20 Guitar Riffs for Absolute Beginners (with Tabs)

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

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.

I m a complette beginner and i cant play none of these

An absolute beginner has the same chance of playing those as a snowball has of surviving in ther south of hades!

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

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

•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❤.

Otherside and californication are not really good for absolute beginners.

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!!

where was tornado of souls solo?

please use chord charts instead of tabs

liked the cure.

Absolute Beginners

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.

This is not easy

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

Awesome

I’ve been playing for a month and have impressed all my friends with these wow thx dude😅

absolutely IDIOT!!!!!

Wouldn't be easier to put the chords instead of music sheets?

I’ve been playing for a year now and this is great practice since I mostly do fingerstyle. I’m doing these riffs on my acoustic guitar xD this is an awesome video!!!!

OMG I love the sweet dreams song!!!

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

my guitar doesnt want to play this

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

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

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

Can you show some simple trick how to sweep picking

So, I'm embarassed to say this, but here we go.

I'm mostly an acoustic fingerstyle player, and I can play some pretty challenging stuff that way, while not being able to do some relatively simple things on electric with a pick. In particular, whether on acoustic or electric, I suck at simple power chord-based riffs. It seemed to me like "You Really Got Me" was the obvious choice to get better at this; but when sliding up and down the neck between the two chords, I find my power chord shape collapses and my fingers don't stay apart: when I slide up from 355xxx to 577xxx, I end up with 566xxx instead. I can make a power chord easily, and I can pick my fingers up and put them down in a power chord shape easily enough; but if I slide along the neck from one to another, even just two frets, it falls apart. What the hell?

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

А ну ничего так

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

If I ever hear Seven Nation Army again in my life it'll be too soon.

Sweet Dreams is not a Marilyn Manson song 🤦‍♂️ It’s a 1983 song from Eurythmics. Manson just did a new version of it.

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

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

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 😕

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

Fantastic - I knew none of those whatsoever.





Bring on some proper 70’s music

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

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

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.

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)

I for sure can tell that some of these underestimate the beginner's coordination (because i was a beginner and jam with one seldomly), while some were kinda way too easy
But otherwise a nice collection of riffs, they all utilise some techniques one can learn and are nice introduction to some popular bands (i haven't heard of a few myself)
The Killers' All These Things That I've Done is a really great riff, i really liked it (first time hearing it as well) and interesting and not too hard to figure out

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

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