20 Guitar Riffs for Absolute Beginners (with Tabs)

[@Theomeandonly]

Been self taught for 6 years and started with videos like this . Just had it recommended to me , the nostalgia 🥲

[@geraldharpe4096]

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

[@potatochips829]

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

[@emuemu8428]

Just keep practicing. Check out stuff like Justin guitar

[@Aries_Alpha]

@@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.

[@TheFairway8]

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

[@heli0s101]

I've been going overboard on chords, learning E's and G's and A's and D's, but I never felt like I was actually making music. I know it's important to get the building blocks solid, but being able to throw in something like this every now and again is not only fun, but it helps with early motivation. Small wins that make you feel like you're making great strides, especially if you can later combine it with the fundamentals. I'll get there eventually, it's just easy to get demoralised - but from what I understand, there's not a single guitar player alive that hasn't been where I was.

[@edreed5571]

Dumb

[@johnmcmonagle464]

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

[@constantinoanaxagorou9907]

Been playing for 2 years now , theory is great but to watch a video and learn something quick and to practice timing and being consistent has been my biggest aid

[@GrizzledNoob]

You and I have a very different definition for "Absolute Beginners". But thank you for the video. I might come back to this one after a few months.

[@salty_3k506]

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.

[@KevinBalke]

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.

[@salty_3k506]

@@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.

[@jasonemmettmyers]

This is what I was thinking!

[@LuisFlores-dn6jt]

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.

[@JimmyCrackKorn]

love videos like these, simple and to the point and easy for beginners to understand

[@titikeeeh2897]

I m a complette beginner and i cant play none of these (Edit: now i can play some of them if i want to)

[@jacksheppard3591]

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.

[@MontyyMTB]

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

[@DRK_sk8]

That’s good

[@DRK_sk8]

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

[@waplanilhas2023]

Kkkkk me tooooo

[@johnerickson4064]

Been playing for more than 20 years and still searching beginner guitar riffs

[@dreamyrhodes]

These videos are the best, no blabla why and what just straight in

[@WWNbroadcasts]

As a bassist who’s gonna learn guitar this helped so much

[@초코칩쿠키-j1x]

1:53 Sweat Dreams 3:02 Symphony of Destruction so cool

[@korpsesh]

ive struggled with progressing since trying to learn chords and this has really brought back my motivation to play, been learning one of these a day, they're good songs and easy to learn in 5-30 mins each. great video!!

[@ton618band]

Hey bro, just checking up - hows your progres going?

[@korpsesh]

@@ton618band it's going really well still, I've learnt almost everything in this video now and I've started learning some more metal songs that I've been wanting to learn

[@patrickryan807]

Y’all stop complaining. These are as simple as it gets!

[@na-fs9ov]

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

[@Tanka.Jaharii]

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

[@yunholover6391]

i bought my guitar in may.. and i haven't figured it out how to play until now... this video is really helpful thank you!!

[@Pwentay]

Progress update?

[@iliketrains3495]

Technically Reptilia is a lot harder than that because he actually strums through the strings and mutes the others (similar to Can't Stop). Other than that, good list, props for including some songs not commonly found on videos like these rather than the same ones over and over again, i.e. Boys Don't Cry, All These Things That I've Done

[@gavinduff7286]

Always one

[@gavinduff7286]

Well "ackchully" 😂😂😂😂

[@KLBoringBand]

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

[@sleal1194]

I just turned 40 yesterday iv always wanted to learn how to play acoustic guitar. I hear it and it easies me soul. Its something im determined to do and maybe my playing will do the same for someone else. I would like to play something when i get better for my wife that could express my love for her.

[@yorgossmak]

Very Helpful video. Thanks a lot Kevin. Greetings from Greece.

