Enjoyable songs for the guitar

[Purple]

What are the most enjoyable song you know on the guitar?

Links to tab, if possible, so a bit of sharing is possible.

Here are some of my favorites:

Classical Gas - Eric Clapton (http://www.911tabs.com/link/?41057)

Blackbird - The Beatles (http://www.911tabs.com/link/?798334)

Kings of Convenience - Cayman Islands (http://www.911tabs.com/link/?2158784)

[Mujer Libre]

I use the Power Tab Archive (http://www.powertabs.net/) which is a good source, althought it needs a bit more diversity.

Im a dork who likes playing Stairway (haven't got the solo down...) and... *goes to look through tab.
I've been playing a bit of Rammstein lately. Links 2-3-4 (http://www.powertabs.net/pta.php?page=song,2061) is good fun, especially the solo, as is Sonne (http://www.powertabs.net/pta.php?page=song,2071). They are easy, but they sound awesome. It took a fair bit of tweakage to get my cheap guitar sounding anything like the recorded version.

Plug in Baby (http://www.powertabs.net/pta.php?page=song,740) by Muse is also great to play, Matt Bellamy being genius and all...

This thread is a great idea btw; all us guitarists can get together and share resources, yay!

[drain.you]

Hey there fellow guitarists,
I'm a Nirvana fan and find this site very useful, it effectively has all Nirvana songs ever released minus a couple. Enjoy or ignore :P
>Nirvana Music Tabs<Clickme (http://www.nirvana-music.com/nirvana-tabs.html)

[&#26368;&#21518;&#30340;&#20849;]

how to play the guitar good...
I really don&#39;t know
who can help me?( :P .my english :blink:
my emil:[email protected]

[Purple]

Guitar for Dummies

you can check all kind of guitar tabs on www.911tabs.com (http://www.911tabs.com) tablatures are pretty easy to figure out, heres an example:


------2---3---2---3---2------------
------3---------------------3--------
------2------------------------------
------0------------------------------
-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------

the line on the top is the brightest string(E), and when it says, for example, "2" on that string, you will play the second fret on the first string&#33; Easy as that&#33;

When you feel like you&#39;re getting better just choose some harder songs to play&#33;

Heres some easy songs you can search for, for starters:
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Dresden Dolls - Good Day

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

------2---3---2---3---2------------
------3---------------------3--------
------2------------------------------
------0------------------------------
-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------

I just tried that one

No matter what I do, I cant get the 2nd string to ring true.. my fingers won t allow it :(

[Purple]

You just hold the inital chord, and the only finger you move is your pinky to push the 3-2-3-2&#33; No other finger moves&#33;

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

but when i position for the initial chord .. it deads the 2nd string.. :(

[farleft]

Anything by Ocean colour scene, they are an excellent 90&#39;s indie band

[Purple]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2005, 07:12 AM
but when i position for the initial chord .. it deads the 2nd string.. :(
its just a regular D with added 3-2-3-2... unless youre holding the grip all wrong, which you probably should be working on then... thumb straight up on the back?

[Purple]

by the way, here is the first song i ever learned on the guitar, if you dont know it already, as well as the string names:

smoke on the water baby&#33;

E-----------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------------------
G----0--3--5---------0--3--6--5--------0--3--5--------3--0----
D----0--3--5---------0--3--6--5--------0--3--5--------3--0----
A-----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

its just a regular D with added 3-2-3-2... unless youre holding the grip all wrong, which you probably should be working on then... thumb straight up on the back?

I think I very well may be. Plus I&#39;m not good with positioning and moving my fingers very well... I just got this guitar 4 days ago though, so I&#39;m trying.

Thanks for the smoke on the water tabs&#33; Something I can actually play :lol:

Do you know of any other classic rock songs that are easy to play like that?

[Purple]

Here is a real easy one&#33; The Blues Brothers Theme song&#33; Play it on the top string(E)&#33;

E -----0--0--2--0--3--0--5--4----


and here is one ive made myself, which is very similar to "spanish romance"(remember that the top line symbolize the brightest string):

----7------5-----3-----2-----0----------------
------0------0-----0-----0-----0-------------
--------0------0-----0-----0-----0------------
--------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------

and then you barre the seventh string(put your index finger to cover the three first strings&#33;

--10-------9------7-----9-----10--------------
----7--------7------7-----7------7--------------
------7--------7------7-----7------7--------------
------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------


and here is some rock for ya, its Iron Man, man:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
------2---5--5---7--7-----10--10--10--10--10--10----5--5--7----------------
------0---3--3---5--5------8---9----8---9---8----8----3--3---5--------------
and then repeat&#33;

