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!

As tough as you might believe, I actually ENJOY Linkin Park.
So here's my part Guitar song:
Linkin Park - One Step Closer

Beginner:
Papa Roach - Last Resort
Metallica - Sad But True
Nirvana - Lithium

Advanced:
SPEED KILLS!!
Slayer - Angel of Death

This post has been edited by Brownsound01: Aug 26 2005, 05:00 PM

More Songs:

Beginner:
Metallica - Sanitarium (Welcome Home)
All Blink 182 Songs

Party:
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird

Must Learn (Advanced):
Guns N Roses - Paradise City
Guns N Roses - November Rain
Metallica - Battery
Metallica - Blackened

Beginner:
any nirvana songs. i learned guitar by learning to play polly.
you suffer (but why?) - napalm death

Party:
don't speak - no doubt. the solo is not that hard, really...
wild world - mr. big's version
to be with you - mr. big
hippies hates water - mucky pup
the skinhead broke my walkman - mucky pup
american jesus - bad religion

Must Learn (Advanced):
green tinted sixties mind - mr. big
seek and destroy - metallica
troops of doom - sepultura
orgasmatron - motorhead/sepultura
blind - korn
when the sun burns red - kreator
holy war... punishment due - megadeth
hangar 18 - megadeth
re-arranged - limpbizkit (borland is just brilliant)

i think theres abit of flooding in this thread...
do be more selective...
like.... some of the gnr songs definitely qualifies to be in the must learn section.. but hangar 18 from megadeth??!?
i understand that it all comes down to personal preference but do bear in mind that not everyone is into metal...
i love blues and SRV is one of my fav blues player but i dont put it in the must learn section because i know that not everyone digs SRV as muich as i do and also his songs are not really THAT type that are instantly recognisable

no offence to anyone
just wanna it really helps to be more selective.... especially to thethreadstarter and to those who visit this thread to find new songs to learn

Cromok-Another You

Although the learning curve is hard as hell,in the end I guarantee y'all that every women in the world will surely cair like mentega.......

I agree with you man, plus I think you guys misunderstood partysongs, party songs are songs ppl (Non-guitarist, mind) heard of, not just any pop songs you have in mind. Preferbly songs you can sing to too.

Will update the list later.

sorry. i don't mean to flood this thread but those songs i personally think a must-learn stuff.

aditional party song
ob-la-di ob-la-da - the beatles

I think the songs I listed fit those categories.

gather a group of friends with rotten love lives, and sing Bon Jovi's songs!

must learn for bass
Metallica - orion
Metallica - My friend of misery
Metallica - (anesthesia) pulling teeth
Iron maiden - the trooper
Pink FLoyd - Money
red hot chili peppers - around the world
jimi hendrix - little wing
pantera - cowboys from hell

Must Learn(all, play as band or something):
Eagles - Hotel California
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Metallica - Fade to Black
Guns N Roses - November Rain
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
Limp Bizkit - Take a Look Around
Bon Jovi - Its My Life (more for parties)

Where's all the drummers, Bassist and pianist ? It's all guitarist who posted those songs .....

I think we guitarist scared most of them off.
Go for a recruitment campaign lah Whacker..... go other forums and inform them of our little "society"
hehehehe.

good informative thread..should be pinned

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

hmm..why no piano song dee..only have guitar..no PIANO...

Beginner:
The Shadows - Apache
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Party:
Oasis - Wonderwall
The Eagles - Hotel California
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
John Lennon - Imagine
Guns 'n' Roses - Knocking On Heaven's Door

Must Learn:
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Lenny
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star

This post has been edited by Reload: Sep 4 2005, 12:36 AM

I'll fill in for the Bassist.

Beginner :
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

Party (none for the bass though)

Must learn :
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

Expert :
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around the world
Jamiroquai - Alright
One Minute Silence - I think therefore i'm damned

Piano (Must Learn)
The Scientist by ColdPlay (If i can play it on the piano, so can you)
Kiss From a Rose by Seal (Cool love song)

Piano (Party & Beginner)
Happy Birthday to You (Become on, it fits the theme right ?)

Drummer tracks

Begginer.

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

Party Songs
Erh....AH! Hip fun fast songs in my dictionary.

