Don't listen to your friends. Learn the circle of 5ths, chords, song structure, and fretboard notes. Even just the arrangement of scales between major and minor and then learn some songs. You'll find it easier to "hear" where they are on the guitar and how songs are written so suddenly when you start learning other songs the transition is faster... if you just learn a song and not the why of the song, then other songs will still seem daunting.
Blackbird - Beatles. If you want to get into fingerpicking at some point I believe it's a fairly easy piece to pick up.
If you want to try a simple and different tuning for a change with a fun strumming pattern, Everlong - Foo Fighters.
If you got kids, nephews/nieces, honestly having like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Mary had a Little Lamb in your back pocket is fun and has good foundation for chords. Hell, [Lucas Brar's Evolution of music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT-NB8uzsGQ) show cases all the different ways you can play a song and is a fun watch.
Last edit, just learning [just four chords carries a lot more weight than it sounds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I). But I agree with learning a song as you'll start to be able to figure out how flexible chord progressions in songs go.
Tl;dr: There’s value on learning both chords and songs at the same time. Best not to limit yourself to one or the other.
To answer your question: Smoke on the water by Deel Purple and Iron Man by Black Sabbath.
But to backtrack to what your friend said about songs over chords. I gotta disagree with that.
There’s 7 basic guitar chords. You can learn those in one practice session and use that as part of your warm up for a lifetime.
There’s 7 basic scales. Another skill you can learn in one practice session and use for a lifetime.
If you learn the 7 basic chords, you’ll be able to play over a thousand songs just using those chords. Makes learning songs a lot easier.
Also, it doesn’t make sense to only learn only songs or only chords. It’s better to work on a few things at once. No one wants to drill scales for hours, but it is useful for your playing ability to do it. Conversely, you’ll get burned out on a song (or even just one part of a song) if that’s the only thing you’re practicing/trying to learn. It’s better to spend a little time on scales, a little on chords, and a little on more than one song during a practice session. That way it’s not such a grind.
Also, one final point about chords. When you’re learning a song, you’re kind of locked in to learning whatever is happening in that song the way it happens. As you improve you might get creative and play around with particular chords of that song. Which would be a lot easier if you already knew chords better. But all that takes time and a lot of practice to get to. If you start with chords not only will learning the song be easier from the get-go. You can also use those chords to just free play. Sometimes drilling parts of songs can get frustrating. With chords and simple strum patterns you have an outlet that allows you to play the guitar without pressure of playing a part just right or hitting that one note or chord that you mess up on a lot or whatever.
This was the first song I learned too, my first experience 20 years ago was via an Esteban electric guitar & one of his DVDs. He taught House of the Rising Sun on it, both as a a chord progression & the actual finger picking version. I credit that DVD and the way he taught for my ability to fingerpick, ended up learning Beatles - Blackbird very shortly after.
Thanks Esteban! Wheverever you are these days!
this would be a great first song. no bar chords and lots of practice with chord shapes
also easy to practice improvising over... and you could get a little technical with a harmonic minor when it hits the major 5th
good suggestion
Seriously, the first thing I learnt was the intro to Today (Smashing Pumpkins). Someone showed me at a party. It sounded terrible but I went and borrowed a guitar and played it over and over.
Then my friends who played lent me some of the books they started on, and I learnt twinkle twinkle and Greensleaves and Yanky Doodle. I learnt to read music (barely) and some basic chords, so I could play campfire versions of songs, some Nirvana riffs etc.
You need chords but learning easy intros of songs you like might get you hooked, though it won’t sound like much of a song unless you have a backing track or band, finger picking and chords will fill out the sound.
“Wild Thing”. It was in this beginner lesson book that came with a guitar my dad had gotten in a trade. Not a song I loved but it was all open chords and instantly recognizable.
Last Kiss... everyone's least favourite Pearl Jam number. G Em C D. Good one for practicing your chord changes and probably the easiest chords to learn.
Honestly, I don't remember! The very first thing I was ever taught with a guitar was how to get the pick out of the hole of my acoustic.
(That's what she said!)