[@mr.charity8432]

•RHCP - Otheside •Judas Priest - Breaking the law • The Rolling stones - Satisfaction •The Strokes - Reptilia •Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath • blink-182 - Dammit • Megadeth - Syphony of Destruction • Metallica - Enter Sandman • The Strokes - The adults Are talking • Weezer - Beverly Hils • The killers - all these things that i've done • blink-182 - First date • Rammstein - Rammstein • The Kinks - You really got me • Wheatus - Ternage Dirtbag Thank you for video❤.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Unless it's Hendrix or Trower I don't want to play it . Great Lessons . ✨🇺🇸✨🇫🇴🇨🇦🇺🇸👌

[@MrTesterr]

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

[@АнтонГлебов-ь6д]

Песня Otherside была одной из первых, на которой училась сыгрываться наша кавер-группа. А у Мэрилина Мэнсона я для обучения выбрал Fight Song. P. S.: подборка класс👍

[@danwalter3800]

As a beginner I can say this is a bit beyond but not impossible

[@zendraco]

this has been a great learning session thanks man

[@solojo13]

Love your videos! They're a perfect refresher, as well!

[@bilgyno1]

I've started two days ago, which I think qualifies me as 'absolute beginner'. I'm working on getting the A and D chords now, which is already challenging enough to my 46 year old fingers... This all sounds and looks like it takes a whole lot of practice and at least have way better understanding of the basics. I will revisit stuff like this in a year or so...

[@gilmardessaune4084]

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

[@danielcorral3583]

I just got a guitar and imma learn all of these this is the perfect video I’ve been looking for

[@rockylps]

I just started playing guitar yesterday and this is really helpful thanks!

[@noahm]

If you have to do alternative picking or excessive (or probably any) pull-offs and hammer-one, it’s not “absolute beginner”

[@happy_kiwon]

😅😅😅😅😊😅

[@idinahill4290]

3:02 4:45 2:14

[@sinpie]

I was given a 7 string guitar, and I’m gonna definitely try to learn a bit!

[@pifriz6969]

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

[@Sadion666]

I reccomend Stand up and shout by dio for power chord practice, also Eternal Dark by Picture because it's fairly simple and awesome (as well covered by hammerfall)

[@akmt123]

Excellent, cheers from Canada...

[@arthurgiannakis2156]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't see the intro rythmn riff to Nothing Else Matters by Metallica in this. There is NO fretwork required at all.

[@dramaturgyk4540]

Just saving my favs as time stamps here: 0:30 0:57 1:51 2:13 3:16 3:33

[@yafmaverick]

Can’t believe you forgot the easiest of them all - Rock you like a Hurricane

[@harishprajapati7204]

Wonderful makes me learn faster😁

[@elvsrbad2]

Really awesome, until the end when you said to tell me friends and I remembered I don't have any

[@SirNormando]

I can play all of them. Ive been playing for about a month and have power chords and bar chords down and am honestly looking for stuff to play in e standard since i need new strings lmao

[@STGGX]

Führe Mich by Rammstein is so easy for beginners too.

[@user-dk6bp5dr5d]

Happy new year ,wish u all the best, was wondering if u could play those songs fully ,I d like to learn with these numbers method,thanks so much

[@Uomo-ratto]

1th 0:30 3th 4th 1:20 7th 1:52 9th Manson 2:42 11th 3:00 th 3:17 13th 4:15 16th killers 5:25

[@Mainly-boy-outdoors]

OMG I love the sweet dreams song!!!

[@tomglavinehof1]

Never realized how much “Sweet Dreams” sounds like “Crazy Train”

[@journeystarr]

Sweet Dreams is one of the first songs I learned on guitar and bass

[@Zany_editz]

Seven nation army is by far the easiest imo

[@nexusnix1711]

after like 5-10 min of practice i finnally can do the first one.... in 0.25x Took a break for 1 hour got back to it and learned to do it in 1x in a another 10 min

[@KevinBalke]

Nice, keep it up!

[@AriRoyale]

Thanks! Good job! Regards

[@marcantoine2839]

Merci et bravo Monsieur

[@andresgarib1945]

Thank you!

[@МемнаяКуша]

1. Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple 2. "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts 3. Iron Man by Black Sabbath 4. Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses 5. Back in Black by AC/DC 6. Come As You Are by Nirvana 7. Day Tripper by The Beatles 8. Eye of the Tiger by Survivor 9. Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry 10. Sunshine of Your Love by Cream 11. All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix 12. Wild Thing by The Troggs 13. "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin 14. La Grange by ZZ Top 15. "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison 16. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd 17. Living After Midnight by Judas Priest 18. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love by Van Halen 19. "Black Magic Woman" by Santana 20. Walk This Way by Aerosmith

[@МемнаяКуша]

For part 2

[@FenderFanboy91]

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

[@МемнаяКуша]

@@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.

