven's door springs to mind.... G'NR version might be more contemporary, and it's got a relatively easy lead... and while on GNR, 'Don't Cry' is all open chords isn't it?

Oh, and 'Wonderwall' or 'Live Forever' by Oasis - irritating, but easy for a total newbie....

[Kevin Taylor]

Kewl, thanks, I'll check em out.

Nirvana is screwed unfortunately, cause they detune their guitars a whole step.
I could redo em in regular tuning or maybe try and explain what detuning is, but these beginner things are supposed to be for guys who've never picked up a guitar before, so I don't know if they'd understand what the heck I'm talking about

[spiritinthesky2]

Eric Clapton's wonderful tonigt was the first song I learned and it's only 4 chords.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

dude, I know it's not a single string riff, but, fur elise... it's really easy, I just learned it about 5 minutes ago.
http://www.guitartabs.cc/fetchfile.php?fileid=7499998 for the tabs
perhaps not easy enough for someone who just picked up a guitar yesterday... but, maybe if you just have them do the first line of the tab over and over.

[R. Shackleferd]

You know the first song (& only so far) I taught my wife was "A Horse With No Name". Very repetitive and your hand barely moves. But still good practice for rythym hand newbies, with a slight palm mute here and there.

[Jolly McJollyson]

You know the first song (& only so far) I taught my wife was "A Horse With No Name". Very repetitive and your hand barely moves. But still good practice for rythym hand newbies, with a slight palm mute here and there.
AFTER NINE DAYS I LET THE HORSE RUN FREE CUZ THE DESERT HAD TURNED TO SEA!

[Leedogg]

AFTER NINE DAYS I LET THE HORSE RUN FREE CUZ THE DESERT HAD TURNED TO SEA!

Easy there Pancho.