Song Ideas
Every guitarist needs to have some songs they can play - after all, playing songs is probably why you took up the instrument! But sometimes we draw a blank when trying to think of songs... so listed here are some excellent guitar songs for beginners to intermediates - you can check the page of tab sites for guitar tablature and/or chords for these songs. Some are acoustic, some electric, some fingerpicked... so there's something for everyone, in every style!
AC/DC: Back in Black, Highway to Hell
Bryan Adams: Cuts Like a Knife, Run to You, Summer of '69
Aerosmith: Angel, Dream On, Jaded, Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way
Alien Antfarm: Smooth Criminal
The Allman Brothers: Blue Sky, Jessica, Melissa, Midnight Rider, Ramblin' Man
America: Horse with No Name
The Animals: House of the Rising Sun
Audioslave: I Am the Highway, Show Me How to Live
Bad Company: Feel Like Making Love
Barenaked Ladies: Pinch Me
The Beach Boys: 409, California Girls, Fun Fun Fun, Help Me Rhonda, In My Room, Kokomo, Wouldn't It Be Nice
The Beatles: Across the Universe, Back in the USSR, Blackbird, Can't Buy Me Love, Come Together, Day Tripper, Dear Prudence, Drive My Car, Eight Days a Week, Fool on the Hill, Get Back, Hard Days Night, Help, Helter Skelter, Here Comes the Sun, Hey Bulldog, Hey Jude, I Feel Fine, I Saw Her Standing There, I Should Have Known Better, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I've Just Seen a Face, Julia, Lady Madonna, Let It Be, Michelle, Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man, Obladi Oblada, Paperback Writer, Please Please Me, Revolution, Rocky Raccoon, Roll Over Beethoven, Taxman, Ticket to Ride, Twist and Shout, We Can Work It Out, With a Little Help from My Friends, Yesterday, You Can't Do That, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Jeff Beck: Lost Cause
Pat Benetar: Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Black Sabbath: Paranoid, War Pigs
Blind Melon: No Rain
Blink 182: All the Small Things, Anthem, Dammit, Dick Lips, Dumpweed, The Rock Show, What's My Age Again?
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Bon Jovi: Living on a Prayer
Boston: Amanda, Long Time, More Than a Feeling
David Bowie: Rebel Rebel
Edie Brickell: What I Am
Garth Brooks: Ain't Goin' Down (Til the Sun Comes Up), Friends in Low Places, Poppa Loved Momma
Meredith Brooks: Bitch
Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth
Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville
Bush: Glycerine
The Byrds: Turn Turn Turn
J.J. Cale: After Midnight
The Cars: Drive
Johnny Cash: Hurt
The Chantays: Pipeline
Harry Chapin: Cat's in the Cradle
Tracy Chapman: Fast Car, Give Me One Reason
Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me
Kenny Chesney: The Good Stuff
Chicago: 25 or 6 to 4
Eric Clapton: After Midnight, I Shot the Sheriff, Lay Down Sally, Layla, Tears in Heaven, Wonderful Tonight
The Clash: Should I Stay or Should I Go
Coldplay: Clocks, Yellow
Collective Soul: Gel, Run, Shine
The Corrs: Only When I Sleep
Counting Crows: Hangin' Around
Cream: Badge, Sunshine of Your Love, White Room
Creed: Higher, With Arms Wide Open
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Proud Mary
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Teach Your Children
Sheryl Crow: A Change Would Do You Good, Soak Up the Sun
The Cure: Just Like Heaven
Deep Purple: Smoke on the Water
Default: Wasting My Time
John Denver: Rocky Mountain High, Take Me Home Country Road
Bo Diddley: Before You Accuse Me
Dido: Thank You
Dire Straits: Money for Nothing, Sultans of Swing, Walk of Life
Donovan: Mellow Yellow
The Doobie Brothers: China Grove
The Doors: Riders On the Storm
Bob Dylan: If Not for You, Simple Twist of Fate, Tangled Up in Blue
The Eagles: Already Gone, Best of My Love, Heartache Tonight, Hotel California, Lonely People, Lyin' Eyes, New Kid in Town, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Seven Bridges Road, Take It Easy, Tequila Sunrise
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man
Melissa Etheridge: All American Girl, Bring Me Some Water, Come to My Window, I Want to Come Over, Like the Way I Do, Nowhere to Go, Your Little Secret
Everclear: Santa Monica, Wonderful
Filter: Take a Picture
Five for Fighting: Superman
Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly
Fleetwood Mac: The Chain, Dreams, Landslide, Rhiannon
Foo Fighters: All My Life, Big Me, I'll Stick Around, Learn to Fly, Times Like These
Garbage: Androgyny, Cherry Lips, Only Happy When It Rains, Stupid Girl, Why Do You Love Me
Genesis: Land of Confusion
Don Gibson: Oh Lonesome Me
