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I'm working on putting together a beginner guitar class for local rec. centers and stuff, and I need some of your suggestions for beginner guitar riff tunes, or even some power chord tunes that might be popular today.
What do some of you guys use for beginning pop guitar students?
A couple of my favorite easy tunes that you don't see too often are Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" and Tom Petty's "Breakdown".
I don't know how much they'll appeal to today's whippersnappers, though.
When I was selling guitars a five years ago "Come As You Are", "Enter Sandman", and "The Beautiful People" were the ones that they tortured me with most often. The Manson tune has probably dropped off the radar by now, but I'm betting the first too are still butchered regularly.
How about some surf stuff? That's fun, relatively easy, and cuts across age groups.
How about horse with no name. I think there are two chords in it.
Eddy Money's two tickets to Paradise is easy. The verse is G and A, and the chorus is D G and A. Chorus power chords sound cool to new players.
And I was worried about my suggestions being outdated!
yellow submarine
what a great arrangement huh? i picked a winner
couldnt get much simpler
it's amazing that crap made it to a album thats the weird ironic fact of goofy hooky music like that
dont we all have some goofy stupid out dated hooky dumb song riff or concoction that made it to vinyl ???that still sticks in our minds like a bad dream
dont get me started on barry manillow
or neil sedaka i need a barf bag when i hear bobby vinton or that midget dude in las vegas i for get his name kinda looks like regis pheldman
dean martin astamor'e pizza pie song
please release me let me go.....
if i had a hammer
im leavin on a jet plane
puff the magic dragon peter paul mary version
barney songs
buhweat sings da hitz
i'll think a little morre in the past to see what i remember of corniness
lots of them songs were simple in theory and all
even eleanor rigby wasnt too complicated till jazz legends added life to songs like that simple chords but good counterpoint
that song has great counter point the violin parts on the beatles versiion really are great sometimes simple is better
marylyn manson is ghoolish wherres the beef ?
he's out there
alot of the ramones songs are simple and easy its up to the players i guess
i wanna be sedated.....
hang on slooppy
wipe out
keep yer hands to yer self ... georgia sattelites
:nelson
"barney songs
buhweat sings da hitz "
OK, LOU,
I can hang wif Buhweat, but NOT Barney. :da
Seriously, guys. Does any one actually know how to play the Peter Gunn theme?
I need to know how the riff goes.
On an open string is it:
00203053
or
00203054
Somebody's gottta know......
I have it as 00203053 on the top E string.Quote:
Originally posted by Sven
Seriously, guys. Does any one actually know how to play the Peter Gunn theme?
I need to know how the riff goes.
On an open string is it:
00203053
or
00203054
Somebody's gottta know......
You didn't say that it was going to be kids or adults so as for tunes.... How about Brown Eyed Girl ? or King of the Road? or Key to the Highway?
That should be easy for them to get a hold of.
dang I don't know any new songs, but an oldie easy one is
For What Its Worth
E and A
somethin' happenin' here...