And here is how you should hold the guitar with your thumb&#33; It may be a bit tiredsome at first but youll get used to it&#33; Same with your fingers&#33; They start off being soft at the tips, but they harden after youve spent some time playing&#33;

[FreePalestine-SmashIsrael]

I also play guitar and find that this is a great one to play its great for practicing finger movements on the fretboard.

day tripper-the beatles, just play this over and over again, start slower, go faster and faster

e|------------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------------||
G|------------------------------------------------||
D|-----------2-0----4---0--2----------------------||
A|---------2------2---2---------------------------||
E|--0--3-4----------------------------------------||

[Latifa]

Blackbird - The Beatles (http://www.guitartabs.cc/fetchfile.php?fileid=10084869)

[against all authority]

heres a legendary song lol :P

--0--2--4--2--4--5--4--2--0--2--4--2--0--4--2

in the jungle baby&#33; lol

[against all authority]

thats on the top e string btw

[Purple]

Originally posted by against all [email protected] 25 2005, 10:23 AM
heres a legendary song lol :P

--0--2--4--2--4--5--4--2--0--2--4--2--0--4--2

in the jungle baby&#33; lol
lol&#33; that was a funny song&#33;

[GoaRedStar]

I bought a acoustic guitar about a month ago and I got to say this is one of the most frustrating thing I have ever try

[Purple]

Been playing Purple Haze lately&#33; Totally awesome song to play, makes me sound like a real pro :)

[The Grey Blur]

Originally posted by [email protected] 1 2005, 04:21 AM
Been playing Purple Haze lately&#33;
Difficult? I&#39;m hoping to move on to some Hendrix but I&#39;m aware it&#39;s pretty hard stuff

[Purple]

Purple Haze, Star Sprangled Banner, and Hey Joe is the easiest Jimmy songs.. Purple Haze with highest distortion/gain possible is a fucking incredible song to play&#33; Try to vibrate the strings a lot, as thats what he usually did, to get that freaky sound&#33; I&#39;m still trying to get that signature playing-with-the-teeth, though :D &#33; God knows how he did that....

[Victory_Or_Death]

where did you get the tab for it from? I do a google search for all my tab but it&#39;s too big to print off&#33; ARGH&#33;&#33; please help. Also, if your looking for Rage tab
http://www.musicfanclubs.org/rage/tabs.htm is really, really good.

[Purple]

for Jimmy? Just go to www.911tabs.com and search, youll find pretty much anything there, as it links to pretty much any tab site&#33;

[Victory_Or_Death]

and does anybody know any new zealand band tab sites. i&#39;m looking for shihad and pluto but can&#39;t find any

[Purple]

http://www.911tabs.com/tabs/p/pluto/

http://www.911tabs.com/tabs/s/shihad/

[Purple]

Going to start with classical guitar on school next semester&#33; Going to learn some Grieg, Bach, Mozart, etc. Going to be fun&#33; Maybe Ill update some of my homework as it develops.

[tambourine_man]

i like to play dylan&#39;s "don&#39;t think twice it&#39;s alright"
it is a pretty simple fingerpicking pattern, but still sounds really good
http://www.dylanchords.com/ is a VERY good site for these&#33;

also, if you&#39;ve ever heard dave van ronk&#39;s rendition of "cocaine blues," it is another fairly simple (once you&#39;ve practiced fingerpicking a little) and sounds really good to play http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/getsome....caine_blues.tab (http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/getsome.org/guitar/olga/acoustic/d/dave_van_ronk/cocaine_blues.tab)

...playing nick drake is fun too, but the tunings are really annoying, though a really good guitar piece is "things behind the sun" which i think he uses standard tuning for&#33;

[Hegemonicretribution]

Most my tab is from mysongbook.com and they are guitair pro files. Personally I like playing cowboys from hell (or I used to when I could still get it down), but whiskey in the jar, freebird, and of course killing in the name of are great. Also Jeff Buckley&#39;s rendition of that Leonard Cohgen classic taht I can totally not spell for some reason.

try this (all on your highest gauge string, the "E" not the "e"):

--0--0/sl5----5--7--8--7--5--3--5--7--0 (change the last oen to the 12th fret next time round.

This is the famous riff from Fleetwood Mac&#39;s "the chain"

[Purple]

that was a pretty nice riff&#33; anyway, do you have to purchase the guitar pro program to use?

[dannie]

nope

johnny cash - i walk the line
e--------------------------------------------------------------------
b--------------------------------------------------------------------
g--------------------------------------------------------------------
d------------------------------0----0--0-----------------------------
a------------0-----0--0--2--4-----0--------4--2--0----0--0-----------
e---0--2--4----0-----------------------------------0--------4--2--0--

[Purple]

Cheers, another one down the memory archieve&#33;