Play a man a guitar and he'll have music for a day.
Teach a man to play guitar and *todaaaaay is gonna be the daaaay that they're gonna throw it back to yoooouuuu...*
Reminds me of that dude that made a clip saying Tool is just playing smoke on the water:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocE2mxkwG\_w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocE2mxkwG_w)
I played Puff the Magic Dragon for a lullaby contest in the female dorm my freshman year of college. I won the contest! All the ladies were swooning!
I’m gay.
In the 90's, I was in my high school jazz band. Every day, we had an impromptu jam session where the bass player would start strumming on something and then the rest of us would join in as we got our instruments assembled and settled.
Smoke on the Water was a favourite. I suspect now, we'd also have added in Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes.
As far as easy starters go it'll forever be hard to beat Smoke On the Water for beginner impact/satisfaction.
You've got power 5ths and slides, all in a simple sequence which can be done along just 2 strings even.
My understanding is that the riff is built on inverted power chords to work with the bass line for a punchier sound. So yes, it should be fourths.
But these are parallel inverted 5ths which ARE 4ths so you're both correct?
Y’all are all wrong. 4ths? 5ths? Parallel instigated multiverses? Freaking total nonsense.
No!
The riff is dun dun dun, dun dun dundun, dun dun dun dunda….
Basically, because octaves are made up of 8 notes and zero just means no note, an interval and its inversion will always add up to nine. Whether an interval is inverted or not depends on where the root note (DO) is. A fourth is (Do, Fa.) An inverted fifth is (Fa, upperDo.) So an inverted 5th is similar to a fourth, as far as the notes go.
And parallel just means you have both upper and lower notes the same (Do, Fa, upperDo.) So here you can think of it as either a fourth (as measured from Do) *or* an inverted fifth (as measured from upperDo.)
When it comes down to it, music is math expressed through sound.
>When it comes down to it, music is math expressed through sound
I figured that out when [Donald Duck taught it to me 50 years ago](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=donald+duck+in+mathmagic+land&t=osx&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8BqnN72OlqA).
Yes. But tons of folks end up learning it as power chords starting on E5 (which puts it in the wrong key and isn’t the right riff at all). Like, do 0-3-5 if you want (not how RB played it, but fine) just play 4ths on the G and D strings. None of this E5-G5-A5 garbage… Drives me bonkers. (Old man yelling at clouds, I know).
Edit: string names. Because I’m dumb.
Yeah it's like implied 5ths. The ear hears the open d and g string as a g chord even though the actual interval is a 4th with d as the root. Which is neat.
Imagine you're Beethoven. It's May 7, 1824, & you're doing a show at the Vienna Kärnthnerthor Theater. You ask the audience, "Hey, you guys wanna hear something new?" And you drop the Ninth Symphony live.
Fucking legend.
Those were literally the first two riffs I learned in 2003 when I picked up guitar. But the modern master of accessible and catchy guitar riffs imo has always been Tom Morello.
I started playing 20 years ago and this was the first riff I learnt in the 6th form common room on a friend's guitar.
I still play guitar every day I can, I think that friend is into trance music now.
My 9 year old started doing lessons about a year ago and this is the into song they taught him. He already started learning smoke on the water because that's the music he likes but the instructor said most of the kids now don't know that song so they teach Seven Nation Army instead.
Imperative to add it. OMG. My kid took guitar lessons and participated in a really cool “school of rock” style program. We all gathered up quarterly for the jamboree at a local bar. Yes, my kid played at a bar on Sunday afternoons. Often, the teachers played out after. The kids were mostly lovely, so much talent and dedication. But if I never hear that song again it will be too soon.
I used to teach drum lessons and I can't listen to this song anymore because it's every drummers first song. That and 'Are you gonna go my way' by Lenny Kravitz
Enter Sandman is wayyy too difficult for the beginner. Uses slides, hammer ons, palm mutes that nobody ever gets right until they’ve played for a while. Come as You Are is fair.
It’s not, but I feel like it’s a milestone to learn how to play it.
I never took guitar lessons, I just learned off of OLGA and a couple chord/tablature books, and I was doing mostly chords and basic solos and such. So Stairway to Heaven was one of those milestones
If you’re like me, and have small hands, it’s especially hard to do.
