easiest acoustic song to play???

[danmarino]

as above I would like your opinions???

[ExtremeRyno]

Hall of the Mountain King, Greensleaves, or The Sweater Song by Weezer.

 

EDIT: Lets not forget Dueling Banjos (from Deliverance)

[bringbckclinton]

Horse w/ No Name

 

Heart of Gold

 

Tom Petty stuff

[ExtremeRyno]

Anything by the Cure is easy game. Just pop in (or *find*) their Acoustic Best Of album and play along. Some stuff is more advanced, but a lot is just light finger picking.

[ddlingling]

there are a million easy songs, made of like 3 notes or whatever. but this one trumps them all.

 

tenacious d - one note song

[leftync]

Try four strong winds by Ian Tyson--gorgeous song, too.

Three chords--G, Am, D, G in that order, until the end when it's G, Am, G, D.

[lalatingstrings]

OH MY DARLIN CLEMENTINE. and the melody is quite beautiful.

[Jerry NT]

If you like or at least tolerate country, Hank Williams' Jambalaya has two chords. C and G7.

[BlackHatHunter]

anything by Buffett

[ExtremeRyno]

Tom Waits has some fairly easy things.

[LDF]

Make something up yourself and there you go...........

[UGB]

'Simple Man' by Lynyrd Skynyrd is C, G, Am, repeat and never stop.

[BlackHatHunter]

... or pretty much any I IV V blues progression you can think of

[studyscoot]

Anything by Jack Johnson.

start with 'Dreams Be Dreams', then 'Flake' . Many of his others are quite similar to these two.

 

For a step up, you could learn the fingerpicking part to 'Breakdown'.

 

All are catchy tunes, great lyrics.

[Buttcrust]

Tom Dooley

[fantasticsound]

 

Originally posted by bringbckclinton Horse w/ No Name Heart of Gold Tom Petty stuff

 

 

My immediate response was Horse With No Name. Heart Of Gold is another good answer.

 

Rocky Mountain High by John Denver comes to mind, though it can certainly be embellished with more advanced picking.

[zookie]

I find that a really difficult question to answer in all honesty. Songs with even the most rudimentary and modal chordal structure can fall apart if they're played without a steady rhythm and any song can be played with chord shapes that change each time a new verse comes around.

 

Especially when you start playing in the folk tradition, where guitar is a fairly recent innovation, you may find recorded versions of songs where the chord progressions vary wildly and are completely open to the interpretation of the performer.

 

Rather than thinking of songs as easy, it's much more fun to approach every song as a challenge. Every song needs your interpretation. Am played in the open position sounds a little different from Am played barred at the 5th fret, etc. Will you employ drone tones, arpeggios, etc?

[Trouble Funk]

Tenacious D one note song +1000

I win, one to nothin! Woo hoo!

[fantasticsound]

Originally posted by zookie I find that a really difficult question to answer in all honesty. Songs with even the most rudimentary and modal chordal structure can fall apart if they're played without a steady rhythm and any song can be played with chord shapes that change each time a new verse comes around...

 

While I appreciate your point, Horse With No Name, among others, really does just modulate between the same two chord voicings.

 

Sure, you can add to the arrangement or completely stand it on end, but danmarino asked which, in our opinion are the easiest (and I presume, still interesting) songs to play.

 

While I love playing Horse With No Name, it is definitely a droning guitar part that repeats, ad infinitum.

[cfgsteak]

I am still a beginner, and I can play (simple versions):

 

Such Great Heights

Move it on Over

several variations of 12 bar blues

Wish You Were Here

Can't Always Get What You Want

White Riot

 

 

They are all pretty easy.

[bdegrande]

Chain Of Fools - one chord

 

Uncle Pen - almost one chord, there's a second chord used occasionally