One of the great things about guitar is that it’s easy to get started playing songs quickly! Here are one hundred and sixty-two easy songs to play on guitar that you can get started with today.
If you’re looking for more complete lessons on getting started on guitar, be sure to check out the beginning course on JamPlay or GuitarTricks. Their video courses will get you up and running. And they’ve got a deep catalog of videos so you can pursue any genre or style that you’re interested in.
For the list below, we compiled it based on a number of sources, including articles here, here, and here, as well as our own experience and background in guitar.
All sorts of genres are represented here – folk, pop, rock, country – so be sure to scroll through them to find some inspiration.
(P.S. If you’re looking for easy fingerstyle songs in particular, check out this article.)
Hope you enjoy!
Top 162 Easy Songs To Play On Guitar
| SONG | ARTIST | TAB | LESSON | |
| 1 | (Don’t Fear) The Reaper | Blue Öyster Cult | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 2 | (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | The Rolling Stones | View Tab | |
| 3 | 7 Years | Lukas Graham | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 4 | A Horse with No Name | America | View Tab | |
| 5 | Ain’t No Sunshine | Bill Withers | View Tab | |
| 6 | All Along the Watchtower | Jimi Hendrix | View Tab | |
| 7 | All of Me | John Legend | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 8 | Amazing Grace | Traditional | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 9 | Are You Gonna Be My Girl | Jet | View Tab | |
| 10 | Bad Moon Rising | Creedence Clearwater Revival | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 11 | Beat It | Michael Jackson | View Tab | |
| 12 | Big Yellow Taxi | Joni Mitchell | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 13 | Blackbird | The Beatles | View Tab | |
| 14 | Blood & Roses | The Smithereens | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 15 | Blown Away | Carrie Underwood | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 16 | Breezin’ | George Benson | View Tab | |
| 17 | Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 18 | California | Delta Spirit | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 19 | Can’t Help Falling In Love | Elvis Presley | View Tab | |
| 20 | Candy | Paolo Nutini | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 21 | Chasing Cars | Snow Patrol | View Tab | |
| 22 | Cherub Rock | The Smashing Pumpkins | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 23 | Chrissie Hynde | Butch Walker | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 24 | Clay | Grace VanderWaal | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 25 | Clocks | Coldplay | View Tab | |
| 26 | Cocaine | Eric Clapton | View Tab | |
| 27 | Come as You Are | Nirvana | View Tab | |
| 28 | Complicated | Avril Lavigne | View Tab | |
| 29 | Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Queen | View Tab | |
| 30 | Crazy Train | Ozzy Osbourne | View Tab | |
| 31 | Creep | Radiohead | View Tab | |
| 32 | Dance The Night Away | The Mavericks | View Tab | |
| 33 | Die Young | Kesha | View Tab | |
| 34 | Dust in the Wind | Kansas | View Tab | |
| 35 | Dynamite | Taio Cruz | View Tab | |
| 36 | Eleanor Rigby | The Beatles | View Tab | |
| 37 | Englishman In New York | Sting | View Tab | |
| 38 | Everlong | Foo Fighters | View Tab | |
| 39 | Every Breath You Take | The Police | View Tab | |
| 40 | Every Rose Has its Thorn | Poison | View Tab | |
| 41 | Fast Car | Tracy Chapman | View Tab | |
| 42 | Fire | Bruce Springsteen | View Tab | |
| 43 | Free Bird | Lynyrd Skynyrd | View Tab | |
| 44 | Free Fallin’ | Tom Petty | View Tab | |
| 45 | Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) | Green Day | View Tab | |
| 46 | Good Year For the Roses | Elvis Costello | View Tab | |
| 47 | Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner | Black Uhuru | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 48 | Guns Of Brixton | The Clash | View Tab | |
| 49 | Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen | View Tab | |
| 50 | Hand in my pocket | Alanis Morissette | View Tab | |
| 51 | Harder To Breathe | Maroon 5 | View Tab | |
| 52 | Have You Ever Seen the Rain | Creedence Clearwater Revival | View Tab | |
| 53 | He Didn’t Have to Be | Brad Paisley | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 54 | Heart Of Gold | Neil Young | View Tab | |
| 55 | Heartbreaker | Led Zeppelin | View Tab | |
| 56 | Helluva Life | Frankie Ballard | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 57 | Here Comes the Sun | The Beatles | View Tab | |
| 58 | Hey Joe | Jimi Hendrix | View Tab | |
| 59 | Hey Jude | The Beatles | View Tab | |
| 60 | Hey There Delilah | Plain White T’s | View Tab | |
| 61 | Holocene | Bon Iver | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 62 | Honky Tonk Women | The Rolling Stones | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 63 | Horse With No Name | America | View Tab | |
| 64 | How Bizarre | OMC | View Tab | |
| 65 | I Can’t Quit You Baby | Willie Dixon | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 66 | I Can’t Explain | The Who | View Tab | |
| 67 | I Fought the Law | The Bobby Fuller Four | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 68 | I Need My Girl | The National | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 69 | I Shall Not Be Moved | Traditional | View Tab | |
| 70 | I Shot The Sheriff | Bob Marley | View Tab | |
