20 Guitar Riffs for Absolute Beginners (with Tabs) 

How do you recommend starting out? Ive got decent at picking but still have trouble strumming and what not

​​@@geraldharpe4096 i recommend Rocksmith i find that it definitely helps

Just keep practicing. Check out stuff like Justin guitar

@@geraldharpe4096 Been playin for 25ish years and my advice with strumming for new players is be confidant, don't be afraid to make a noise. A loose wrist and elbow is also very important take time to figure out the correct amount of pressure to hold your pick between your fingers. I also recommend learning full songs not just bits and pieces. Enjoy your journey man.

I would say concentrate more on strumming than picking when your starting out been playing about 40+ years but what do I know haha😂

Dumb

Keep in there. We've all been there (maybe not Hendrix etc)

slow everything down to a crawl. start without rhythm, just get the notes down for one bar and then try with a metronome at like 80 bpm. the important thing is to always take it slow enough to not make mistakes. speeding up is easy once you have a pattern down but you need to do everything good and not rushing. of course you can't play these riffs at full speed on sight on your first try.

Exactly what @salty_3k506 said. These riffs are very beginner friendly, but you still need to slow them down and learn the pattern first. Even advanced players can rarely skip that first step.

@@KevinBalke only when you're at a really high level but even though most people need to slow down, only the best players can just copy a riff at full speed on sight and slowing down and then speeding up often takes less time than you think so if you slow down first and then speed up when you can play it well at the slower speed, it shouldn't even take that long but never play sloppy, it just slows the process down.

This is what I was thinking!

I play a hand full of these riffs almost every day. Some are harder than others, but it is so satisfying to improve on the harder ones. Me, a complete begginer att it for about a month, to slide up and down the neck for the sweater song more smoothly is great. i still cant play it at the normal tempo, and sometimes mute notes when i dont mean to but a little progress is great.

Dude there are some really basic ones on there. Have you actually tried or are you just frothing at the gash to put something on here? Practice a little. You'll be right. You'll get there.

1st day playing an I can do some already but I have been playing for like 4 hours straight tho

That’s good

You can’t play none which means you can play them all

Kkkkk me tooooo

deadass. most people just expect to play it perfectly first try and without practice.

No seriously, as a beginner I can play most of these but of course it’ll take some practice get them down perfectly. Some people see “beginner” and think that automatically means they can play it instantly with no mistakes smh

Don ´t need to rush. I´m 66 yr old and too beginning. One day better than before you will go ahead.

Always one

Well "ackchully" 😂😂😂😂

He plays the stripped down version over the beginning of the verse basically as the video plays it.

There are so many more bands that are better than hendrix or trower

I have a 6 string and i want a 7 string so bad 😂 I would play only the 7th string forever

😅😅😅😅😊😅

Skill issue Also, google the tabs

And ??? No one cares

​@@andypyper5294i really really care

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You cared just enough to reply to his comment, so... 🤷‍♂️

Ibanez S521-MOL

This is literally beginner songs

Its not gonna come so easy…

It doesn't mean that an absolute beginner could play this instantly, but those are simple enough riffs for beginners to learn. But nevertheless this needs exercise and it will take time until it will sound as fluid as here in this video.

For part 2

The back in black licks in between the main riff can be quite tricky

@@FenderFanboy91 The guitar licks on AC/DC's "Back in Black" can be really hard to master. Angus Young's guitar work on this song is iconic and takes some skill and practice to play accurately.

You think a song like SCOM -which is played across from memory four strings - is a beginner riff? Sure, a learner *could* learn it, but that's not a good starting point. It's a recipe for frustration.

Johnny B. Goode is not beginner friendly at all, I've been trying to master just the intro for months. The speed at which it's played is insane.

my beginners would be a long time learning these

Hmmm I think you're mistaken and just putting beginners on the wrong path. Indeed you can spent 3 whole days on learning the picking part for Deutschland and you'll learn something (+ a lot of fun!), but the riffs in this video teach something about scales/chords.

The riffs are great but I say 1 in a1000 beginners would put I the work required to learn the trickier one here

What he said...