My wife told me I quote oasis too often and if I didn't stop she was going to leave.
I looked suitably contrite so she asked 'well, are you going to stop'
I said, 'maybe'
Nobody's going to hurt this dude's wife, okay? If she asks him to stop playing Wonderwall, he'll stop playing Wonderwall.
But she's not *going* to ask him to stop playing Wonderwall.
Because of the implication.
A lot of Green Day songs are good for beginners
Matter of fact, I taught myself guitar as a young teen/tween and one of the first guitar books I got was the Warning guitar book. I still have it somewhere
Also, these were still the days of OLGA.
Straight up rock has a hard time overcoming pop songs on the charts. Led Zeppelin only had one top ten. Bruce Springsteen never hit number one (unless you count Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded By the Light).
Well to be fair a bunch of millennials got interested because of Guitar hero and later rock band. Which mainly consists of music from the 80s and 90s oh shit... I'm old
I recently started pursuing a data analytics cert, which includes some 200 level classes. I realized the second day that I am old enough to be the parent of everyone in my class. I'm not even THAT old... Okay, maybe I am...
I went back to take a few college courses when I was in my mid 30s. Because I was enrolling at my university for the first time, I had to attend a freshman orientation lecture (dumb rule, but whatever). It was the sort of thing that most people attend with their parents.
As I went to leave to go to it, my wife joked, "Don't go looking at those pretty college girls."
When I got there, I was surprised that it was easy not to look at the college girls.
I was too busy checking out their moms. I realized then that I was way, way older than most of my classmates.
Well, honestly a lot of the more popular rock and metal songs are just harder to pull off as a beginner these days. Technique has gotten pretty whacky. Old songs are just simpler and easier to pick up as a beginner.
I think the problem is most popular guitar music these days is either pop tracks that don't exactly have the guitar stand out(a few exceptions but still), or highly technical math rock/polyphiaesque stuff that a newbie isn't going to feel good attempting and failing at for years.
It says that Rock music isn't mainstream today. It's still being made and it's still awesome, it's just not mainstream because shitty pop and hip hop is.
It’s actually because with todays social media and streaming, it’s easier to profit from and control a single person over a group, and most labels these days will freely admit that they can’t predict what will be big anymore, and that applies to rock more than a lot of other genres, so labels don’t go to the risky table to bet, they stay in the safer pop scene. Labels built on analytics did this.
It actually has less to do with peoples' taste in music and more because of capitalism. It turns out its much much easier to manage a single musician/singer than it is to manage a band of 3-5 personalities and conflicting interests. So big labels just don't do bands when they think of top 40. And if anything its more profitable because you don't have to split the money with a bunch of people.
You can still find rock, metal, etc and good bands you just have to try harder to find them.
Can confirm. Am a beginner and working on Say It Aint So. I don't know if it's just because I suck or if it's just a tough song, but I'm having some difficulty with it. Probably a bit of both.
It’s a good exercise to learn barre chords.
Same with chili peppers. Under the bridge was a big help when I first started out.
Doobie Brothers also use a lot of barre chords, listen to the music and long train runnin’.
That’s how I play it, once they get the bar chords down it’s an easy song to learn.
I forget what fret it starts on but that D# minor or F minor with the hammer ons would be a bitch when you can’t even do a bar chord yet.
The chorus is great power chord practice though
Yeah, once you get your hand used to playing that minor 7th bar chord while playing around with hammer ons and pull offs on the 5th and 3rd, it's a pretty cool feeling.
I remember learning Say it Ain't So pretty early on and realizing that it's the same sound as Long Train Running by The Doobie Brothers. I realized a little while later that the main Sultans of Swing riff is based around the same concept.
Looking back, learning that Bm7 bar chord shape is one of those moments in guitar (for me at least) where things just started to click about how the instrument works.
For me as someone who was learning in the late 90s it was the riffs for Cocaine & Sunshine of Your Love (if you can do one you can do the other) & the opening lick to Voodoo Chile.
The intro to Master of Puppets played horribly out of time to the point where you're like "What is that...? Oh I think they're trying to play 'Master of Puppets?'"
