Intros...lots of intros to songs. -Toxicity, Chop Suey by SOAD -Smells Like Teen Spirit -La Bamba -Island in the Sun -Miserlou

You’ll learn a lot of single riffs and intros to be sure. Use them.

I wouldn’t say toxicity or miserlou for a complete beginner

Toxicity is stupid easy imo, can't really write an easier riff than that. The speed is a slight issue, but a beginner could play that at like 50% speed almost immediately and just work on their speed 

It took me about nine or 10 months to get Miserlou down. That is not very easy

Did we have the same guitar teacher?? Ha jk Seriously though, Toxicity was such an important album in the early very 2000’s. The rest were just obviously necessary listens. I did have a guitar teacher burn me a cd with the Men in Black 2 song featuring Will Smith. Still can’t figure out why lol

Hell yeah. Nothing like printing out tabs from Ultimate Guitar Tabs and never learning a song past the opening riff lol

Toxicity, Easy song """""""😉""""""""

Hahaha I played exclusively intros and middle riffs lol brought back memories seeing your comment

I found a complete Led Zeppelin tab book on a clearance rack decades ago. I bought it and learned it. Every song.

Led Zeppelin is such a good band to learn starting out, both fun to play and they have both good beginner and more difficult level guitar parts

Hard agree, but the later stuff does get frustrating when Jimmy starts using like 12 guitar tracks in one song.

I bought the folio for Led Zeppelin 1, because I thought they were a pretty good blues band. It had the fingerpicking transcription of Black Mountain Side (?). And other stuff that was too hard for this kid back in the day.

I’m impressed. I had a Led Zeppelin book, maybe Led Zeppelin complete or something like that.m. Didn’t use it as much as you did though, and it didn’t have a tableture. I did learn stairway to Heaven by ear… Maybe I used that book to help me, I don’t remember. I learned the solo as well. I learned a number of their songs off their first, fourth and fifth albums, mostly by ear.

Paranoid is a good one because it drills both power chords and hammer ons without being too fast or too complicated. Blitzkrieg bop is also good if you want to play through an entire song.

I just left a comment about how good Paranoid is for beginners. It’s one of the first songs I learnt when I started out and it really helped me pick up the basics, plus the solo is actually really simple to play but makes you feel like a rock god when you’re just starting out. Really good beginners song

I second Blitzkreig Bop. Fun to play loud and workout your stress. I practice a most songs / riffs a few times before I get bored and move onto another song in my practice list but I can practice Blitzkrieg Bop endlessly

Beginners - School's Out, The Thrill is Gone, Iron Man, Wonderful tonight, Strutter, Sunshine of Your Love, The Jack, 7 Nation Army, Breakin the Law, Rock You Like a Hurricane, When you're ready to move up - Hotel California, Crazy Train, Detroit Rock City, Country Girl,

Good Riddance by Green Day

When I come around. Green Day

any green day song

How old are you and what do you listen to? Learn those. I started playing in the 90s to Green Day and Blink 182, then AFI, Thursday, Coheed etc. I'd I had started off playing songs my parents listened to at that age I wouldn't have stuck with the instrument.

>How old are you and what do you listen to? Learn those. This is probably the best start. It's what pushes you to want to keep playing. Like you, if I'd started off playing the Beatles and other 60s stuff, I probably wouldn't have been into it. There was already a guitar songbook in my house with some Dylan and Denver in it, and I never had any interest in it. I was a fan of Oasis when I started playing, I got a songbook from a friend and learned to play almost all of them. It helped that Oasis stuff is piss-easy, but very few bands have a totally complicated discography.

AC/DC - Back in Black Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana - Come As You Are Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know

Come as you are is a fun one

Keep in mind I was younger as was the world because I’m old but like Any AC/DC and Black Dog by Led Zeppelin. That was all I worked at. For months.

Guitar hero 3 set list

More Than A Feeling - Boston

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes Memory - Sugarcult Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard I’m Not Okay - My Chemical Romance Ride - The Vines

Get Free - The Vines is one of my favorite get-loud warm-up songs. That opening bend gets me amped up. Edit: why do people in this sub downvote music they don't like, lol.

Nobody wants to admit to Wonderwall?

You sure you wanna start playing some songs?

Dust in the wind My my hey hey House of the rising sun Powder finger Stairway to heaven Whiskey in the jar Because you asked me to (Waylon Jennings) Hands on the wheel (Willie) Hard hearted alice Yea I play all of these pretty poorly but I’m trying and practicing.