[@CyclistChris]

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.

[@Magst3r1]

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.

[@Mufassa83]

grad das solo von Megadeath ist für beginner ^^ davon ist nur das ganz kleine stück für beginner

[@LyEight]

someone could please tell me with are the amp settings for Sweet dreams( 1:52 )? I really tried to adjust like sounds in the video but I just got my guitar and I dont understand how amps works yet!!

[@anapaocastro]

thank u so much!!!!!!

[@Therionsylar]

for Absolute Beginners! (who's playing guitar for more than 6 months lol)

[@LeoDowney-z7m]

beginners I first started playing guitar . In the 1990s I was a teenager and at first I've planned and I had a lot of trouble my brother Mike picked up the guitar he was Younger than me by 10 months so really Was not coolpeople were like you're a little brother is a better Guitar player than you. But I thought it was really difficult and then I looked at my cousin who really sucked and he was playing some complicated stuff and I thought man if you could do it I must be able to do it and I sat down and I really spent some time working at it just loading tablets or using tablets or now you guys have KZbin man I wish we had KZbin I spent so much money on guitar world and guitar ,player, magazines ,guitar one, Bass player magazine.. And then I buy tablet books for a lot of different bands a lot of different people everything from Damage plan Guns & Roses. I had all the Alice in Change albums and Guitar Tableture book for each. . Any of you people can learn tablets or in like 1 minute. It shows you the 6 lines representing the 6 strings 0 is just open and then I'll obviously 12345. It's Each Guitar fret as you go up. When it shows you like how many calms to hit each strain you know which 1's to hit for cord and it's really self-explanatory it's easy to learnyou got a million free videos on KZbin competing with each other and also there's a lot of lessons on here it's really mind-blowing I spent all that money on so many books back in the day and my family ended up letting them get wrecked by letting cats p*** on them and or putting them in another room where The roof leaked. Done with a massive rare Kind of book collection because I worked at the time of bookshop and I had all sorts of rare kind of books in there rare back issues with money were handed to me. Including like The first X men with Gambit and a whole bunch of rare collectors special things like the phalanx covenant in special chromium covers. I'm not ADC fan usually but I had the death of Superman a few other things like that the return of Superman. But really I wanted I had almost all of the Lobo books. Even Jace mamoa dot for sure he was gonna get offered the part of robo when he was called in by Zach Schneider for Justice League. Hes the ultimate dude bro man!

[@JAHLife]

How do you get the Tab to show up on screen? What program do you use?? How do you accomplish that?!

[@rysicasd]

From where do you get only drums background to train?

[@Cadee_Motocross]

The powers cords are killing me😭

[@jordanwhiteking]

Can you show some simple trick how to sweep picking

[@mp3311]

thanks for the video! how can i start fingerstyle guitar? where would you recommend to start?

[@VladimirDVN]

Kevin, how you doing backing tracks?

[@ChevelonChristophebelets-ti7yi]

Tanks dude

[@pranavsinghi8870]

Can I do all of these in normal tuning? Or do some require different tuning

[@ls1_cammeroh]

Absolute beginner? Let’s see if I can actually play any of these in a month

[@leonsommerfeldt3256]

Geil danke klingt echt krass bei dir😅

[@rxffzxd5396]

Of all the ones I've seen, this is the strangest way to play Seven Nation Army

[@comradefish9698]

I've been planning to buy this exact guitar

[@andypyper5294]

And ??? No one cares

[@hadespelorios.]

​@@andypyper5294i really really care

[@Highly-grounded]

@@andypyper5294?

[@borky1987]

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

[@unhappy6445]

my guitar doesnt want to play this

[@BillC518]

Which Ibanez "S" model is that? Love that satin natural wood finish!

