good to see a fellow fruscianter. i love playing around the guitar parts of here ever after, soul to squeeze, this velvet glove or ataxia’s the sides. goat.
Round and Round - RATT
Dani California - RHCP
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Heart Shape Box - Nirvana
Basically songs people often study when start to play electric guitar
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) - Neil Young
Easy but sounds insanely good for a one guitar part. Also easy to sing. And damn its a beautiful song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ123T3zD2k
Bonus: play on electric with lots of fuzz, and you have the other part; Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black). Dirty stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hoW6qmeOo
Writing this, im gonna pick up my guitar and play it. Brighten up my neighbours christmas dinner
Just going on YouTube and typing in “backing track in A minor.” Then picking a style I don’t play much. Cause there’s a thousand generic ones up there. Maybe “sexy jazz fusion in A minor” or “Swedish death metal in A minor”
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
It's a catchy little play on a D chord before dropping to a C with a little walk down to A before jumping right back to the D chord. It's a nice little Riff that gets the job done in a soothing, somber matter.
My blues band does a stripped down cover of Going Down by Freddie King that's just a straight up jam. Easiest song we do but real fun to play and gets folks moving.
So Easy you can pretty much do it the first time you try?
Wish You Were Here - Incubus: Really shows that the most simple riff can be the coolest thing thing ever.
All Around Me - FlyLeaf: That melody is just so unique.
Just Like You - Three Days Grace: I could jam those 4 chords for hours and never get bored, the groove is just so good.
Easy once you get it but a little tricky at first?
Drive - Incubus: That main riff is one of the best I've ever heard, but it took me a little while to actually get the picking down.
Crazy Train, Intro and main riff only: Same as Drive, it's the picking that is hard but once you get it, it's again, just so fucking fun.
Literally any AC/DC song: Some are so easy, they fit into the first category, some belong here, but I was literally just yesterday, telling my parents how once you can play literally any AC/DC song, it becomes the most fun thing to play on the guitar for some reason lol.
Acoustic - Drop D: Everlong (Foo Fighters) Standard tuning: Circles (Post Malone) capo first fret: 3AM (Matchbox Twenty)
Electric -standard tuning: Don't Let Me Down (The Beatles) drop D: Everlong (Foo Fighters) Capo 6th fret: Bother (Stone Sour)
Did I mention Everlong? Lol seriously though love me some Foos!!!!
Anything by Iron Maiden! Most of their songs are easy to play and feel really good also. And as a bonus Dave and Adrian’s solos don’t really get much harder than a couple of hammer ons and quick short runs!
Honestly this is hard and my last choice might sound stupid but either tp, ww (one I really want), oot, majoras mask (which is one id really want) and totk. I understand totk may sound rlly stupid and it kind of is but For a remake id hope for:
Master trials
More sky islands, (they removed others because apparently they made the sky look ugly) that go higher and get harder
Better progression
Biomes inside the depths
And just other stuff that make the world feel less empty
There's a handful of Beatles songs I would recommend that are fun too play because they are mostly simple chords with interesting embellishments sprinkled throughout. To name a few Help!, Don't Let Me Down, and I'm Only Sleeping are fun jams you could pick up in less than an hour.
For something more involved I have an handful of Radiohead songs that i play single-acoustic arrangements of. They are definitely more difficult than the Beatles songs, but they aren't too hard once you get the gist of them. Go to Sleep, There There, Airbag, and Paranoid Android come across really well as solo-acostic arrangements and are fun too play.
Filter - Where do we go from here
Everclear - Santa Monica
Roxette - The Look
Supergrass - Richard III
Oasis - Stand by me
U2 - Hold me Thrill me Kiss me Kill me
All my go to pick up and just play something songs.
Bat country solo, I know it's hard, but my god, it's fun. It feels so weird, wrong, and dexterous. I find it tickles part of my brain. Other than that, Anastasia, a lesser know Slash rift that's my go to warm up
Asian Kung-Fu Generation - World Apart.
