subject: Learning Easy Guitar Songs On Your Guitar [print this page] What do you look for when attempting to find easy guitar songs for beginning guitarists? Are there specific artists, genres of music, or famous titles? While there may be some similarities in the easier music to play, it is often completely random. The guitarist, unfortunately, needs to know the songs that are easier before going out and purchasing tablature for them. While locating easy guitar songs can be a hassle, this article will provide some helpful insight on certain songs worth checking out for newer players.
Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's - This is a terrific song for beginning guitarists to work with because it shows how simple pop music can give you incredible experience and knowhow working with partial chords. In addition, it changes chords on the fly and will help someone learn how to adjust quickly during the song.
Help! by the Beatles - This song gives experience with walking bass lines. Many others do as well, but this one ought to be a good challenge for beginners. Also, it provides a good introduction to barre chords.
Harvest Moon by Neil Young - You can have a lot of fun learning about strumming and Drop D tuning with Harvest Moon; not to mention it is a fun song to play anyway.
It's Too Late by Carole King - Many new guitarists tend to think piano songs are impossible for them to learn, especially early on in their playing. Not true! You cannot build a collection of easy guitar songs without this classic. This song will illustrate the importance of arranging music in such a way that it is playable on guitar even though that was not the original instrument used. It also will show the importance of seventh chords and using rhythms to create hooks.
Here are a few more songs worth checking out. They may be challenging, but are not impossible easy guitar songs for beginners to play: Happy by the Rolling Stones, Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan, Riders on the Storm by the Doors, I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley and House of the Rising Sun by the Animals.
Obviously, this is not the end of the list. There are many, many more easy guitar songs that are worth examining, and perhaps purchasing. Working through these will help a new guitarist in his or her quest to play many more styles on different levels of difficulty. That is why it is so important to get new guitarists started on actual music early on in lessons. They will have goals and a new enthusiasm for learning.
