What are some good beginner songs?

[duo8675309]

I've been playing for about a year now, and I suck. I've been trying to play these hard songs, and then give up on them after only learning one or two riffs. What are some good songs that teach the basics while still are fun? I can play most of Green Day (mainly American Idiot. They're older stuff is too hard for me, as weird as that sounds.) The hardest song I know how to play would be Minority by Green Day, and I still can't play to the cd... Please me!

[Hammer Toe Tom]

You can try AC/DC TNT. Very simple and fun. Then again just about all AC/DC songs are easy.

[oldrocker]

If you like the oldies, these are pretty easy:

Hendrix - Hey Joe
Cream - Sunshine of your Love and Born Under a Bad Sign
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
Kinks - You Really Got Me
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane
ZZ Top - Tush
The Who - Can't Explain

[DJ1]

YYZ - Rush

mmm maybe not.

How about

Witch Hunt - Rush

[Theonestarchild]

The Cars - Just what I needed (Very simple, as the bassist is singing)
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
Kiss - God of Thunder (Play the rhythm a few octaves down)
Van Halen - Eruption

[mike phillips]

i played only for for months when i learned money by pink floyd. come together- beatles, the zoo- scorpions and down on the corner by creedence are all pretty easy. keep on practicin and dont give up. good luck.

[Sippy]

Pink Floyd : Comfortably Numb

[Sandman1278]

Primus - Too Manyy puppies

[Mulder]

Chain of fools, hold the line, superfreak, owner of a lonely heart, standard blues riffs, stand by me, crazy little thing called love, radar love, cocaine in my brain, stir it up, brick house, come together, disco inferno, rappers delight.

Not all songs i especially like but it's better to play something that at least sounds like a song so you can also work on your technique than to keep on getting frustrated since you can't play what you mean to play.

[All_¥our_Bass]

Another Brick In the Wall, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Pink Floyd)
N.I.B. (Black Sabbath)
The Grudge (tool)
46 & 2 (tool)
No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne)

[spyro]

People are always looking for tabs...one of the best sites I've ever found that has helped me is www.mysongbook.com (over 40,000 tabs) has the guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, vocals, will do about anything but you have to have the Guitar Pro program to see the tabs. It has helped me learn a lot about the bass and music and I've learned many songs in a short time. I buy the bass song books of the groups I like and copy the notes to the program then it will tab it for you, play it for you, you can play along with it....its been a big help for me. Check it out.

[AndretheBassist]

Originally Posted by All_¥our_Bass

Another Brick In the Wall, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Pink Floyd)
N.I.B. (Black Sabbath)
The Grudge (tool)
46 & 2 (tool)
No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne)

46&2?? lol

[AndretheBassist]

Try something by Silverchair...their stuff really isn't all that hard and it's also good to warm up on.

Israel's Son
Anthem for the Year 2000
Steam Will Rise
The Closing
Learn to Hate


As for Tool, try learning Stinkfist, it's pretty fun and relatively simple for most of the song. So is Disposition =D

[DeanT]

Two of the easiest songs in the entire world are:

1. Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

2. With or Without You - U2

[Depth_Charge]

These songs are pretty straightforward to learn.

The Pixies - Gouge Away
James - Getting Away With It
Green Day - Holiday
Blink 182 - All The Small Things, Dammit
ZZ Top - Tush
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out.

[Yngwie 4String]

Punk in general is a fairly easy genre to play. I reccomend the misfits, drop kick murphies, and ramones.

If your looking for something intermediate and fun try Caught in a mosh by Anthrax. It is very fast but its not that hard once you get the speed down and it sounds very cool.

[gizmobltd]

Seven nation army by The White Stripes

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a -7 -7 - 7-5-3-2
d - - - 5 - - - - -
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or

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a - - - - - - - - 3 -2
d - 2-2 - - 2-0 - - -
g - - - -0- - - - - -

[Phalex]

You Got Another Thing Comin. F# for days.

[Jock_Whatby56]

Lounge Act-Nirvana is pretty easy to play
or Love Cats by The Cure

[sensible68]

for noisy...

Spacemen 3/Mudhoney - Revolution
Stooges - 1969