Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door is an emotionally stirring song with an arresting tune that features an unforgettable down-down-up-up pattern to win over any potential suitors with guitar playing skills. Perfect for beginners as there are no complex chords involved!
Beginning blues players should use this song as an ideal introduction. It uses basic major and minor chords with a slow tempo for maximum learning potential.
All of Me by John Legend
Legend’s performance of his piano ballad “All of Me” at the Academy Awards in February helped further increase its sales; subsequent appearances on network TV programs like Late Show With David Letterman,” Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and Good Morning America on Valentine’s Day helped further its rise; by April, it had reached number one on five airplay charts including Hot 100.
This song from his album Love in the Future marks a new entry into Legend’s repertoire of romantic ballads with its sensual melodies and sentimental sentimentality. Written specifically for his wife Chrissy Teigen and directed by Nabil Elderkin (Kanye West, Frank Ocean and Bon Iver), its black-and-white video showcases romantic flair that has made him one of the biggest wedding dance artists today. Legend is also an accomplished pianist and songwriter and has collaborated with an impressive list of artists over his musical journey!
Fallin by Alicia Keys
This classic love song by Alicia Keys perfectly captures the depth of romantic love. With lyrics that are both emotive and expressive, making this an excellent track for romantic dates or any occasion that calls for music and passion. Additionally, its guitar-and-vocal combination conveys powerful, moving messages.
This song is easy to learn and requires only three chords: C, G and D with an unchanging down strum pattern on every beat. This makes it ideal for beginner guitarists, while its basic pattern can also be applied to many other songs.
Nirvana’s Something In the Way is another straightforward romantic song to learn and perform, using only two basic open chords: Em and C/G with comfortable finger positions. With its slow tempo and traditional strumming pattern, this piece makes an excellent practice tune for beginning guitarists looking to impress their significant other with beautiful renditions of this romantic tune.
Something In The Way by Nirvana
Nirvana remains influential despite Kurt Cobain’s tragic death in 1994; their song Something In the Way from their second album Nevermind recently made an appearance in a major movie release and streaming figures have increased significantly as a result.
Cobain’s voice in this recording is so soft it almost sounds like a whisper, adding to its overall unease. Additionally, there’s an elegant cello that adds another layer to this track’s overall ambience.
This song by the late musician speaks about a young man’s sense that something stands between him and happiness, but he can’t pinpoint exactly what that something may be. Perhaps that explains why its message resonates so powerfully with listeners – it remains one of his best-known pieces ever composed.
Wild Thing by The Beatles
The Troggs likely recorded this song thinking it would just be another “weird little three-chord number”, yet its simple yet irresistibly catchy three-chord rocker has inspired generations of garage musicians, proto-punks, and other nonconformists. While Notting Hill may not rank among The Beatles’s more significant works (that honor likely belongs to Something or Somewhere), but this tune certainly belongs in the canon of crude rock ‘n’ roll music.
It distills early rock and roll’s seductive energy and power into an epic two-and-a-half minute performance that sounds both complex and dirty at the same time.
One of the world’s best-known rock riffs ever written, its chord progression serves as an introduction for new guitar players and is easy to sing along to when out of tune! But did you know that The Troggs’ version actually uses guitars tuned slightly sharp to middle C? While this may be confusing at first, perhaps it could help give their music a punkier sound!