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

Must Learn

Metallica-Enter Sandman, Fuel, For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Dream Theater-Endless Sacrifice

Beginner: -
About a Girl, Smells Like Teens Spirit, When I Come Around, Good Riddance
(Most Nirvana and early Green Day songs are easy to learn and fun to jam with your buddies)
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (Easy to learn and appreciate the music, when you start to appreciate music, u'll have more motivation to keep on learning)
Guns and Roses - Knockin on Heaven's Door (easy to play and master)

Party Songs:-
-Note: Me no party people, so the songs here is what i imagine to capture the attention of the audiences-

Intro: -
Metallica - Sad But True (great opening riffs, play the riffs when entering the stage )
Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine (public audience, who doesn't know this song already should get whacked in the ass)
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music (for the party people, lotsa fun, heard this music in most live band bar)
Jet -Are You Gonna Be My Girl (i think this is not bad, since it;s some sorta pop rock)
Korn - Blind

-Time to get mellow after some fast tune-
Extreme - More Than Words
ManBai - Kau Ilhamku (u can get the tab from mysongbook.com, and i actually wan to learn that song )
Bon Jovi - Always
Eric Clapton - Beautiful Tonight

-For closing the show and show off your skills to awed the audiences -
Dire Straits - Sultan of Swings
Jimmi Hendrix - Little Wings
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (can;t really think of any grand exit beside this one )

Must Learn (from my point of view)
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Arpeggios from Hell/Motto Arpegiossa (not really hard to learn, but you have to practise hard to master the speed)
Steve Vai - For The Love of God
Steve Vai - Eugene's Trick Bag
Eric Johnson - Manhattan
Van Halen - Eruption
Zakk Wylde - Speedball

-that's all for now-

led_zep_freak, are you going to update the list ?

Edit: Nevermind then, I'll update the list myself ....

This post has been edited by TheWhacker: Sep 7 2005, 02:29 PM

Sorry... pretty lazy to update it these few days. Sorry for the trouble and thanks a lot!

Haha, ok nw, bassist here.

(Bass)

Beginner:
Mungkin Nanti (PeterPan)
Numb vs Encore (LP JZ)
He Wasn't (Avril)
The Reason (Hoobastank)
Falls on me (Fuel)
My Sacrifice (Creed)

Party or jamming:
Warning (Greenday) (quite beginner lvl, but nice for jamming, hHa)
7 Nation Army (The White Stripes)
Smoke Over the water (Deep Purple)
Are you gonna be my girl (Jet)(darn nice song fr bass... bassist! a chance fr yall to stand in the middle of the stage! hahaha)
God is a girl (Groove Coverage) (no tabs or chords online, so use ur creativity fr the basslines on this 1! verynice song to play on bass with treble full, bass cut half, mid half oso)

MUST KNOW!:
A place for ma head (Linkin Park)
In the shadows (Rasmus) (a lil song fr bassists to shine... a lil, haha)

Note for bassists: Playing rootnotes for all the songs above would just make them all become beginner songs, so plz, use ur creativity to add some extra lines to the chords.

ahahaha.... i'm sure these 4 songs have been mentioned before, but i'll say it again anyway....

1. smells like teen spirit
2. smoke on the water
3. wild thing
4. stairway to heaven
5. enter sandman

level 1 - the beginners , grab the pop song chord book on the store
Mimpi yang sempurna - peterpan (the easiest one)
the temple of the King - rainbow (another easy stuff)
kiss me - sixpence of the none ritcher <-- is this the right name ^^ ( very easy)
GOD - vertical horizon (easy easy and very sweet song, just skip the interlude if u want)
level 2
To be with you - Mr-big ( time to learn some solo and more chord)
here without you - 3 doors down ( not my fave, but quite moderate to learn string picking , be patience )
knockin on the heavens door - gnr
level 3 - time to learn some classy fingering, doesnt have to be fully mastered but need to know
more than word - a must!! (just skip the hellfinger on the last min on the track)
Kangen - dewa19 (learn every single note, skip the solo <-- you can do it if you want, btw I ll write the tab if needed )
I remember you - skid row ( learn the picking carefully )
stairway to heaven - led zepplin ( some classy but rocky )
nothing else matters - Metallica ( another stairway to heaven levels)

