Guitar/Guitar Tabs Song Library

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Almost as soon as you start playing guitar, you will learn a handful of songs or riffs. But often after a while, you can't think anything new or interesting to play. Learning songs can be tough, but thinking of songs to learn can be even tougher. This page aims to simplify things, by providing a list of songs, and perhaps a tip or two for learning.

  • Easy songs are songs that are played mostly with open chords, or involve uncomplicated riffs higher up on the neck. Easy song, difficult solos are those that have very challenging solos.
  • Intermediate songs are songs that a beginner would find challenging, but an experienced guitarist should be able to pick up quickly. Generally the songs involve faster chord changes or difficult riffs.
  • Difficult songs are songs that experienced players have a little trouble with. Beginners would likely be unable to play these songs because they have not yet developed their skill and coordination with their hands, but they do make excellent goals.
  • Impossible songs are songs that make expert players scratch their head. They are extremely complicated, take lots of practice to play and require a high level of playing ability. These are the songs that make people say "Maybe one day I'll be able to play that."

Songs are organized alphabetically by band name or artist last name, then song title. Include non-standard tunings and any other important information. Please only list popular musicians (but not necessarily popular songs!), and please only list specific songs. Do not be tempted to include "Everything by Band X/Artist Y", because certainly not every single song they have recorded requires the same level of skill.

Contents

[edit] Easy Songs

  • AC/DC - Hells Bells Guitar Tab
  • Armor For Sleep - The Truth About Heaven Guitar Tab
  • Aerosmith - The Devil's Got A New Disguise Guitar Tab
  • Aerosmith - Dream On Guitar Tab
  • Aerosmith - Livin On The Edge Guitar Tab
  • Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance Guitar Tab
  • Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch Guitar Tab
  • Against Me! - New Wave
  • Against Me! - Thrash Unreal Guitar Tab
  • AFI - Miss Murder Guitar Tab
  • Audioslave - Doesn't Remind Me Guitar Tab
  • Audioslave - Like A Stone Guitar Tab
  • The Beatles - Come Together
  • The Beatles - Helter Skelter
  • The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  • Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
  • Black Sabbath - Iron Man
  • Black Sabbath - Paranoid
  • Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
  • Black Sabbath - War Pigs
  • Blink 182 - Adam's Song
  • Blink 182 - All the Small Things
  • Blink 182 - Dammit
  • Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy
  • Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
  • Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
  • Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower
  • Buckethead - Electric Tears
  • Buckethead - Padmasana
  • Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide
  • Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face
  • Eric Clapton - Cocaine
  • Eric Clapton - Layla
  • Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
  • Coheed and Cambria - Faint of Heart
  • Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic
  • Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
  • Cream - White Room
  • Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus: As there was a lack of solo, and just a few riffs on power chord, the only challenging part is keeping in time and singing while playing it. With some modification and heavy distortion, it becomes Marilyn Manson's edition. Seeing their difference is still easy to do.
  • Devin Townsend Band - Vampira
  • Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
  • Drop Dead, Gorgeous - I Want To Master Life And Death : The only difficult part is figuring out how to strum at the end and at the chorus. it is drop c too.
  • Europe - Hero
  • Extreme - Hole Hearted
  • Foghat - Slow Ride
  • Foo Fighters - Let It Die
  • Godsmack - Awake
  • Godsmack - Keep Away
  • Godsmack - Serenity