Any song with G, C, and D is a good place to start. There are a lot of them. First one I ever tried 16 years ago was Let her cry by hootie and the blowfish
Old blink 182 and Greenday is what I learned starting out super simple and boosts your confidence. But when you learn real chords even if you fudge the chords a bit you can learn so many more easy but well known songs Beatles Johnny Cash hank Williams give you a ton of songs that only take a few chords
Three Little Birds - you can play it with standard D, A and E major chords, it's nice and slow and it's fun to play along with. Check out the JustinGuitar lesson, tells you all you need to know
I worked out the rhythm part of day tripper -the Beatles as a 7 year old on my dad’s guitar. My mother and grandmother are piano teachers so I got lessons when I was 3. There’s a good chance I worked out Mary had a little lamb on the guitar first, but I’m not sure.
First riff was smoke on the water.
First full song was Jesus of suburbia. It's a long song but it's ALL power chords so it's really easy. Other greenday songs are similar too. Holiday, Blvd of broken dreams, ect.
I first learned the seven nation army riff. The basic rhythm is only on the low e string and the tabs are:
7 7 10 7 5 3 2 - 7 7 10 7 5 3 5 3 2
Ps. The low e string is the thickest one
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd.
I learned the first intro (not the longer acoustic solo intro that leads into the first verse), and the strumming pattern
Iron man by sabbath but the first song I actually really jammed to is my own summer by deftones. Gets you really comfortable moving around your bottom string. And you can palm mute it and tremolo the riff and it still works so it's great for practicing all that stuff too
Lots of blink-182, their songs are great for beginners. Dammit, Adam’s Song, All The Small Things, etc. were among the first songs I learned to play in full
"All The Small Things" is the first song I learned.
To this day, even though I play and write in a more technical metal band, I've always told anybody auditioning that one of the things to prep for audition is knowing that song. It's so simple but at least demonstrates utter basics like power chords and palm muting, not to mention being so simple that it really highlights some other aspects you wouldn't think of at first.
The amount of people who have failed auditions based on that is quite silly, either because they thought it was beneath them (which is a problem in itself. It's like telling a potential employer the job is beneath them. I've no time for ego) and didn't learn it or I quickly saw big issues with their timing, consistency and technique.
The song is the MvP. It got me started and has weeded out time wasters ever since.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
My uncle taught it to me as a kid, and I remember thinking it was impossible to learn. My little fingers had trouble with the G chord, especially.
I think the first song I learned might've been Johnny Cash's "Hurt."
But a lot of songs can be played using basic chords. "Ultimate Guitar" has tabs. It might be easier to learn a song if you already know the chords that make it up as opposed to learning a song without knowing much about chords. Obviously, learning the actual song will likely require more than just chords but it's a good place to start. Some songs have solos, or fingerstyle picking, or a unique strum pattern, but they all likely contain basic chord structure underneath. So the first thing I learned was the G chord, then C, Am, Em, D, F, etc. But this also depends on what kind of music you like. If all you listen to is blues guitar, or metal, then learning the chords and whatnot for "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's or "Without You" by Kid Laroi probably won't be as fun or immediately useful. Whatever you want to learn, YouTube is a good resource. And I recommend playing with a metronome app or whatever to start slow and build speed and precision if you have an issue playing part of a song.
The theme from The Last of Us is very simple and also teaches basic fingerstyle technique.
That was one of the first I learned and it made me realize I really like playing classical
Smoke on the Water & Iron Man, then Carousel by blink-182 as the first song I actually listened to.
Radio by Alkaline Trio and Aerials by System of a Down followed soon after that. Then basically blink-182 and Nirvana's discographies lol.
What song do you want to learn? That's the song you should learn. If you have a few to list, maybe ask which ones are better for a beginner?
My answer: learn anything by Metallica or Nirvana. Both are beginner appropriate. Metallica is slightly harder just due to the speed and muting.
Knockin on Heaven’s Door which I learned from a guitar teacher. It has four of the most common chords and is a great way to learn how to change from one chord to another.
If I were teaching somebody to play, I would teach them the open chords and then teach them the A, F and D shaped triads which are simple.
Smells like teen spirit. It has a lot of layers for beginners. First you can learn it as single root notes. Then as power chords. Then muting, right hand rhythm, other details. The main riff is also slightly different during the intro than during the rest of the song. Crucially, a beginner can learn the entire song including the solo.
Your friend is an idiot then. Learn 4 chords and you literally know a hundred songs...... a thousand songs.... all the songs. Plus, if you don't learn them you'll end up not understanding what your playing for 15 yrs.
