Top 10 Easy Guitar Songs To Play

So you’ve decided to start playing guitar and now you want some very easy guitar songs to play? That’s a really great choice because tackling the really hard ones first can leave you discouraged and wanting to quit. You can play these songs plugged into an amp or you can try them out acoustically; it makes no difference. After you’ve read over the list I’ve provided, you can gather up some easy guitar songs tabs to play along with. These are also very fun songs to play in distortion, if you enjoy that kinda thing .

An important reminder when you’re learning any new acoustic songs or electric, you should always play along with a metronome so you can get your timing perfect. Start it off at a pace that is easy for you to play all the notes of the song cleanly while still keeping on beat. Once you master your form and technique at a certain speed, then you can raise the beat on the metronome and master the next speed. And so on until you are playing the song at full speed. Never sacrifice form for speed. Unless you can play a song with perfect form and in time, it really makes no difference how fast you can play it.

Well enough jibber jabbering about technical stuff. Here’s your list of easy to play guitar songs, and, although I mentioned that you can play them all plugged in or unplugged, they definitely sound better and are more fun to play with the right sound, which I’ll point out. Here's my recommendations for first songs to learn on guitar.

#1 – Patience (Guns N Roses)
Some pieces just never lose their luster and this is one of those simple guitar songs that has a lot of soul and just feels good to play. If you can stick to playing this one acoustically, you will get the most out of it.

#2 – Back in Black (AC/DC)
Good old rock n roll from AC/DC. Plugged in through a clean to mildly overdriven amp sounds great for this hit and is listed at #2 on our list of easy songs for guitar.

#3 – More Than a Feeling (Boston)
I have played this one for years unplugged or plugged in on any setting and you’ll really enjoy the fast chord changes.

#4 – Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
This has to be the first song that anyone ever learns on the guitar. A classic power chord tune that could rank #1 for “easy songs to play on guitar” that should be played with some distortion to get the full feeling.

#5 – Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
One of the most fun and easy guitar songs to learn and play. This one sounds best through an amp that has a moderate amount of distortion.

#6 – For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica)
Metallica makes some blazing fast music but this one is quite manageable for beginners.

#7 – Bad Moon Rising (Credence Clearwater Revival)
Play this one acoustically if you can or play it clean through an amp. The chord progression is extremely fun and can easily be used for building your own songs.

#8 – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
You will get good practice at “dead noting”, which Kurt Cobain was great at. This song likes distortion but is also built perfect for acoustic playing.

#9 – Wonderwall – (Oasis)
I prefer to play Wonderwall acoustically or on a clean amp. This will really get your strumming technique into high gear, which is a very important skill to learn. One of the great acoustic guitar songs to play.

#10 – Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf)
A very simple chord progression, BTBW will do wonders for your timing and will naturally get your feet tapping.

Well there you have it, 10 easy songs to play on the guitar. There are literally thousands of songs that fall into this category but these are 10 that I really like and I think you’ll enjoy learning and playing them too. Don’t worry too much about which guitar instruments to play these or any other songs on. Just playing the easy guitar songs to the best of your ability is all that matters.

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