There's a certain resemblance there.

Player of 1 month and roughly learnt it in an hour, what makes it difficult? (This is not intended rudely)

Marylin mansons version of sweet dreams

practice lots. i used to not be able to play 16 mirrors by alex g(fairly easy song) but i practiced and now i can play it

@@na-fs9ov yeah I have been. I can play smoke on the water(ironic) and trust by megadeth which is easy but harder than SoD

@@Jacob_KHDM maybe it’s the rhythm then lol

lowkey no idea what i meant by that. practice makes perfect LMAO

I’m actually an absolute beginner and I can play most of these. Not perfect but friends and family understand the songs attempted.

@@JAHLife Well good for you, but you are an absolute prodigy, the average beginner has more chance of striking a match on jelly!

@@SuperJ333 HAHAHAHA 🤣🤣 thank you for the kind words!!! I sure wish I was a prodigy. I'm just at the 200 hour mark... So not even a year in yet. I try to practice for 60 minutes a day. It's hard for sure. Takes dedication and commitment. Mostly - I wanna smash the damn thing LOL. Also builds patience and restraint LMAO

@@JAHLife Well I only wish I had you as a pupil - I always tell mine there are 3 important things you need if you want to play guitar, and in order of importance they are: practice, practice, and practice. There's no such thing as achievement without effort, or progress without sacrifice, and there's no secret and no shortcuts - of course intelligent and properly structured practice helps, but basically you just have to put the time in. So, 60 minutes a day is totally awesome - you're going to be good - but most people's lives don't permit that, and they'd be 2 years down the line before they're anywhere near you - in fact most sessions start with people telling me "I'm sorry but I've not had a lot of time to practice because...whatever" by which they really mean I haven't picked my guitar up since the last lesson! One guy said he didn't have a guitar so could he just borrow one of mine for the lesson - as if you can learn anything in an hour a fortnight - it's exactly the same as learing to swim or riding a bike - it's just muscle memory, and nobody can teach you how to do it, you have to teach yourself. So what I usually say is don't put the guitar away, get a guitar stand and keep it by your favourite chair, with a tuner and a capo clipped on the headstock, and a pick wedged in the strings. Then, while you're waiting for your coffee to cool, pick it up for a couple of mintes - when the adverts come on, hit mute and pick it up for a couple of minutes - while you're waiting for eBay customer services to call you back, pick it up - there's a good practice session for a start! If you wait 'till you have half an hour free, it won't happen, so little and often is the best way to re-program your brain, which is what you're actually doing. However, for most people there's a problem with teaching themselves on line, because they don't know how to structure their own learning, and they end up missing out important foundational stages, which becomes a problem later on, so that's how I see my role, not so much as a 'teacher' but as a guide, an advisor, a guitar consultant if you will - and an encourager, of course, because you will almost certainly become discouraged. Learning isn't a smooth curve, it's more like a series of steps - you seem to be getting nowhere, then you break through, and that's great, but then you plateau again before the next breakthrough. In the meantime you think you're not learning anything or making any progress, but you are - it's what's called a continuous process, operating discretely. You fall off the bike every day, and you run out of Germoline, and you want to give up, but then one morning you get up and you can ride the bike - what happened - nothing, you were learning all the time you were falling off, and now you've broken through - and the muswcle memory you've programmed is permanent - it might get a bit rusty if it's not used, but it's still there - once you can swin you'll always be a swimmer - and the same is true of guitar, so be encouraged - it's worth the effort. So, keep up the good work, but there's no rush - you don't have to turn into an obsessed guitar geek - yoiu've got a life too, and if you haven't, then get one, or you won't be happy! Tske care.

no, actually!! bc most of them are, like, fingerstyle so sometimes it's just single notes and not chords!!

yes it is? I’m a beginner and I can play them just fine.

@@jackowhacko87 Good for you. Some beginners can't play it, like me.

While chord charts won't help with learning the riffs in this particular video, I've started uploading a few new videos focusing on chords, chords charts and strumming patterns.

I just started and i can play all of this bro, keep practising and youll get it!