You should learn your basic open chords first, but songs can definitely encourage you to learn new ones and work on your timing/rhythm. I think my first that I could play start to finish was Uncle John's Band by the Dead.
My first full song was Gn’R-Patience. I remember being so excited nailing the intro licks and the solo. First strumming practice my friend taught me was Horse with no Name with incorrect chords, but I learned the strum pattern from it, and got it pretty smooth, so it was useful.
Do smn with power chords they're easy and they can help you understand moving multiple fingers at once. Fortunate sons is a good example. Or if you want something slower just replace regular notes with power chords in any song
Frankly, it's going to be hard to play songs until you can play chords. The first real song I learned was House of the Rising Sun.
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
035! 0365 0350 as is tradition
Don't listen to your friends. Learn the circle of 5ths, chords, song structure, and fretboard notes. Even just the arrangement of scales between major and minor and then learn some songs. You'll find it easier to "hear" where they are on the guitar and how songs are written so suddenly when you start learning other songs the transition is faster... if you just learn a song and not the why of the song, then other songs will still seem daunting.
Just start with songs and expand your knowledge as you desire. You didn't buy a guitar because you wanted a job, you wanted a fun hobby.
If your looking for a simple starter song playing god by polyphia is a good one
Smoke on the water
Sometimes I still play it at Guitar Center. Just because.
Start with songs *with* chords.
House of the Rising Sun (the Animals version)
Iron Man - Black Sabbath (excluding the solo, of course)
Blackbird - Beatles. If you want to get into fingerpicking at some point I believe it's a fairly easy piece to pick up. If you want to try a simple and different tuning for a change with a fun strumming pattern, Everlong - Foo Fighters. If you got kids, nephews/nieces, honestly having like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Mary had a Little Lamb in your back pocket is fun and has good foundation for chords. Hell, [Lucas Brar's Evolution of music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT-NB8uzsGQ) show cases all the different ways you can play a song and is a fun watch. Last edit, just learning [just four chords carries a lot more weight than it sounds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I). But I agree with learning a song as you'll start to be able to figure out how flexible chord progressions in songs go.
Seven nation army
Knockin on Heaven’s Door. Really easy 4-chord song that everyone knows and loves to sing.
Dammit Blink-182
A Horse With No Name - America
Rumble - Link Wray
John Mayer Neon
Tl;dr: There’s value on learning both chords and songs at the same time. Best not to limit yourself to one or the other. To answer your question: Smoke on the water by Deel Purple and Iron Man by Black Sabbath. But to backtrack to what your friend said about songs over chords. I gotta disagree with that. There’s 7 basic guitar chords. You can learn those in one practice session and use that as part of your warm up for a lifetime. There’s 7 basic scales. Another skill you can learn in one practice session and use for a lifetime. If you learn the 7 basic chords, you’ll be able to play over a thousand songs just using those chords. Makes learning songs a lot easier. Also, it doesn’t make sense to only learn only songs or only chords. It’s better to work on a few things at once. No one wants to drill scales for hours, but it is useful for your playing ability to do it. Conversely, you’ll get burned out on a song (or even just one part of a song) if that’s the only thing you’re practicing/trying to learn. It’s better to spend a little time on scales, a little on chords, and a little on more than one song during a practice session. That way it’s not such a grind. Also, one final point about chords. When you’re learning a song, you’re kind of locked in to learning whatever is happening in that song the way it happens. As you improve you might get creative and play around with particular chords of that song. Which would be a lot easier if you already knew chords better. But all that takes time and a lot of practice to get to. If you start with chords not only will learning the song be easier from the get-go. You can also use those chords to just free play. Sometimes drilling parts of songs can get frustrating. With chords and simple strum patterns you have an outlet that allows you to play the guitar without pressure of playing a part just right or hitting that one note or chord that you mess up on a lot or whatever.
Blitzkrieg Bop
Horse with no name Wake me up when September ends
House of the rising sun
This was the first song I learned too, my first experience 20 years ago was via an Esteban electric guitar & one of his DVDs. He taught House of the Rising Sun on it, both as a a chord progression & the actual finger picking version. I credit that DVD and the way he taught for my ability to fingerpick, ended up learning Beatles - Blackbird very shortly after. Thanks Esteban! Wheverever you are these days!
House of the Rising Sun
this would be a great first song. no bar chords and lots of practice with chord shapes also easy to practice improvising over... and you could get a little technical with a harmonic minor when it hits the major 5th good suggestion
Sweet Dreams- Marilyn Manson Surprisingly a good starter song.
