Easy acoustic songs (no shit teeny Green Day songs). (1 Viewer)

[Born2baplacebo]

Any suggestions? Tried playing The Denial Twist by The White Stripes and it just didn't work on acoustic.

 

[Chris.]

rhcp - road trippin
pink floyd - wish you were here
eric clapton - layla unplugged (might be a little hard)
incubus - stellar or i miss you....acoustic versions around on net sumwhere
foo fighters - times like these acoustic
alice in chains - nutshell

thats all i can think of for now...

 

[katietheskatie]

a lack of color or your heart is an empty room by death cab for cutie

but please don't taint these songs.

 

[A High Way Man]

kansas - dust in the wind

 

[Krazi-tekkaz]

2 awsome classics
niave - the kooks
wonderwall - oasis

 

[Absolutezero]

Depends what your into musically wise.

Folk music has some great acoustic stuff. Check out anything by Simon & Garfunkel or James Taylor. If you can't do the picking patterns, just use the chords and make up your own.

Other artists to check out, and most aren't too difficult would be:
-Ben Lee
-Jack Johnson
-Jose Gonzalez (may be hard)
-The Cranberries
-Nickelback
-Pete Murray
-Oasis

I've tried to list reasonably contemporary stuff. A lot of non-mainstream acoustic stuff can be extremely hard to play: Michael Hedges, Andy McKee, Jacques Stotzem, Don Ross etc.

Finally, try looking at the charts from around 2003-04. They had a lot of of acoutic stuff during that period. Examples:
Behind Blue Eyes ~ Limp Bizkit
Here Without You ~ 3 Doors Down
Broken ~ Seether
These Kids ~ Joel Turner

WIthout knowing your taste in music it is hard to go into further detail. This should give you a good start. Also keep in ming that most songs, unless the relay heavily on effects or distortion, can be played quite effectively on an acoustic.

 

[AsyLum]

Whats wrong with green day songs? I mean they're good starting songs, you're no fucking Malmsteen.

 

[Gavvvvvin]

yeah doesnt get much easier than wonderwall

 

[Krazi-tekkaz]

yea i forgot nickelback...they have some incredible songs.

 

[Gavvvvvin]

lol

 

[Enteebee]

nirvana - something in the way


lolZ!

 

[dieburndie]

good riddance

 

[lgaica]

2 awsome classics
niave - the kooks
wonderwall - oasis

even better ----------> "ooh la" by the kooks

 

[bowman]

everlong
wish you were here

 

[AsyLum]

twist and shout - beatles

 

[all.time.fiend]

a lack of color or your heart is an empty room by death cab for cutie

but please don't taint these songs.

impossible.

to be alone with you - sufjan stevens
memory - sugarcult

 

[bowman]

u gotta tune it down half a step for memory.
its a pain in the ass

 

[DekarTyphon]

yea i forgot nickelback...they have some incredible songs.

yeah, no.

anyways,

eric's trip - behind the garage
vashti bunyan - wayward
mazarin - louise
rick white - strange to be alive
kyuss - space cadet
fraser & debolt - the waltze of the tennis players
lou barlow - caterpillar girl

 

[barling89]

the blowers daughter - damien rice
don't panic - coldplay

 

[AsyLum]

Basically anything you've heard on commercial radio over the past couple of decades.