The Best Acoustic Guitar Songs You Should Learn - Entertainment - Music

Songs to play on guitar

Visualize yourself resting with all your friends and family by the fire place at the shoreline late at night. The waves are rolling in and when it gets darker you pick up your guitar and begin playing one of your favourite melodies. Someone produces a harmonica and joins you. Within a few minutes you're all singing and playing the night away.

Is it not a fabulous picture? Just close your eyes and think of it. Imagine truly being

able to pick any song and just play it. But I've got a problem there. I constantly must bring a binder with me, because it doesn't matter how hard I try, I can't remember all those durned words of the song...

My other problem I have if I forget about the binder is actually my imagination. I can't bring to mind any songs to play! So if you're anything like me, collect your songs in a binder, write in the chords in all the right spots and always have it accessible if it is party time.

The Songs

To help you out just a little with tips on what songs to play, I have gathered a list of songs that I personally love to play. Many of them is pretty easy to play and many are perfect to sing with all your 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. As expected everyone has completely different preferences, and like different things, but there should be at least a few diamonds for you to enjoy from this list.

Happy playing!

Griffbrett Gitarre