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20 Easy Beginner Guitar Songs (That'll Impress Your Friends)
Easy acoustic and electric beginner friendly songs with links to FREE Tab - hardly any barre chords guaranteed
You're looking for the best easy beginner guitar songs you can learn aren't you? That's a smart move.
Why? Because it doesn't matter if you're a total beginner or if you're simply looking for some fresh inspiration and motivation - learning some easy songs is the way to go.
Easy Should Mean Easy
Here's the bottom line - we will only include songs in this list that are genuinely beginner friendly. That's a relief I can almost hear you thinking. This is because we'd never want to kid you that a song containing a boatload of barre chords, complicated fast chord changes or tricky technical playing is 'easy'.
You see, from years of experience teaching guitar players of all abilities, the main thing beginners say they get aggravated with are the endless "Top Easy Guitar Songs" lists online that contain, well, not easy guitar songs!
So rest assured you won't find songs like Stairway To Heaven (which is actually very technical and requires layers of playing skill to play decently) anywhere near this list.
Before we reveal the best easy beginner guitar songs you should start to learn, here are 3 practice tips for the total beginners out of you reading this. Follow these steps and prepare to impress.
3 Essential Practice Tips
Tip #1. Make sure you know the important beginner chords
Hands-up if your knowledge of the essential open chords is a bit dodgy...Never fear, click the button below to grab your free PDF "Epic Smart Guitar Chord Chart" below. Here you'll find twelve chord diagrams showing the beginner chords every player needs to know.
Tip #2. Practice the chord changes over and over
You need to learn how to play guitar to be able to play songs properly. This is one crucial fact you need to know about learning to play guitar. Further reading: a valuable indepth step by step guide revealing the 10 Step How To Change Chords Faster, Easier Smoother Formula.
Tip #3. Play along with the song recordings
Once you start to get the chords sounding clean, the only way you'll learn to play a song well is to play along with it. If you miss this vital (and fun) step out, how will you ever know you have the timing, rhythm and phrasing right?
Now you are armed with the know-how you need to help you learn these easy songs the best way, let's get to the list.
Top 20 Easy Beginner Songs To Play On Guitar
1. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Song key: A
Chords or Picking: Both
2. Wild Thing - The Troggs
Song key: A
Chords or Picking: Chords
Official tab/chord book | Ultimate Guitar tab/chords
3. The Beatles - Eight Days a Week
Song key: D
Chords or Picking: Chords
4. Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Song key: A
Chords or Picking: Chords
5. A Horse With No Name - America
Song key: Em
Chords or Picking: Chords
6. Creep - Radiohead
Song key: G
Chords or Picking: Chords (inc 2 x barre)
7. Imagine - John Lennon
Song key: C
Chords or Picking: Chords
8. Son Of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Song key: E
Chords or Picking: Both
9. Oasis - Live Forever
Song key: G
Chords or Picking: Chords
10. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Song key: Am
Chords or Picking: Both
11. Sing - Travis
Song key: F#m (capo fret 3 using key of Em chords)
Chords or Picking: Chords
Useful Accessory: Capo - amazon.co.uk | amazon.com
12. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
Song key: F (G capo fret 3)
Chords or Picking: Chords ( inc 1 x barre)
Useful Accessory: Capo - amazon.co.uk | amazon.com
13. Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
Song key: C
Chords or Picking: Chords
14. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Song key: Fm
Chords or Picking: Chords (power chords)
15. Small Bump - Ed Sheeran
Song key: Gm (Em capo fret 3)
Chords or Picking: Chords
Useful Accessory: Capo - amazon.co.uk | amazon.com
16. Knocking On Heavens Door - Bob Dylan
Song key: G
Chords or Picking: Chords
17. What's Up - Four Non Blondes
Song key: A (G capo fret 2)
Chords or Picking: Chords
Useful Accessory: Capo - amazon.co.uk | amazon.com
18. Pink - What About Us
Song key: Fm (Em capo fret 1)
Chords or Picking: Both
Useful Accessory: Capo - amazon.co.uk | amazon.com
19. Handbags And Gladrags - Rod Stewart
Song key: G
Chords or Picking: Chords
20. Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's
Song key: D
Chords or Picking: Both
Official tab/chord book | Ultimate Guitar tab/chords
Summing It Up
There you have it. Some brilliant easy acoustic and electric guitar songs for you beginners and beyond to get learning.
Which songs do you already know how to play? Which are you going to start learning today? Let us all know in the comments below. We'd love to know!
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