Simple Guitar and Vocals Songs

[iudas]

I've recently started honing my terrible voice and singing. I've covered some Bob Dylan, Beatles, a little Pink Floyd, Led Zep (Stairway) and some other trash, and now I want something different. Can anyone recommend some simple guitar and vocals songs that I could practise? I'm a beginner voice-wise but not a complete beginner in terms of guitar. I like folk rock, blues, classic rock, generally 60s and 70s stuff.

[Alba gu Brath]

Damien Rice - Hallelujah

[Flogger]

Damien Rice Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

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[Alba gu Brath]

Fixed.

Damien Rice also done a version of it.

[EireEmerald]

Fixed.

Damien Rice is ing amazing.

here is the first song I learned and played on guitar. simple.

[Alba gu Brath]

Damien Rice is ing amazing.

Exactly!

[EireEmerald]

One of the greatest poets of the 21at century.

[Reynolds]

Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah is amazing but it would very challenging for a beginner

Space Oddity - David Bowie (just ignore the effects, i prefer it acoustic anyways)

Lua - Bright Eyes (Heck anything from the album I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning)

Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron And Wine

Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath

Yesterday - John Lennon

Wild World - Cat Stevens

Lost Art of Murder - Pee Docherty

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

Molly's Chamber - Kings of Leon

Why Not Smile (Alternate Version) - REM

Cannonball - Damien Rice (It's not NEARLY as complex as it sounds)

Sister Morphine - Rolling Stones

Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Wasting My Time - The White Stripes

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin (If the arpeggios are too difficult just strum the chords)

You can simplify nearly any classic rock song into just powerchords so there's a ton of stuff you could do there

[Copperknickers II]

House of the Rising Sun, if you haven't already done that. Not really sixties or seventies, but very bluesy.

[ivan_the_terrible]

Fixed.

Jeff Buckley's vocals are not for begginners!

I suggest something by Cat Stevens. Where Do the Children Play is a good one.

[Flogger]

Fair play then. I don't have anything against Damien Rice, but in my honest opinion the Jeff Buckley version is superior. Although the Rice version is probably more suitable for a beginner.

Wonderwall is pretty good to play. There's not a single guitarist I know who doesn't know those chords.

[IMPERATOR_5]

Try this. Many bands from the 60s covered this song, the more famous bands being The Troggs and the MC5.

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[ivan_the_terrible]

Fair play then. I don't have anything against Damien Rice, but in my honest opinion the Jeff Buckley version is superior. Although the Rice version is probably more suitable for a beginner.

Wonderwall is pretty good to play. There's not a single guitarist I know who doesn't know those chords.

Oh I agree entirely. It's not often that a cover is better than the original, but Buckley's rendition is. The thing is though, his vocal range is (well, was...) unbelievable. And there's fingerpicking involved, so it's not really the best for a begginner.


Btw, my favourite versions of that song are Buckley (best vocals & intrumental), Cohen (best lyrics, imo), Cale (piano is nice) and Rice, in that order.

[.Socrates]

[Ian Altano]

What about Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes?

[Ter]

Neil Young and Oasis both have relatively simple stuff. (Actually in terms of chord progressions I think they seem to write quite similarly too)