What Makes An Easy Guitar Song?

It's really important that you have a nice and very even learning curve when first starting out with guitar lessons for beginners. An even learning curve means that your instruction or programme of lessons flow nicely into each other without any big jumps in technique.

This 'flow' is essential to learn easily and all good guitar programs and tutors will try to create this for you.

Equally when you have learned enough to be able to start playing your first songs on guitar you also need to continue with an even learning curve. For this reason, most people look for easy guitar songs, but what makes a guitar song easy?

Well it normally has no more than 4 chords and very often the same progression going all the way through the song. That means that the verse, bridge and chorus or any other parts of the song are all the same four chords and always in the same order.

You could be surprised by how many songs are really that simple! With all the production and studio effects applied to songs it's very easy to be fooled into thinking they are much more complicated than they really are. I've had lots of occasions teaching guitar 1-1 where students would be amazed at just how simple some of their favourite songs were in terms of their structure and design.

So we have the same progression throughout the song, next we also need it to be just the one strum. This means that to strum through the whole song you'll only need to learn one strum pattern which will repeat over and over from start to finish.

You can see that an easy guitar song is defined really by its simplicity, this means that as a beginner on guitar you don't have too much to practice and master before you can play the song all the way through.

There really are hundreds of these types of easy songs and a great deal of them are big hits and very well known too. Many guitar websites will have a list of easy guitar songs for you to try and after learning some chords and strums make sure you continue to keep things nice and easy for yourself by attempting easy songs - the harder ones will become available to you in time.

Remember what I said in a previous post about staying within your technical range, it's very important.