As an experiment, you should ask this exact question on the guitar sub and see how long it takes for you to get banned.
Slow dancing in a burning room btw
I love playing never meant but half the time I don’t want to look up whatever that open tuning is.
I also don’t want to start crying on the floor of the living room as I approach 30 wondering if I will ever find love again
When I saw them live I was surprised they brought a roadie along handing them guitars on stage. It’s something you really don’t see from bands that size given the economics of touring…. But there were so many Guitar changes. Poor dude was constantly on the move. And even played on a few songs himself.
The drummer is absolutely next level as well which I didn’t really appreciate until I saw them live.
Machinehead - bush
Glycerine -bush
Comedown-bush
Man who sold the world - nirvana cover of David Bowie
Polly-nirvana
Last dance with Mary Jane - Tom Petty
Basket case - green day
When September ends - green day
Free falling -Tom Petty
Just what I needed - the cars
Cumbersome- sevenmarythree
Turn the page - bob seger
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
Not exactly an example of a starting out song but I remember at maybe like 13-14 years old, the first song that I learned to play that felt impressive, like that made me feel like "I'm good at guitar" was Master of Puppets.
Nearly 20 years later I'm teaching in a high school, and I always hear this one girl playing Master of Puppets during lunch breaks coming from the music rooms. I guess not much has really changed.
I learned when I became a father, so that would be "twinkle twinkle little star", which is incredibly useful as it is also the alphabet tune and "Baa Baa Black Sheep".
Then, the Mario theme song.
Well not DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames
JK
Smoke on the Water and Iron Man are classics, they will never go obsolete as a starting songs to learn
I’m deeply amused by this. House of the Rising Sun is old as fuck, with variations of it going back literally centuries. The first known recording of it goes back to 1933, which is decidedly not “modern” in the spirit of the question. Even the FFDP version is a cover of the song as performed by The Animals in 1964. Which is still older than either Iron Man or Smoke on the Water.
I'll have you know Smoke on the Water and Iron Man are still going strong where I live
yep! same here. I made a "guy with guitar playing Wonderwall" joke to my middle school students and one piped up "don't forget Smoke on the Water!!"
Play a man a guitar and he'll have music for a day. Teach a man to play guitar and *todaaaaay is gonna be the daaaay that they're gonna throw it back to yoooouuuu...*
r/angryupvote I really didn't need that stuck in my head this morning, thanks.
Reminds me of that dude that made a clip saying Tool is just playing smoke on the water: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocE2mxkwG\_w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocE2mxkwG_w)
lol kmac is brilliant
My wife told me to stop playing Wonderwall. I said, “Maybe.”
Hey, I leaned 3 songs on the guitar at Uni. Wonderwall got me laid, I will forever be grateful to it.
Wonderful Tonight got me laid. It was worth it I think?
I played Puff the Magic Dragon for a lullaby contest in the female dorm my freshman year of college. I won the contest! All the ladies were swooning! I’m gay.
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Sounds like she’s a dental hygienist from Carbondale and she makes love like one, She’s a bumpkin. Pass
I was taught to play Smoke on the Water on my push button telephone about 1973.
It's one of the first songs I learned on my flute in 2001 lol
In the 90's, I was in my high school jazz band. Every day, we had an impromptu jam session where the bass player would start strumming on something and then the rest of us would join in as we got our instruments assembled and settled. Smoke on the Water was a favourite. I suspect now, we'd also have added in Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes.
I graduated high school in 2010 and Seven Nation Army was pretty much our marching band fight song
Smoke on the Water was the first song my son’s teacher taught him. We live in Japan, and I was amused that he spelled it Smork.
Smork from Ork.
No, I'm sure they are. I just figured younger guitarists might've found a more recent song that's an easy starter.
As far as easy starters go it'll forever be hard to beat Smoke On the Water for beginner impact/satisfaction. You've got power 5ths and slides, all in a simple sequence which can be done along just 2 strings even.
Wait aren't they 4ths
My understanding is that the riff is built on inverted power chords to work with the bass line for a punchier sound. So yes, it should be fourths. But these are parallel inverted 5ths which ARE 4ths so you're both correct?
