The Most Awesome Beginner Songs To Learn On The Guitar…

There are tons of resources online that house chords/tabs to songs.  Simply google the names of your desired song/artist/band/singer followed by the words chords or tab and you’ll likely find what you’re looking for However… sometimes those songs are geared more towards non-beginner players.

Sooooo… below is a list of songs that I’ve taught over the years.  Many of them are great for beginners.  Right now, it’s just a list, but I do have the tabs, lyrics, and chords for these…it’s just gonna take awhile to get them all linked up online.  Check back later or (if you see a song that you really really like), just shoot me an e-mail and I’ll hook you up!

AC DC – Dirty Deeds
AC-DC – Back in Black
Adele – Skyfall
Adele – Someone Like You
Aerosmith – Dream On
Aerosmith – Walk this Way
Alabama Shakes – Hang Loose
Alabama Shakes – Hold On
Alanis Morissette – Hands
Alanis Morissette – Ironic
All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell
Alter Bridge – Rise Today
Alter Bridge – Watch Over You
Anna Kendrick – Cups
Avicii – Wake Me Up
Awolnation – Sail
Beach Boys – Little Saint Nick
Big Head Todd – Bittersweet
Bill Withers – Lean on Me
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Blind Faith – Can’t Find My Way Home
Bob Marley – No Woman No Cry
Bob Marley – One Love
Bob Marley – Redemption Song
Bob Seger – Night Moves
Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billie Joe
Bonnie Raitt – Guilty
Bonnie Raitt – Love has no Pride
Brad Paisley – Whiskey Lullaby
Brook and Dunn – My Maria
Brooks and Dunn – Neon Moon
Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise
California Dreamin’
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call me Maybe
Coldplay – The Scientist
Concerning Hobbits
Cream – Sunshine of Your Love
Crosby, Stills, and Nash – Southern Cross
Dawes – When My Time Comes
Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow you into the Dark
Deck the Halls
Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water
Derek and the Dominoes – Layla
Dispatch – The General
Do You Like Waffles
Doe a deer
Drive by Truckers – When the Pin Hits the Shell
Eagles – Take it to the Limit
Edelweiss
Edward Sharpe – Home
Elliott Smith – Miss Misery
Elliott Smith – Say Yes
Elton John – Your Song (Lead Melody)
Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark
Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
Flo Rida – I got a Good Feeling
Frosty the Snowman
Fun – Some Nights
Fun – We Are Young
Gary Allan – A Showman’s Life
Gary Allan – Best I Ever Had
George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
Glen Hansard – Falling Slowly
Gloria Gaynor – I will Survive
God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen
Grateful Dead – Ripple
Green Day – 21 Guns
Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Guns N Roses – Patience
Guns N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine (INTRO)
Home On The Range
Imagine Dragons – Radioactive
Jack Johnson – Banana Pancakes
Jack Johnson – Bubbletoes
Jack Johnson – Flake
Jack Johnson – Rudolph
James Taylor – Fire and Rain
Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Jimi Hendrix – Bold as Love
Jimmy Buffett – A Pirate Looks at Forty
Jimmy Buffett – Margaritaville
Joan Jett – I Love Rock and Roll
John Denver – Country Roads
John Lennon – Imagine
John Lennon – Stand by Me
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash – I Walk The Line
Jose Gonzalez – Crosses
Katy Perry – Firework
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Blue on Black
Knaan – Wavin Flag
Kodaline – All I Want
Labrinth – Beneath Your Beautiful
Led Zeppelin – Heartbreaker
Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away
Led Zeppelin – Rock and Roll
Let it Snow
Lord of the Rings – Isengard Theme
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
Maroon 5 – Daylight
Maroon 5 – One More Night
Maroon 5 – Payphone
Matisyahu – Sunshine
Melissa Etheridge – Somebody Bring Me Some Water
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Modest Mouse – Float On
Mumford and Sons – Whispers in The Dark
Mumford and Sons_ I will Wait
Narwhals
Neil Young – Harvest Moon
Neil Young – Heart of Gold
Neil Young – Love is a Rose
Neil Young – My My Hey Hey
Neil Young – Needle and the Damage Done
Neil Young – Old Man
Nirvana – About a Girl
Nirvana – All Apologies
One  Direction – Little Things
Onerepublic – Secrets
Ozzy Osborne – Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne – Mama I’m Coming Home
Passenger – Let Her Go
Paul Simon – Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Pearl Jam – Better Man
Pearl Jam – Driftin
Phillip Phillips – Home
Phish – Farmhouse
Pink – Just Give Me a Reason
Pink – True Love
Pink Floyd – Money
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Pistol Annies – Hell On Heels
Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Poison – Nothing but a Good Time
Presidents of the – Peaches
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (SOLO Tab)
Ray LaMontagne – You are the Best Thing
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Zephyr Song
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
Rocky Theme (Gonna Fly Now)
Ron Pope – A Drop in the Ocean
Sea Wolf- Your’re a Wolf
Selena Gomez – Who Says
Silent Night
Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye
Simon and Garfunkel – Old Friends
Simon and Garfunkel – Song for the Asking
Slayer – Raining Blood
Smiths – How Soon Is Now
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Sound of Music – Sixteen Going On Seventeen
Speed Racer
Spongebob – The Fool Who Ripped His Pants
Spoonful of Sugar
Star Spangled Banner
Star Wars – Imperial March
Summer Nights (from “Grease”)
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
Taylor Swift – 22
Taylor Swift – Forever _ Always
Taylor Swift – Hey Stephen
Taylor Swift – Speak Now
The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
The Band – The Weight
The Beatles – Blackbird
The Beatles – Come Together
The Beatles – Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles – Hey Jude
The Beatles – Let it Be
The Beatles – Oh Darling
The Beatles – Twist and Shout
The Beatles – You got to Hide your love away
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
The Eagles – Hotel California
The Kinks – Lola
The Little Mermaid – Part of Your World
The Lumineers – Ho Hey
The Police – Every Breath You Take
The Rolling Stones – Jumpin Jack Flash
The Rolling Stones – Paint it Black
The Script – Breakeven
The Script – Hall of Fame
The Shins – New Slang
The Strokes – Heart in a Cage
The Strokes – Someday
The White Stripes – Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Tim McGraw – Live Like You Were Dying
Tom Petty – Free Fallin
Townes Van Zandt – To Live is to Fly
Train – Hey Soul Sister
Trey Anastasio – Shine
Turnpike Troubadours – Leaving and Lonely
Twelve Days of Christmas
Under the Double Eagle
Van Morrison – And it Stoned Me
Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison – Moondance
White Stripes – We are Going to be Friends
Wilco – California Stars
Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart
Zac Brown – Sic em on a Chicken
Zac Brown Band – Chicken Fried

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