Alright, every now and then we'ill get questions like "What songs are suitable for beginners" or similar from fellow members, so I thought, why not compile all of them into a thread??? All you need to do is to recommend some songs (Preferbly with its genre.) and I'ill update the list.

Btw, this is not just limited to guitarists, but also opened to all types of musicians! Please be a little choosy when picking to avoid flooding the list.

I'ill devide it into a few categories :

- Beginner Songs :
Well obviously, songs which are suitable for ppl who are new to a certain instrument. These songs would be the best choice for them to improve.

- Party Songs :
How many times did ya get hold of a guitar/piano during parties or gatherings and dunno what to play??? Everybody knows that you're a good musician but in this case you fail to entertain them. Music is a form of entertainment and if you fail to entertain your friends, what more a large audience??? So, this list is created for songs which are suitable for entertaining friends in parties or even guests.
Songs that ordinary ppl should know, preferbly the sing-along ones.
No, Eruption won't work, neither do Dream Theater, so keep those screamo, wanky, fouled-mouth, metal tracks to yourself.

- Must-learn Songs :
Songs that you think everybody should at least take 1 crack at. Classics.

Happy posting guys!!! (Hope this would spice up the forum a little )



This post has been edited by led_zep_freak: Aug 19 2005, 11:24 PM

Legend for guitar column :
Bold font - Electric Guitar
Italic font - Acoustic Guitar
Normal font - Classical Guitar

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- Beginner :

Piano
- The Scientist by ColdPlay
- Kiss From a Rose by Seal

Guitar
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid
- Cranberries - Zombies
- Good Charlotte - Lifestyle Of The Rich And Famous
- Green Day - When I Come Around
- Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven
- Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
- Nirvana - About A Girl (Grunge)
- Ozzy Osbourne - Mama I'm coming Home
- Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
- Radiohead - Creep
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Califonication
- Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
- Extreme - More Than Words
- Green Day - Good Riddance * Time Of Your Life*, Wake Me Up When September Ends (Acoustic Pop)
- Richard Marx - Now & Forever
- Romance D'Armour/Romanza (Classical)

Bass
- Eagles - Hotel Califonia
- Foo Fighters - Big me
- Everclear - Santa monica
- Sugar Ray - Answer the phone
- Puddle of Mudd - She hates me
- Blink 182 - All the small things
- The Offspring - Come out and play

Drums
- Queen - We Will Rock You
- Greenday-When I Come Around
- White Stripes-7 Nation Army
- Simple Plan-Perfect
- Dashboard Confessional-Vindicated
- Three Doors Down-Let Me Go
- Bon Jovi-It's My Life
- Avril Lavinge-Complicated
- Guns N' Roses-Paradise City
- Nirvana-Smells Macam Semangat Remaja
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- Party:

Piano
- Beatles - Hey Jude (Pop)

Guitar
- Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love (Ballad)
- Sensefield - Save Yourself
- AC/DC - Highway To Hell
- Beatles - all my loving, rollover beethoven, yellow submarine
- Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
- Green Day - Basket Case (Punk Rock)
- Guns n' Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine. Knocking On Heaven's Door
- Lifehouse - You and Me
- Offsprings - Kids aren't alright
- Lynryd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
- Rolling stones - sympathy for the devil, dead flowers
- The Police - Every Breath You Take(Pop Rock)
- The Wonders - That Thing You Do (Pop Rock)
- White Stripes - 7 Nation Army (Rock)
- America - Horse With No Name
- Coldplay - Yellow
- Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland (Pop)
- kenny loggins - footloose (elusive number)
- Oasis - Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger (Britpop)
- Ryan Cabrera - True (Pop)

Drums
- Blink 182-All The Small Things
- Blink 182-What's My Age Again?
- Fenix TX-It's All My Fault
- Rooster-Come Get Some
- Bowling For Soup-1985
- Fountains Of Wayne-Stacy's Mom
- Frequency Cannon-Girl
- Pop Shuvit-Jump
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- Must-learn :