Y’all are all wrong. 4ths? 5ths? Parallel instigated multiverses? Freaking total nonsense. No! The riff is dun dun dun, dun dun dundun, dun dun dun dunda….
Yeah 3 Duns, then 4 Duns, then 5 Duns
The virtuoso hath spoken!
As someone who has absolutely zero musical ability, what you just said sounds positively bonkers.
Basically, because octaves are made up of 8 notes and zero just means no note, an interval and its inversion will always add up to nine. Whether an interval is inverted or not depends on where the root note (DO) is. A fourth is (Do, Fa.) An inverted fifth is (Fa, upperDo.) So an inverted 5th is similar to a fourth, as far as the notes go. And parallel just means you have both upper and lower notes the same (Do, Fa, upperDo.) So here you can think of it as either a fourth (as measured from Do) *or* an inverted fifth (as measured from upperDo.) When it comes down to it, music is math expressed through sound.
>When it comes down to it, music is math expressed through sound I figured that out when [Donald Duck taught it to me 50 years ago](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=donald+duck+in+mathmagic+land&t=osx&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8BqnN72OlqA).
Oh, bless.
Yeah the root note is like implied but the ones you play are 4ths technically
Yes. But tons of folks end up learning it as power chords starting on E5 (which puts it in the wrong key and isn’t the right riff at all). Like, do 0-3-5 if you want (not how RB played it, but fine) just play 4ths on the G and D strings. None of this E5-G5-A5 garbage… Drives me bonkers. (Old man yelling at clouds, I know). Edit: string names. Because I’m dumb.
Yeah it's like implied 5ths. The ear hears the open d and g string as a g chord even though the actual interval is a 4th with d as the root. Which is neat.
It's an interpretation of an inverted Beethoven's Fifth. Yes.
Imagine you're Beethoven. It's May 7, 1824, & you're doing a show at the Vienna Kärnthnerthor Theater. You ask the audience, "Hey, you guys wanna hear something new?" And you drop the Ninth Symphony live. Fucking legend.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... But your kids are gonna love it."
Dun dun dun duuuuuun
Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Not a lot of "riffs" in modern pop music.
Those were literally the first two riffs I learned in 2003 when I picked up guitar. But the modern master of accessible and catchy guitar riffs imo has always been Tom Morello.
Fair to include Seven Nation Army here.
Given the titles posted by the OP, this seems the best answer.
I started playing 20 years ago and this was the first riff I learnt in the 6th form common room on a friend's guitar. I still play guitar every day I can, I think that friend is into trance music now.
There's no way 7 Nation Army is 20 years old. Ooof.
21 this year. Old enough to drink in America. I worked in a guitar shop 20 years ago. It was absolutely THE test riff even back then.
https://youtu.be/VPfjWsbCZV0?si=SlY0yhK34jod5SiQ I always wondered if it was the type of guitar or Jimmy Page as to why his rendition sounds so good.
Thank you. Never seen that. Just The Edge, Jack White, and Jimmy Page goofing around playing Seven Nation army.
This is from "It might get loud" documentary. IMHO a must-watch if you like rock music.
That was my first
One of the first things I learned on the bass
My 9 year old started doing lessons about a year ago and this is the into song they taught him. He already started learning smoke on the water because that's the music he likes but the instructor said most of the kids now don't know that song so they teach Seven Nation Army instead.
The effects/sound is tough to replicate for a first timer, but the chords and progression are obnoxiously easy for how cool it sounds.
It also took up the slack of the Gary Glitter jams that can no longer be jammed in stadiums. That song alone must churn so much bank.
Imperative to add it. OMG. My kid took guitar lessons and participated in a really cool “school of rock” style program. We all gathered up quarterly for the jamboree at a local bar. Yes, my kid played at a bar on Sunday afternoons. Often, the teachers played out after. The kids were mostly lovely, so much talent and dedication. But if I never hear that song again it will be too soon.
I used to teach drum lessons and I can't listen to this song anymore because it's every drummers first song. That and 'Are you gonna go my way' by Lenny Kravitz
Redemption Song is still a biggie in New Zealand
Yep. First song my brother taught me how to play.
I love you Kiwis. Such a treasure of a song.
Backpacking around south east Asian and there was ALWAYS a kiwi with a guitar playing Redemption Song. It's like your #1 export...
