Before you go looking for easy rock guitar tabs to play you need to buy a nylon string acoustic guitar. The reason your first guitar should have nylon strings is that they are easier on your fingers when you are learning to make chords. Also an acoustic guitar is a little harder to play in some ways than an electric guitar so it will be better training for you. Now, when you go looking for easy rock guitar tabs to start your guitar playing career off, bear in mind that you will be just strumming simple chords on your acoustic rather than playing scales First Guitar riffs, but at the same time you need to find the tabs to some popular songs that your audience will recognize and enjoy.
Let me run some songs by you that I found by doing an internet search for "most popular songs". There are actually hundreds of songs that people 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 Guitar Hero 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.
This list is for you to keep for further reference after your guitar playing skills have grown beyond the beginner stage. Out of the above list, the songs that fall into the "easy" classification 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 only 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 Guitar Gear buy your tabs in a music store or take advantage of the wealth of free guitar tabs available on the internet.
Ricky Sharples has been playing guitar his whole life, and is presently engaged in building a blog which features free guitar lessons, videos, articles and reviews to help you Learn The Guitar for free. Ricky updates the blog constantly so if you are interested in learning to play guitar there will be an enormous variety of tips, tools and tutorials for you.
