Easy Acoustic Songs? (Page 1 of 2)

hi meggie,

There are loads of really eaasy songs you can learn.

johnny cash's cocaine blues, only 2 chords C and G ( although there is an F at the end)

knocking on heavens door 

hotel yorba

house of the rising sun

there are tons,

best way to find some are to look up peoples song books on chordie or just browse a while thru bands that you like or certain songs you like and see if it looks easy.

good luck

Ken

good call there alvee,

also, black velvet band, fields of athenry, loch lomond, rose of allendale, leaving of liverpool, Dirty old town ( easiest song to do ever!!!) the pub wit hno beer, the band played waltzing matilda and green fields of france.

yes, I do all of these

Ken

"If"   Bread   
"Gypsy Boy"   Rory Block
"Tears In Heaven"   Eric Clapton

.../gin

I'll tell you the easiest song I ever found. It's a Beatles Lennon-McCartney classic called 'Elenor Rigby' 2 chords... two and three fingers used. Em and C, in that order. Check it out! Alot of 'easy' Beatle tunes out there...

Hi meggie,

My first song was Mull of Kyntyre, good one to learn, if you want a new song Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol is good, another one I like is breakfast at Tiffanys by Deep blue Something, hope your enjoying your playing, oh one more This Land is your Land by Woody guthrie and if you want to have a go at fingerpicking try Dust in the wind by Kansas or Over the rainbow by Judy Garland. Thats it hope these help.

Thats true Roger Guppy, I heard a good version of Over The Rainbow by John Martyn a great guitarist who is sadly not mentioned much these days, and even Bob Dylan thought the Jimi Hendrix version of All Along The Watchtower was better than the original. That aside I think Grimreefer was a bit concerned that Tears In Heaven might be a bit of a stretch for someone starting out, so I think Grimreefer meant well.

Mhebert-
Whats the easy way to play leroy brown, strumming pattern and chords? I tried to copy exactly what Jim Croce does but its not that easy.

i started with country road, easy chords nice to sing along, first i learnd it with a simple up / down strumming, real slow, once you get it you can change the strumming

Check out 'Hello' by Schuyler Fisk.  That's the first song I learned.  It's really easy - no barre chords and really helps you learn chord progression...not to mention it's a GREAT song to sing along with.  She's an up-and-coming indie artist and really good.  She's also Sissy Spacek's daughter.  It really does make an awesome performance song and it's not over-played so it won't be something you're sick and tired of hearing before you even pick up the guitar.

Speaking of Sissy Spacek (who played Loretta Lynn in film), Loretta Lynn's early tunes 'Coal Miner's Daughter' and 'You Ain't Woman Enough' are extremely easy.  Loretta Lynn was a self-taught guitarist who learned how to play while being a mother to all her kids at the same time.  Sure, they're country as all get-out, but fun to play, even if it's just for parody's sake.

I'm also new to playing, and one of the songs that I picked up really fast was Free Fallin' by Tom Petty.  It sounds cool on an acoustic and has an easy pattern to learn.

Ode to Joy!

here r some easy songs try

BROKEN- SEETHER
WHAT WENT WRONG- BLINK 182
THERE IS- BOXCAR RACER
SWING LIFE AWAY- RISE AGAINST
HEY THERE DEHLIA- PLAIN WHITE T'S