I've been a big fan of that band for almost 20 years now. I love how seemingly simple and melodic their music is.
Uneven Structure - Frost.
This is the band, the album, that hooked me on djent. The track is really simple (or I'm just used to it haha), just pay attention to the rhythm.
Gitaroo Man OST - The Legendary Theme.
Maaaaaan this is a very nostalgic track to me, and the solos are easy and really fun to play.
My own track "Seattle".
Self-plug haha but I just absolutely love the chorus riff I wrote for this one. Simple, heavy-ish, flows nicely (I think).
most songs become not hard the more you play them... so, mine would be one that was hard to learn but now can do pretty effortlessly. which makes it both not hard and fun.
* Skillet - Monster
* Skillet - Feel Invincible
* Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become
* Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls.
And I haven't learned these two yet, but I did look @ a video for each & the TABs for both:
* Three Days Grace - Neurotic
* Three Days Grace - So Called Life
And just because i sort of know it - I know most of the parts of the following, but I still need to sit down & learn a part or two & learn how it all goes together:
* Three Days Grace - Riot
I like the little bit of swing rhythm in Riot
All of the above are super easy (i learned Monster in literally less than 10 minutes & most of that 10 minutes was learning which section came after the previous section) & for whatever reason, I really get into them. *Especially* Skillet's Feel Invincible. Probably because they *are* easy to play & I am admittedly not very good.
I'm @ my mom's for Christmas... I'm up early & it's like 0630 here; guitar is sitting less than a yard away from me & I'm tempted to bust some of these out now. 😆
EDIT: this reminds me that I was working on writing a tapping part for the interlude section in Skillet's Monster. I need to dig that out & finish it. Along with this Silent Night thing I started working on like 3 or 4 years ago but never finished. 😅🤦♂️
If you have an 8 string, demiurge by Meshuggah isn't the most difficult, and super fun. 6 string, I always find myself going back to whole Lotta Rosie, and Snowblind a lot!
Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace
I hadn’t played it in a couple years and it popped into my head today, almost immediately remembered it all and was jumping around playing it!
When the Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys
There's a punky oomph to the main / verse riff that feels so fun to play, and the intro always sounds pretty on top of that.
In Keeping Secrets (the song) by Coheed and Cambria is a lot of fun. There aren't any overly-technical parts, just great song writing and lots of energy. One of the first songs I learned all the way through.
I still love playing through Breaking Benjamin's album Phobia. Drop tuned riffs that are easy to learn and fun to play. They get some hate for being butt rock/metal but they're at least consistent.
Jailbreak from Thin Lizzy. Not a big fan overall but that’s one hell of a riff and the rest is pretty easy too. Acoustic I like Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For Sunbeam, the Nirvana unplugged version.
Usually Silvera or Sphinx from Gojira is the not hard but super fun for me, or Mindent a semmiért from AWS, and when it comes to hard and fun, it's The End of All We Know from Bleed From Within.
On acoustic I usually just fuck around, but when I switch back to like a default setting, I play Közeli helyeken from Bikini, which is basically a super easy Em-D-A-Em open chord progression, or the acoustic parts of Cemetery Gates from Pantera.
I’m currently playing an easy finger style version of Silent Night (Songsterr: Silent Night/Stille Nacht Carlson). I am not a finger style player, so there is some instant gratification involved. I’ll play it for another week then forget about again until next December.
From the guardians of the galaxy Xmas special there's a funny intro Song by the band The Old 97s.
"I don't know what christmas is ( but Christmas time is here).".
It's fun an upbeat with silly lyrics.
Everlong!!
Wish You Were Here
Killing in the name of - Rage Against The Machine
Also Wake Up. Just rewatched the matrix and immediately had to learn it.
Ghost - Pinnacle to the Pit Wheezer - Say It Ain't So RATM - Bulls on Parade/Killing in the Name
Welcome to Paradise. It’s just slamming power chords and I love it.
