Learning how to play guitar is not entirely fun and enjoyable for beginners; the learning curve is steep and tough, especially for people who totally don’t have any experience in playing any musical instrument. In the beginning stage, you need to learn thing like reading guitar tablature, strumming, guitar chords and most beginners will likely to have sore and pain in their fingers.
And those are not the only obstacles; you will need to learn how to pick guitar songs to play as well. As a beginner starting to play song on guitar, you need to ensure that you pick the right song or you might get dishearten by the difficulty level of the song and give up eventually.
For this reason, I have compiled a list of easy guitar songs suitable for beginners to play.
1. Heart Of Gold – Neil Young (Chords used: C, D, Em, G)
2. Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton (Chords used: G, D, C, Em)
3. What A Good Boy – Bare Naked Ladies (Chords used: C, D, G)
4. Horse With No Name – America (Chords used: Em, F#m7sus)
5. Harvest Moon – Neil Young (Chords used: A, D, G)
6. Leaving On A Jet Plane – John Denver (Chords used: G, C, D)
7. No Rain – Blind Melon (Chords used: E, D, A, G)
8. Every Rose Has It’s Thorns – Poison (Chords used: G, C, D, Em)
9. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan/ Guns N’ Roses (Chords used: G, C, D, Am)
10. One – U2 (Chords used: Am, D7, FM7, G)
11 I Remember You – Skid Row (Chords used: G, C, D, Am, Em)
12 Come As You Are – Nirvana (Chords used: Em, D, G, Am, C)
The above list of beginner guitar songs, as the name implies, is meant for beginner and that is why every song has only 3 or 4 chords. They are easy to play and all you have to do is to search for the guitar tablature online, which is quite easily available.
Learning how to play easy guitar song is crucial for beginner, don’t try to play songs that have more than 4 chords. You are not ready for that yet. Take one step at a time and until you are very comfortable with playing these beginner songs, then you moved on.