The "Easiest" SRV Songs To Learn On Guitar 

Jesus, man. What’s your signal chain? That’s the best tone I’ve ever heard on this channel. And that’s saying a lot, as your tone is always on point.

Lookin' Out the Window 2:50 Love Struck Baby 5:03 Mary Had a Little Lamb 7:32 Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up on Love 10:34 The Sky Is Crying 13:27 Hide Away 16:07

Easy SRV is that a real thing??!!

I'm another SRV fan, SRVs music brought me through a lot of hard times, I appreciate your videos.

I started with texas flood and the sky is crying, now i can't seem to get those out of my playing style

thank you so much for existing on youtube and doing these awesome lessons. I remember about 8 yrs ago when i used to watch all the different guitar teachers on youtube and than when i seen yours i always skipped it cuz i thought it was to advanced to learn but at same time i still new at that you where giving out really good lessons but at that time i wasn't to comfortably familiar with the scales etc, but now i just been listening to srv for past 5 yrs and recently 1 yr ago start listening to it and play guitar at same time tryna figure out what hes doing, than i bounce back to your videos because you do the best lessons of stevie. thanks for sharing all your helpfull info and i hope you never stop making lessons.

I really appreciate your top down video technique. It makes it much easier to see what I see, vs transposing a frontal view lesson and having to think in my mind... "OK, that's an A, 5-7,5-7 on the D and A strings" then doing it and remembering my own sight picture of that happening when I play it.

Thank you for the excelent video. RU-vid is poluted with trick videos of easy riffs, instead of learning full songs. Thank you for the comments and details about why you choose this songs, and what problems i may have. ❤ much love

Great video. As an avid SRV fan, I found that his techniques and habits make a good portion of it when I play his songs. Heavy right hand, Raking hard as you hit a big bend, the speed of bending whether it’s slower or fast. Hard vibrato at the right times. He’s a fun guy to try and emulate

I thing its cold shot. After learn the tecniques its a really easy song. And the solo its easy to get by ear, not so fast and not so many different notes( box 1 almost all the time). And of course life by the drop.

I did the same, learning srv stuff brought me from beginner to advanced in months

Sounding great as always Anthony! Many thanks as I slowly make progress. This is helpful!

Great lesson Anthony and brilliant tone, playing and selection! A true homage to our beloved SRV!🙏🏻

"Change It" should've been #1 on the list. Keep 'em coming!

Awesome video man! And killer playing as always

The way you are showing the guitar neck when playing is the perfect angle for us to see exactly where to be....☝️🎸🤌🎸very cool....

Great coaching here! Thanks so much

Great lesson and excellent SRV tone!

great playing! i enjoy it so much!!

My vote is House is a Rockin. The solo is short and very manageable

Mary had a little lamb was the 1st SRV song I learnt, and which got me into SRV. Saved all the recommendations into one playlist and now it's time to focus and get them down!!!

Awesome video! Thank you!

Beside of your fine teaching - the Sound of your equipment is marvellous - an equal i only have heard from David Grissom in concert but also in several videos here in RU-vid. Many thanks from Zurich, Switzerl.

Great video. Thank you!

Tks great lesson !!

Hey man im always lookin for your free friday txba. Ive been learnin some srv an think this one hit it off. Ive been learnin songs like cold shot, hide away an mary had little lamb. I saved this video an shared it with a couple freinds on facebook messanger. You can bet first chance i get with some time ill be practicein an watchin this video for tips. Thanks Jason McCarty big fan of srv, always have been

I've just learned Texas Flood. It was fairly easy for me (coming from a shreddy background). By easy, I mean I learned the notes fairly easily. Fitting them correctly into the rhythm is taking me a bit longer than I anticipated. "Deceptively easy" is a phrase that springs readily to mind.

Thanks a lot, that's very useful.

I think it is important to understand you don't have to learn the song in full, There is very few songs out there that wont have a few consecutive licks that you can't play. There first "song" I learned was lenny by SRV, The first few seconds of that song I was able to play only having serious issues with the first 2 chords(Don't remeber their name but they are a bit hard on the pinky for me). Its not like I could play it good but I could play it well enough for me to smile from playing something I understood.