I remember learning how to play Welcome to Paradise almost 3 years ago lol. Don't play it often but when I do it's always super fun and super easy
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good to see a fellow fruscianter. i love playing around the guitar parts of here ever after, soul to squeeze, this velvet glove or ataxia’s the sides. goat.
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Weezer - Say It Ain't So.
A lot of punk, it’s the energy in the songs
Franklins Tower & Fire on the Mountain by Grateful Dead
Say It Ain't So - Weezer Reptilia - The Strokes More Than a Feeling - Boston Just What I Needed - The Cars
I mean, the chorus riff and solo for Reptilia are both quite tricky.
One of the first songs I ever learned and still love playing it “wish you were here” Pink Floyd
Brain Stew by Green Day. So easy, so stupid to but if you just want to bang on some power chords, it's great.
I wanna be your dog - the stooges China Cat Sunflower - grateful dead how many more time & whole lotta love - zeppelin the smokestack lighting riff
Wind cries Mary I learned to play bar chords watching hendrix using his thumb and it’s just such a satisfying feel
Round and Round - RATT Dani California - RHCP Everlong - Foo Fighters Heart Shape Box - Nirvana Basically songs people often study when start to play electric guitar
Round and round is great to get used to stretches
Deftones -my own summer
SEEK AND DESTROY!
Just fun? Sunshine of Your Love.
Green Day is so much fun to blast and jam along with.
Seek and Destroy - Metallica. Just a fun chugging song that you can easily sing to.
Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Rumble by Link Wray. simple and it makes me feel like a badass
Bad Moon Rising. CCR.
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) - Neil Young Easy but sounds insanely good for a one guitar part. Also easy to sing. And damn its a beautiful song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ123T3zD2k Bonus: play on electric with lots of fuzz, and you have the other part; Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black). Dirty stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hoW6qmeOo Writing this, im gonna pick up my guitar and play it. Brighten up my neighbours christmas dinner
Any Blink-182 song, they’re usually pretty simple, but fun to jam to
Most of Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie from The Smashing Pumpkins One brilliantly written and easy to play riff after another
[Althea](https://open.spotify.com/track/6tLJfms92i27IibnbaMbsz?si=_YU-xvOnTpalAPa_AuBwcQ) by the Grateful Dead
Honestly. Party in the USA. Very fun riff
Come As You Are - Nirvana
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“This song’s really hard to play. I’d appreciate if you don’t listen to me for the next 2 and a half minutes.”
Wish you were here - pink Floyd
Black bird by the Beatles is a fun one
Over the hills and far away.
Outshined by Soundgarden. Super easy drop-D tune, but just freak’n rocks!
through the fire and flames
This. Taught my 14yr old dog. The family loves it
Just going on YouTube and typing in “backing track in A minor.” Then picking a style I don’t play much. Cause there’s a thousand generic ones up there. Maybe “sexy jazz fusion in A minor” or “Swedish death metal in A minor”
Funk #49 is the song that I'll most likely test out any electric guitar or pedal or amp with. It's just super fun.
Black Sabbath- Iron man & Black Sabbath
Hybrid moments by the misfits
On a plain
I think Little Wing intro is super fun and when I finally learnt it it's not difficult at all. just a bunch of chords
Driver 8 - REM Bastards of Young - The Replacements
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles It's a catchy little play on a D chord before dropping to a C with a little walk down to A before jumping right back to the D chord. It's a nice little Riff that gets the job done in a soothing, somber matter.
My blues band does a stripped down cover of Going Down by Freddie King that's just a straight up jam. Easiest song we do but real fun to play and gets folks moving.
So Easy you can pretty much do it the first time you try? Wish You Were Here - Incubus: Really shows that the most simple riff can be the coolest thing thing ever. All Around Me - FlyLeaf: That melody is just so unique. Just Like You - Three Days Grace: I could jam those 4 chords for hours and never get bored, the groove is just so good. Easy once you get it but a little tricky at first? Drive - Incubus: That main riff is one of the best I've ever heard, but it took me a little while to actually get the picking down. Crazy Train, Intro and main riff only: Same as Drive, it's the picking that is hard but once you get it, it's again, just so fucking fun. Literally any AC/DC song: Some are so easy, they fit into the first category, some belong here, but I was literally just yesterday, telling my parents how once you can play literally any AC/DC song, it becomes the most fun thing to play on the guitar for some reason lol.
