What songs to learn ?? New to Guitar.

**muna** · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 2929 Location: South Florida

This video should teach you some easy riffs. It was made by myself, but don;t let that stop you from rating it 5 stars and subscribing

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91QfXu0gTxE
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**greyfus** · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 57 Location: denver, co

i think nirvana songs are the best for learning on. they're simple, easy to learn and very recognizable so when you play them you really feel a sense of accomplishment that's great for positive reinforcement. and they'll teach you most of the basic chords fairly quickly. i also think a lot of offspring, blink 182 and green day songs are the same way.
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**SGPlayer** · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 53 Location: Winston-Salem

Since you're a beginner you're going to want to get your basic chords down. The site at the bottom of this post was very helpful for me when I first started teaching myself how to play guitar and it's good for getting down the fundamentals. Each lesson has a list of songs that you can practice which utilize the techniques you have learned in previous lessons, since you're into hard rock and heavy metal however I would recommend some different ones to start with (as opposed to what's suggested on the site).

AC/DC - "Highway to Hell," "You Shook Me All Night Long," "T.N.T," "Rock N' Roll Train," "Back in Black."
Black Sabbath - "Iron Man"
Cream - "Sunshine of Your Love"
Deep Purple - "Smoke on the Water"
Green Day - "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"
Metallica - "Enter Sandman," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "The Unforgiven"
Michael Jackson - "Beat It" (except for the solo of course to start out)
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

All of the above songs are played in standard tuning (EADGBe) except for "Beat It" which is a half-step down (Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, eb)

http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm
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**clooficarus** · Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 702 Location: Missoula, Montana

Anything off Led Zeppelin III is easy if you want to learn different variations of some great rhythm practice, also for alternate tunings and really easy songs (lol), also for slide if you want (played on steel string acoustic).
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**OCEAT** · Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 357 Location: Boston, MA

These are probably not your favored genre of music, but Cherub Rock, Holiday in Cambodia, Reptilia, and Prayer of the Refugee all have great riffs using octaves, a fun tool to mess around with.
Play Spoonman, Everlong, and Monkey Wrench for drop-D chord madness, and then move up to Killing In The Name. Behind the Mask, a GH1 bonus song, has a nice drop-D riff, and a tricky-yet-awesome verse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA Holiday in Cambodia: Octaves at ~:21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MGH90ra6nE Reptilia: Octaves at ~:14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRPSicCSAIg Cherub Rock: Octaves at :04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOtNqDyyX2c Prayer of the Refugee: Octaves at ~:31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWkbFKJZB0k Spoonman, chords in verse. Also has a fun chorus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crOZk88eCcg Everlong, chordschordschords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKp5v588-Vs Monkey Wrench, the intro is actually kinda hard, but the verses and choruses are one-finger delights. (wait...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msLPZiwZezs Behind the Mask. Cool riffs ftw.

It's been said, but One by Metallica has a really easy intro solo and verse, and distortion can mask any errors in the already easy tapping.
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**GuardianDemon** · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 1792 Location: Ireland

Sorry, i didnt reply goes, i've been busy with shit n gh3customs.

Anyway, thank you all so much

in a few days, i completely learned Metallica's for whom the bell tolls, and i'm on to other songs too.

Thanks guys !!

**Rickles** · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject:

Aside from songs, learn as many chords as you can. I haven't looked through all of this lesson, but it looks like it goes through the best chords to start with. These chords are always good sounding and always good to jam on. No matter what kind of music you plan on playing (and hopefully that's more then a single genre) this is very essential. http://www.cyberfret.com/chords/beginning-7/index.php
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Learn the notes on the fret board, learn major and minor scales, and learn chords. Learn them with the music theory that holds them together. All of the greats like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani got where they are by learning theory, and they still practice it to maintain their incredible skill.
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**polishedbullet** · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 239

[quote="Rickles
Learn the notes on the fret board, learn major and minor scales, and learn chords. Learn them with the music theory that holds them together. All of the greats like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani got where they are by learning theory, and they still practice it to maintain their incredible skill.
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Most importantly make sure you have fun, because if you do this will all come to you. [/quote]

This. Playing songs is fun but after a while it gets a bit boring. This happened to me recently after learning my 30th or so song to cover. Although I play alot of technical stuff, I found that it was more fun to make up my own song with a band or friends.

Also, the more you learn chord progressions and scales and theory, the more fun playing becomes. You can let yourself flow alot more without looking so tight-assed.
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**superunknown94** · Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Georgia

One way I was taught guitar was to learn how to take a song and write a lead over it. It sounds complicated, but it's actually really easy once you learn your minor pentatonic scale. You're probably thinking "WTF?" It's a very simple scale that pretty much goes over any rock or metal song as long as you are playing in key. Once you find out the key, screw around with the scale and soon enough you'll be playing kickass leads. And also add bends and trills for good measure.

E Minor Pentatonic Scale=

E-0---3-------------------------------------------
A---------0---2-----------------------------------
D-----------------0---2--------------------------
G--------------------------0---2------------------
B-----------------------------------0---3---------
e--------------------------------------------0-----

Just shift this up if it is in a different key, for example, if it's in G then start on the 3rd fret.
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