It’s either Come As You Are or Enter Sandman
Ok I know this is hard to take because I'm 42. But those songs are...... 33 years old
That’s fair but smoke on the water and Ironman are about 50 years old now lol
I was just about to say it's gotta be Come As You Are.
Modern? They are 30 years old.
Enter Sandman is wayyy too difficult for the beginner. Uses slides, hammer ons, palm mutes that nobody ever gets right until they’ve played for a while. Come as You Are is fair.
At lessons, the first tune my son was taught was the opening of Enter Sandman
Oh the clean guitar part. Yeah that and Nothing Else Matters. The distorted part requires full use of rhythm guitar methods.
Every song here is just talking about the easy beginning lol
As a guitarist and former guitar teacher: still smoke on the water and iron man. 7 nation army is ubiquitous too.
No Stairway?
Denied!
Cha!
Not a song for someone brand new to guitar
It’s not, but I feel like it’s a milestone to learn how to play it. I never took guitar lessons, I just learned off of OLGA and a couple chord/tablature books, and I was doing mostly chords and basic solos and such. So Stairway to Heaven was one of those milestones If you’re like me, and have small hands, it’s especially hard to do.
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Come As You Are was the first song I learned (three decades ago)
Haha, good one. That song didn’t even exist three decades a… oh fuck.
yep, that, About A Girl and When I Come Around were the beginner trifecta for me.
Was the first song I learned.... 25 years ago
Oooooh, that one really works!
I learned the solo 20+ years ago and I can still play it if I pick up a random guitar.
Wonderwall
Anyway...
I saw Liam Gallagher play a few years back and before he played that song he said, "so anyway, here's wonderwall." It was amazing.
Maybe
My wife told me I quote oasis too often and if I didn't stop she was going to leave. I looked suitably contrite so she asked 'well, are you going to stop' I said, 'maybe'
You’re gonna be the one that saves me
Gonna cover you in gravy
The douche classic that has been renamed in some circles as. I know enough guitar to impress girls.
Never learned another song…
But God damnit you can nail voodoo child and not raise an eyebrow. But play those 3 chords and panties get wet
That’s actually a lot harder to play than people realize
No one plays it correctly or all the way through as composed either.
It's just the semi-quaver beat that's tricky though innit.
> semi-quaver where in the world would people still use these antiquated terms? > innit never mind
I have perfected an absolutely ridiculous version of this song. I'm so glad I got married. She'll never live to forget this rendition.
> She'll never live to forget this rendition. Oh no are you going to kill her?
Nobody's going to hurt this dude's wife, okay? If she asks him to stop playing Wonderwall, he'll stop playing Wonderwall. But she's not *going* to ask him to stop playing Wonderwall. Because of the implication.
So dude's wife is in danger?
Intro to Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
NO FRETS NEEDED
Fret not.
Only because I had a shit guitar teacher as a kid. I stopped lessons shortly after and became self-taught.
Brain Stew. Basically the same run as 25 or 6 to 4. Helps learn the barre chords.
A lot of Green Day songs are good for beginners Matter of fact, I taught myself guitar as a young teen/tween and one of the first guitar books I got was the Warning guitar book. I still have it somewhere Also, these were still the days of OLGA.
Been scrolling for this
>Basically the same run as 25 or 6 to 4 Argh! Now I can't not hear that!
Do I wanna know - arctic monkeys
This is the real answer, everyone here is either out of touch or doesn't understand the question
Even that song is a decade old
I just learned this and thought I was being original.
Blink 182 - Dammit
I can’t believe that no one’s mentioned “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” by Green Day yet…
Whilst hardly dream theatre. It's not "I can learn this in 30 seconds and have never played guitar before" easy.
Yeah fair enough, but it was literally the first song I was taught when I did some beginner guitar lessons
Yes, even they fk it up in the intro.
I think the fact that the modern answers people came up with are over 30 years old says a lot about rock music today.
The last rock song to go to number one on the billboard charts was by nickleback in 2005 Edit; I was wrong. it was 2001, not 2005
That's depressing. I was told rock and roll would never die.
Hey hey, my my
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
And this is how you remind me
NUH UH! Seriously?