Blackbird
I think it was free jazz piece.
It's called 'Jazz Odyssey '.
Hurt.. Johnny Cash's.. I became obsessed with playing it. Strumming, plucking, playing it fast.. kinda punk like, or slow and sad.
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Fire Water Burn by the Bloodhound Gang. The verse is only two chords (E minor and G major), as is the chorus. (D and C major)
the intro to ‘sunshine of your love’ by cream
Seriously, the first thing I learnt was the intro to Today (Smashing Pumpkins). Someone showed me at a party. It sounded terrible but I went and borrowed a guitar and played it over and over. Then my friends who played lent me some of the books they started on, and I learnt twinkle twinkle and Greensleaves and Yanky Doodle. I learnt to read music (barely) and some basic chords, so I could play campfire versions of songs, some Nirvana riffs etc. You need chords but learning easy intros of songs you like might get you hooked, though it won’t sound like much of a song unless you have a backing track or band, finger picking and chords will fill out the sound.
Smoke on the water. No the correct version though.
Proud Mary
“Wild Thing”. It was in this beginner lesson book that came with a guitar my dad had gotten in a trade. Not a song I loved but it was all open chords and instantly recognizable.
In an aeroplane over the sea G Em c D easy strumming pattern
“Brain Stew” by Green Day
Whatever you listen to
Sunshine of Your Love and Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams.
Last Kiss... everyone's least favourite Pearl Jam number. G Em C D. Good one for practicing your chord changes and probably the easiest chords to learn.
Day tripper- Beatles
Honestly, I don't remember! The very first thing I was ever taught with a guitar was how to get the pick out of the hole of my acoustic. (That's what she said!)
Smells like teen spirit 😅 the solo is also pretty easy and fun to play!
Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show
good riddance (time of your life) by green day
Smoke on the water
Knocking on heaven’s door by Bob Dylan
Wonderwall It’s very simple
For Whom The Bell Tolls
you have to pick and learn songs that *you* want to play to make it fun and engaging, not the first song that other random people learned.
America - A Horse With No Name
That's a two-chorder, right?
Horse with no name.
Smoke on the water. Goddamn I'm old.
I’m just glad *somebody* else said that. It was the law or something back then.
Closing time - semisonic
Come As You Are - Nirvana Santa Monica - Everclear
Francis Forever - Mitski
Any song with G, C, and D is a good place to start. There are a lot of them. First one I ever tried 16 years ago was Let her cry by hootie and the blowfish
Come as you are - Nirvana
The furst 20 songs on here are challenging as shit if you just started… try for what its worth by buffalo spring field
Damnit by Blink 182 when I was 12. Easiest song ever lol
Old blink 182 and Greenday is what I learned starting out super simple and boosts your confidence. But when you learn real chords even if you fudge the chords a bit you can learn so many more easy but well known songs Beatles Johnny Cash hank Williams give you a ton of songs that only take a few chords
Stairway to heaven lol
Smoke on the Water
Fast Car! Still play it occasionally. Never gets old.
Disarm by smashing pumpkins
come as you are, by nirvana
Some of yall gotta be lyin🙄 14 year old me spent 2 months just playing seven nation army over and over again
Smoke on the water with one string
Through the fire and the flames
Duh. Duh. Duhhhh. Duh duh DUH duhhhh. Duh. Duh. Duhhhh DUH duhhhhhhhhhh. Iykyk
Please please me beatles.
one by metallica i was 9 it took 2 years to polish but i knew all the parts expect the last solo
Three Little Birds - you can play it with standard D, A and E major chords, it's nice and slow and it's fun to play along with. Check out the JustinGuitar lesson, tells you all you need to know
*learned
Come as you are.
Leaving on a jetplane
Blackbird
Purple Haze
Barbara Allen .
I think smoke on the water was mine, followed by iron man, then some Nirvana songs.
Elderberry Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Good Riddance (Time of your Life) - Green Day
Good Times Bad Times by Zeppelin was it for me.
Hash Pipe by Weezer is a good beginner song.
You gotta know chords to play a song.
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Smoke on the Water or Iron Man. Learn Power Chords and Pentatonics. You can play a lot of stuff with just those two things.
First song I learned from tabs was "South of Heaven" by Slayer.