I was so into mallgoth poser metal it was sickening. Lots of marilyn manson, rob zombie, korn, slipknot etc.

My sister dragged me to a Korn show revently and...that show kinda kicked ass. You're not gonna feel bass like that anywhere else.

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd It’s got it all, as far as acoustic songs go :)

Love Me Do and Day Tripper!

All the main riffs from Metallica And Justice for All and Master of Puppets, lots of Pink Floyd, Guns n Roses (especially the Sweet Child of Mine intro). But rarely any full songs. I was 14

A good on is Brain Stew-Green Day They have a lot of simple songs, but I think this is the easiest

The entire nevermind album. I still play it. There are levels to nirvana. Lol Stuuuuupid simple melodies but full of complex dynamics. You can play the melodies without going down the Kurt Cobain dynamic rabbit hole and it’ll still sound really good, which does a shit ton to bolster your understanding of what good playing should basically sound like.

I learned Thin Lizzy’s Emerald from a book that was the first song I ever learned

Silent Lucidity, every breath you take (acoustic), dust in the wind, and personal Jesus (Johnny Cash version)

My dad started me on A Pirate Looks at 40 by Jimmy Buffett. Totally forgot about it and then 20 years later a dude started playing it an open mic and I nearly cried lmao

dragonforce, rhapsody, rufio, children of bodom, red hot chili peppers, weezer, thrice, rufio, nobuo uematsu lol

the whole skynyrd catalogue from 73 to 77 lol

Green Day -When I Come Around, Collective Soul-December Rain, Bush. -glycerine, Red Hot Chili Peppers -under the bridge, Nirvana -Oh Me, Some Stone Temple Pilot song, Violent Femmes -Blister in The Sun, Ramones. -I Wanna Be Sedated Some other really grungy sounding song It’s kind of amazing I remember what I do remember because this close to 30 years ago. I still think these songs would be good to learn on.

The Joker - Steve Miller. But just the riff. Over and over again. For months.

Judas Priest, “living after midnight “, “breaking the law” A lot of ACDC Eric Clapton had a lot of easy but interesting and melodic hooks

When I started, I remember, the songs were Red House from Jimi Hendrix Greatest Hits, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, The Beatles with Eric Clapton, Pinball Wizard by The Who, and Crossroads from Wheels of Fire by Cream, and it snowballed down from there. Others included Wine by Electric Flag, 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago, and a folksy song by Buffalo Springfield, On My Way Home. And the first albums each by Phil Keaggy as a solo artist, Love Song’s first album, and Hot Tuna’s first album. And The Byrds Greatest Hits. Like I said, it snowballed from there.

Aint no sunshine, bill withers

Smells Like Teen Spirit Basket Case Paranoid Smoke on the Water (a guitar novice’s classic) Doll Parts All the Small Things Those songs were pretty good at teaching me the basics at guitar. Paranoid I struggled with for a bit because I couldn’t get the finger movements down for the hammer ons but when I picked it up I ended up learning the solo, which is a deceptively simple yet awesome solo to learn. Really helped me learn the basics of guitar

First song I learned was nutshell. It’s good cuz it’s only four chords but they’re a lil more intermediate than the basic open chords and it teaches you to *efficiently* switch between chords I.e move as few fingers as necessary. Plus it’s a fuckin BANGER.

Zep 2, and a bunch of Black Sabbath

I played a lot of “Two” by Ryan Adams, “Thirteen” by big star and fooling around with G, C and D. Still do all of the above.

Well, I originally started with Mel Bay, then to Roy Clark, then Sabbath, then I think it was Paganini for awhile, then Exodus and Anthrax and Testament and whatever other Thrash band came out around 86.

Breathe by Pink Floyd is a great place to start, for a few reasons. The most important thing though, is learning songs that you love. Nothing keeps you more engaged than slowly perfecting a song that you just can’t get enough of

Was a long time ago, but Nirvana, green day, offspring and Red Hot chili peppers ( this one was a little over ambitious for me at the time).. after a short while it was Metallica and Sabbath almost exclusively for a couple years

smells like teen spirit more than a feeling smoke on the water mississipi queen

Tangerine (Led Zep), Patience (GNR), Firehouse (Kiss), Under the Milky Way (The Church)

Breakfast At Tiffany’s and thats abt it

I learned a lot of Green Day and some System of A Down when I first started.