Piano
- The Scientist by ColdPlay
- Kiss From a Rose by Seal

Guitar
- Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
- Alter Bridge - In Loving Memory (Hard Rock)
- Black Label Society - Spoke in The Wheel,Demise Of Sanity, Suicide Messiah
- Children of Bodom - Kissing The Shadows
- david bowie - ziggy stardust, space oddity
- Dream Theater - Fatal Tragedy, Stream of Conciousness (Prog Metal)
- Eagles - Hotel Califonia
- foo fighters - moneky wrench, walking after you
- Guns 'N Roses - Sweet Child 'o Mine, Don't Cry, Paradise City
- Iron Maiden - Rainmaker
- Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower, Purple Haze, Little Wing (Classic Rock)
- Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train, No More Tears
- Metallica - Creeping Death, Fuel, One, Wherever I May Roam
- Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
- nirvana - about a girl, lithium, man who sold the world
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
- Rolling stones - wild horses, you can't always get what you want
- the flaming lips - fight test
- The Darkness - Love is Only a Feeling
- joni mitchell - big yellow taxi, carey
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Zakk Wylde - I Thank You Child

Bass
- Greenday - When i come around , Welcome to paradise, Basketcase
- Guns n Roses - Sweet child o' mine
- Guns n Roses - Knockin on heaven's door
- Limb Bizkit - Take a look around
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around the world (Expert)
- Jamiroquai - Alright (Expert)
- One Minute Silence - I think therefore i'm damned (Expert)

Drums
- Metallica-Enter Sandman, Fuel, For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Dream Theater-Endless Sacrifice
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This post has been edited by TheWhacker: Sep 7 2005, 02:28 PM

Ok I'ill start :

(Guitar)
Beginner :
- Romance D'Armour/Romanza (Classical)

Party :
- Oasis - Wonderwall (Britpop)

Must-learn :
- Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (Classic Rock)

Try to stick to the format.

Beginner:
Green Day - Good Riddance * Time Of Your Life*
Nirvana - About A Girl

Party Songs:
Green Day - Basket Case

Must Learn :
Alter Bridge - In Loving Memory
Dream Theater - Fatal Tragedy *Shredfest! *

Beginner:
Stairway to heaven

Party:
Kids aren't alright - offspring

Must learn:
Hendrix stuff..... little wing... purple haze... along the watchtower

Beginner :
- Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

Party :
- Beatles - Hey Jude (Pop)
- Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love (Ballad, and yes, I'm serious.)
- John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland (Pop)
- Ryan Cabrera - True (Pop)
- The Wonders - That Thing You Do (Pop Rock)
- White Stripes - 7 Nation Army (Rock)

led_zep_freak, Good job creating this thread ....

However, this thread will be pinned up IF there's more information then what this thread have now. I mean no point putting something on the notice board if it doesn't have that much info right ?

Better start working then led_zep_freak

BTW: take some info from the [WTA]What suitable songs to play on my acoustic... too ....

party:
lifehouse-you and me
greenday-boulevard of broken dreams, acoustic

must learn:
metallica-one
megadeth-tornado of souls
children of bodom-kissing the shadows

party
coldplay - yellow
america - horse with no name
clapton - wonderful tonight
sensefield- save yourself

must learn
metallica - creeping death, one, wherever i may roam
iron maiden -rainmaker
gnr - sweet child o mine, dont cry, paradise city

beginner:
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
Radiohead - Creep

Party:
Guns n' Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine
Guns n' Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Must Learn:
Metallica - Fuel
Dream Theater - Stream of Conciousness
The Darkness - Love is Only a Feeling
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

LOL You sure Coldplay won't put ppl to sleep?

Beginners :
- Cranberries - Zombies
- Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
- Extreme - More Than Words
- Good Charlotte - Lifestyle Of The Rich And Famous
- Green Day - When I Come Around
- Richard Marx - Now & Forever

Good Thread... Can really compile a list of must learn song... !!

At least got some music tricks up my sleeve whether the time calls for it.