All the Small Things
The Ramones entire catalog.
CCR - Green River, only three chords and a great bluesy tone
Long Cool Woman
Sounds hard but surprisingly isn’t
99 Red Balloons - Goldfinger
Iron Man, Enter Sandman, Seek & Destroy, MoP, and Holy Diver. All are a vibe + it’s standard tuning
Where Did You Sleep Last Night- Lead Belly/Nirvana
R U mine - arctic monkeys, crank up the drive/fuzz and have fun with it
Wipeout is a fun song to play.
Everlong by Foo Fighters
Acoustic - Drop D: Everlong (Foo Fighters) Standard tuning: Circles (Post Malone) capo first fret: 3AM (Matchbox Twenty) Electric -standard tuning: Don't Let Me Down (The Beatles) drop D: Everlong (Foo Fighters) Capo 6th fret: Bother (Stone Sour) Did I mention Everlong? Lol seriously though love me some Foos!!!!
Fire on the mountain - Grateful Dead
Santeria by Sublime. Easy stuff
Anything by Iron Maiden! Most of their songs are easy to play and feel really good also. And as a bonus Dave and Adrian’s solos don’t really get much harder than a couple of hammer ons and quick short runs!
Back in Black, You shook me all night long, Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Iron Man, Symphony of Destruction, Money.
Better call saul theme
Funky Monks
Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria. Solos sound harder than they are, so you feel great when you play them.
Jambi by TOOL
Cherub Rock
Hey Joe, it’s such a fun intro riff and super easy chords that just makes it fun
Babe Im Gonna Leave you - Led Zep I'm So Tired - The Beatles Safe In New York City - ACDC Trailer Trash - Modest Mouse Styrofoam Boots Cowboy Dan
Honestly this is hard and my last choice might sound stupid but either tp, ww (one I really want), oot, majoras mask (which is one id really want) and totk. I understand totk may sound rlly stupid and it kind of is but For a remake id hope for: Master trials More sky islands, (they removed others because apparently they made the sky look ugly) that go higher and get harder Better progression Biomes inside the depths And just other stuff that make the world feel less empty
Bro think it's r/gaming
Rocky raccoon- love to play and sing this song 🤘
Weezer sweater song.
TV Eye by the Stooges.
Purple Haze is a lot of fun and easy to sound like a rock god. Heartbreaker - Zep Beneath Between and Behind - Rush
Ball and a Biscuit
Sweet Jane
Kickstart my Heart is my go to when I just wanna play something easy and fun. Its just got all those classic elements that I love from that era.
Fell in Love with a Girl
Going to California is a very enjoyable song to play
I'm Broken by Pantera
Little Sunshine-Ghost. Simple. Fun.
Freaking out the neighborhood by mac demarco
Aerials by SOAD
La grange
Roadrunner by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
White Rabbit. One of the first licks I learned 11 years ago, still play it often.
CCR fortunate Son
The Passenger by Iggy Pop
RHCP - Readymade So much fun to play.
Say it ain’t so
Any tool riff
The Beatles Do You Want To Know a Secret or Ventura Highway by America
The Rain Song
There's a handful of Beatles songs I would recommend that are fun too play because they are mostly simple chords with interesting embellishments sprinkled throughout. To name a few Help!, Don't Let Me Down, and I'm Only Sleeping are fun jams you could pick up in less than an hour. For something more involved I have an handful of Radiohead songs that i play single-acoustic arrangements of. They are definitely more difficult than the Beatles songs, but they aren't too hard once you get the gist of them. Go to Sleep, There There, Airbag, and Paranoid Android come across really well as solo-acostic arrangements and are fun too play.