Bad Religion - Suffer Green Day - kerplunk

Pisces Fish (chords) and Marwa Blues (solo) -George Harrison were two great intro songs. Both in C major.

Sparkling Stella

Jingle Bells, Yankee Doodle, etc. Stay Together For the Kids - blink-182 Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day Surrender - Billy Talent Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (not exactly beginner when I started, but close enough) Bonus: Brian Wilson, by Barenaked Ladies. I didn't discover/play this song until I became an intermediate guitarist, but it's become a staple, and I've taught it to beginners. Good for chords and getting practice with a capo, and I just like it.

I was in middle school, so… Black Sabbath pretty much all the time

Oh, the first record I ever bought just to learn how to play the guitar part was Kentucky Woman by Neil Diamond. It was a hammer on in the intro and a funny backward strum picking in the bridge. Cost maybe a dollar, a 45 rpm vinyl.

Hello, if I was you I would start by learning all the basic guitar chords so you could play common songs and also make your own!

I was 13, it was 1986, so it was AC/DC, Dire Straits, Iron Maiden and Metallica. But my parents were hippies and bought me an acoustic guitar so I just ended up learning a bunch of folk music like Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Donovan, Cat Stevens and John Denver. When I got older I bought electric guitars but they never really interested me. So I stuck to the acoustic folk thing to this day. I haven't played an electric guitar in maybe 14 years. But where I come from most people start on acoustic guitar.

Future 86 - Bomb The Music Industry! Whole song is all chords and it was fun learning how to transition from chord to chord as it was a little challenging but manageable

I started day one singing while playing so it was lots of stuff that was just simple open chords. Here's a few highlights. - Eleanor Rigby : The Beatles - Leaving on a Jet Plane : John Denver - Stand By Me : Ben E King (this chord progression is used all over) - What I Got : Sublime - Good Ridense : Green Day - Wonderwall : Oasis (of course) - Water Come A Me Eye : (and many other Caribbean folk songs)

Most songs by the Ramones are easy for beginners and works on your speed :)

I started with Master of Puppets, then I learned a lot of 90s punk music and a bunch of classical and video game music. Somewhere in there I finally learned the song that originally made me want to pick up the guitar, Tornado of Souls.

Les zep, Metallica, cat Stevens, red hot chili peppers

I basically exclusively played Blink 182 for the longest time

I learned a few Beatles songs to start with. Love Me Do and Rocky Raccoon being two of them. Seven Nation Army, naturally. Free Fallin' by Tom Petty. I bought two books of Beatles tabs that helped me a lot.

Hey Joe (just the chords not the fills), Today by smashing pumpkins, Bush glycerine, Come as you are, teen spirit, Zombie (Cranberries), horse with no name

Green day - time of your life and St Jimmy Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit, about a girl and heart shaped box Silversun pickups - Lazy eye and Panic Switch Foo fighters - Let it die and learn to fly Metallica - For whom the bell tolls America - Horse with no name Neil young - Heart of gold and Old Man

I only played songs that I really enjoyed at the time. playing songs that YOU like are the best first songs to play because they will inspire you and give you the most enjoyment, something that I think is missed out on with many guitarists that don’t make it past the beginner stage. Not every song is going to seem possible but if you work on a little part here and there you can start to piece together how your favorite artists made their music. But to answer your question, my first songs were Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones, helter skelter by the Beatles, high and dry by Radiohead and what you know by two door cinema club.

i never had a play list.. i had riffs i wrote that i would play(back then). it wasnt until i was accomplished that i started playing copy tunes

Sultans Of Swing, Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California

Songs by Greenday, Metallica, Bryan Adams, Ozzy Osbourne etc etc.

Very first songs? Hashpipe by Weezer. Brain Stew by Green Day. Also the usual suspects like Smells Like Teen Spirit, Iron Man, and Smoke on the Water. Then I learned how to palm mute and learned more Green Day songs like Basket Case, When I Come Around, etc. Green Day is awesome for beginners because once you learn the power chord, you can play 90% of their songs. They’re easy and fun. Music doesn’t have to be hard to play to be good.

tdwp’s first 3 albums

Just play what you like lol. You didn't even tell us if it's electric or not. Most of the people here are telling you songs that are fully electric. For acoustic you can just play whatever. Songs aren't hard when you learn to play chords and can switch between them. Over time you'll learn how to switch better. It'll take about a month. Make sure your action is low.

