How To Read And Play Easy Rock Guitar Tabs

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Before getting a collection of rock guitar tabs to play, you need to buy a nylon string acoustic guitar.Your first guitar should have nylon strings because they are easier on your fingers when you first learn to make chords. An acoustic guitar is a little harder to play in some ways than an electric guitar which is an advantage in that it will be better training for you. When you start searching for easy rock guitar tabs to kick-start your guitar playing career, remember that you will be just strumming simple chords on your acoustic at first, rather than playing scales and riffs, but you will also need to find the tabs to some popular songs that your audience will recognize and enjoy.

Let me list some songs that I found by searching the web for “most popular songs”. There are actually hundreds of songs that people all over the world think are the most popular, but here is a list of songs that you could say fall into the Rock N Roll category: Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger, I’m a Believer by the Monkees, American Pie by Don McClean, Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf, Johnnie B. Goode by Chuck Berry, Angie by The Rolling Stones, Blowin’ In The Wind by Bob Dylan, Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, I Remember You by Skid Row, Come As You Are by Nirvana, Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan, Horse With No Name by America, A Day In The Life, Here There And Everywhere and Hey Jude by The Beatles, I Walk The Line by Johnny Cash, Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton, Gloria by Van Morrison, Hotel California by The Eagles, Behind Blue Eyes by The Who, White Room by Cream, Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin, Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart, Thank God I’m a Country Boy by John Denver, and Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix.

The reason I am giving you this list of songs is after your guitar playing skills have grown beyond the beginner stage, you will be looking for some crowd pleasing songs. Out of the above list, the easiest to play are: Angie by The Rolling Stones, Blowin’ In The Wind by Bob Dylan, Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, A Day In The Life, Here, There And Everywhere and Hey Jude by The Beatles, I Walk The Line by Johnny Cash, Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton, Gloria by Van Morrison, Hotel California by The Eagles, Behind Blue Eyes by The Who I Remember You by Skid Row, Come As You Are by Nirvana, Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan, Horse With No Name by America and White Room by Cream. According to some guitarists, Horse With No Name is THE easiest rock song to play, using only two chords.

For the easy rock songs I have listed, you just need to know the chords of G, C, D, Am, Em and, for playing Horse With No Name, F#m7sus which is harder to write down than it is to play. So armed with your list of easy rock guitar songs and your short list of basic chords, you can buy your tabs in a music store or take advantage of the wealth of free guitar tabs available on the internet.

All the chords you need to play Horse With No Name

E —————0——————————————-

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G —————0——————————————-

D —————2——————————————-

A —————2——————————————-

E —————0——————————————-

F#m7sus

E —————0——————————————-

B —————0——————————————-

G —————2——————————————-

D —————0——————————————-