  • Godsmack - Vampires
  • Godsmack - Voodoo
  • Grand Funk Railroad - Heartbreaker
  • Green Day - American Idiot
  • Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  • Green Day - Holiday
  • Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia
  • Green Day - Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance) - Only four open chords for the entire song. Very easy. Some funny plucking at points though.
  • Green Day - When September Ends
  • Guns N Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  • Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle: Eb Tuning
  • Ben Harper - Burn One Down: On the album version, the guitar is tuned down a whole tone, but in live shows he usually plays it in standard tuning. This is based in G, and it has a good intro, especially if you know someone who plays bongos.
  • Jimi Hendrix - Fire
  • Jimi Hendrix - Foxey Lady
  • Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe: This song uses open chords, and it has a very recognizable intro. Good for playing for friends, easy to sing and play.
  • Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
  • Incubus - Pardon Me
  • Incubus - Wish You Were Here
  • Hillsong United - What The World Will Never Take
  • Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
  • Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
  • Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
  • Stan Jones - Ghost Riders in the Sky
  • Lacuna Coil - Falling Again
  • Lenny Kravitz - Always On The Run
  • Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
  • Linkin Park - No More Sorrow - Good Ebow practice song; if it's too easy with just pick, try to see if you can able to pick as fast while holding the Ebow (and that means the Ebow should not be flying in the air!). Watch the transition.
  • Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
  • Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
  • Bob Marley - Redemption Song: This is based around G and C. The rhythm for the intro and chord changes can be difficult at first.
  • Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
  • Megadeth - Gears of War
  • Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Metallica - Fuel
  • Metallica - Jump in the Fire
  • Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
  • Metallica - The Unforgiven
  • Muse - Unintended
  • Nevermore - The Heart Collector
  • Nirvana - Come As You Are
  • Nirvana - In Bloom
  • Nirvana - Lithium
  • Nirvana - Polly
  • Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
  • Kumiko Noma - Lilium (OP from Elfen lied) - It's an easy piece to practice fingerpicking, and also very suited for the use of E-Bow when playing just the melody.
  • Oasis - Champagne Supernova
  • Oasis - Wonderwall
  • Pantera - F*cking Hostile
  • Pearl Jam - Indifference
  • Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
  • Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
  • Radiohead - Creep
  • Radiohead - Karma Police
  • Radiohead - Lucky
  • Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)
  • The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
  • Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Apache Rose Peacock
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mellowship Slinky
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funky Monks
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Readymade
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - Zephyr Song
  • Rise Against- Ready to fall. A little faster but the chords are all pretty simple.
  • Slipknot - Pyschosocial
  • Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
  • Stone Sour - Bother
  • Stone Sour - Inhale
  • Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
  • The Strokes - 12:51
  • The Strokes - You Only Live Once
  • Sum 41 - Still Waiting
  • Tenacious D - Kielbasa
  • Tenacious D - Tribute
  • Tenacious D - Wonderboy
  • Velvet Revolver - Fall to Pieces
  • Velvet Revolver - Superhuman
  • White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
  • Wolfmother - White Unicorn
  • Wolfmother - Woman
  • Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World
  • Young Rascals - Good Lovin'

