beginner songs?
hey i'm pretty new to guitar and i am wondering what is the best songs to get started on for electric guitar?
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Originally Posted by: toddnj16hey i'm pretty new to guitar and i am wondering what is the best songs to get started on for electric guitar?
Try Wild Thing by the Troggs - there is a lesson on this site
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Just about any AC/DC or old punk songs. Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Maybe Iron Man, as well. Smoke On The Water, by Deep Purple. Just some ideas off the top of my head.
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Living After Midnight by Judas Priest.
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"-Victor Hugo
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I did "I Love Rock and Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Pretty easy to memorize, repeats itself alot, isn't really fast and has a nice easy bend to start you out on those.
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Originally Posted by: GuitardedGeezerI did "I Love Rock and Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Pretty easy to memorize, repeats itself alot, isn't really fast and has a nice easy bend to start you out on those.
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Agreed. It's also paced to make it easier to make the chord changes less frustrating. When I was teaching someone and they wanted not only to know chords and stuff but a song to 'get', I did this one (way back when, I used to teach beginners...). Not everyone wanted to learn it but it is a good song to use because of the ease of chords and pace.
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If you're more into older stuff (old geezer talkin' here) you might take a look at some of Crosby, Stills and Nash's songs. I particularly like Southern Cross for basic, open chord progressions. It's a straight-forward A, G, D progression with a little Bm thrown in later. And it's a good tempo to play along to as you listen as well.
Hope this helps...
Hope this helps...
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You could also try some of the slower arpeggiated chord songs, for example:
Everybody Hurts by REM - D, G, Em and A from memory
Wonderful tonight by Clapton - G, D, C, Em and a bar of G7
They sound more intricat than they ae, and give you the chance to move between chords with a little room to breathe in between. You can vary patterns and be musical in your own way as well. There are loads of these, so once you get the idea of playing a chord one string at a time down, you can move up the ladder with it.
Green Day songs are also very easy in general, and apart form the altered tunings Nirvana are also a good et - 'About a Girl' is standard tuning and very easy - mostly just Em and G. All these suggestions can be played entiredly with open chords...
Everybody Hurts by REM - D, G, Em and A from memory
Wonderful tonight by Clapton - G, D, C, Em and a bar of G7
They sound more intricat than they ae, and give you the chance to move between chords with a little room to breathe in between. You can vary patterns and be musical in your own way as well. There are loads of these, so once you get the idea of playing a chord one string at a time down, you can move up the ladder with it.
Green Day songs are also very easy in general, and apart form the altered tunings Nirvana are also a good et - 'About a Girl' is standard tuning and very easy - mostly just Em and G. All these suggestions can be played entiredly with open chords...
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nirvana songs are easy...about a girl? something in the way may be the easiest song ever...
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