| 71 | I Walk The Line | Johnny Cash | View Tab | |
| 72 | I’m Yours | Jason Mraz | View Tab | |
| 73 | Imagine | John Lennon | View Tab | |
| 74 | Iron Man | Black Sabbath | View Tab | |
| 75 | It Hurts Me Too | Elmore James | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 76 | It’s My Life | The Animals | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 77 | Jambalaya (On the Bayou) | Hank Williams | View Tab | |
| 78 | Johnny B. Goode | Chuck Berry | View Tab | |
| 79 | Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door | Bob Dylan | View Tab | |
| 80 | Layla | Eric Clapton | View Tab | |
| 81 | Lazy Song | Bruno Mars | View Tab | |
| 82 | Leaving on a jet plane | John Denver | View Tab | |
| 83 | Let Her Go | Passenger | View Tab | |
| 84 | Let It Be | The Beatles | View Tab | |
| 85 | Love Me Do | The Beatles | View Tab | |
| 86 | Love Yourself | Justin Bieber | View Tab | |
| 87 | Low | Cracker | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 88 | Mannish Boy | Muddy Waters | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 89 | Matchbox | Carl Perkins | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 90 | Me and Bobby McGee | Kris Kristofferson | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 91 | Miss You | The Rolling Stones | View Tab | |
| 92 | Mockingbird | James Taylor | View Tab | |
| 93 | More Than Words | Extreme | View Tab | |
| 94 | Mull of Kintyre | Wings | View Tab | |
| 95 | My Best Friend’s Girl | The Cars | View Tab | |
| 96 | My Generation | The Who | View Tab | |
| 97 | Need You Now | Lady Antebellum | View Tab | |
| 98 | Not Fade Away | Buddy Holly | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 99 | Nothing Else Matters | Metallica | View Tab | |
| 100 | Otherside | Red Hot Chili Peppers | View Tab | |
| 101 | Over the Hills and Far Away | Led Zeppelin | View Tab | |
| 102 | Patience | Guns N’ Roses | View Tab | |
| 103 | Perfect | Ed Sheeran | View Tab | |
| 104 | Photograph | Ed Sheeran | View Tab | |
| 105 | Pretty Woman | Roy Orbison | View Tab | |
| 106 | Proud Mary | CCR | View Tab | |
| 107 | Pumped Up Kicks | Foster The People | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 108 | Radioactive | Imagine Dragons | View Tab | |
| 109 | Redemption Song | Bob Marley | View Tab | |
| 110 | Ring of Fire | Johnny Cash | View Tab | |
| 111 | Rock Me Baby | B. B. King | View Tab | |
| 112 | Runawa Train | Soul Asylum | View Tab | |
| 113 | Seven Nation Army | The White Stripes | View Tab | |
| 114 | She Talks to Angels | The Black Crowes | View Tab | |
| 115 | Shout | The Isley Brothers | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 116 | Silent Lucidity | Queensrÿche | View Tab | |
| 117 | Skinny Love | Bon Iver | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 118 | Smells Like Teen Spirit | Nirvana | View Tab | |
| 119 | Smoke On The Water | Deep Purple | View Tab | |
| 120 | Something to Talk About | Bonnie Raitt | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 121 | Stairway to Heaven | Led Zeppelin | View Tab | |
| 122 | Stand By Me | Ben E. King | View Tab | |
| 123 | Stay With Me | Sam Smith | View Tab | |
| 124 | Stoplight Kisses | The Cactus Blossoms | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 125 | Stuck In The Middle With You | Steelers | View Tab | |
| 126 | Sultans of Swing | Dire Straits | View Tab | |
| 127 | Summer Of 69 | Bryan Adams | View Tab | |
| 128 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | U2 | View Tab | |
| 129 | Sunshine of Your Love | Cream | View Tab | |
| 130 | Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond | View Tab | |
| 131 | Sweet Child O’ Mine | Guns N’ Roses | View Tab | |
| 132 | Sweet Home Alabama | Lynyrd Skynyrd | View Tab | |
| 133 | T.N.T | AC/DC | View Tab | |
| 134 | Take Me Home, Country Roads | John Denver | View Tab | |
| 135 | Taking Care of Business | BTO | View Tab | |
| 136 | Teach Your Children | CSNY | View Tab | |
| 137 | That’s Alright Mama | Elvis Presley | View Tab | |
| 138 | The House of the Rising Sun | The Animals | View Tab | |
| 139 | The Joker | Steve Miller Band | View Tab | |
| 140 | The Middle | Jimmy Eat World | View Tab | |
| 141 | The One I Love | REM | View Tab | |
| 142 | Things That I Used to Do | Guitar Slim | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 143 | Thinking Out Loud | Ed Sheeran | View Tab | |
| 144 | Three Little Birds | Bob Marley | View Tab | |
| 145 | Times Like These | Foo Fighters | View Tab | |
| 146 | Tush | ZZ Top | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 147 | Under the Bridge | Red Hot Chili Peppers | View Tab | |
| 148 | Viva La Vida | Coldplay | View Tab | |
| 149 | Waiting in Vain | Bob Marley | View Tab | 🔥 Video Lesson |
| 150 | Walk Of Life | Dire Straits | View Tab | |
| 151 | Walk This Way | Aerosmith | View Tab | |
| 152 | Wanted Dead or Alive | Bon Jovi | View Tab | |
| 153 | What I Got | Sublime | View Tab | |
| 154 | What’s Up | 4 Non Blondes | View Tab | |
| 155 | Whole Lotta Love | Led Zeppelin | View Tab | |
| 156 | Wild Thing | The Troggs | View Tab | |
| 157 | With or Without You | U2 | View Tab | |
| 158 | Wonderful Tonight | Eric Clapton | View Tab | |
| 159 | Wonderful World | Sam Cook | View Tab | |
| 160 | Wonderwall | Oasis | View Tab | |
| 161 | Yellow | Coldplay | View Tab | |
| 162 | Zombie | The Cranberries | View Tab |
While this is a LOT of easy songs to play on guitar, you may have a few more suggestions for what should be added to the list. So…
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