Hey folks!

Can you please give me some songs that would take an intermediate player to learn in one or two days? And I mean the whole guitar part.

A good example would be Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop, a counter example would be Metallica's Fade to Black, where the whole song is quite easy, but the solo can take some time.

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[–] 9 points 9 months ago

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is pretty easy all around and fun to play. You get to do some picking out notes and some strumming. The one caveat is that there's an intro solo that, while easy, is supposed to be a second guitar.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Blackbird (the Beatles, not the alter bridge one)

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    All the 90's pop punk (Offspring, Blink) is very easy.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over the Sea album is how I learned how to play guitar. It's basically all strumming chords.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    What genre of music are you looking for?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Ace of Spades by Motorhead Paranoid by Black Sabbath

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Polly and Molly's Lips by Nirvana are simple, and from what I remember, most Sex Pistols songs are quite straightforward too :)

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Without a genre or tempo or style that's a pretty wide selection to choose from. Even taking an arbitrary limit like songs with 'big' in the title gets you a bunch of options: Big rock candy mountain, big iron, the big country, big river, big bang (bass), big shot, big train, big gun. Big love is a little more advanced, but big me is pretty simple. Look at the table of contents in a first 50 or first 100 songs to learn style book for more good choices.

    I would mostly just be careful about classical/jazz/bluegrass/metal picks because of the long arpeggios or complex chord shapes. Pop, Rock, r&b, blues, folk are all usually safer picks for a quicker study.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    If you're just playing the chords and singing the song, I'd say you can ignore any solos that are too difficult until you improve.

    Nirvana and Red Hot Chilli Peppers songs can be pretty easy with not too hard lead parts.

    I found that getting over that initial hump of difficulty was much easier with songs that I knew well, and that I could persevere with to get my skill level up.

    Give us your top ten albums and I bet it would be easy to pick some songs

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Not sure I can do the whole ten, I'll try my best

    Kreator - Enemy of God
    Death - Sound of Perseverance
    Megadeth - Rust in Peace
    Hypocrisy - Catch 22
    Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
    Alestorm - Back Through Time
    Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
    Carpenter Brut - Trilogy
    Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
    Necrophobic - Mark of the Necrogram

    This is the whole reason I created this post -- I'm not too exposed to the easier to learn kinda music

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Oh dang OK. Metal then. The hardest genre maybe! Are there any pop or basic rock songs you like enough to learn to get you started?

    No worries if not but metal, thrash, speed stuff is going to be technically a lot harder than pretty much any other genre. I don't think that means you can't learn it but it will make it less easy for sure

    I'm going to give these songs a quick scan soon and see if any of these seem easier than others

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Aw, mate, I appreciate it, but you don't have to! The reason I asked the original question is my teacher says it's a good idea to work through some easy songs alongside my main goal (which is Heartwork by Carcass atm). That way brain feel good, and I've got more songs in my repertoire, which is never bad.

    Anyways, thank you very much for the offer, but please do not torture yourself with something you don't want to listen to on my behalf xD

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I did have a quick blast of some of them, but yeah, these compositions are at the extreme end of difficulty and the definition of running before walking which will make the process of learning much much harder.

    What you want are fairly middle of the road rock songs that you like, that you can learn and progress with. Then for the type of playing you're ultimately aiming for, you'll also require heavy practice on scales and improving speed and strength.. This is a long term goal and definitely not an overnight challenge

    Bear in mind also that on a lot of those metal albums the guitarist is using open or dropped tunings to make the chugging bits easier, as well as a ton of effects.

    When I was learning I did find that having some distortion, overdrive or fuzz on helped to mask some of the mistakes I was making and let me continue playing until I improved.

    I might recommend learning something by Queens of the Stone Age or similar. It's metal ish but definitely more playable. Either way, get to the point where you can play the chords to some way simpler songs you like first, then start looking at lead/solos once you have the rhythm down, then start learning fifths and modes and stuff, as you will need to know your scales if you want to shred

    Best of luck!

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    1979 by Smashing Pumpkins

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