[edit] Easy song, difficult solos

  • AC/DC - Back in Black
  • Bullet for my Valentine - Tears Don't Fall
  • Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water: Except for the solo section, this song is very easy, and could be considered "overplayed". Based on G Blues Pentatonic, with G, B-flat, and D-flat as main power chords. Given enough skill, you should be able to sing it and play it.
  • Dio - Holy Diver
  • Cream - Badge
  • Michael Jackson - Beat It: Like many R&B songs, its riff composed of simple power chords and melody line... except the fact that its solo is a chromatic run played by Eddie Van Halen with lots of hammer-on and pull-offs.
  • Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
  • Megadeth - A Secret Place
  • Metallica - Enter Sandman
  • Metallica - Fade to Black
  • Metallica - Sanitarium
  • Metallica - Seek and Destroy
  • Pantera - Domination
  • Quiet Riot - Mental Health

[edit] Intermediate Songs

  • All That Remains - Six
  • Armor For Sleep - Very Invisible Guitar Tab
  • Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended As Lovers
  • Bloodbath - Brave New Hell
  • Buckethead - Jordan (Not the GH2 version)
  • Buckethead - Welcome to Bucketheadland
  • Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face
  • Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
  • Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
  • Coheed and Cambria - Junesong Provision
  • Cream - Crossroads
  • Death - Crystal Mountain
  • Death - Pull the Plug
  • Deep Purple - Highway Star
  • Dethklok - Thunderhorse
  • Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
  • Dragonland - Calm Before the Storm
  • Eagles - Hotel California
  • Ensiferum - Wanderer
  • Firewind - Kill to Live
  • Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
  • Guns N Roses - Nightrain
  • Guns N Roses - Paradise City
  • Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
  • In Flames - Zombie Inc.
  • Incubus - Drive: This uses some complicated, jazzy chords that could be unfamiliar and take some practice. Difficult to sing and play.
  • Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
  • Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus
  • Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
  • Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
  • Iron Maiden - The Prisoner
  • Iron Maiden - Revelations
  • Iron Maiden - The Trooper
  • Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
  • Luca Turilli - Black Dragon
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
  • Megadeth - Peace Sells (But Who's Buying?)
  • Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
  • Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
  • Metallica - The God That Failed
  • Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow
  • Metallica - Orion
  • Metallica - To Live is to Die
  • Muse - New Born
  • Gary Moore - Parissiene Walkways
  • Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
  • Nevermore - Final Product
  • Nile - The Blessed Dead
  • Opeth - Blackwater Park
  • Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Wanna Stop
  • Pantera - Cemetery Gates
  • Pantera - This Love
  • Pantera - Walk
  • The Police - Message in a Bottle
  • Pearl Jam - Alive
  • Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
  • Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
  • Rage Against the Machine - Settle for Nothing
  • Rage Against the Machine - Freedom
  • Refused - New Noise
  • Rhapsody - Rain of A Thousand Flames
  • Joe Satriani - Cryin'
  • Joe Satriani - Love Thing
  • Joe Satriani - Starry Night
  • Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
  • Joe Satriani - Ten Words
  • Slayer - Raining Blood - contrary to how it appears in Guitar Hero 3, the real guitar is easy to play; most of the time it's on the open E note, and just sliding up and down the fretboard on the fifth and sixth string. Just play fast and you will get it.
  • The Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
  • Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  • Sonata Arctica - The Cage
  • Tears For Fears - Mad World
  • Tool - Lateralus
  • Tool - Vicarious
  • Trivium - Dying in Your Arms
  • Trivium - Entrance of the Conflagration
  • Trivium - Light Light to the FLies
  • Trivium - Rain
  • Trivium - Requiem
  • Trivium - The Deceived
  • Trivium - Ascendancy
  • Steve Vai - Frank
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Testify
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tin Pan Alley
  • Van Halen - Humans Being
  • Van Halen - Running With The Devil
  • Van Halen - Somebody Get Me A Doctor
  • Neil Zaza - I'm Alright

[edit] Difficult Songs

  • Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife
  • Avenged Sevenfold - Scream
  • Avenged Sevenfold - The Wicked End
  • Bullets for my Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
  • Buckethead - Binge and Grab
  • Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
  • Children of Bodom - Needled 24/7
  • Children of Bodom - Angels Dont Kill
  • Charles Daniel Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia. This is one of the more versatile songs that is good for a show: some have changed the solos into the riff from "Smell like teen spirit", while Steve Ouimette's version (as heard in Guitar Hero 3) is extremely metal based (and place it under Impossible difficulty). If you want to put your own favor into it, just change the solos. However, always start with similar sections during the solos, and then try to mix the original notes into your own solo.
  • Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
  • Extreme - Mutha
  • Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing: This is extremely complicated, so good luck.
  • Joe Satriani - Always with me, Always with you
  • Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
  • Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills and Far Away: This riff has a difficult hammer-on-to-pull-off section that can challenge, and an irregular part when it switches to the E, but the rest of the song is easier.
  • Slipknot- Pulse of the Maggots
  • Slipknot - Liberate
  • Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
  • Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond the Sun
  • Megadeth - Holy Wars
  • Megadeth - Mechanix
  • Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
  • Metallica - Blackened
  • Metallica - That was Just Your Life
  • Metallica - My Apocalypse
  • Metallica - Master of Puppets Guitar Tab
  • Metallica - The Day That Never Comes
  • Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
  • Pantera - Floods
  • Protest the Hero - Blindfolds Aside
  • Slayer - Angel of Death
  • Slayer - Season in the Abyss
  • Sum 41 - The Bitter End
  • Andy Timmons - A Night To Remember
  • Trivium - Anthem (We Are The Fire)
  • Trivium - A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation
  • Steve Vai - Die to Live
  • Van Halen - DOA
  • Van Halen - On Fire
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan - Rude Mood

