What are good songs to start with on guitar?

[JonnyStarks]

...and I think dave matthews is a little over my head right now.

Wheres a better place to start and get rhythm/chrods down

 

[MX2]

Smoke On The Water
Iron Man

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: JonnyStarks
...and I think dave matthews is a little over my head right now.

Wheres a better place to start and get rhythm/chrods down

25 or 6 to 4

Free Bird

 

[KLin]

classical gas

 

[Kilgor]

Esteban will show you the way

 

[drsafety]

stairway to heaven

 

[bleeb]

LA bamba baby!!

 

[jEct2]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Smoke On The Water
Iron Man

NO, NO, NO, NO!!! too overplayed...u must be shot if u learn that song!

try learning simple songs by Avril Lavenge, or however u spell her name. or some Howie Day, Red hot Chili Peppers, Bush and most recommended....Dispatch

 

[Whitecloak]

thunderstruck

 

[Platypus]

Honestly Led Zeppelin tunes are great to learn chords with. They use a lot of neat blues riffs and their solos are based mainly in some form of the pentatonic scale, so learning the solos are cool cause once you know the scale he uses you can improvise your own stuff over it.

 

[sharkeeper]

Dee is nice

 

[jEct2]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Dee is nice

it is, but i think its a bit too complicated, i learned it but i definately wouldnt reccommend it to starters

 

[djheater]

Do yourself a favor and take a beginners class you'll love it much more... in the end...

 

[SupaDupaCheez]

A lot of the stuff on Green Day's American Idiot is fairly simple to pick up. My daughter is 11 and can play a good deal of it and she has only been playing about a year.

Not sure if it's your type of stuff or not but a lot of '70's hard rock is fairly simple (Kiss, AC/DC, etc)

 

[JonnyStarks]

Ok so I picked Hurt by Johnny Cash... nice and slow. We'll go from there.

 

[desk]

wish you were here - pink floyd

it has a little bit of everything, but its all pretty easy.

*edit*

i meant the song, not the album.

 

[Rubycon]

Amanda (Boston 3rd Stage album) is nice.

 

[charles555]

Originally posted by: JonnyStarks
Ok so I picked Hurt by Johnny Cash... nice and slow. We'll go from there.

Bad idea... Just because a song is slow doesn't mean it's easy. Nirvana is easy, and good if you want to learn strumming, pop chord changes. Anything you practice will instill itself on your style so pick something that suits your style... There are other good ideas in this thread as well. I've been playing for 10 years, and can play anything I want to without TAB notation. Not that it's hard to do...