Start Learning Guitar – 3 Easy Rock Songs For Acoustic Guitar
There have been some great rock tunes written on the acoustic guitar, and many of those are pretty darn easy to play for beginners as well.
I’ve assembled a list of 3 easy to play rock songs on the acoustic guitar. To learn these three songs you’ll only need your major and minor open chords and a couple of easy to form barre chords.
I’ve provided the chords you need to know for each song, and to find the exact chord progression you could check a tab site. The best way to learn them how ever is probably to listen to the songs a couple of times and then pick them out by ear.
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day
I can still remember playing this song. You can find a couple of different tabs/chord sheets for this tune, but which ever version you find it’ll be easy and fun to learn.
There are only four chords in the whole song: G, C, D and Em.
Listen to the song and I’m sure you’ll be able to pick up your guitar after the first verse and chorus and begin to play along. This is also a great song to strum and sing at the same time if you’re able to.
Patience – Guns N’ Roses
If you love guitar then you probably are a fan of Slash and the earlier GNR albums. This is one of the classics on their second album Lies. This is one of the only acoustic hits Guns N Roses had during their original career, not counting their recent come back.
To play this tune you only need 5 chords: Em, A, C, D and G.
There are several great tabs and chord sites which have the pattern out there but I believe if you listen to the song a couple of times you’ll pick it up pretty quick knowing that those are the chords used.
About A Girl – Nirvana
This is one of the first acoustic songs I learned when first starting out on the guitar, so I couldn’t leave it off the list. Kurt Cobain was never known for his great or complex guitar playing, rather he was kept things simple and innovated a musical genre with just a few chords.
Don’t listen to the studio album version of About a Girl, try to find the track from their MTV unplugged album. If you can get a hold of that version it’s fantastic on the acoustic.
To play about a girl you’ll need to know the chords: Em, G, C# and F#
If you can play and sing give this one a try as well.
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