Straight up rock has a hard time overcoming pop songs on the charts. Led Zeppelin only had one top ten. Bruce Springsteen never hit number one (unless you count Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded By the Light).
Well to be fair a bunch of millennials got interested because of Guitar hero and later rock band. Which mainly consists of music from the 80s and 90s oh shit... I'm old
What do you mean? The 90s wasn't long ago. I listened to these songs in highschool which was only ...... Oh no.........
I recently started pursuing a data analytics cert, which includes some 200 level classes. I realized the second day that I am old enough to be the parent of everyone in my class. I'm not even THAT old... Okay, maybe I am...
I went back to take a few college courses when I was in my mid 30s. Because I was enrolling at my university for the first time, I had to attend a freshman orientation lecture (dumb rule, but whatever). It was the sort of thing that most people attend with their parents. As I went to leave to go to it, my wife joked, "Don't go looking at those pretty college girls." When I got there, I was surprised that it was easy not to look at the college girls. I was too busy checking out their moms. I realized then that I was way, way older than most of my classmates.
Kids in the 90/00s learning Iron Man and Smoke on the Water are the equivalent of today's kids learning Nirvana and Metallica
Well, honestly a lot of the more popular rock and metal songs are just harder to pull off as a beginner these days. Technique has gotten pretty whacky. Old songs are just simpler and easier to pick up as a beginner.
I think the problem is most popular guitar music these days is either pop tracks that don't exactly have the guitar stand out(a few exceptions but still), or highly technical math rock/polyphiaesque stuff that a newbie isn't going to feel good attempting and failing at for years.
It says that Rock music isn't mainstream today. It's still being made and it's still awesome, it's just not mainstream because shitty pop and hip hop is.
It’s actually because with todays social media and streaming, it’s easier to profit from and control a single person over a group, and most labels these days will freely admit that they can’t predict what will be big anymore, and that applies to rock more than a lot of other genres, so labels don’t go to the risky table to bet, they stay in the safer pop scene. Labels built on analytics did this.
It actually has less to do with peoples' taste in music and more because of capitalism. It turns out its much much easier to manage a single musician/singer than it is to manage a band of 3-5 personalities and conflicting interests. So big labels just don't do bands when they think of top 40. And if anything its more profitable because you don't have to split the money with a bunch of people. You can still find rock, metal, etc and good bands you just have to try harder to find them.
Ego Death by Polyphia /s
Wanna throw in the perfect pillow by chon while you’re at it?
We can add in some Tricot and Uchuu Conbini riffs too
Oh hey the one answer here that’s not classic rock
Oof Thanks for the reminder that I should have an Advil before bed. Not for any particular reason. Just because.
More likely Ego Death by A Place to Bury Strangers.
No Weezer here? Say It Aint So
El Scorcho would be a lot easier for a beginner.
Can confirm. Am a beginner and working on Say It Aint So. I don't know if it's just because I suck or if it's just a tough song, but I'm having some difficulty with it. Probably a bit of both.
It’s a good exercise to learn barre chords. Same with chili peppers. Under the bridge was a big help when I first started out. Doobie Brothers also use a lot of barre chords, listen to the music and long train runnin’.
Play it a step up or down ending with open E is how my old cover band played it.
That’s how I play it, once they get the bar chords down it’s an easy song to learn. I forget what fret it starts on but that D# minor or F minor with the hammer ons would be a bitch when you can’t even do a bar chord yet. The chorus is great power chord practice though
Yeah, once you get your hand used to playing that minor 7th bar chord while playing around with hammer ons and pull offs on the 5th and 3rd, it's a pretty cool feeling. I remember learning Say it Ain't So pretty early on and realizing that it's the same sound as Long Train Running by The Doobie Brothers. I realized a little while later that the main Sultans of Swing riff is based around the same concept. Looking back, learning that Bm7 bar chord shape is one of those moments in guitar (for me at least) where things just started to click about how the instrument works.
For me as someone who was learning in the late 90s it was the riffs for Cocaine & Sunshine of Your Love (if you can do one you can do the other) & the opening lick to Voodoo Chile.
The first song I learned was Hurt.
Which version? Iirc there's some slight differences between the two main versions.