This post has been edited by jon_yong: Aug 20 2005, 12:06 AM

oh! forgot pink floyd-wish u were here for must learn songs.. good song!

Oooooooh. Cool Thread man... Will fill it up with Ozzy, Zakk and Black Label Society goodness

- Beginner :
Guitar (Little bit of acoustic and a little bit of electric)

Ozzy Osbourne - Mama I'm coming Home
(It's actually pretty easy to play once you master your fingering, plus it's a good chicken' pickin' excersise (the intro), Barr Chord changing (chorus and middle parts) and it's one of the easiest Zakk Wylde solos to play.... mid tempo, lots of pulling and Hammer-on's and off's)

Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
(Quite an easy song to learn.... and sounds great on either acoustic or electric)

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
(Early Black Sabbath songs are pretty easy to learn. This is one of my favorite riffs, BTW)
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- Party:
Guitar (acoustic)

Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
(this song will generate sing-alongs instantly.... especially the chorus)

Guitar (Electric)
Lynryd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
(Another party fav of mine)

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- Must-learn :

Guitar

Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Wylde - No More Tears
(The Verse parts are the most memorable riffs from Ozzy and Zakk. Also, a great song to train your P.O.D's)

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
(At LEAST learn the most famous Randy Rhodes riff)

Black Label Society - Spoke in The Wheel
(Awsome acoustic song and the perfect break-up song BTW)

Black Label Society - Suicide Messiah
(the riff is pretty easy and the solo, once you sit down and de-crypt it, is actually pretty simple)

Black Label Society - Demise Of Sanity
(My Favorite Black Label riff. P.O.D's galore and wicked fast solo)

Zakk Wylde - I Thank You Child
Strictly for the ladies/new-born child ONLY

must learn
Rolling stones - wild horses, you can't always get what you want
joni mitchell - big yellow taxi, carey
david bowie - ziggy stardust, space oddity
the flaming lips - fight test
nirvana - about a girl, lithium, man who sold the world
foo fighters - moneky wrench, walking after you

party
Rolling stones - sympathy for the devil, dead flowers
kenny loggins - footloose (elusive number)
beatles - all my loving, rollover beethoven, yellow submarine

something to work on
jimi hendrix - voodoo chile, machine gun, one rainy wish
pearl jam - daughter, jeremy,
eric johnson - travelling riverside blues, 20-40
mason williams - classical gas
pachelbel - cannon in d
turin brakes - over & over, fishing for a dream, mind over money

You guys lol! List updated.

Only guitarist posted here??? How sad?? Whatever happened to the bassists and drummers here???

Songs from the video game, Final Fantasy VII

wsup guys..

Beginner

Oasis - Stand by me (all Oasis songs are easy to play anyway)
The Beatles - I want to hold your hands (great for drums as well)
Hootie and the blowfish - Let her cry
Dave Matthews Band - Crash

Party

(Somebody already took my 'yellow')
The Verve - bittersweet symphony (ask the people to hum the violin while you play the guitar, its so cool hehe)
John Mayer - Daughters (chicks will love you)
Lightning Seeds - Three Lions (apply to England supporters only)

Advanced (I'm not an advanced player but..)

John Mayer - No Such Thing (forgot how to play already, have to find that tab)
Dave Matthews Band - Satellite (still figuring out how he can sing whilst playin)

Edited: Please mind your language. There are young ones using the forums


This post has been edited by TheWhacker: Aug 24 2005, 08:21 AM

Beginner
Nirvana - About A Girl
Nirvana - all their songs
Guns N Roses - Knockin On Heaven's Door

Party
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
Extreme - More Than Words
Teacher's Pet - Warisan Wanita Terakhir (don't laugh, a totally ah beng chinese friend of mine sang this song with full emotions and perfect pronounciation when i played this song in UK)
Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Beatles - Hard Day's Night
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Jewel - You Were Meant For Me

Must-Learn
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Cromok - Another You

to be updated...

I'ill update the list tonight, but wtf?? Where are the drummers, pianists, and bassists???? We need you guys!