Goo Goo Dolls: Iris, Name, Slide
Good Charlotte: The Anthem
David Gray: Babylon
Green Day: American Idiot, Basketcase, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Brain Stew, Good Riddance, Longview, Minority, Warning, When I Come Around
Guns 'n' Roses: It's So Easy, Patience
Faith Hill: Breathe
Fountains of Wayne: Stacy's Mom
Fuel: Hemmorhage
Nelly Furtado: I'm Like a Bird, Turn Off the Light
George Harrison: My Sweet Lord
Enrique Iglesias: Hero
Incubus: Drive, Megalomaniac, Pardon Me, Talk Shows on Mute, Wish You Were Here
Indigo Girls: Closer to Fine, Kid Fears, Galileo, Prince of Darkness
Iron Butterfly: Inna Godda Da Vida
Alan Jackson: Drive for Daddy Gene
Michael Jackson: Whatever Happens
Jane's Addiction: Been Caught Stealing
Jet: Are You Gonna Be My Girl?, Cold Hard Bitch
Jewel: Foolish Games, Standing Still, Who Will Save Your Soul, You Were Meant for Me
Jimmy Eat World: The Middle
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: I Love Rock and Roll
Billy Joel: You May Be Right
Elton John: Your Song
Jack Johnson: Bubble Toes, Fall Line, Flake, Taylor, Times Like These
Janis Joplin: Piece of My Heart
Judas Pries: Living After Midnight
Kansas: Dust In the Wind
Alicia Keys: Fallin'
Kid Rock: Cowboy, Only God Knows Why
The Killers: Bright Side
Albert King: Born Under a Bad Sign, Crosscut Saw, Laundromat Blues, Oh Pretty Woman
Carole King: It's Too Late
The Kingmen: Louie Louie
The Kinks: Lola, Sunny Afternoon, You Really Got Me
Lenny Kravitz: Again, Always on the Run, Dig In
Cyndi Lauper: Time After Time
Avril Lavigne: Complicated
Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love
John Lennon: Happy Christmas, Imagine
Huey Lewis & the News: Power of Love
Lifehouse: Hanging By a Moment
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Lisa Loeb: Stay
LIT: My Own Worst Enemy
Trini Lopez: Kansas City
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
The Mamas and the Papas: California Dreaming
Marilyn Manson: Sweet Dreams
Bob Marley: Jamming, No Woman No Cry, Redemption Song, Stir It Up
Maroon 5Harder to Breathe, She Will Be Loved, This Love
Matchbox 20: 3 A.M, Bent, If You're Gone, Unwell
Dave Matthews Band: Crash Into Me, Everyday, The Space Between
John Mayer: Your Body is a Wonderland
Sara McLachlan: Adia, Angel, Building a Mystery, Hold On, I Love You, Sweet Surrender
Don McLean: American Pie
The McCoys: Hang On Sloopy
Megadeath: Peace Sells, Symphony of Destruction
John Cougar Mellencamp: Cherry Bomb, Hurts So Good, Jack and Diane, Pink Houses, R-O-C-K in the USA
Metallica: Dirty Window
Moby: Southside
The Monkees: Daydream Believer
The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin
Alanis Morisette: You Oughta Know
Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl, Gloria, Moondance
Motley Crue: Don't Go Away Mad
'N Synch: Gone
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
Nirvana: About a Girl, All Apologies, Come As You Are, Heart-Shaped Box, Polly, Smells Like Teen Spirit, The Man Who Sold the World
No Doubt: Don't Speak, Just a Girl, Underneath It All
Oasis: All Around the World, Champagne Supernova, Don't Look Back in Anger, Rock and Roll Star, Wonderwall
Roy Orbison: Crying, Pretty Woman
Tony Orlando and Dawn: Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Ozzy Osborne: Bark at the Moon, Goodbye to Romance, Mama I'm Coming Home
Pearl Jam: Alive, Better Man, Daughter, Even Flow, Jeremy
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: American Girl, Breakdown, A Face in the Crowd, Free Fallin', I Won't Back Down, Into the Great Wide Open, Refugee, Runnin' Down a Dream, Yer So Bad
Pink Floyd: Breathe, Wish You Were Here
P.O.D.: Alive, Change the World
Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn
The Police: Don't Stand So Close to Me, Every Breath You Take, Every Little Thing, Message in a Bottle, Roxanne
Elvis Presley: All Shook Up, Hound Dog
The Pretenders: Back on the Chain Gang, Middle of the Road
Puddle of Mudd: Control
Queen: Another One Bites the Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Fat Bottom Girls, Stone Cold Crazy, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Preessure, We Are the Champions, We Will Rock You
Radiohead: Creep, Exit Music, Fake Plastic Trees, High and Dry
Rage Against the Machine: Bombtrack, Killing in the Name
Bonnie Raitt: Something to Talk About
Rancid: Salvation
Red Hot Chili Peppers: By the Way, Californication, Other Side, Under the Bridge, The Zephyr Song
Otis Redding: Dock of the Bay
R.E.M.: Driver Eight, Everybody Hurts, It's the End of the World As We Know It, Losing My Religion, Man on the Moon, Superman, What's the Frequency Kenneth?
