subject: Choosing A Beginner Guitar Song Discover 3 Easy Guitar Songs To Learn To Play [print this page] Learning how to play guitar can be great fun but when you are starting out it can be quite difficult to find easy beginner guitar songs to play. The guitar is considered by many to be one of the hardest instruments to learn and for the first few days' progress can seem to be very slow. If you can find an easy beginner guitar song to play you will feel that you are improving and you will start to enjoy it more. But how do you choose good beginner guitar songs that will help you learn the guitar but not be so easy that it will bore you? Even if you only have a basic knowledge of the guitar, these 3 songs will really help to move your technique up to the next level fast...
Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode (beginner guitar song chords needed - A D and E)
As a good beginner guitar song this song is a timeless classic and something that nearly every rock god on a guitar will have played somewhere down the line. The basic 12 bar blues chord progression is actually very easy to get to grips with. It's based around these 3 basic chords A D and E. You dont even need to play the full chords. To start with all you need to do is put your 1st finger on the 2nd fret of the 4th string and strum the 5th and the 4th string both together. Even with just a small amount of overdrive on your amp, when you play these 2 strings together you will get a cool sounding "beginners power chord"!
Oasis Wonderwall (beginner guitar song chords needed - E min G D A C)
If you are into acoustic playing this is one of the more modern day classic beginner guitar songs and it has a great chord structure built into it. It also uses something i like to call "The Anchoring Technique". This is where you will play a chord and then move to the next chord but will leave one of your fret fingers in the same place from the previous chord. This technique was also used very cleverly in the song Hero by Enrique which is another good beginner song to help you to learn the guitar.
Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight (beginner guitar song chords needed - G D C with an E min sneaked in!)
Although Clapton is an awesome blues player he also did some classic pop songs. The main lead break is quite easy to play because it's based around the same 4 or 5 notes. If you are just starting out learning how to play guitar and you want to try some easy clean lead guitar with some simple string bending this is really good one to look at. If your guitar has 3 single coil pickups you can easily get that lovely sweet "out of phase" sound sound by flicking your selector switch to the mid way position between the back and the middle pickup. The chords are easy to play and because it is a pretty slow song you should find changing from one chord to the next no problem.
When you start anything new, being able to get to a certain standard is going to take time and a fair amount patience. By learning how to play with these simple beginner guitar songs you will soon see yourself progressing quickly. It's easy to understand why beginners can get really frustrated in the beginning, but once you've mastered even some of the basic techniques needed to learn the guitar you will soon be rocking out with the best of them.