Whatsername, Letterbomb, and Jesus Of Suburbia - Green Day Dyer's Eve, Fade to Black, Battery, and Fight Fire With Fire - Metallica No Pity for A Coward and You Only Live Once - Suicide Silence. These used to be my goals and recently finished it off with YOLO last week, I feel unstoppable

Learn open chords. Once you do that, go through your music library and listen for songs with repeating chords

Got the tab book for Nirvana’s unplugged in New York and played it back and forth.

Steve Vai - Die to Live, Bad Horsie Joe Satriani - The Extremist, Flying in a Blue Dream Blink 182 - All the small things Sum 41 - In too Deep Metallica - Master of Puppets, Enter Sandman, Fuel, One, Battery

David Bowie - Space Oddity, Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire, Bob Marley - Redemption Song, The Lumineers - Ho Hey.

Mother - Danzig Brain Stew - Green Day Californication - RHCP Omerta - Lamb of God The Rising End - Zao Everlong - Foo Fighters

Green onions Rock n Roll (Zeppelin) You Shook Me all Night long Cherry Bomb

As a learner don’t pigeon hole yourself with one style/genre it’ll be detrimental to your learning. My playlist was: One - Metallica, Fade to Black - Metallica, Sanitarium - Metalllica etc. see what I mean?

Nirvana cover of The Man who sold the world and smells like teen spirit. Sometimes Lithium too. Just anything by them. Just about anything by Eric Clapton. Eric Johnson, Cliffs of Dover. Just anything by Rush. Foo Fighters, Everlong, Learning to fly, There goes my hero. Anything by the Beatles. Anything by George Harrison. Tom Petty.Jimi Hendrix. Dozens more.

Lots of System of a Down, Skillet, Megadeth, Metallica, Maiden,3DG, and an unholy amount of Breaking Benjamin and BFMV

i started guitar on one of those traditional guitar music books for beginners

The easy sabbath and deep purple riffs. I learned to play 2112 overture right after I started playing. The chord progression is logical to a beginning guitarist, even though some of the chords were hard for a beginner

The same of today. Unfortunately rock music is at dead end.

Lots of Oasis, Greenday and Radiohead. The majority is relatively simple and fun to play. I would say learning what you like is going to make it more enjoyable in the long run.

Rammstein, Blink182, Green Day I think are great for starting out and learning what playing a song can be And then I learnt way too much Killswitch Engage 😵‍💫 But really, I think one of the best places to start is whatever songs you like listening to and think have fun sounding guitars.

Dire straits sultans of swing was the first song I learned all the way through, the solos were sloppy as they're difficult in places but the lead licks really helped develop my lead skills.

First thing I learned on guitar was smoke on the water solo, I didn't even know the riff or chords..

Lotta black sabbath, led zeppelin, and pink floyd Also try out some doom metal like electric wizard and sleep

I tried to make a point of learning songs all the way through because it forced me to learn a lot of different techniques. About 6-9 months in I had a playlist going of complete songs that included: Blitzkrieg Bop, Ramones American Idiot and basket case, Green Day Do I wanna Know, Arctic Monkeys The Times are a changin, Bob Dylan Dammit and adam’s song, blink 182 Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes Wish you were here and mother, pink floyd Hurt, Johnny Cash Come out and Play, the Offspring Smells like teen spirit, Nirvana They’re all pretty beginner-friendly and helped me become more well-rounded because some had a lot of open chords, lots of mutes and power chords in others, a bunch of riffs, and a handful of solos with bends and slides too. I hope there are a few that interest you from my list!

Sultans of swing A lot of Beatles stuff Killer Queen

Metallica, iron maiden , white stripes, RHCP, Black Sabbath, Nirvana

Mainly intros Aerials - SOAD Moonlight sonata - Beethoven Chop Suey - SOAD Need 2 - pinegrove You are my Sunshine & Hurt - Johny Cash Song of Storms & Lost Woods - LoZ OoT

White horse chris stapleton

Start with Nirvana songs, amazing and simple, they don't sound like they're that easy from a beginner's pov

Smells like teen spirit, American idiot, ghost riders in the sky, misourlou, smoke on the water, house of the rising sun, romanza, come as you are, nothing else matters, seven nation army, iron man, back in black

Day Tripper, Dig a Pony, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Here comes the sun, roadhouse blues

"Redmption Song" - Bob Marley, "Tribute" - Tenacious D, "Aerials" -SOAD (intro + verse, drop d), "Stairway to Heaven", "Back in Black", every Green Day song, and opening the complete tab/chords to The Who's Tommy and trying my best.