I really like this channel. 👊🏼

Awesome buddy 👍🏻 thank you 👍🏻🇬🇧🎸

Nice vibratos man! Congrats from Brazil

i started with Texas Flood cause i figured it was slow and thus easy. lol! I was in for a rude awakening. 10 years later I still don't have it down. Though one i knew it note for note. But i've forgotten it. Lenny was the first one i learned to be able to play at any level of "comfort" and by comfort i mean amazingly mediocre and bad. lol.

I could not relate to a video more when he said this is probs not for beginners but that’s what I did in my first yr of college well I’m in my first yr doing the same 😂

1:40 I am working with limited time. The gravedigger is at the door. This lyric I'm sure will be used in a song. Just send me a check. :-D

I think you should add Willie the Wimp to this list it's got a great rhythm section and the solo isn't to too hard or ultra fast playing. Plus it's a awesome song to play when Vampires are attacking!

... 😊 "no easiest SRV song.. just less difficult..." Exactly what I was thinking when I was typing in the search bar, 'easiest SRV songs to learn' (no such thing) 😊🇵🇬🎸🔥🇺🇸

Wow amazing! Great vídeo! Do u haver a Hideway video lesson?

Pride and joy is relatively easy and it ROCKS

I have been workin on the live version of the sky is crying from Carnegie Hall. have not found a breakdown of that version anywhere yet. You should do a video on the particulars of that version of that song.

nice lesson,ta fella

Great choices Anthony. I was hoping you wouldn’t say Tin Pan Alley, or Texas Flood. Whoa

Awesome... 👍👏

Attempting Say What as your first SRV song was an ambitious endeavor! I still can't get that one down completely. When I started with his style I bought Lightnin' blues 83-87 and just picked out cool licks until I got them down. I started easy and focused on the phrasing, then added more complex licks. I never have played many of his songs note for note, but I have learned to play in his style pretty well. I think this video provides a good starting point for anyone trying to learn the style of SRV. Some of the songs you chose have more value than you may think. For example Ain't gone 'N' Give Up on Love. Anyone that wants to understand SRV has to understand his vibrato and his enormous bag of bending tricks. That song is great to study. Fast doesn't mean a thing unless you have phrasing. I think I would also include Life by the Drop as a simple acoustic song with tons of feeling. It also helps work on the shuffle. Great video! Loved it. And your tone is great. What amp were you using?

What amp / OD you're using? that sound great.

What about Lenny? I started with that one after about 2 years of playing

Awesome pickups😍🤩 what kind of model/name is it? Great videos you made too👍

Great tone! I would say anything hendrix and srv is a hell of a leap of faith as far as “easier” goes. Id say pick a favorite and dive in the deep end. Sink or swim brother. Lenny, little wing, voodoo child, and dirty pool! Facegasms and lifegaurds are not provided ✌🏽 😂

Every SRV song is kinda easy for an intermediate to advanced player. It's the intensity that takes a lifetime to get.

Life by the drop is a good starting point

You are the interpreter of the SRV songs. I am still trying to learn and am still struggling with Pride and Joy, the Electric version. I need help..

Sir could you please do a full breakdown on Telephone Song pretty please I can’t find it anywhere

Thank you I always wanted to learn how to play the intro to Looking Out My Window. Stevie Ray Vaughan was not only a fantastic one of a kind one of a lifetime guitar player but a really great person. That's what makes him great to me. I love Jimmy also I have met him ..He is a real nice guy :-) Do you have Jimmie Vaughn videos?

😂 I’m literally learning red house or should say trying to learn is while trying cold shot , I know I got better in the last 6 months but damn now I see why I’m struggling 😂 I feel much better now

That lick in the solo of love-struck... where he ascends up to the weird a chord.... I use that to test out a guitar.... If I can play that lick on a guitar... I can play anything on that guitar.

14:59 I'll settle just for teaching myself that part alone! :)

Great video! I subscribed because of this. As others have mentioned, Life by the Drop didn't make it to this list?? What's so hard about this song? OH it's played on a 12 which makes it impossible for most electric guitar players! ((:

I would add Matchbox Blues from the In Session with Albert King :))))

Thanks Anthony. That really has given me hope! Out of curiosity when would you rate look at little sister and the house is rocking in your list?

not directly related, but i was just thinking that i wish more youtube guitar guys used the camera set up you do for teaching.

