Well I'm a "novice"
So these bands song are hard to play in my opinion

Hinder
Nickelback
Seether
Offspring
Foo fighters
Paramore
Good charlotte
Lostprophets
Eric johnson
Nirvana
Rise against

And these are just a few

In my opinion those bands aren't in the "hard to play category" but clearly we are at two completely opposite points in our playing. My advice... forget about it... maybe try and work out a song or two but don't kill yourself over it. Practice a bunch of easier songs, and then when the time comes, get back to those.

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What I used to do when I first started out and I couldn't play very much of anything, other than stuff I made up myself, was to play lead/solo along with my favourite songs. It didn't matter whether I was playing the right or wrong notes, just as long as it sounded ok.. SO obviously a basically level of scales/soloing is required but nothing more than that..

Also, another thing that helped me get along with music was power-chords.. both the 2-string and 3-string variety.. though starting with the 2-string power-chords makes it much easier, obviously. You take the two most basic barre chord shapes and strip them down to 2 or 3 strings. Let's use the A chord in the E-shape barre chord, and the D chord in the A-shape barre chord, as examples:

The A barre chord using E-shape:
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||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|--2--|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--4--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--3--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|-----|

The 2-string power A chord using E-shape:
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--3--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|-----|




The D barre chord using A-shape:
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--3--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--3--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|--3--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|-----|
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The 2-string power D chord using E-shape:
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--3--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|



Note that you are only playing the 2 strings and all the other strings are muted/not being played.. To play the 3-string power chord, you just add an extra string... There is more to it of course.. the theory of it would most likely suggest that a 3-string power chord would contain the 1st, 5th and 7th note of the scale.. but that could confuse things if you're just starting out...

One last example.. this time of the 3-string power A chord using the E-shape as a foundation again:
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||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--x--|-----|-----|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--4--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--3--|
||-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|-----|-----|


Once you get the timing, feel, tone, rhythm etc working, then you will be able to play more and more of the song.. Start off slow and easy and work towards getting to the point of playing the proper chords and so forth..

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These bands are definitely not in the "hard to play" category. These are the songs that you learn as a beginner pretty much lol. You said you were new so thats ok. Just remember that you have YEARS ahead of you of not being able to play songs. Everyone still practices so keep at it.

Eh, keep trying to learn what you want to learn and don't think something is too hard to play. If you think it's too hard then it will be too hard.....kinda like a mind trick. Just my opinion anyway....

I did it the hard way. When I first started guitar, I bought the tab book for the first Van Halen album....Took me a while, but I learned that whole album as a beginner.

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That is the only one you named that should be in the "hard to play" category.

Give it time. Practice. The songs from those bands will get easier with time. Try to play them now. Practice and come back to them in the future. You will be surprised how easy they really.

Except for Eric Johnson. That will remain hard for quite sometime, unless you get extremely good extremely fast.

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I'll give you Rise Against. Their stuff is all power chords, but its quick changes and long slides.

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