Beginner Guitar Songs

It requires a lot of skill, practice and patience to learn to play guitar. The guitar is considered to be the hardest musical instrument to learn. Many beginners get discouraged when they are not able to play songs and give up playing the guitar. However, you should not let failure at the beginner level affect you and you should keep practicing some easy songs on the guitar. You should try your hand by playing songs, as they help you focus on the power chords, string bending, the minor pentatonic scale,etc. There are many popular songs that will help you learn the required skills and techniques to play the musical instrument. The following list of beginner songs will help you easily learn the basic guitar techniques.

Popular Guitar Songs for Beginners

While you are learning to play the guitar, it is very important to maintain the smooth learning curve. The easy beginner songs have one or two progressions that repeat throughout the song. This helps you gain some confidence with your instrument. Play along the original track, strumming evenly and on time. You need to play the chords first and carry out one single strum on every new chord. Mute the strings and practice the strum with the recording. Then just do half the strum on every individual chord and move up to full strum. This will help you build each individual element of the guitar songs rather than play the song in one go. You can begin with the following list:

• 'Wonderful Tonight' ~ Eric Clapton
• 'Please Mr. Postman' ~ The Beatles
• 'Wonderwall' ~ Oasis
• 'Stand by Me' ~ Ben E. King
• 'Free Falling' ~ Tom Petty
• 'Yellow' ~ Coldplay
• 'Come on Get Higher' ~ Matt Nathanson
• 'Sweet Home Alabama' ~ Lynyrd Skynard
• 'You're Beautiful' ~ James Blunt
• 'Lost' ~ Coldplay

Guitar Songs for Kids

• 'Smoke on the Water' ~ Deep Purple
• 'Louie, Louie' ~ The Kingsmen
• 'For What it's Worth' ~ Buffalo Springfield
• 'If You're Happy and You Know It'
• 'Oh Susanna'
• 'Loch Lomond'

Beginner Guitar Songs with Chords

• 'A Horse with No Name' ~ America
• 'For What It's Worth' ~ Buffalo Springfield
• 'Feeling Alright' ~ Dave Mason
• 'Knocking on Heaven Door' ~ Bob Dylan
• 'Wild Thing as Performed' ~ Troggs
• 'Time of Your Life' ~ Green Day
• 'Wish You Were Here' ~ Pink Floyd
• 'Redemption' ~ Bob Marley
• 'Hurt' ~ Johnny Cash
• 'Three Marlenas' ~ The Wallflowers

Easy Songs to be Played on the Guitar

• 'Wild World' ~ Cat Stevens
• 'Heart of Gold' ~ Neil Young
• 'Tangled Up in Blue' ~ Bob Dylan
• 'Fire' ~ Bruce Springsteen
• 'Happy' ~ The Rolling Stones
• 'Love The One You're With' ~ Stephen Stills
• 'I Shot the Sheriff' ~ Bob Marley
• 'Going to Kansas City' ~ The Blues
• 'Feelin' Alright' ~ I Got Rhythm
• 'Banana Pancakes' ~ Jake Johnson
• 'Seven Nation Army' ~ The White Stripes

If you still ain't satisfied with the above numbers, then you can refer to the following list of songs.

• 'Lay Lady Lay' ~ Bob Dylan
• 'Seven Nation Army' ~ The White Stripes
• 'Play with Fire' ~ The Rolling Stones
• 'Comfortably Numb' ~ Pink Floyd 'Hey There Delihah' ~ Plain White T's
• 'Man on the Moon' ~ R.E.M
• 'Help' ~ The Beatles
• 'Brain Damage' ~ Pink Floyd
• 'God Put A Smile Upon Your Face' ~ Coldplay

You may get frustrated at times and feel like giving up on the guitar lessons. It is quite normal as guitar is not easy to play. You need to practice daily and master the basic skills. Try playing the same song, as many times as required until you master a specific tab or chord. Once you learn the basic songs, you can move up to the advanced guitar songs. The basic line is never give up, as practice makes a man perfect.