[@BakedNConfused]

Ibanez S521-MOL

[@andrewviel6651]

I like the songs but the way you did the tabs is frustrating because I can't pause it at the beginning of the rift is part of the end of the old one and then switches to the middle if you could fix that that would be awesome just make it so when I pause it the whole rift I'm trying to play or at least most of it is on the screen instead of the first part disappears and Then You Only got The Middle and Then the end

[@mysticprophecy5395]

Skill issue Also, google the tabs

[@santinogomez3449]

Awesome

[@eeeet3876]

0:18

[@silasschafhauser7288]

I have been playing Guitar for 12 years and my self esteem really is low enough for me to click on this video…

[@SGuitars1903]

Always appreciated

[@daniels5607]

OMG that the guitar I was just looking at lol

[@philipepessoa2042]

All in Standard tune?

[@coreytaylor9940]

Absolute Beginners

[@nikitaus_ru9820]

bro. i play guitar approximately 6 month. And riffs in video is NOT FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. I remember how i see on guitar, when i take her at first time. I think what it rubbish riffs. I fan Slipknot and Rammstein. Right now at 6 month i learned all riffs rammstein. It group for really beginners. RIFFS FOR AMATEURS which take guitar in his hand first time in his life looks like: Ich will (!) Rosenrot (!) Sonne (!) Amour (!) - first song what i played. learn that 3 days for 0 lvl. Benzin (!) Breaking the law (!) - i agree for that Burn it down - solo Dalai Lama Stein um stein (!) Deutchland (!) Haifisch (!) I wanna be your dog Los Links 2 3 4 Mann gegen mann (!) Monster (!) Zwitter ! - its riffs which you will may learn for 1-2-3 days(when you take guitar first time).

[@dublinguitartutor]

my beginners would be a long time learning these

[@MrDeBisschop]

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.

[@dublinguitartutor]

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

[@vulture3874]

What he said...

[@kitty25111]

0:30 0:34

[@doughaines5300]

liked the cure.

[@funkygamer2251]

i know guys that have been playing for 30 years + and they cant do the Sweater Song if their lives depended on it

[@knobgoblin85]

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

[@amilo5]

Technically Enter Sandman with the pinky to let the 7 ring not at easy as it looks.

[@journeystarr]

Easy peasy

[@robinsorensen8867]

You are playing Enter sandman wrong. But other than that, good video.

[@chuckestrada8738]

Been playing guitar since folk music days, other than Satisfaction and the kinks, I wouldn't play any of this shit even on a bet!!!😏

[@ricstormwolf]

If you trill the flat 5 with the 5, you lose the power of the flat 5. It's supposed to make you feel uneasy. Most guitar players use it wrong 😕

[@estd.bruwer2778]

🔥

[@dmnk33]

where was tornado of souls solo?

[@hanafihsb7520]

Gut.

[@CHAS1979]

Smoke on the water???

[@tezzaclark1980]

Jesus, wish I could play these as an absolute beginner! No chance of beginners playing these... Look at work your left hand is doing and that's before your right hand haha... Good video though

[@nelsonic84nelson25]

THE KINKS AND RAMMSTEIN MENTIONED FUCK YEAHH

[@golemmm6969]

you have a strange definition of beginner

[@JesseSauceda]

This is literally beginner songs

[@oryndragon5906]

Its not gonna come so easy…

[@carstenfolsch5100]

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.

[@Robo_bean10]

Just practice

[@leorodesp]

I can only play the first and 4th decently

[@StopTeoriomSpiskowym]

The offspring pretty fly, Electric six gay bar, Afi God colled in sick today, The offspring kids arent alright

[@n1ghtm4re74]

0:57 I thought it was Sanatarium by Metallica at first 😁

[@KevinBalke]

There's a certain resemblance there.

[@lynlouise]

3:16

[@unhappy6445]

i do not found my guitar in the trash to play this

[@jordangibbs8883]

Yeah, the guys in Judas Priest are all beginners, you didnt know that?

[@Jacob_KHDM]

SOMEBODY HELP. I CANNOT FIGURE OUT SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION FOR THE LIFE OF ME. I KNOW THE TABS AND FRETS BUT CANT PLAY ITT. ITS SO ANNOYING

[@na-fs9ov]

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

[@Jacob_KHDM]

@@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

[@na-fs9ov]

@@Jacob_KHDM maybe it’s the rhythm then lol

[@na-fs9ov]

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

[@kjack7770]

1:52 crazy train?

[@mothertrucker7855]

Marylin mansons version of sweet dreams

[@ben-oni]

1 californication 02:41 blink dammit