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Easy Classical Guitar Songs And Pieces

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Classical guitar is an interesting instrument to learn. The process of graduating from struggling to get your right hand fingers coordinated for playing bass, melody and accompaniment together will keep you enjoying your guitar practice for a long time. Not that it takes that long before you are playing easy classical guitar songs.

In centuries past, what we identify as classical was the only guitar style that existed. Whether it was accompanying songs or playing instrumentals, the music that was the product of strumming and plucking the guitar strings inspired composers to write easy songs and pieces that could be played on classical guitar.

You don’t need to confine yourself to classical guitar songs and pieces in your repertoire, there are many arrangements of modern tunes for classical guitar. Apart from the classical guitar versions of songs by The Beatles which have been around for many years, classical guitarists have posted on YouTube videos of their arrangements of songs like Stairway To Heaven for classical guitar. The videos often provide a link to the tab for the tune so you don’t have to learn it by ear.

One of the most popular easy classical guitar songs is Blackbird by The Beatles. Everybody loves to play it and audiences love to listen to it. But there are easy songs and tunes from all ages that you can play after a few months of learning classical guitar. You can even find anthologies of easy classical guitar pieces such as 50 Easy Classical Guitar Solos by Jerry Willard. This book contains pieces from all periods of musical history written in standard musical notation and in tab form.

There are also collections of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach like Sarabande No. 1 and Musette in D Major that are surprisingly easy for beginners to play. Also there are well known anonymous pieces like Packington’s Pound, Nonesuch, Kemp’s Jig.

The best thing about learning easy classical guitar songs is that many are beginner-friendly pieces that will yield great satisfaction without being difficult to play.

Here is a video from Swedish guitarist, Per-Olov Kindgren playing Stairway To Heaven. This is not what I would call an easy arrangement but I couldn’t resist it.


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  1. Acoustic Guitar Solos From Beatles Classics :: Fingerpicking Beatles :: August :: 2009
    August 25th, 2009 @ 11:10 pm

    [...] may even have heard this song played as an acoustic guitar solo. Ever since the early seventies, songs by The Beatles have made popular guitar solos for guitarists who have decided to give their guitar playing a [...]

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