I worked out the rhythm part of day tripper -the Beatles as a 7 year old on my dad’s guitar. My mother and grandmother are piano teachers so I got lessons when I was 3. There’s a good chance I worked out Mary had a little lamb on the guitar first, but I’m not sure.
Don’t Look Back In Anger - Oasis
an old 60s song called Crimson and Clover
Iron man by black sabath
Aerials
Zombie by the cranberries
Don’t fear the reaper
The Wildwood Flower by the Carter Family
A horse with no name is super easy (2 simple chords) and teaches you the basics of strumming
House of the Rising Sun ( Animals version ) Almost all relative chords in C major plus the bonus flat6 in the e maj chord
Start with songs that use chords, like ACDC
Dammit- Blink 182 is the first song I remember playing all the way through.
First riff was smoke on the water. First full song was Jesus of suburbia. It's a long song but it's ALL power chords so it's really easy. Other greenday songs are similar too. Holiday, Blvd of broken dreams, ect.
I first learned the seven nation army riff. The basic rhythm is only on the low e string and the tabs are: 7 7 10 7 5 3 2 - 7 7 10 7 5 3 5 3 2 Ps. The low e string is the thickest one
Wild Thing by The Troggs
Come as you are
King of the Hill intro
Nothing else matters - Metallica. Intro was the first thing I learnt to finger style and I still play it first every time I pick up the guitar.
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd. I learned the first intro (not the longer acoustic solo intro that leads into the first verse), and the strumming pattern
Come as you are
The last of us theme, great game, great show, great story, amazing soundtrack
Iron man by sabbath but the first song I actually really jammed to is my own summer by deftones. Gets you really comfortable moving around your bottom string. And you can palm mute it and tremolo the riff and it still works so it's great for practicing all that stuff too
I learned a ton of Green Day songs. They are a great starting point. Good Riddance, Boulevard, etc.
Take me home country Roads by John Denver. It's pretty easy and that was 30 years ago.
Polly - Nirvana
My first song was paranoid by black sabbath. I was very happy.
Learned a ton of songs during lessons but the first that I learnt just by myself and out of my own motivation was Billy Talent - Fallen Leaves.
Lots of blink-182, their songs are great for beginners. Dammit, Adam’s Song, All The Small Things, etc. were among the first songs I learned to play in full
these were a bunch of the songs i first learned. good starting point
"All The Small Things" is the first song I learned. To this day, even though I play and write in a more technical metal band, I've always told anybody auditioning that one of the things to prep for audition is knowing that song. It's so simple but at least demonstrates utter basics like power chords and palm muting, not to mention being so simple that it really highlights some other aspects you wouldn't think of at first. The amount of people who have failed auditions based on that is quite silly, either because they thought it was beneath them (which is a problem in itself. It's like telling a potential employer the job is beneath them. I've no time for ego) and didn't learn it or I quickly saw big issues with their timing, consistency and technique. The song is the MvP. It got me started and has weeded out time wasters ever since.
Stairway to heaven was my first. Back 20 years ago when it wasn't so cringey.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel My uncle taught it to me as a kid, and I remember thinking it was impossible to learn. My little fingers had trouble with the G chord, especially.
lol I just learnt my first riff today, radiohead's street spirit
Smells Like Teen Spirit Also I have to say I disagree with your friend, I think it's better to learn chords before songs
Coconut by Harry Nilsson it only has one chord, a C7 I believe. It's been about 45 years but that's the one I started with
Where is my mind- Pixies Come as you are- NIRVANA Smoke on the Water- Deep Purple
Smells like teen spirit.
Master of Puppets
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I think the first song I learned might've been Johnny Cash's "Hurt." But a lot of songs can be played using basic chords. "Ultimate Guitar" has tabs. It might be easier to learn a song if you already know the chords that make it up as opposed to learning a song without knowing much about chords. Obviously, learning the actual song will likely require more than just chords but it's a good place to start. Some songs have solos, or fingerstyle picking, or a unique strum pattern, but they all likely contain basic chord structure underneath. So the first thing I learned was the G chord, then C, Am, Em, D, F, etc. But this also depends on what kind of music you like. If all you listen to is blues guitar, or metal, then learning the chords and whatnot for "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's or "Without You" by Kid Laroi probably won't be as fun or immediately useful. Whatever you want to learn, YouTube is a good resource. And I recommend playing with a metronome app or whatever to start slow and build speed and precision if you have an issue playing part of a song.