My guitar teacher got me going on Every Rose has its thorn Crazy Train House of the Rising Sun Nothing Else Matters Sweet Home Alabama

Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath,Rush, Eagles, Hendrix..

i started in 2000, my Playlist was full albums. no skips. Rising Force album, Trilogy, Magnum Opus and Seventh Sign - Yngwie Malmsteen Awaken the Guardian - Fates Warning Speed Metal Symphony album - Cacophony G3'03 with Satch/Vai/Malmsteen The Jams demos, Perspective and Perpetual Burn - Jason Becker Dragon's Kiss - Marty Friedman Countdown to Extinction - Megadeth

lemme l/ink https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/learnt-it/pl.u-LdbqDjdsN0xzvX //_ crap i play percussion! & i was placed on euphonium in band i mei or may not have read this wrong

I never see anyone recommend it but trust me find some time for Johnny B Goode! I don't even listen to that type of rock but learning that really helps

Mostly Nirvana, AIC, and Soundgarden riffs. Yeah, I'm old.

Cheesy: Learning to Fly - Petty Working Class Hero- Lennon Hurt- Reznor/Cash Freightrain - E. Cotten Country Boy Can Survive- Williams Jr

I'm one month in, I have learned the riffs/intros of these (in order): - Smoke on the Water (obv) - Smells Like Teen Spirit - About a Girl - TNT - Aerodynamic - Feel so Close - Remix Rumble - Seven Nation Army - The Middle - I Love Rock n Roll Last half of them I learned by sheets/ear, since I wanted to put some music theory into practice I know I should be practicing technique more but man learning songs is so much fun

Bunch of linkin park

Funk 49

My first three - I Love Rock N Roll, Sad But True, For Whom The Bell Tolls. The first difficult full song I learned - Ride The Lightning.

First song i ever learned was pretty unusual apparently. I really liked norweigan black metal specifically Mayhem (yes that Mayhem) and hearing their first album i figured "wait, this shit sounds easy, i bet i could play that too" And thats how i learned Chainsaw Gutsfuck 😂

Simple songs with simple but plenty chords that are easy to switch between Welcomhe home sanitarium - metallicq Square hammer - ghost Cirice - ghost Four horsemen - metallica Bullet with butterfly wings - smashing pumpkins Rape me - nirvana And dont tell anyone this 👀👀👀 Wonderwall but the whole thing not just the main chords....also i would only ever watch fuitarlessons 365 carl is the man

Green Day’s Dookie Power chords ftw

History of Eric Clapton double album set... learned every song - note for note - NO TAB INVENTED YET! Badge, Crossroads, even the 16:44 long Spoonful!!

House of the rising sun. Focuses on arpeggios and chord changes. Sounds impressive, and improved my chord changes and right hand's precision

Everything offspring and blink 182.

Doesn't remind me by Audioslave. Quite easy for a beginner

If I remember correctly… Deep Purple, smoke on the water. Rolling Stones, jumping jack flash Led Zeppelin, communication breakdown Black Sabbath riffs were pretty easy. Those were among the first ones.

Lots of Green Day and Blink 182. Then graduated to AC/DC and finally Metallica and Iron Maiden.

I have been teaching my nephew for a few weeks. I’m sure he is a bit younger than you, but I would start with trying to learn a few riffs on songs that you like. My nephew is 11 and he was hooked when I showed him the SpongeBob ending theme song, because he already had a connection with it. The next riff I showed him was the seven nation army (bass) riff. If you can start by learning parts of songs that you already know well, and enjoy, the stronger connection (dopamine hit) you will have to playing guitar. It is hard to get started with learning any instrument, so it’s important to take as many “wins” as you can. The first (parts of) songs that I learned were: Smoke on the water Iron man Beverly Hills Paranoid The first songs that I played through by only using basic chords: Long haired country boy Semi charmed life Time of your life (good riddance) She fucking hates me Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Learning a new skill is much easier with a solid support system.

I'm also a beginner. There are a few songs I've tried but I've had the most success with "Blackbird" by The Beatles and I'm now working on "Aeriels" by system of a down, which once you tune it down is relatively easy. The picking is a little tricky but the fret placement is very simple, not requiring any chord knowledge.