LEVEL 3 - power chord - electric guitar chord fells the different!
Smell like teen spirits - nirvana (learn what electric guitar can do for beginners)
Sahabat Sejati - Sheila On 7 (need to know for electric guitarist, a good sample of overdrive the sound)
enter sandman - metallica ( yess soo rocky!!! )
SMoke in the water - deep purple ( so basic for electric guitar playing)
Seberapa Pantas - SO7 (again?? yes but this is harder than sahabat sejati)

LEVEL 4 - the solo's - you need to learn some basic of scale and fingering warmup to do solo properly, my sugestion is learn blues , major and minor pentatonic scale , and dont forget do re mi

a man who sold the world - nirvana (solo along da song easy one )
Smoke in the water (with solo ) - deep purple ( if you skip the solo at level 3 , you must learn the solo here )
Sweet Child O mine - GNR ( sweet shortcut to learn solo )
black magic women - Santana ( black magic to master solo magic )
Highway to hell - ACDC (its a highway ticket to master solo)
Seberapa Pantas - SO7 ( ehhh Sheila againn?? yess but this is good example for you to learn overdrive solo without delay and other effect, I mean very2 dry sound so your mistakes will be noticed easily)

end of the levels ..... if you fells the song is not suitable for you just play another song that has same level as THAT song

This post has been edited by AnimeSan: Oct 4 2005, 12:27 PM

Party songs ..... oh well Im not a party guy ...
but here's the suitable song for audience taste

Right Now ! - SR71 <---- great for intro and opening, Im pretty sure this song ll raise up audience adrenaline at once
Every Breath You Take - The Police <-- just Modify the song, get some rappers, change the calm song with the distorsion song when it goes to the reff ...
We will rock you - Queen
Manja - Ada band <-- sweet song that ll atract girls
Duality - SliptKnot - --> in case your audience is brutal ppl ^^
Die mothef***er die - Dope --> same as above
etc

my suggestion is try to grab some popular whether new song or old song, and modify it to suit the style of your band


ADD on : MUST LEARN SONG ( Id call it must know song first before you learn it, because its damn good fully skilled song )

Siti Nurbaya - Dewa (, easiest of the hard one beware bassist !! the guitar solo is nothing compare yours )
Fear of The Dark - iron maiden ( only for iron maiden fans)
Like an Angel - Yngwie Malmsteen ( powerfull and emotional solo, must learn if you want to master of slow rock solo )
Monkey Business - Skid Row ( the loudest song of skidrow, beware Drummers, guitarist ,vocalist and the bassist !!, get the tempo, get the riffs)
No Junjou Na Kanjou - Siam Shade ( japanese rock, that made you play the lead a long the song)
Livin the Live - Steel Dragon feat zakk ( a hard rock from the soundtrack of rockstar, prepare your speed!!, another fast loud song , very2 fast solo)

your final boss level is :
steve vai, van halen, joe satriani, eric johnson ( try to learn some of their song, I haven't master even single of it .... T_T )

your final final final boss is :
JAZZ!! yeah, jazz root all of the modern music, its contains the easy tune into the hardest tune that you ve never seen before, learn it
some example is :
Casiopea


or listen these guitar demo on the fith track
---http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/demos/en/EQ-20_sound/demo.html

Here's a few pretty simple songs to learn. Nailing the solos in some of them might require some practise tho. This is just off the top of my head. These are a few simple yet very catchy riffs.

AC/DC - Highway To Hell
AC/DC - If You Want Blood You Got It
AC/DC - T.N.T.
The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Jet - Cold Hard B****
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (Have you ever met a guitarist who doesn't know how to play this song?)

This post has been edited by Creative-: Oct 24 2005, 12:21 AM

Easy beginner songs (guitar)

Espionage - Green Day (instrumental)
The 12 bar blues - no idea
Basket Case - Green Day
Wonderwall - Oasis

Since everyone has been asking where the pianists are, I'll do my best to fill in Classical piano... To me it's very hard to 'rate' or 'categorize' pieces, but I'll try. I hope I'm not leaving out too much of the beginner side..

