Practice Routine & Songs - Beginner Electric Level 8

Lots of suggestions here to cater for a wide range of people, plus beginner classics that everyone should learn.

Short on time? Maintain your current skills first, then just add one song from this level. If you do that for every level, you’ll have 9 songs that you can play along to the original recording, which would be a huge achievement.

Key practice (5 mins each)

• Legato practice (hammer on flicks offs 2 finger combinations)

• Minor pentatonic scale shape 1 and variation

  -Picking practice

  -Legato practice

  -Different keys

EASY SOLO! Heartbreak Hotel

Riffs and songs in key of A minor

• House of the rising sun

• Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right

• Heartbreaker riff

• We are Scientists

Major pentatonic riffs

• My Girl

• Riff: Fluorescent Adolescent

• Riff: Tennessee Whiskey

C major and A minor scale songs

• Apache

• Walk don’t run

• La Bamba

Slash chords and embellishments

• Hallelujah

• Ticket To ride

• Summer of 69

Beware of perfection when playing classic songs! If you stick with guitar, you’ll be playing and trying to perfect these for years to come, so take it easy. Let your skills develop over time, but these should be learnable from now!

Misc late stage Beginner classics

1. Oasis - Acquiesce or Cigarettes and Alcohol

2. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

3. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

4. The Surfaris - Wipeout

5. (Sitting on) The Dock Of The Bay

6. AC/DC - Highway To hell or Rock N Roll Train

7. House of the rising sun

8. Heartbreak Hotel

9. Smells Like Teen Spirit

10. Helter Skelter