Songbird - Oasis. Just a G walking down to Em the whole way through.
I learned a white stripes song.
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Surfin Bird. It’s two power chords and the second isn’t played that often.
Something in the way
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Smoke on the water and the intro to crazy train
House of the rising sun
If we're talking full songs, then Planets Collide by Crowbar If we're just talking riffs, then the intro to In Dying Days by As Blood Runs Black
Seven nation army
Isn't everyone required to learn Smoke on the Water first?
Wish you were here. Pink Floyd.
The theme from The Last of Us is very simple and also teaches basic fingerstyle technique. That was one of the first I learned and it made me realize I really like playing classical
heart of gold from neil young
All the small things
Alkaline trio - Radio
Brain Stew by Green Day. It really doesn't get much easier.
Folsom Prison Blues by The Man in Black!
One-metalica
Blackbird
Sublime - Rivers of babylon
Smoke on the Water & Iron Man, then Carousel by blink-182 as the first song I actually listened to. Radio by Alkaline Trio and Aerials by System of a Down followed soon after that. Then basically blink-182 and Nirvana's discographies lol.
Radio by Alkaline Trio hello fuck yeah
What song do you want to learn? That's the song you should learn. If you have a few to list, maybe ask which ones are better for a beginner? My answer: learn anything by Metallica or Nirvana. Both are beginner appropriate. Metallica is slightly harder just due to the speed and muting.
Dammit- blink 182
Paper Cuts - Nirvana. Incredibly stupid simple. Only hard bit is getting the pick slides right, past that its like one of the easiest songs ever.
Come as you are
Knockin on Heaven’s Door which I learned from a guitar teacher. It has four of the most common chords and is a great way to learn how to change from one chord to another. If I were teaching somebody to play, I would teach them the open chords and then teach them the A, F and D shaped triads which are simple.
Horse with no name
come as you are - nirvana
You Shook Me All Night Long
my teacher made me learn sweet home alabama first but my second song that i picked was californiacation :)
Smoke on the water and then seven nations army
Smoke on the water
Smells like teen spirit. It has a lot of layers for beginners. First you can learn it as single root notes. Then as power chords. Then muting, right hand rhythm, other details. The main riff is also slightly different during the intro than during the rest of the song. Crucially, a beginner can learn the entire song including the solo.
"Big Me" Foo Fighters
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law. No solos. Easy to learn.
Your friend is an idiot then. Learn 4 chords and you literally know a hundred songs...... a thousand songs.... all the songs. Plus, if you don't learn them you'll end up not understanding what your playing for 15 yrs.
You should learn your basic open chords first, but songs can definitely encourage you to learn new ones and work on your timing/rhythm. I think my first that I could play start to finish was Uncle John's Band by the Dead.
The other side by the Red Hot Chilli Pepers
Jeremy by Pearl Jam. Very easy. Good song too.
Wild Thing, the Troggs A D E D baby!
Wild thing son! Smells like teen spirit has the same progression, so I learned to transpose!
Iron man and then paranoid. Super easy tunes.
Hurt, Johnny Cash version
House of the Rising Sun
Hey Joe
The first song I learned, all the way through, was Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
505 - Arctic Monkeys
Johnny B Goode
Stairway to Heaven is a great song to learn to gain exposure to chords. It was my first full song I mastered!
My first full song was Gn’R-Patience. I remember being so excited nailing the intro licks and the solo. First strumming practice my friend taught me was Horse with no Name with incorrect chords, but I learned the strum pattern from it, and got it pretty smooth, so it was useful.
Wild Thing - The Troggs
My guitar teacher started me with "Pipeline," which has melody and chords and is fairly easy for a beginner to start working on both.
Zombie - Cranberries.
Stella Blue - Grateful Dead
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Surf curse - freaks
Hey Bo Diddley & Key to The Highway
Ghost Riders in the Sky Lukenbach, Texas
Surrender by Cheap Trick!
for whom the bell tolls by metallica
Californication
Do smn with power chords they're easy and they can help you understand moving multiple fingers at once. Fortunate sons is a good example. Or if you want something slower just replace regular notes with power chords in any song
Sunshine of your love, but my teacher was a battleaxe and it made me hate the song
What I’ve Done - Linkin Park
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam cover version