And a piece is not about how hard the notes are - it is about how you play it - the end product. Even "beginner" so called pieces must be played musically, there's no point in taking on something you won't be able to play properly if you're not mature enough musically.

Mid-Beginner (perhaps up until Grade 3 level?):
Handel - Fantasie in A minor
Chopin - Prelude in E minor
Chopin - Prelude in B minor
Schumann - From Foreign Lands (from the set of pieces Kinderscenen)
Set of pieces : Burgmuller - 25 Easy and Progressive Studies for the piano Op.100

Intermediate (maybe up to Grade 7/8) : (I don't think I can call them party songs? But pieces you can pull out when someone asks you to play something)
Bach Invensions
Scarlatti - Piano Sonatas (i'm not exactly sure which ones would be good)
Brahms - Three Intermezzi Op. 117
Mozart - Piano Sonata in C K545
Beethoven - Piano Sonata in F minor Op2 Nr 1
Beethoven - Rondo, C major Op. 51/1
Chopin - Deux Nocturnes Op. 55 Nr 1

Advanced (Gr 7/8 up) :
Bach - Partita No. 1 (and others)
Schubert - Four Impromptus Op. 90
Beethoven Piano Sonatas - C minor Op 10 Nr 2, C minor (pathetique) Op 13, E major Op 14 Nr 1, C sharp minor (moonlight) Op 27 Nr 1
Mozart Piano Sonatas (I'm missing quite a few, don't have my book with me) - A minor Piano Sonata
Debussy - Clair De Lune, Prelude IX, Prelude X (both Book one)
Samuel Barber - Excursions Op 20
Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No 2 in F, Three Fantastic Dances
Schumann - Fantasiestucke Op. 12
Sinding - Rustle of Spring
Chopin - Waltz in E flat major, Waltz in C sharp minor, some others
Kabalevsky - Piano Sonata No. 3 in F

Very Advanced (Dunno?) :
Debussy - Pour le piano
Chopin - Scherzos (any of them, I've done No.2 and 3), Fantasie-Impromptu, Etudes, Ballade Op.52
Lizst - Liebestraum (sp?), Storm, Piano Sonata in B minor
Brahms - Rhapsody (the D minor one)
Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

and hundreds of hundreds more...

Beethoven - Piano Sonata in F minor (appassionata) Op57

Beginner- Hoobastank The Reason

Party- Lostprophets Burn Burn

Advanced- Slipknot The Blister Exists

Crazy maniac- Slipknot Left Behind, (sic)

Piano ( must learn)

Radiohead - Wish You Were Here (song owned by Pink Floyd)

http://metawire.org/~kevler/11%20-%20Radio...arkelhorse).mp3

This post has been edited by kevler: Jan 10 2006, 05:25 PM

Piano Song...

Try

Forever Love -[X-Japan]
Amethyst from -[X-Japan]


Some Rock songs..
Silent Jealousy [X-Japan]
try this song.. try the solo and also pianist should try the piano solo part .... and later it will be continued by guitar solo.. 2 guitarist need to work on the solo very much... i love this song..

i dono how to rate this....
but

ozzy osbourne [live] - gets me through
Ping-O-Mania !!! XD

cool but where can we learn all these. tabs sites are being close down by the MPA & all there's left are the inaccurate tabs sites.

Must learn

greenday - wake me up when september ends

more than words.

ok. now where to get tabs for those?

http://www.mysongbook.com

Otherwise just google.

haha don't have a list but I've just bump across a song that should be fun to play on guitars... it's You Give Love A bad NAme by Bon Jovi, or can play the Atreyu's version for more kick... pretty easy song to play.

nice topic...
my suggestion

beginner
any of gorrillaz song that have a groovy bassline(recommended ":dirty harry")
sweet child 'o' mine
red hot chilli pepper(find a song that flea play slowly haha i mean get his idea about making a simple playing as creative as u can)
hail to the thief "radiohead"
Toto = chain of my heart ,rosanna

road to expert
jamiroquai
earth wind and fire
Sheila majid (her mid 80's album i prefer)
Dream Theater
primus
red hot la ...of cos
george benson
Prince
Mother Earth

expert
im not expert so can't say la

So simple Just go to...www.MXtabs.com

Its www.mxtabs.net

i thought they closed down the site...???

they just re-opened! they closed it for a while, but now its back and better than ever...