Rolling Stones: Angie, As Tears Go By, Happy, Honky Tonk Women, It's Only Rock and Roll, Paint it Black, Ruby Tuesday, Satisfaction, Shattered, She's So Cold, Start Me Up, Sympathy for the Devil, Tumbling Dice
The Romantics: What I Like About You
Saliva: Always
Santana: Black Magic Woman, Oye Como Va, Smooth
Bob Seger: Night Moves, Old Time Rock and Roll
The Sex Pistols: God Save the Queen
The Shins: New Slang
Silverchair: Tomorrow
Paul Simon: America, Bookends, The Boxer, Homeward Bound, Me and Julio, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, Sounds of Silence
Skid Row: I Remember You
Slipknot: Duality
Smashing Pumpkins: 1979, Ava Adore, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Disarm, Today
Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun
Rick Springfield: Jesse's Girl
Bruce Springsteen: Dancing in the Dark, Fire
Staind: It's Been A While
Stealer's Wheel: Stuck in the Middle
Cat Stevens: Father and Son, Moonshadow, Wild World
Rod Stewart: Maggie May
Steven Stills: Love the One You're With
Sting: Fields of Gold
Stone Temple Pilots: Interstate Love Song, Vasoline
George Strait: Adalida
Stray Cats: Rock This Town, Stray Cat Strut
The Strokes: 12:51
Styx: Blue Collar Man, Come Sail Away
Sublime: 5446 That's My Number, Ball and Chain, Santeria, Smoke Two Joints, What I Got
Sugar Ray: Every Morning
Sum 41: Fat Lip, Still Waiting
Supertramp: Give a Little Bit
The Supremes: Can't Hurry Love
System of a Down: Aerials
T Rex: Bang a Gong
Corey Taylor: Bother
James Taylor: Fire and Rain, You've Got a Friend
Them: Gloria
Third Eye Blind: 3 A.M., Anything, Deep Inside You, Jumper, Losing a Whole Year, Never Let You Go, Semi-Charmed Life
George Thorogood: Bad to the Bone
3 Doors Down: Be Like That, Here Without You, Kryptonite, When I'm Gone
Tool: Aenima
Traffic: Feelin' Alright
Train: Calling All Angels, Drops of Jupiter, Meet Virginia
Travis Tritt: Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)
The Troggs: Wild Thing
Shania Twain: You're Still the One
Twisted Sister: We're Not Gonna Take It
Bonnie Tyler: It's a Heartache
U2: All I Want Is You, Bad, Beautiful Day, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Where the Streets Have No Name, With or Without You
Uncle Kracker: Follow Me
Ritchie Valens: La Bamba
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Pride and Joy
Vertical Horizon: Everything You Want
The Vines: Get Free
Tom Waits: Downtown Train
The Wallflowers: Sleepwalker, Three Marlenas
Weezer: Buddy Holly, Hash Pipe, Keep Fishin', Say It Ain't So, Undone
The Who: Behind Blue Eyes, Eminence Front, Magic Bus, My Generation, Pinball Wizard, Squeeze Box
Yellowcard: Ocean Avenue, Only One, Way Away
Neil Young: Down By the River, Harvest Moon, Heart of Gold, Hey Hey My My, Like a Hurricane, Needle and the Damage Done, Old Man
ZZ Top: La Grange, Legs, Rough Boy, Sharp Dressed Man