Suggest songs for a new guitarist
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M5-911 said:
Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix?
Creep by Radiohead?
The man who sold the world by "Nirvana"?
Maybe to easy?
Quite a few barr chords in Creep (not gone there yet). Hendrix may be OK. Nivana had some less usual chords but they all look simple enough. Are they more suited to electric? Creep by Radiohead?
The man who sold the world by "Nirvana"?
Maybe to easy?
I've been playing for about a year. 2 of mine I like playing and can play pretty well are:
Half the world away by Oasis
Have you ever seen the rain by CCR
I would recommend Blackbird too. It seems a bit daunting initially, but it doesn't take long to learn. I'm not up to full speed with it, but its great to practice coordination.
Half the world away by Oasis
Have you ever seen the rain by CCR
I would recommend Blackbird too. It seems a bit daunting initially, but it doesn't take long to learn. I'm not up to full speed with it, but its great to practice coordination.
triggerhappy21 said:
I've been playing for about a year. 2 of mine I like playing and can play pretty well are:
Half the world away by Oasis
Have you ever seen the rain by CCR
I would recommend Blackbird too. It seems a bit daunting initially, but it doesn't take long to learn. I'm not up to full speed with it, but its great to practice coordination.
Oasis HAWA was actually a song I shou,ld have looked at over the summer before I went down The Verve rabbit hole. Half the world away by Oasis
Have you ever seen the rain by CCR
I would recommend Blackbird too. It seems a bit daunting initially, but it doesn't take long to learn. I'm not up to full speed with it, but its great to practice coordination.
The CCR one looks very doable. Blackbird has that C, G, A7 fast fingers bit? I wil try that bar and see how it feels.
I use the Ultimate Guitar tabs & chords app a lot of the time, rather than buy physical sheet music (I don't read music, just the tab versions), and there are a huge range of songs to choose from.
I've just checked now and you can filter by tuning, genre and difficulty (amongst others), so if you just want to learn to play without wanting to learn a particular band or musician's music (e.g. I just wanted to play along to Def Leppard!) then there's a lot of choice.
There's also plenty of lessons on the app too, although you'd probably have to pay for some of them.
In terms of recommendations, REM and Oasis have quite a few songs that are easy to learn (and you can always just strum chords instead of playing the more intricate parts), or there's always Neil Young or Tom Petty? If you're OK with different tunings then go for the Rolling Stones or Bon Iver (or Nick Drake).
PS - there's also a series of books called White Pages, which are basically compilations of sheet music/tab. I've got about 4 volumes of them, about 100-ish songs in each, and there's also an Acoustic Guitar White Pages too.
I've just checked now and you can filter by tuning, genre and difficulty (amongst others), so if you just want to learn to play without wanting to learn a particular band or musician's music (e.g. I just wanted to play along to Def Leppard!) then there's a lot of choice.
There's also plenty of lessons on the app too, although you'd probably have to pay for some of them.
In terms of recommendations, REM and Oasis have quite a few songs that are easy to learn (and you can always just strum chords instead of playing the more intricate parts), or there's always Neil Young or Tom Petty? If you're OK with different tunings then go for the Rolling Stones or Bon Iver (or Nick Drake).
PS - there's also a series of books called White Pages, which are basically compilations of sheet music/tab. I've got about 4 volumes of them, about 100-ish songs in each, and there's also an Acoustic Guitar White Pages too.
Animal said:
I use the Ultimate Guitar tabs & chords app a lot of the time, rather than buy physical sheet music (I don't read music, just the tab versions), and there are a huge range of songs to choose from.
I've just checked now and you can filter by tuning, genre and difficulty (amongst others), so if you just want to learn to play without wanting to learn a particular band or musician's music (e.g. I just wanted to play along to Def Leppard!) then there's a lot of choice.
There's also plenty of lessons on the app too, although you'd probably have to pay for some of them.
In terms of recommendations, REM and Oasis have quite a few songs that are easy to learn (and you can always just strum chords instead of playing the more intricate parts), or there's always Neil Young or Tom Petty? If you're OK with different tunings then go for the Rolling Stones or Bon Iver (or Nick Drake).
PS - there's also a series of books called White Pages, which are basically compilations of sheet music/tab. I've got about 4 volumes of them, about 100-ish songs in each, and there's also an Acoustic Guitar White Pages too.
I have used Ultimate Guitar. I usually copy out the lyrics and chords. I will have a look at White Pages. I wont mess with my tuning quite yet, but I could retune my old guitar.I've just checked now and you can filter by tuning, genre and difficulty (amongst others), so if you just want to learn to play without wanting to learn a particular band or musician's music (e.g. I just wanted to play along to Def Leppard!) then there's a lot of choice.
There's also plenty of lessons on the app too, although you'd probably have to pay for some of them.
In terms of recommendations, REM and Oasis have quite a few songs that are easy to learn (and you can always just strum chords instead of playing the more intricate parts), or there's always Neil Young or Tom Petty? If you're OK with different tunings then go for the Rolling Stones or Bon Iver (or Nick Drake).
PS - there's also a series of books called White Pages, which are basically compilations of sheet music/tab. I've got about 4 volumes of them, about 100-ish songs in each, and there's also an Acoustic Guitar White Pages too.
Slightly obscure suggestion but with logic - Hey Julie, Fountains of Wayne.
Good acoustic tune, bright & pacey, so it's fun to play if for no other reason it keeps you busy and uses basic chords with C add9 which introduces a simple altered voicing & has one (Bm) barre chord which you can play without barring if required, so stretches your playing a little in the right direction.
When you inevitably move on to electric, I'd say a must learn song is Blur - Charmless man.
I'd put this in GCSE electric guitar if I was actual president. It has every technique you ever need outside of metal shredding. Barre chords, open chords, descending bass lines, hammer ons, pull offs, slurs, unison bends, trills, a full guitar solo & it's still nowhere near being their best song. Graham Coxon is an operator.
Good acoustic tune, bright & pacey, so it's fun to play if for no other reason it keeps you busy and uses basic chords with C add9 which introduces a simple altered voicing & has one (Bm) barre chord which you can play without barring if required, so stretches your playing a little in the right direction.
When you inevitably move on to electric, I'd say a must learn song is Blur - Charmless man.
I'd put this in GCSE electric guitar if I was actual president. It has every technique you ever need outside of metal shredding. Barre chords, open chords, descending bass lines, hammer ons, pull offs, slurs, unison bends, trills, a full guitar solo & it's still nowhere near being their best song. Graham Coxon is an operator.
Edited by President Merkin on Tuesday 24th September 08:44
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