Yup correct. Mxtabs is reopened. Check it out at www.mxtabs.net

Beginner:
More than words - extreme
When you say nothing at all - ronan keating
Guan Fei Suei Yuet - Beyond

Party:
Crazy Train - ozzy
wake me up when september ends - green day
secrets - good charlotte

Must learn:
Km Pe Du Wee - Steve Vai
morning star - vinnie moore
tears in heaven - eric clapton

www.ultimate-guitar.com also got some nice tabs there..

Beginner:
any blink182 songs
basketcase - greenday
zombie - cransberries

Advanced:
bullet, higher, my sacrifice - creed
broken wings - alter bridge
istuka - glay (jrock)

not an expert yet, so i can't say anything bout it...i prefer playing jrock songs are they involve more pluckings and odd-timing struming...for me, it's a good practise...

here here...
i play piano n drum...

but it's been a long long time that i dun touch both of them..
bet i'm less consistent than before...

Every guitarist MUST be able to play at LEAST The intro verse to crazy train. It's an awsome intro AND get to practise your stretching!

what stretching in crazy train intro?

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

speaking of general entertainment.. these are my recomendations
james blunt - your beautiful
cold play - in my place
greenday - time of your life
kelly clarkson - because of u

*national anthem - Negaraku
=)
generally the more commercialise the song is, the better

98 degrees - i cherish u

Play Edwin Mccain - I'll Be.
.

hmm... i only would recommend bass. dream theater's bass line rocks. i love john myung. he rocks!

for song.. try home and a change of seasons

This post has been edited by jones007: May 24 2006, 07:37 PM

party song
-peter pan, dewa,etc indon band...
-malay song...
-that thing u do (forgot the band la)

beginner
-zombie
-last kiss
-creep

for bassist,
learn all of jaco's songs man...
teen town is first on the list then continuum
good stuff...
and pink floyd money along with cake i will survive... but the repetative bass lines may get boring after a while but still nice groove..

I like money! Too bad no sax player to play the solo hahaha

ahhhh.... UR WRONG...
got keyboardist right ? can do modelling what.. just not as nice la.. hahaha...
wanna try ar ?

money is nice very easy to play tho'

Haha... no keyboard can emulate the warmth of a sax, plus, they keyboardist gonna play the hammond organ part, otherwise no feel. I think I can get a sax player tho.

Yeah, but the 7/8 timing (or was it something else? ) is a bit tricky tho... but after the sax solo it's all 4/4 heaven!

for bass, larc en ciel's drivers high.

l'arc en ciel... hehehe... that means rainbow in french.

what , it's not the spam section ? sorry..

agreed. and 'stay away' as well...

piano:

Saving All My Love For You (Arranged by Dan Coates, Pro. touch series)
Claire De Lune (Classical, Debussy)

- yap

This post has been edited by ChopSuey: Jul 23 2006, 03:13 PM

hey? u guy dint talk bout flute or some wind music instruments?

many songs which fall under the artists as mentioned below:

for classical piano - chopin's fantasy impromptu.......an etude 'revolution' in C minor, and his other etudes, plus some of his piano concertos......talkin' about tough ones...woh! ....hopefully i've got the tracks name right, haven't been listenin' to them for o'er 10 years now...heh

for bluesy solos - Jimmy Page

for chord works - coldplay's in parachutes album.....dang!

for vocals - aerosmith (if you can handle it), dashboard confessional (woh!), Adam Levine (is that how you spell it?.. ) ....

for programming - TATU, fatboy slim, michelle branch (hotel paper album...few tracks features strong programming lines)

drum works - Slipknot....he'll drive you up the wall.....you've been warned

for contemporary piano - Coldplay, ray charles (his later, solemn-mood works)

funk elements in guitar - RHCP, Maroon 5 (yam!)

so many more to name.......

where to get music scores for piano.....I am searching high and low

does anyone have the tabs for 'ada band -manja' ?
guitar or piano..that's a really sweet song..
pm me the link pls

This post has been edited by sheng: Oct 11 2006, 09:11 PM

where u guys get those songs tabs and chords for guitarist and drummer 1...wat link..pls tell me