For me the easiest is Empty Arms in the slow / alternative version. Thanks for the tips

Say Anthony, Thank You Thank You Thank You !!

I think some issues with Stevie and similar guitarists is as a beginner there are lots of techniques that you may not learn from instructors, the rakes, the palm muting, the bending. A big hurdle can be the rthym because like in something like Texas Flood or Tin Pan alley, he just hangs on bends and he's constantly bending to specific notes and as a beginner your ear isn't as good. You can't just play the notes in order and sound good. You gotta be aggressive and bend those notes up the right pitch and the tempo has to be right cause the picking might be like slow slow quick slow.

Life by the drop is good also he played it on an acoustic 12 strings.

What pedal are you using?!

These were pretty good choices - Maybe consider Life By The Drop as well (perhaps not on the list because of acoustic guitar or the into riff). There is nothing that is that easy about SRV's rhythm or lead playing

Anthony, in "Lookin' out the window" The tricky intro is different than the SRV videos!!! 🤔

Question. I'm new to your videos--and they are awesome! I know SRV used a strange, and often changing, set of string sizes. My question is, do you use that same SRV 12 or 13s setup, or are you using an out-of-the-package set of, say, 10s?

I got it now, that was a great description. Should be the title of the video. 😝 … just butcher a Stevie rhythm, and muddle through a kind of Chuck Berry like solo. That’s how you play an easy Stevie Ray Vaughan song. 😝🤘🏻🇺🇸🎸 Just messing around, I like parts of these Texas blues videos. 👍🏻🇺🇸 I know they’re more for beginners. But I love picking up little things here and there that I may not have been aware of. Good job man! 👍🏻🎸

If you get the rythyms down, you'll flow right into the solos and you'll open up your own twists.

I probably would have selected Change It over maybe Hideaway

"Tell me" from Texas Flood is a better choice than most you have there - relatively slow and the solo is achievable. I'd agree with " Mary had a Little lamb". Another great choice is "Cold Shot".

Also even though I struggle with Pride and Joy, I think that Life By The Drop was kind of easy for me...

Which version of Couldn't Stand The Weather has Hide Away on it? I have the album, and CD from when it came out and neither one has it.

I have played for many years. Self taught. That is more bad than good in my case. I am trying to learn SRV version of Little Wing. I can do a bit but when he starts shredding I'm lost by the side of the road. I've tired to find something or someone to explain how and what I need to do to understand how to do it. I know most scales and regularly practice playing leads over backing tracks. I can and do use pedals to "fake" sounding like I'm tearing it up but it's all bs. I want to know how to do it note for note. It's become a bucket list thing. A milestone that I've got to reach. He'll I'm willing to pay for lessons, whatever it takes. Does anyone out there in YT land have any advice about where you start. I understand you need to know how much I can do before seeing where I would need to start. I can do anything in LW except the fast parts. I do not understand how to get from where I'm at to being able to play the fast parts. Peace and health.

What’s the most difficult?

I think "I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime) could be added to this list too

Wow. The action on that guitar is 10 feet tall. I know a taller action is needed for those alber king bends but damn. Your fingers are tripping over the strings. 😆

Every once in a while I hit a SRV note. It's rare, but it's a start! Next up, Jimmi

Why do you not use the pointed edge of the pick?

That tone is simply outstanding

Surprised Cold Shot didn’t make the list.

Tick tock from the family style album.

Hello there! I want to play SRV but my hand is 6.9 inches. Can I play SRV like him? Or are my hands too small for this?

What did you go to college for ?

Pride and Joy? Life by the Drop?

Look At Little Sister is fairly easy, too.

Cold shot is the first i learned. Kinda «easy» to understand

Crossfire, Tightrope, they r less difficult as well.

life by the drop should be highest on the list

Im a terrible guitarist.. but i don’t know how, the only SRV song i can play correctly Is Cold Shot!

what the heck are you tuned to?

I think Life by the Drop could be on this list too

Turn off the kemper and just use a tube screamer for us.

9:23-9:26

"Cold Shot", maybe?

Life by the drop is an easy song.

I always thought "I'm leaving you woman" was easiest.

If u can play lookin out the window u can play look at little sister no doubt

Look at little sister is a pretty simple song as well.