Most good beginner songs are just chords, or maybe a few single notes in it.

Post good beginner songs here.

I feel like there are some "essential" riffs that every beginning guitarist needs to know (i.e., Sunshine of Your Love, Smoke on the Water, etc.).

Beyond that, some of the first songs I learned how to play included the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Scar Tissue," Aerosmith's "Dream On," and the intro to Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze," none of which are overly difficult to learn, and help grow a sense of familiarity with the fretboard.

/My two cents

very well put

.38 Special - Hold On Loosely

AC/DC - Back in Black, Highway to Hell, TNT, You Shook Me All Night Long, Hells Bells

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Iron Man

Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Bob Dylan - Knocking on Heaven's Door

Boston - More than a Feeling

The Clash - London Calling, Should I Stay or Should I go

Cream - Sunshine of Your Love

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

Faith No More - Epic

Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills, Number of the Beast

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

Judas Priest - Breaking the law

Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son, Dust in the Wind

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker

Metallica - Seek and Destroy, The Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Nothing Else Matters

Nirvana - In Bloom, Polly, Lithium, Come As You Are, About a Girl, Smells Like Teen Spirit

Pantera - Walk

Radio Head - Creep

Rush - Lime Light, Tom Sawyer

Slayer - Rain in Blood

Weezer - Say It Ain't So

The Who - Baba O' Riley

Wolfmother - Woman



These are just some songs that are fairly easy, I might add more later.

every rose has its thorn is a great one

jane says by janes addiction, and semi charmed life are good ones, they are all open chords

the good starter song is get me alone from chris ,,

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

yeah this is perfect song for beginners

all blink 182 songs, most of them are fun, and also they are pop-ish songs so they appeal to a wide audience, the only hard ones are like m+ms and maybe carousel

I think everyone learns this song when they're starting off on guitar