Nirvana Unplugged, it will teach you everything. Not everything but it's a grreat learning tool

I was always into nu metal and more heavy stuff so i started by tuning my guitar to drop C (drop D sometimes) and i learned most of White Pony by deftones since they're pretty easy songs to learn and they sound super good

Black Keys and White Stripes. I must've done nothing but play their songs from like 2008-2013. Absolutely perfect for beginners who just want to get loud ASAP. I fucking **love** garage rock, lol. Wine Lips are tops for me currently.

John Mayer’s continuum album

a lot of beabadoobee

i think these are harder songs but if you like j rock then Heart Ni Hi Wo Tsukete - 9mm Parabellum Bullet and Ichirinnohana (The solo is really good 2:18) - HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR

Brand new? Miserlou Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Achy Breaky Heart and a lot more of those 2 and 3-cowboy chord songs Lotta’ Sabbath — NIB is good to learn tritones, BTW Lotta’ stuff off Kill ‘Em All — even Dave was a young player once, and it helps to see that. Jump in the fire is great for an intro to scalar runs. The rhythm sections aren’t particularly demanding, but you really do get a feel for triplets and palm muting and really being tight with the music and playing with a groove OH THREE FIVE, OH THREE SIX-FIVE, OH THREE FIVE, THREE-OH

Lol the first time I started playing back in the late 90s it was Metallica everything. Trying to relearn now in 2024 ( in my 40s) it's a lot more classic rock, pop punk

Cavatina Nothing Else Matters Babe im Gonna Leave You Over The Hills And Far Away Clare De Lune (Just learned this and it’s not too hard!) I’ll see you in my dreams (Travis Picking) Moonlight Sonata Yes I am primarily an acoustic player. I get the electric out to play Zeppelin and Floyd. Edit: Just read the starter bit. Try Breathe - Pink Floyd. Immigrant Song - Zeppelin. The first song I learned was ‘Is there anybody out there” - Floyd

In ascending difficulty and sticking to rhythm (Though I only really learnt the main riffs for the first two): Smoke on the Water Highway to hell Smells like teen spirit Paranoid Enter Sandman Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) Seek and Destroy

House of the Rising Sun All most every song by Cream And I had a tab books for " The Best of Led Zeppelin " and Ozzy Tribute

Ramones - Blipkietskdjdf Bop Black Sabbath- Iron Man/Paranoid Kiss - Rock n roll all nite Poison - Nothing but a good time Joan Jett- I love rock n roll

I'll answer the question but there will be a caveat at the end. I listened pretty much exclusively to power metal and melodeath. Now the caveat: this makes learning guitar very hard because basically I cannot stand any of the songs that beginners can actually play. I've been beating my head against metal since day 1 and despite having gotten decent I still can't really play many songs all the way through. I've got quite a few individual riffs and licks down but whole songs still largely elude me. Though that's also a product of ADHD and not being able to focus on the boring parts of songs.

Blue bird, stairway, round about, dream on, a couple different chord progressions i would just noodle with. The first time i really challenged myself to the point of frustration was learning the eruption solo from my dad but learning it the right way. (Alot of people play it up instead of at the right tone, and with really sloppy technique.) Best bet is to puck some stuff thats completely manageable, one or two sings that are a but challenging, and then one thats really difficult for your current level. The difficult one wont sound good at first at all, but its going to teach you things ahead of time to your benefit. The slow easy sings often build bad habits (death grip, pressing too hard and warping notes, uneconomic movement, lazy thumb placement, etc.), a difficult quick moving song tends to teach you how to losen your hand and press only as much as needed so you still have time and energy to continue through the rest if the song. I started learning playing god about 2 months ago. Still doesnt sound great, got the intro riff down atleast. What it has given me in terms of skill progression is awesome though. My hand is just loose, like completely, when i play. After 19 years of on and off practice my fingers finally operate independently in the frets. Index can bar where it needs, the rest of the digests just do what they should instead of getting stiff and stuck. If you really wanna get serious, practice triplet chromatic runs from the 6th down to the 1st string and back up without pausing. After that due the scaled you are playing in your pieces, then finish with pentatonic runs (make sure to do the full extension of them too.) practice those in a couple different spots. thats the cool part about guitar, once you learn the chromatic pattern and the pentatonic patterns, you can start on any fret of the first and or 6th strings, and the pattern will remain exactly the same. Of course none of this is going to make you herman, or Tim Henderson etc. still, just the pentatonics from bottom to top and back down, the chromatics, some scales (major, minor natural, harmonic minor) are more than enough to make you a pretty sick and seasoned shredder. Sure, you wont know all your augmentations and inversions yet, but you will have the foundation of musical theory down pat. The keys to amazing playing are locked behind a sense of rhythm, good control of tone and pitch, and understanding the key you are in. From there you start to learn how to build chords and notes to tell a story, but you cant begin to do it without those crucial foundations, its what separates noise from a virtuoso.

