Easy Electric Guitar Songs for Beginners

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Learning easy guitar songs is one of the best ways for beginner guitarists to practice the techniques they learn, without the practice sessions becoming tedious. Learning individual guitar techniques in their purity day after day will get, well, boring after a few days. But not when you practice through learning songs.

Learn Electric Guitar Songs!

The advantage of learning to play guitar songs is evident. Novice guitarists start learning the guitar because they want to be able to play the songs they love listening to, this is a general aim of most people who decide to pick up the instrument. If they were to practice, for example, the individual lead guitar techniques day in and day out for weeks, they probably won’t stick with the guitar as long as it takes to learn the given techniques, since they won’t get any satisfaction out of practicing.

You get satisfaction out of actually playing the guitar, and there are loads of guitar songs for beginners. Here are 2 of the most popular video tutorials we have in our database of electric guitar lessons:

Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana

Undoubtedly, this is one of the most famous songs recorded by Nirvana and the late Curt Cobain. When beginners listen to the guitar parts of song itself, they are often unjustly intimidated. The song is pretty easy to learn and play.

The famous intro riff involves strumming four power chords, which you must learn if you want to be an electric guitar player. The even more famous solo is just a sequence of individual notes with a couple of string bends, making our Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar lesson perfectly suitable for beginners as well. Even if you are not into grunge music, you should really learn to play this song, since you’ll be practicing essential guitar techniques.

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

This song is a bit more difficult, but it will teach you a lot of lead guitar techniques. The intro riff is centered around arpeggios, and spiced up with some hammer ons and pull offs, which shouldn’t take too long to master.

The second part of the lesson will teach you the solo, which is played on the G major pentatonic scale. It will give you a great chance to practice using the scale, making this video guitar lesson all the more useful in advancing your technique. The tabs provided with our Wish You Were Here guitar lesson will make learning the song easier, since you won’t have to remember the entire song note for note, you’ll be able to cheat off the tabs.

If you want to learn to play the electric guitar, you would be wise to start learning beginner guitar songs for beginners right at the beginning, since practicing through making real music is undoubtedly the best way to advance your skills as a musician.