Easiest Songs for Electric Guitar
93It is indeed a heavenly feeling to play your favorite songs on an electric guitar. However, it is essential that you start playing easy songs to make yourself familiar with the techniques involved in playing an electric guitar, such as strumming, bending, vibrato and picking.
You need a lot of practice before you learn to play electric guitar and here are some of the easiest songs for electric guitar. Remember when practicing them that the goal is to have fun. Sure, there may be other easy songs out there to start playing, but I’ve tried to put here some songs that are easy but at the same time give you an “initial challenge”
Listen to the songs, practice them by ear, or get a tab, then listen to them again and try to bring life to them!
Easy Songs to Play on Electric Guitar
‘Wipeout’ by The Surfaris
It is a fun and fast-paced song of the 1960's and can be very helpful for guitar practice purpose in the initial stages. This song will also help you improve on single string plucking technique, which is an important thing in playing an electric guitar.
‘Holiday’ by Green Day
Songs composed by Green Day are simple to play for a beginner guitar player. Holiday is one such song that is not only easy, but also very intriguing to play on guitar. You will have to use several power chords while playing this song and will get to learn about plectrum switch and single string plucking technique.
This song will also let you get into punk electric guitar playing. Punk music rely heavily on power chords, these are chords that use 2-3 strings only and add a lot of punch to the song. Want easy songs? Start with punk music.
‘Sweet Home Alabama’ by Lynyrd Skynnyrd
This trendy song will surely simulate your pulse. It is a popular song of the 1970's and is easy to play. You will get to practice lead guitar techniques such as pull-offs, hammer-on and string bending while playing this groovy number on your electric guitar. This is a song you must play to start your soloing. You can also use it a very basic level to just play the chords used on the song.If you are tackling the solo or individual guitar parts, be sure to divide the song in sections, and practice those sections well.
‘Godfather Theme Song’ by Slash
This song involves a variety of techniques that will surely sound amazing on an electric guitar. To make the song sound more authentic, you can add an echo effect to your amplifier. This song is a great way to learn lead guitar and solo techniques such as string bending, pull-off, slides, hammer-on and vibratos. Plus the Godfather song is one of the coolest tunes ever.
While playing these easiest songs for electric guitar, you can also ask your friends or peers to play a drum or keyboard to make the practicing session more fun and invigorating.
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid
This is another great song you can play to begin your guitar quest. This is one of the most recognized riffs in music - and you can play it very simple. Remember to add power to your playing and some attitude when you play guitar, it really shows in your music!
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Pretty good Hub! Keep up the good work!
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Nice hub, I was thinking about starting guitar as a hobby since I don't really have any you know. :)...thnx for the info and great hub.
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Paranoid was one of the first songs I learned and was a lot of fun to play. Holiday is fun too.
Good to learn some simple songs to start off with. I mostly concentrate on scales in my free video guitar lessons.
It's good to start with easy song first.
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I have to disagree that the godfather theme by slash is an easy song... it's easy for slash..lol
Free Bird easy? maybe the main part....not the solo...
Godfather theme easy? yeah ok, not the song I'd teach a student after a month...
Try to learn iron man of YouTube it's reall easy
whats a really simple song to play for begginers?
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Lets go by little john (originally crazy train by ozzie) is pretty simple
Good Riddance by Greenday is a pretty simple song to learn and play. Sounds good too. Also some versions of Let it Be by the beatles.
Great Stuff here...
I am downloading all of the songs on your list to my new iPhone...No disappointments yet on the ones I have already had a chance to listen to so far.
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i picked up play guitar a few weeks ago,and its pretty hard to just learn the chords. im looking forward to playing some good ol` johnny reb. WHITE POWER
Some of the songs mentioned are good suggestions. But I would exclude SWEET HOME ALABAMA since that's more of an intermediate song (takes a while for most to get the correct feel at tempo).
Someone in the comments mentioned the Beatles: without a doubt. An gtr version of IMAGINE is a sure-win, as is LET IT BE (w/o the solo of course).
And ppl, how could we almost forget IRON MAN? That's power-chord heaven. And the riffs are very easy since the tempo is so slow. Again, everything but the solo, and a Beginner should be fine with that one.
Also, LA BAMBA (again, solo excluded) by Los Lobos and MY GIRL by the Temptations--whole song, modulation included!
Happy fretting,
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ob la di ob la da is 68 off the white album, not 70's. Besides the white album mistakes, accurate and great list
I would argue about Sweet Home Alabama being one of the easier songs to learn.
There are some basic blues bars/blues songs that can be fairly easy and sound good without being real fast.
Pat Benatar's "Hit me with your best shot" is easy, so is Joan Jett's "I love Rock and Roll" for the most part.
Also do not forget some old Black Sabbath stuff like Paranoid or Iron Man for their rythm parts. The solos are not beginner stuff, but then again if you are going to list Sweet Home Alabama then you could list these.
Ah! They've taken that Black Sabbath video down. That's a shame I'd love to add that to my beginners repertoire. I'll be looking up the other stuff there, I really need to improve my playing of other people's stuff. :)
I love the Moody Blues a classic rock band many have forgot about the songs have easy chords and are great to play
I stRted off with a song of my own, look up a couple of easy chords on the Internet or whatever and then make a little tune, then find and easy song to learn that sounds kinda like the one you made and wham! On the road to being a rock star
Also try these easy ones:
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
Brain Stew by Green Day
Chop Suey! by System Of A Down
Home by Three Days Grace
Lithium by Nirvana
Breed by Nirvana
Rape Me by Nirvana
and I Stand Alone by Godsmack (need wah wah pedal for solo).
I've been playing guitar since July and it's Christmas eve now. I know all of these songs and they're really easy. Another few that are a bit more difficult but still pretty easy are:
So Far Away by Avenged Sevenfold
We Come Out At Night by Avenged Sevenfold
Hearts Burst Into Fire by Bullet For My Valentine (learn to finger-tap for the solo)
and Whatsername by Green Day...
Hope this helped! Rock on, my brothers!!!
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nicksstuff 2 years ago
Too cool for school. This is really good for me. I have been learning chords from an article I found that I posted on hub pages. I hope it's the right info - it makes sense so far. Thanks heaps for your hub - it's all going to help. There is so much to learn.