easy songs for beginners

Bob Marley’s I Shot The Sheriff is a delightful introduction to reggae rhythms. This lesson also includes some more advice for transposing songs to another key.

Today we’re going to take an old Paul Simon song called Bookends. This is a helpful song for developing fingerstyle coordination.

Today we’re going to learn Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffet. In and of itself, this will not take very long. We will only need three chords (okay, four, but one (A7) is just a simple variation of another).

We’re going to take this old blues standard and use it to learn three important things: the turnaround, the blues lead scale and the grand finale.

We’ll take this Chuck Berry classic to further our understanding of the 12 bar blues pattern. This is the second part of our three part look at the blues.

We’re going to take this three chord blues song and use it to learn the twelve bar blues. We’ll add a little theory so you can play any blues song in any key.

Feelin’ Alright was written by Dave Mason when he was with the group Traffic. Our take on this song proves that a two chord song doesn’t have to sound boring.

We’re going to use this old Buffalo Springfield classic to learn a new strumming technique and figure out how to get a cool percussive rhythm sound.