Easy Acoustic Guitar Tabs

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For beginning guitarists, some of the most helpful tools to get them up and running are easy acoustic guitar tabs. Many people come to the guitar without any formal musical training. In fact, many of the most famous guitarists in history like Eddie Van Halen and Eric Clapton were self-taught on the guitar. The marvelous invention of tablature can help modern beginning guitarists learn how to play simple versions of their favorite songs without ever having to learn how to read music. Combined with the even more marvelous invention of the Internet, finding easy acoustic guitar tabs for beginners has never been easier. The following resources will take you to some of the best sites online to find simple versions of some of the most popular songs in music today.

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Where to Find Easy Acoustic Guitar Tabs

  • Tabs 4 Acoustic: This British website features over 100 acoustic guitar tabs for the beginning guitarist. Full lyrics are also provided for every song, and the site even provides a metronome and an online guitar tuner. New songs are added every month, and some of the recent additions are Nutshell by Alice in Chains, Diary of Jane by Breaking Benjamin, and Driven Under by Seether.
  • Guitar Noise: Guitar Noise is a blog style website that lists an impressive collection of simple guitar tabs for the beginning guitarist. Some of the songs provided are Three Marlenas by The Wallflowers, Margaretville by Jimmy Buffet, House of the Rising Sun by The Animals, If Not For You by Bob Dylan, and Happy by the Rolling Stones.
  • The Guitar Player's Toolbox: The Guitar Player's Toolbox provides easy guitar tabs for some of the most popular songs rock and folk songs ever written. Classic hits by such legendary acts like AC/DC, The Beatles, Coldplay, The Doors, Nirvana, Oasis, REM, Bruce Springsteen, U2, The White Stripes and many more can be found here.
  • Learn Acoustic Guitar: Learn Acoustic Guitar is a website that provides a top 20 list of easy to learn guitar tabs. All of these songs are certified perfect for the beginner. Unlike many sites, this one also embeds videos of people playing these songs to help you find your way through them even easier. Some of the tracks that made their list are Wild Thing by The Troggs, Redemption Song by Bob Marley, Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, Free Fallin' by Tom Petty, and Working Class Hero by John Lennon.
  • Guitar Music Tabs: Guitar Music Tabs provides a searchable list of easy acoustic guitar tabs. Some of the most popular searches on this site include tabs for Led Zeppelin, Nickleback, AC/DC, Metallica, Green Day and My Chemical Romance.

Print Resources

For those of you who are more comfortable having your tablature presented in book form, the following publications are designed for the acoustic guitar player who is interested in easy tabs.

  • Ultimate Easy Guitar Collection: Songs by The Band, America, Kiss, Elton John, Thin Lizzy and more are can be found in this excellent volume of easy guitar tabs.

Other Tips for the Beginner

If this is your first time trying to learn how to play guitar tabs, please take a minute to explore some of the other resources at LoveToKnow Guitar to make sure you can understand tabs completely. Tab isn't particularly difficult to understand, but like any transcription system, there are certainly tips and tricks that you should understand before you start to play.



 


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