I hear ya. I know it's cliche, but it's what I teach my friends who are curious. And when they get that down I'll play along where I do the vocal parts on guitar and they get really excited about going further. I'm a big Smashing Pumpkins fan, and Disarm and Bullet With Butterfly Wings spring to mind as being pretty easy. Also Crash by Dave Matthews - you basically play the same chord and just change bass notes, those are always fun to me.
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misapplied joke, moes I'm disappointed... those are hardly even chords... they're single notes... You play that in Drop D, right?
Everyone plays power chords. Nobody covering these songs to include power chords, barred chords, or choose how rock musicians write. They are a staple of electric guitar. You are being silly. You can't argue with the way things are, just because you find it simplistic. Music's sort of already been explored and mapped out, and they didn't ask your opinion.
A lot of Radioheads songs are easy to play once you feel a little comfortable. And of course if you like them. I just learned "Go to Sleep" by Radiohead last week.
Back in the day, we always started with single note renditions of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" and Black Sabbath's "Iron Man". Then, we worked our way up to playing it with chords. Then, we maybe tried to butcher the opening to Led Zepellin's "Stairway to Heaven" (as seen in Wayne's World and pretty much why that bit of Wayne playing it in the music store was funny to me anyway as I think each guitarist went through their "Stairway" phase). Everyone I've seen try to play guitar for the first time couldn't play a bar chord worth a crap and could barely strum a simple single note. The fact is the finger muscle and muscle memory just isn't there for brand newbies. They could barely put enough pressure on the fret board to play single notes and let it ring. If moestavern learned all those songs in one day the first day he picked up a guitar, then count me as amazed (but I don't think that is what he is saying).
well i dont play acoustic but first thing i learned on the electric guitar was the seize the day solo awesome solo and not to hard to learn
