One of the very best things about learning to play guitar is the sheer number of great acoustic guitar songs all beginners have to choose from when they first start trying to play some music on guitar! It’s surprising just how simple so many famous songs are, many of them have just 3 or 4 guitar chords and only 1 strumming pattern from start to finish! That’s why we call them easy acoustic guitar songs!

Whenever you learn beginner acoustic guitar songs you must always make sure that you’ve completed the necessary preparation. That doesn’t just mean that you’ve changed your guitar strings, tuned your guitar and bought a tab book… it really means that you’ve put the required amount of time into practicing and perfected the basics of being able to play songs on guitar. If you’ve done this step properly then learning to simple guitar songs will be, well, simple.

Students only find learning guitar songs hard when they haven’t yet put in the necessary amount of practice work. Trust me on this!

The two most important things for this is

1. To be able to change between your chords quickly so that you can play the song chord progressions fluently enough to keep up with the tempo of the song
2. To know the correct strum pattern and be able to keep a solid rhythm from start to finish.

With good quality online guitar lessons you should make excellent progress even if you are a raw beginner, in fact, most people find that they are able to start learning how to play beginner songs on acoustic guitar within just one month of starting guitar lessons. That however assumes two more important things…

1. That you are practicing correctly and on a daily basis
2. That you have good quality guitar lessons to learn from

Now it can be hard to find a good guitar teacher in your local area to go to for private acoustic guitar tuition. I would say that this is still however the #1 best way to really learn acoustic guitar well. Having the full attention of a guitar instructor focused upon your guitar playing is worth its weight in gold, no doubt. But we must also be realistic… not everyone is so lucky to have a teacher living near locally. In that case your best option is to take acoustic guitar lessons online.

Online Guitar Lessons

If you’re looking to learn guitar online then the best place to start off at is actually YouTube. There you’ll find a ton of good quality lessons many of which have been uploaded by the more popular and best known guitar sites. They do this to give you the opportunity to sample the lessons and their own particular teaching style. This is absolutely one of the best ways I know to “try before you buy”.

Memberships to online guitar lessons are not cheap especially when you consider that most of them are recurring monthly membership plans. So you really want to be sure that you’re going to get what you want from the subscription.

Some famous acoustic guitar songs for beginners include

• Horse With No Name
• Knockin’ On Heavens Door
• Wonderful Tonight
• Heart Of Gold
• Please Mr Postman

there are many hundreds of them. Even though you may have your own favorite songs, try to avoid diving in at the deep end straight away and instead stick to learning pre-approved easy acoustic songs which will create a nice even learning curve for you to follow.

Buying a guitar capo is a great investment. It means that you will be able to play songs in different keys without having to learn barre chords. Using your open chords along with a guitar capo will suffice for playing in the same key as many of the original songs which is vital should you want to play along them (great fun by the way especially as you can get them for free off of YouTube).

The  link listed on the page is a great resource for acoustic guitar songs but you’ll also find many other videos teaching you how to play easy beginner songs on guitar for free.