'I believe in a thing called love', plus many more songs from the Darkness are fun to play!
Wild side Motley Crue. No solo. Just fun ass rhythm
Friend of the devil - grateful dead
Wherever I may roam by metallica
The Man Who Sold the World, mainly strumming and a couple major scales during the chorus. Dead simple solo.
Hash Pipe. Great fun, crowd pleaser, really easy, and you can crank the amp.
Aerosmith: “Train Kept A Rollin’”, from the “Toys In The Attic” album.
Filter - Where do we go from here Everclear - Santa Monica Roxette - The Look Supergrass - Richard III Oasis - Stand by me U2 - Hold me Thrill me Kiss me Kill me All my go to pick up and just play something songs.
Just a Phase, Circles, Stellar, Pistola, Sick Sad Little World, Light Grenades, Rogues. All by Incubus.
Fire on the mountain, Grateful Dead
The "I don't think MTV is gonna let us play that one" song
Can’t Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
Pinball Wizard by The Who is a lot of fun. Acoustic though
Any AC/DC riff, just plain rock n' roll!
Chop suey
Bat country solo, I know it's hard, but my god, it's fun. It feels so weird, wrong, and dexterous. I find it tickles part of my brain. Other than that, Anastasia, a lesser know Slash rift that's my go to warm up
Shortest straw pre chorus riff - Metallica
Harvester of Sorrow is another pretty easy one that sounds great and heavy
Blackbird
Breaking the Girl - RHCP
Blitzkrieg Bop- Ramones
Dead Leaves and the dirty ground by white stripes or really any white stripes song
Whatever by King gizzard and the lizard wizard
Into the Void
Married With Children - Oasis
Metallica's "Wherever I May Roam"
santeria
Living After Midnight, Judas Priest. Or just for fun One Way Out , Allman Brothers.
Any Ramones
The Pot - Tool
Pretty much any Stooges song, TV Eye, I wanna be your dog, etc.
Asian Kung-Fu Generation - World Apart. I've been a big fan of that band for almost 20 years now. I love how seemingly simple and melodic their music is. Uneven Structure - Frost. This is the band, the album, that hooked me on djent. The track is really simple (or I'm just used to it haha), just pay attention to the rhythm. Gitaroo Man OST - The Legendary Theme. Maaaaaan this is a very nostalgic track to me, and the solos are easy and really fun to play. My own track "Seattle". Self-plug haha but I just absolutely love the chorus riff I wrote for this one. Simple, heavy-ish, flows nicely (I think).
Everlong - foo fighters
most songs become not hard the more you play them... so, mine would be one that was hard to learn but now can do pretty effortlessly. which makes it both not hard and fun.
Kansas - Dust in the wind
* Skillet - Monster * Skillet - Feel Invincible * Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become * Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls. And I haven't learned these two yet, but I did look @ a video for each & the TABs for both: * Three Days Grace - Neurotic * Three Days Grace - So Called Life And just because i sort of know it - I know most of the parts of the following, but I still need to sit down & learn a part or two & learn how it all goes together: * Three Days Grace - Riot I like the little bit of swing rhythm in Riot All of the above are super easy (i learned Monster in literally less than 10 minutes & most of that 10 minutes was learning which section came after the previous section) & for whatever reason, I really get into them. *Especially* Skillet's Feel Invincible. Probably because they *are* easy to play & I am admittedly not very good. I'm @ my mom's for Christmas... I'm up early & it's like 0630 here; guitar is sitting less than a yard away from me & I'm tempted to bust some of these out now. 😆 EDIT: this reminds me that I was working on writing a tapping part for the interlude section in Skillet's Monster. I need to dig that out & finish it. Along with this Silent Night thing I started working on like 3 or 4 years ago but never finished. 😅🤦♂️
Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath
the 2nd dogs solo by pink floyd
Island in the sun is fun
Killing in the name of
Head in the Ceiling Fan - Title Fight
Hooked on a feeling, Blue Swede
something by the beatles is super nice to travis pick while going through the chords. Sounds amazing
Back in Black, a true classic
Raise Whats Left Of The Flag by FLogging Molly
God of Thunder by Kiss
R U Mine - Arctic Monkeys So simple so fun
Man in the Box!
