Looking for some easy to learn songs, the more, the better
Hey folks! Can you please give me some songs that would take an intermediate player to learn in one or two days? And I mean the whole guitar part. A good example would be Ramones’ Blitzkrieg Bop, a counter example would be Metallica’s Fade to Black, where the whole song is quite easy, but the solo can take some time.
If you’re just playing the chords and singing the song, I’d say you can ignore any solos that are too difficult until you improve.
Nirvana and Red Hot Chilli Peppers songs can be pretty easy with not too hard lead parts.
I found that getting over that initial hump of difficulty was much easier with songs that I knew well, and that I could persevere with to get my skill level up.
Give us your top ten albums and I bet it would be easy to pick some songs
Not sure I can do the whole ten, I’ll try my best
Kreator - Enemy of God Death - Sound of Perseverance Megadeth - Rust in Peace Hypocrisy - Catch 22 Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper Alestorm - Back Through Time Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed Carpenter Brut - Trilogy Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Necrophobic - Mark of the Necrogram
This is the whole reason I created this post – I’m not too exposed to the easier to learn kinda music
Oh dang OK. Metal then. The hardest genre maybe! Are there any pop or basic rock songs you like enough to learn to get you started?
No worries if not but metal, thrash, speed stuff is going to be technically a lot harder than pretty much any other genre. I don’t think that means you can’t learn it but it will make it less easy for sure
I’m going to give these songs a quick scan soon and see if any of these seem easier than others
Don’t forget, that you need gear for a lot of it, too. More guitars with different kinds of tunings and/or number of strings, at the least.
But I mean, might be a good addition to OPs request to limit it to “manageable metal songs in standard tuning on 6string guitars”.
I’d be interested in that myself. OP’s list is pretty on par with my tastes, but I’m mostly playing mainstream rock/pop/folk to practige playing on my cheap beginners guitar and practice amp. Which is beginning to feel tedious, when metal is what my heart beats for…
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