When you are learning to play the guitar, you don’t want to spend all of your time just playing three different songs. But finding enough songs when you don’t know more than a few chords can be tough.

To help you out and to add a bit more variety to your playlist, here are 10 great tracks you can play even as a novice.

1. Elvis Presley – Hound Dog

Elvis Presley has a number of simple tunes you can learn to play, but ‘Hound Dog’ is among the best.
You’ll only need to learn the chords A, D and E to play this song. You can also start slow and pick up the tempo as you get more used to the chords.

2. Dire Straits – Walk of Life

The classic Dire Straits hit is quite a fun song to play on the guitar. It’s also simple and you don’t need to play it as quick right from the start.

There are quite a few ways to arrange the song for a guitar and you can find the best version for your skills from the online tab websites. Try a few different arrangements first, as some might be easier than others.

3. Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line

‘I Walk the Line’ is an easy song for guitar novices and it’s extremely fun to play as well! It uses basic chords like E and A, but you can also practice notes like E7 and B7 with this classic.

4. The Kingsmen – Louie Louie

The Kingsmen’s classic song only uses these chords: A, D and G5. Just master them and play them in the following order: A, D, G5 and D. Rinse and repeat!

It couldn’t get much simpler than this.

5. The Beatles – Twist and Shout

When it comes to guitar songs, the Beatles have probably produced the most for us to play. The songs are relatively easy to learn and the melodies simple enough to remember, even if you haven’t listened to them a lot in the past.

Twist and Shout is a nice little song to play on the guitar. You can make all sorts of renditions of it – either play it quicker or slower.

6. The Troggs – Wild Thing

‘Wild Thing’ solo just uses two chords: G and A. The verses aren’t much more difficult either, as you just need to play A, D and E.

It’s one of the easiest songs to learn also because the tempo is a common one to follow. If you know the rhythm, this song is easy to master.

7. Gary Jules – Mad World

The Gary Jules classic is a simple song to conquer on the guitar, mainly because of its slow tempo. You’ll also need to learn just the most basic chords of Em, D, A and G.

Below is a nice live rendition of the song.

8. The Fray – How to Save a Life

There are some newer songs that can be easy to play on the guitar and the Fray song ‘How to Save a Life’ is one such hit. Although the song originally uses the piano as the key instrument, it sounds beautiful as an acoustic guitar version as well.

You can find some great arrangements online to add this song to your practice sessions.

9. Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time

Quite surprisingly, turning this Britney Spears classic into a simple acoustic version simplifies the tune a lot. It becomes very easy song to play on the guitar.

The tune is simple enough to remember and you can even practice singing while you play! You can take inspiration from this Ed Sheeran rendition.

10. Pearl Jam – Black

If you want to add a bit more rock to your guitar sessions, try the Pearl Jam song ‘Black’. It is a bit more complicated to some of the songs above, but you don’t need to know too many chords in order to play it.

You just need to practice E, Asus2, A, Em, D and C and you are almost there.

Try adding the above songs to your guitar lessons to change the playlist a bit and make practice sessions a bit more fun.