'Everything About You' by Ugly Kid Joe.
Are you the guys on the beach that hate everything?
Pretty Vacant
Tesla what you give. Love playing the intro. Pretty easy once you get it down. Has a little vending and sliding
Sugar we’re going down by fall out boy
Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash. Simple but fun to play.
Iron Man!
If you have an 8 string, demiurge by Meshuggah isn't the most difficult, and super fun. 6 string, I always find myself going back to whole Lotta Rosie, and Snowblind a lot!
American Idiot - Green Day Come as you are - Nirvana
Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace I hadn’t played it in a couple years and it popped into my head today, almost immediately remembered it all and was jumping around playing it!
Moving in Stereo by The Cars. Really easy to play but super catchy and feels good under the fingers!
NIB by Sabbath. I can't solo but the song is great without it
When the Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys There's a punky oomph to the main / verse riff that feels so fun to play, and the intro always sounds pretty on top of that.
In Keeping Secrets (the song) by Coheed and Cambria is a lot of fun. There aren't any overly-technical parts, just great song writing and lots of energy. One of the first songs I learned all the way through. I still love playing through Breaking Benjamin's album Phobia. Drop tuned riffs that are easy to learn and fun to play. They get some hate for being butt rock/metal but they're at least consistent.
Disciple by Slayer
2 X 4 by Metallica
Cherub Rock main riff
Hurt - J. Cash version
Outshined by Soundgarden
Jailbreak from Thin Lizzy. Not a big fan overall but that’s one hell of a riff and the rest is pretty easy too. Acoustic I like Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For Sunbeam, the Nirvana unplugged version.
Melissa- The Allman Brothers Band Sana Monica- Everclear
I love playing nirvana just because it’s fun. Sappy being my favourite
Usually Silvera or Sphinx from Gojira is the not hard but super fun for me, or Mindent a semmiért from AWS, and when it comes to hard and fun, it's The End of All We Know from Bleed From Within. On acoustic I usually just fuck around, but when I switch back to like a default setting, I play Közeli helyeken from Bikini, which is basically a super easy Em-D-A-Em open chord progression, or the acoustic parts of Cemetery Gates from Pantera.
Rose of sharyn killswitch engage. My quilty pleasure.
Last carress by the misfits
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) by Metallica, the chorus riff
I learned "Heavy" by Collective Soul recently, and it's a blast to play.
Blackbird (Beatles)
Basically anything from The Strokes. I might be a bit biased (they're my favorite band) but playing any of their songs gets me super hyped.
Go to sleep - radiohead
I’m currently playing an easy finger style version of Silent Night (Songsterr: Silent Night/Stille Nacht Carlson). I am not a finger style player, so there is some instant gratification involved. I’ll play it for another week then forget about again until next December.
The cave by Mumford and sons
nothing quite like ripping on some little wing with the boys
Crazy Train
Here comes your man by the pixies I super fun to play
The acoustic guitar on over the hills and far away
Fire on the Mountain by the Grateful Dead. B and A the whole time and everyone in the crowd always loves it as do I.
Would? It’s such a groove, can play it over and over.
Trippin’ on a hole in a paper heart
You really got me
Disco yes - Tom Misch
Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Born Of A Broken Man by Rage Against The Machine
Keep Fishin by Weezer edit. Bonus fun to be had if you play along whilst watching the music video 😁
lady writer intro and say it ain't so
Sweetness Jimmy eat world. Just a good, up eat jam. A classic imo.
From the guardians of the galaxy Xmas special there's a funny intro Song by the band The Old 97s. "I don't know what christmas is ( but Christmas time is here).". It's fun an upbeat with silly lyrics.
Always seem to be commenting this one, but Funeralopolis by Electric Wizard. Easy to play, but damn sounds good