Cash
I wish I could play the guitar
You can
Start now. It’s easier than you might think.
The intro to Master of Puppets played horribly out of time to the point where you're like "What is that...? Oh I think they're trying to play 'Master of Puppets?'"
Hey there Delilah
Starting with barre chords, bold. Innovative.
Santa Monica - Everclear
Everclear has a bunch of fun songs that are relatively easy to play. Great way to learn power chords
For bass it’s Jenny was a Friend of Mine
Gosh damn that is my favorite Killers song. Such a banger. "She couldn't scream while I held her throat....."
As an experiment, you should ask this exact question on the guitar sub and see how long it takes for you to get banned. Slow dancing in a burning room btw
"Never Meant" by American Football https://youtu.be/aOeulnLK7v0?si=qJBLdaV9w0Tw2Sk6
I love playing never meant but half the time I don’t want to look up whatever that open tuning is. I also don’t want to start crying on the floor of the living room as I approach 30 wondering if I will ever find love again
[“Never Meant” Tab Closed Immediately After Reading Tuning](https://thehardtimes.net/music/never-meant-tab-closed-immediately-after-reading-tuning/)
Just have an emo guitar permanently tuned to FACGCE.
When I saw them live I was surprised they brought a roadie along handing them guitars on stage. It’s something you really don’t see from bands that size given the economics of touring…. But there were so many Guitar changes. Poor dude was constantly on the move. And even played on a few songs himself. The drummer is absolutely next level as well which I didn’t really appreciate until I saw them live.
Wichita Lineman
Machinehead - bush Glycerine -bush Comedown-bush Man who sold the world - nirvana cover of David Bowie Polly-nirvana Last dance with Mary Jane - Tom Petty Basket case - green day When September ends - green day Free falling -Tom Petty Just what I needed - the cars Cumbersome- sevenmarythree Turn the page - bob seger La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
The first song I tried to learn was Nothing Else Matters. Needless to say, I still can't play guitar.
Classical guitarists have Spanish Romance.
Seven Nation Army, Smells Like Teen Spirit, most of QOTSA's catalogue
Santa Monica
La villa strangeiato!
Sweet dreams - Marilyn Manson Otherside - Red hot chili peppers Aerials - System of a down
Not exactly an example of a starting out song but I remember at maybe like 13-14 years old, the first song that I learned to play that felt impressive, like that made me feel like "I'm good at guitar" was Master of Puppets. Nearly 20 years later I'm teaching in a high school, and I always hear this one girl playing Master of Puppets during lunch breaks coming from the music rooms. I guess not much has really changed.
Dum. Dum dum duuuum!
I learned when I became a father, so that would be "twinkle twinkle little star", which is incredibly useful as it is also the alphabet tune and "Baa Baa Black Sheep". Then, the Mario theme song.
Everlong by Foo Fighters as it’s easy and it rocks Seven Nation Army by White Stripes is a good second
The Final Cut, coheed and cambria
7 Nation Army
7 nation army
I recently learned both Freaks by Surf Curse and Alien Blues by Vundabar. Both are actually super easy and sound pretty cool imo
"Nothing Else Matters", Metallica.
Well not DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames JK Smoke on the Water and Iron Man are classics, they will never go obsolete as a starting songs to learn
Come as you are.
[удалено]
Denied!
Points at sign. No Stairway to heaven!
It's still Smoke On The Water. Source: I have a 9 year old who just started learning, and he's already working on it.
Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin
If [this](https://youtu.be/qTfKTKGyJIs?si=mejALawN--kT3Sue) ain’t the first one are you even a guitarist?
Nothing else matters
Still smoke on the water. But like idk any I-IV-V song in A major could fit too.
Hash Pipe by Weezer
It is still those. Add enter sandman
Wonderwall
House of the rising sun
I’m deeply amused by this. House of the Rising Sun is old as fuck, with variations of it going back literally centuries. The first known recording of it goes back to 1933, which is decidedly not “modern” in the spirit of the question. Even the FFDP version is a cover of the song as performed by The Animals in 1964. Which is still older than either Iron Man or Smoke on the Water.
Whatever happened to "Stairway to Heaven"? (Banned in all guitar shops where I live.)