[edit] Impossible Songs

  • Chris Impelitteri - 17th Century Chicken Pickin'
  • Symphony X - Rediscovery Part II
  • Symphony X - In The Dragon's Den
  • Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tradegy
  • Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Frettin' Fingers
  • Anal Cunt - Grindcore is very terrifying
  • Bad News - Hey Hey Bad News
  • Avenged Sevenfold - I Won't See You Tonight Part 2 : The Solo
  • Michael Angelo Batio - No Boundaries
  • Jason Becker - Altitudes
  • Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
  • Jason Becker - Serrana: Becker uses complex melodies and sweep picking in many of his songs, and this is a stellar example. You have immense talent if you can play some of Becker's songs.
  • Buckethead - Nottingham Lace
  • Buckethead - Soothsayer
  • Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
  • Cacophony - X-Ray Eyes
  • Children of Bodom - Downfall
  • Children of Bodom - Lake Bodom
  • Dragonforce - Revolution Deathsquad
  • Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames
  • Dragonforce - Operation ground and pound: same reason as above
  • Dragonforce - Heroes of Our Time
  • Dream Theater - As I Am
  • Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity
  • Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
  • Dream Theater - In The Name Of God
  • Dream Theater - Metropolis pt.1 (The Miracle and the Sleeper)
  • Dream Theater - Octavarium
  • JerryC - Canon Rock: A difficult take on the classical piece, involving hammer-on, pull off, and numerous tapping.
  • Koshkin - Usher Waltz: (If Classical Gas is an "impossible" song, then I don't know what describes this piece)
  • Frank Zappa - Inca Roads
  • Eric Johnson - Zap
  • Andy McKee - Drifting: Mckee plays an astounding style of neo-classical guitar, and in this song he combines an open tuning, slapping, an open handed fretting style, and creates self accompanying melody, all on an acoustic guitar. McKee has posted videos of himself doing one take performances of his songs, and they are all amazing.
  • Yngwie Malmsteen - Arpeggios From Hell: As quoted from the video, it used lots of modes and counter points, and is comprised of classically influenced, arpeggio-based runs.
  • Yngwie Malmsteen - Blitzkrieg
  • Megadeth - Hangar 18
  • Pat Metheny - Above the Treetops
  • Protest the hero - Sequoia Throne
  • Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge
  • Necrophagist - Only Ash Remains
  • Necrophagist - Stabwound
  • Nevermore - The Psalm of Lydia
  • Tim Reynolds - Stream
  • Tool - Schism: This song changes time signature 47 times, uses odd and complex time and contains difficult phrasing.
  • Rhapsody - Unholy Warcry
  • Joe Satriani - The Extremist
  • Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
  • Sonata Arctica - Wolf and Raven
  • Anish Nadh - Lie baby lie
  • Slipknot - Left Behind
  • Steve Vai - Blue Powder
  • Steve Vai - Building the Church
  • Steve Vai - For The Love of God: The main concern is that most songs start of slow, but gradually grows more complicated. Furthermore, in the official tab, he used a 7-string guitar; However, in live performance, he used his 6 string JEM; be warned.
  • System of a Down - Question!:The song uses five different time signatures (5/4, 9/8, 6/4, 3/4, and 4/4). The acoustic guitar intro and part of the verse is in 9/8 (3+2+2+2, essentially 4/4 with an extra eighth note on beat 1). The verse briefly switches to 3/4 (when Serj sings "Are you dreaming?"), which allegedly makes the song difficult for even the band to play.[1]
  • Andy Timmons - Groove Or Die
  • Wintersun - Beyond the Dark Sun
  • Wintersun - Winter Madness
  • Mason Williams - Classical Gas: Tempo changes, key changes and difficult picking patterns make this a challenge for almost any guitarist. An excellent "wow" piece.
  • Between the Buried and Me - Colors: album written as one continuous musical piece, various select riffs from this cd are considerably difficult and require a large amount of technical skill and accuracy.

[edit] reference

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