You want to sound good on the guitar on the first day. This makes you motivated to play more and learn more. The best way is to find easy acoustic guitar songs that have few chords and difficult parts to play. You need to know which music books have songs that are playable for the beginner. But you also want music that is contemporary and modern. No one is interested in playing old songs from the 50′s and sixties anymore.

Easy acoustic guitar songs

What I have done here is show you some great artists who write good music that is easy to play. You shouldn’t start out by buying an Eric Clapton album or perhaps Dave Gilmour’s latest tome. They might write brilliant music and you want to play their music but you need to learn the basics first. What you need to start on are songs that are not too fast in pace and have only a few chord changes.

Do not even think about playing fast songs straight away. Its harder than it looks. You might think you are the new Bruce Springsteen but honestly he has more skill than you would believe and playing fast is a skill.

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So who is writing good playable music for the beginner guitarist these days? Here are ten groups and artists that write well written easy music. Buy the easy play music for these people and you will be playing great music very quickly

Coldplay

U2 (choose carefully)

James Blunt

Razorlight

Tracy Chapman

Gabrielle

Van Morrison

Scouting for girls

The Feeling

Any country music artist. (They write simple well written songs that tell a story but do not require great virtuosity)

The other way to find easy acoustic guitar songs to play is to follow a modern contemporary guitar course like Jamorama. As part of the course you will learn a great selection of modern great sounding songs arranged for beginners.