Best Songs to Learn on Guitar: Top 101 for Beginners Upwards
Stuck for inspiration and fancy learning a new song to play on your acoustic or electric guitar? Get your teeth into these bad boys...
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As a musician and guitar tutor, you can imagine how many songs I've taught pupils to play over the years I've taught.
From pop to rock to folk, from strumming guitar songs to gorgeous fingerpicking songs (and pretty much everything in-between) it's bags of fun learning to play a new song on your guitar.
Some guitar students know what songs they want to learn, while others want help and guidance from me to choose the right pieces to learn that will help them play the guitar the best.
Either way, I encourage all my guys and gals (beginner guitarists or experienced guitar players) to tell me about songs they love.
Who wants to learn Ba Ba Black Sheep if you're more into Black Sabbath? Stuff that.
To help inspire you to grab your guitar and add a new song to your repertoire, here's an epic list of some of the most popular songs for people of all ages and abilities to learn on their acoustic and electric guitar.
So, here it comes. In no particular order, the juicy list of 101 most popular songs to learn on the guitar.
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Ed Sheeran - Small Bump
The Eagles - Hotel California
Extreme - More Than Words
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
The Beatles - Blackbird
Oasis - Wonderwall
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Jo
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Foo Fighters - The Pretender
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Coldplay - Yellow
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Jimi Hendrix - Red House
Free - Alright Now
Katy Perry - Firework
Avril Lavigne - I'm With You
The Troggs - Wild Thing
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californiacation
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
The Beatles - Mother Nature's Son
Joni Mitchell - Little Green
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
Nickelback - Rockstar
Guns n Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine
Don Mclean - American Pie
Leonard Cohen / Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Rod Stewart - Handbags and Gladrags
Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Bob Dylan - Knocking On Heavens Door
Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
Catavina - From The Deer Hunter
Sting - Shape Of My Heart
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
James Taylor - You've Got a Friend
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
The Rolling Stones - Angie
The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
Johnny Cash - Hurt
James Bay - Hold Back The River
Radiohead - Creep
Adele - Someone Like You
Foo Fighters - Best Of You
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
Rihanna - Umbrella
Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love With You
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
AC/DC - Hells Bells
Blur - Song 2
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
Muse - Plug In Baby
Passenger - Let Her Go
Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
The Beatles - Day Tripper
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
Free - My Brother Jake
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Chic - Le Freak
Radiohead - Just
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - My Friends
Adele - Rolling In The Deep
America - Horse With No Name
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Prince - Gold
Skunk Anansie - Picking On Me
Nickelback - Remind Me
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Jessie J - Nobody's Perfect
Charlene Soraia - Wherever You Will Go
Damien Rice - Cannonball
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