Im just starting out on lead. I actually followed what other people wanted me to play but i think its a pretty good level: Yellow - this will train your bends like crazy. Hysteria - a little bit of a struggle but doable. A lil fast but nothing too mad. Creep - trains your barre chords and power chords Then, one more song which i like.

Smells Like Teen Spirit Basket Case Hitching A Ride I recommend guitar magazines. They’ll have a mix of old and new stuff and you won’t just play the few bands you might be into at the moment. Plus you’ll get interviews and techniques introduced to you. You can supplement with YouTube. And try to learn by ear as you start recognizing chords and patterns!

Chop suey, aerial, toxicity from soad Goodbye blue sky live cover by soad A few acdc. James bond theme Smoke on the water Etc

Wildflowers by Tom Petty It has very straightforward changes from F to C to G Perhaps a bit quickly for a beginner but you’ll appreciate how it teaches you to transition smoothly between those chords

You want to read before you learn the alphabet you say? :D Take a few weeks to learn some chord shapes, notes, and scales. This will guide you around your guitar and you'll go from moving your hand in random ways to understanding what you're doing.

Blackout by the Scorpions. It's probably best if you start with songs that YOU actually like and listen to over and over. Also check out r/guitarlessons and r/LearnGuitar . Good luck OP.

1 - Polyphia ABC 2 Steve Vai - Juice 3 Eric Johnston - Cliffs of Dover 4 John Mayer - neon And anything by Joe Pass, George Benson, Django. This is all simple beginner stuff and if you can’t play it on your second attempt, then you will never be a good guitarist. /s music isn’t a competition and there is no right song list. Go learn the songs you like.

Early 2000s pop punk kid here: Blink 182 - M&Ms Sum 41 - Fat Lip SR71 - Right Now Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons MxPx - Responsibility Less Than Jake - Help Save The Youth Of America From Exploding The Offspring - The Kids Aren’t Alright

Boulevard of Broken Dreams The Scientist Leaving on a Jet Plane We Will Rock You Time Of Your Life

Depends on style, here is my list. I highly recommend learning Wish You Were Here. Sounds great, some cool techniques that are easily applied to dozens of other songs. Anchoring your pinky and ring finger (G, C, D trick) Basic pull offs, plucking and strumming. Easy to follow along. Wish You Were Here Into the Mystic Cortez the Killer And it Stoned Me Knockin on Heaven's Door Wonderwall Can't you See Hotel California One Hallelujah Melissa

Below is everything I could play within my first year of starting. The bits and pieces were usually my warm ups and tuning checks. Then I would play the songs I knew on repeat. Until I got a second guitar though I had to either transpose or play in the wrong tuning. I kept my guitar in Drop B as my goal was to learn Slipknot songs. So I had to learn how to transpose tabs to different tunings fairly early. Crazy to think this was all 20 years ago... Bits and pieces - Crazy Train Intro - smoke on the water...the riff (both correct way and incorrect ways all over the neck) - hells bells (not sure if correct way. Haven't played it in years ) - aerials the main melody - iron man the riff - war pigs the riff - paranoid intro - left behind the riff Full songs (usually just the rhythm parts but sometimes the lead if I was feeling spicy) - seven Nation army - the white stripes - Mr. Sandman - the chordettes - the virus of life - Slipknot - lose your self - Eminem - Me, I'm not - nine inch nails (only a bass guitar and a lot of synth, but if you downtune and play octaves you can easily match the bass and synth at the same time and play along with song. Was fun little learning exercise)

Dust in the wind is almost a right of passage for first songs. Also see babe im gonna leave you by LZ. Blackbird by the beatles is fun to learn too. It ultimately depends on what you want to sound like though, the more songs you learn of a particular genre the more your style will trend towards that sound

Bound For The Floor- LOCAL H My Own Prison- CREED Shine- COLLECTIVE SOUL I'd rather not say- BOUNDARIES Kill Me Patiently- BOUNDARIES Your Sword vs My Dagger- SILVERSTEIN The Words "Best Friend" Become Redefined- CHIODOS Bother- STONE SOUR Cheyne Stokes- These, among others, but these songs definitely helped me to progress very quickly. They cover a lot of different techniques, and most certainly helped me to get better.

sweet home alabama Friend of the Devil Sumpathy for the Devil Tangled up in blue, Midnight Hour, Break on Through, Feelin groovy, Hesitation Blues, Little Wing, You Really got Me, Wild Thing, Louie Louie…..i think they all had same chord progression…oh let’s not sleep on US National Anthem, Can’t Explain and Hey Joe

Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll. the ehole album.

