Acoustic Guitar Songs

Most guitar players start out by learning some easy acoustic guitar songs. Fortunately for us guitarists there are actually 1000s of easy songs on acoustic guitar for us to learn and many of them are super famous having been played on the radio about a billion times so your friends are sure to recognize them!

The best way to find the best acoustic songs for beginners is to do a search on the web and find an “easy guitar song” list. Now what you’re looking for is a list complied by an experienced guitar teacher as they will know which songs are best for beginners to learn. You can also search for acoustic guitar song tab but you’ll find that songsheets giving you just the chords and lyrics will present you the easiest and clearest form of the song to follow. The more simplified things are the better right?

One common complaint from students is that all too often the strums for guitar songs are not included in the sheet music and this is a valid complaint in my opinion. Too frequently, a lot of emphasis is placed on the chords but not enough on the strumming patterns required to play the song. If you’re able to find guitar lessons which will show you 3 – 5 universal strum rhythms then this will certainly help you a lot. You don’t need to learn a new strum for every new song, often one strum will cover you for 100s of songs and more.

Beginner Acoustic Guitar Songs

In this list we could include tracks like

• Country Roads
• Knockin’ on Heavens Door
• Wonderful Tonight
• Horse With No Name

and tons more. Almost all guitar teachers know about these acoustic guitar songs and will already the chords and strumming patterns worked out to show you. Alternatively you can go online and search for video acoustic guitar lessons, just make sure that the teacher really does understand how to teach guitar – there are lots of ‘fake’ guitar teachers out there. They can play acoustic guitar well but teach it horribly and learning guitar is hard enough without having to deal with poor teaching on top of it!

Acoustic Guitar Songs TABs

Once your playing improves you can move on from just playing easy and more into acoustic riffs and different playing styles such as fingerstyle guitar. This is where you pick the strings with your fingers instead of using a plectrum. It’s important to try to learn guitar techniques whenever you can… it will open up new songs to learn and keep things from becoming too stagnant. Acoustic guitar tab is easy to find online and you can download it to compile your own library to learn from. It’s actually essential that you know how to read guitar tab if you want to be able to teach yourself how to play acoustic guitar.

Another resource for learning acoustic guitar songs are books and dvds although with so much free information available online to instantly download and watch the only benefit of going offline would be to find things on guitar which currently are catered for on the internet.