Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Top Acoustic Guitar Songs You Should Learn
Visualize yourself sitting down with your good friends by the fire place at the shoreline late in the evening. The waves are rolling in and when it gets darker you pick up your guitar and start to play one of your favourite songs. Someone produces a harmonica and joins you. Within just minutes you’re all singing and playing the night away.
Don’t you think it’s a fabulous picture? Just shut your eyes and think of it. Imagine truly being
able to pick almost any song and just play it. But I’ve got a problem there. I constantly need to carry a binder with me, because it doesn’t matter how hard I try, I am unable to memorize all those durned words of the song…
My other problem I have if I leave behind the binder is definitely my imagination. I can’t come up with any songs to play! So in case you’re like me, gather your own songs in a binder, write in the guitar chords in all the right spots and always have it at hand when it is party time.
The Songs
To assist you a little with suggestions on what melodies to learn, I have put together a listing of songs that I personally love to play. Many of them is kind of easy to play and many are great to sing with all your best friends.
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Blowing in the Wind – Bob Dylan
Boat On The River – Styx
Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Greenday
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
Bye Bye Love – The Everly Brothers (Most of you know it from Simon&Garfunkel)
Country Roads – John Denver
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright – Bob Dylan
Father And Son – Cat Stevens
Give a Little Bit – Supertramp
Good Riddance – Greenday
Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
Hey There Delilah – Plain White T’s
Hotel California – Eagles
I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You – Elvis Presley
Imagine – John Lennon
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
Knocking On Heavens door – Bob Dylan
Lady In Red – Chris De Burgh
Let It Be – Beatles
Losing My Religion – REM
Love Of My Life (acoustic version) – Bryan May’s version is awesome!
More Than Words – Extreme
Mr Tambourine Man – Robert Zimmerman (Of course it’s Dylan!)
Norwegian Wood – Beatles
Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
Sound Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
Stand By Me – Ben E King
Suzanne – Leonard Cohen
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd (Go for All Summer Long (Kid Rock) while you’re at it.)
The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel
The River – Bruce Springsteen
While My Guitar Gently Weeps – The Beatles
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Working Class Hero – John Lennon
These songs are among my personal favourites. Needless to say everyone has very different preferences, and like different things, but there should be at least a few diamonds for you to enjoy from this list.
Happy playing!
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