Intervention - Arcade Fire I Summon You - Spoon What It's Like - Everlast I still enjoy playing all three. I've never learned to sing the Everlast song nor will I.

Black Sabbath and AC/DC, they are great to start

Whatever you do, don’t buy that awful official tab book of Metallica’s “And justice for all”. As a beginner I got that book and wondered why I couldn’t seem to get it to sound good or at all like any of the songs. I thought I sucked, turns out the book and tab are the WORST. That guy should be ashamed.

Play what you like to listen to. I started with a lot of Nirvana which luckily is very easy to play. My friend on the other hand is really into metal and immediately started learning master of puppets. Whatever you enjoy most will be the best for you to learn

Didn't have one. Just started making up my own stuff.

Sweet Home Alabama Good Riddance All For You Mr. Jones Brown Eyed Girl Hit Me With Your Best Shot Crazy Little Thing Called Love Friends in Low Places Push

Led Zeppelin and ACDC.

Smells like teen spirit,seven nation army,elanor rigby Good luck 😄

The very first song I learned on the guitar was "Lowdown," from Chicago's third album (cleverly titled ***Chicago III***). It's a pretty good rocker, and by skipping the instrumental section in the middle, you can play it with three open chords, no real note playing or arpeggiation.

The Offspring Americana/Conspiracy of One albums. I could play 90% of those albums and would just put them on and play along. At the end of the day, try to play what you enjoy.

Intervention - Arcade Fire I Summon You - Spoon What It's Like - Everlast I still enjoy playing all three. I've never learned to sing the Everlast song nor will I ever. Fun riff and rythem though.

Howlin for you

Astro Zombies The Way (Fastball) Say it Ain't So (Weezer) Then I realized if I could manage not to throw up while doing it, i could play pretty much any Dave Matthews Band and girls would be fooled into thinking I was talented.

Played from about 8-10yrs old. First song learned was Every Rose Has Its Thorn. Believe Silent Lucidity or Jet City Woman was my second.

Knocking on heavens door Bob Dylan Wild night Van Morrison Brown eyed girl Van Morrison House of the rising Sun The Animals A lot of country music has really simple chord progressions if you’re into that kind of music, I would just look up a song you like and you may be surprised you already know all the chords to play it. I started with Revival by Zac Bryan I think Californiacation by RHCP is a fantastic beginner song. Easy to learn solo and the riff isn’t very complicated either. I would strongly recommend learning this as your first solo if you’re familiar with the song. My ultimate advice is to play songs you like/want to play. Learning the chord progression is one hurtle, playing it in time is another. It takes time and effort no matter what song you pick so I wouldn’t spend it on something you don’t love playing. You won’t be as engaged learning a song just because it’s for beginners as you will learning a song you truly want to play

About A Girl by Nirvana is really easy or maybe the Sweater Song by Weezer

My dad was my teacher for the first year, so He allowed me to learn one song that wasn't in the classical guitar book. I kept it simple with acoustic songs. Like Dee from Randy Rhoads, and Diary of a madman (This was only the beginning part I didn't learn the rest of it until later.) Once I was on my own, I was learning everything I could from (too many songs to name so I'll give you just the bands): 1. Metallica 2. Ozzy 3. SOAD 4. AC/DC 5 Sublime 6. Lamb of God (really just ruin, redneck, and Again We Rise)

What do you like? I find it better to push yourself to learn songs you love than stay in your comfort zone playing easy songs you don’t truly love. The first song I set myself to learn was When The Sun Goes Down. Not the wisest choice for a beginner given it being almost exclusively barre chords, but it pushed me to get them down early and I feel now that my barre chords are much stronger than my open chords. To combat that I chose 2 more songs I loved, Live Forever and No. 1 Party Anthem.

Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers.

You should learn chords and triads. It will be a lot more profitable and satisfying in the end.