0:00 1. Time of Your Life - Green Day (Beginner) 0:11 2. Everybody Hurts - R.E.M (B) 0:25 3. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton (B) 0:38 4. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers (B) 0:49 5. House of The Rising Sun - The Animals (B) 1:01 6. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (B) 1:11 7. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling (B) 1:23 8. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (B) 1:35 9. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac (B) 1:46 10. Every Breath You Take - The Police (B) 1:58 11. Dust in the Wind - Kansas (Beginner-Intermediate) 2:09 12. Freight Train - Elizabeth Gotten (B-I) 2:20 13. Dear Prudence - The Beatles (B-I) 2:29 14. Is There Anybody Out There? - Pink Floyd (B-I) 2:44 15. Naked As We Came - Iron&Wine (B-I) 2:56 16. Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Intermediate) 3:05 17. Guaranteed - Eddie Vedder (I) 3:18 18. Yesterday - The Beatles (I) 3:28 19. Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton (I) 3:41 20. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who (I) 3:52 21. Fire and Rain - James Taylor (I) 4:06 22. Shape of My Heart - Sting (I) 4:17 23. Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Bob Dylan (I) 4:31 24. Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard (I) 4:41 25. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (I) 4:54 26. Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel (I) 5:04 27. Don't Know Why - Norah Jones (I) 5:16 28. Old Pine - Ben Howard (I) 5:30 29. Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Yip Harburg (I) 5:42 30. The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel (I) 5:49 31. Why Georgia - John Mayer (I) 5:59 32. Homeward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel (I) 6:08 33. Oh Susannah - James Taylor (I) 6:20 34. Blackbird - The Beatles (I) 6:30 35. More Than Words - Extreme (I) 6:41 36. Street Spirit - Radiohead (I) 6:52 37. Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac (I) 6:59 38. Toulumne - Eddie Vedder (I) 7:12 39. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles (I) 7:22 40. Julia - The Beatles (I) 7:31 41. Stop This Train - John Mayer (Intermediate-Advanced) 7:42 42. Going to California - Led Zeppelin (I-A) 7:51 43. Nothing Else Matters - Metallica (I-A) 8:01 44. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin (I-A) 8:11 45. What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong (I-A) 8:32 46. Angeles - Elliot Smith (I-A) 8:43 47. Hey Hey - Eric Clapton (I-A) 8:55 48. Signe - Eric Clapton (I-A) 9:05 49. Neon - John Mayer (Advanced) 9:10 50. Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (A) 9:21 51. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys (A) 9:32 52. Never Going Back - Fleetwood Mac (A) 9:43 53. Papa George - Tommy Emmanuel (A) 9:54 54. Ruby's Eyes - Tommy Emmanual (A) 10:05 55. Classical Gas - Mason Williams (A) 10:16 56. Mister Sandman - Chet Atkins (A) 10:27 57. Big Love - Fleetwood Mac (A) 10:35 58. One Day - Martin Taylor/Tommy Emmanuel (A) 💜 10:49 59. Embryonic Journey - Jefferson Aeroplane (A) 11:00 60. Haba Na Haba - Tommy Emmanuel (Advanced) Annyeong haseo 👋☺️ ✨I'm a BTS fan✨ 💜You nice, keep going💜
Your Blackbird is not quite right. theres a strum to it with the fingertips in between picking the main elements, not just the forefinger hitting the B string. Mostly in the verses but also at other times
@yberez It has no complex rhythm, it's 4/4. Syncing is not an issue for a guitar player unless you're shredding. Right hand picking pattern in Neon is not tougher than his other songs that include Slap+note picking. Chords arent as tough as Who Says, Stop this train, Why Georgia either. Lol I'm pretty sure you're trolling who's just a listener and never tried to either learn Neon or any other JM song for that matter. It is not John Mayer's toughest song, beginners have overhyped it in the video comments and you are following it blindly.
I don’t know but it seems everybody always forgets about Jenny Wren by Paul McCartney, it’s like the blackbird 2.0 but a lot harder since there are a lot more chord changes, hammer ons, and pull offs on that song compared to blackbird plus it’s a really beautiful sounding song where the guitar itself could sing the lyrics to you like here comes the sun or while my guitar gently weeps.
Most guitarists are so used to the squeaky finger-slide noises between notes/chords that they don’t notice. A non-guitarist pointed this out to me and so I started playing more carefully. It sounds so much better. Now I notice when anyone else does it. These are some great tunes and they’re otherwise played brilliantly. 👍🏻
Bro if you’re playing a sad song 100% keep those squeaks in. I’m a noob at guitar but I always heard them and my friends agree they somehow make sad songs better. Something idk
I feel the same way. But I can help but just ask why theres nothing on here from Nivk drake. I still feel the same way I hate being that guy I cant help it
4:40 Wow. I’ve never seen a Ben Howard song on one of these top acoustic guitar song videos. The guy is just so underrated. Thank you for recognizing and featuring a Ben Howard song !! 🙌🏽🙌🏽
It’s amazing how different people learn different songs faster. Like I learned big love and I’m still trying to get my hear around never going back again and land slide
The Fleetwood Mac made my heart so happy🥰 Lindsay Buckingham is one of the most underrated guitar players of all time. That man is amazing...also LOVE Going to California-LZ, my favorite song by them. Great list 👏👍🏼
I'd go for underacknowledged/appreciated with this guy.w Only when attempting to play his stuff does it become very apparent.I find even his 'simpler stuff such as Landslide can be slightly...uncomfortable, in contrast to say Harrisons 'Here comes the sun' for example,which is extremely enjoyable to play; when mastered but seemingly complex at first.No middle ground with Lindsey lol.Mans a musical mathematician.
@@lifeisshortdontwasteitread2830 Oh honestly? Learn any song you want to play but if you want to learn a certain technique, include at least 30 minutes of practice in your Daily playing. Just do the thing you want to learn and Focus on that. Don't focus on learning just one song in which you need to use that one technique. You'd learn a song but wouldn't get the overall ability. I realized that when I started learning Dragonforce- Through the Fire and Flames. Almost forgot: Always use metronome when training
@@lifeisshortdontwasteitread2830I used to think the same way you do. Believe me that if you'd start using metronome, you'll definitely change your mind about being "pretty good rhythm wise". I speak mostly about using it, when you PRACTICE. That is because most people tend to change the tempo during excercise, without even knowing it and it really makes it more difficult, frustrating and makes your progress coming way slower. Want to know how to use it? With a song: google its title and add "bpm" That's it. During training: Set your speed for the excercise and when you're okay in a certain tempo, then speed the metronome up a little bit. The essence of the metronome is that it should sound with your guitar like it was an additional percussive instrument playing along with you.
To anyone starting out or maybe only a year or two in, don't obsess about how difficult something you can play is. It overall makes playing less enjoyable, if you're intermediate and you wanna play a beginner level song cause you love it, go ahead. Likewise if you're a beginner but you want to play a difficult song, try it out and if you can't do it just come back later when you've honed your skills a bit more or perhaps find an easier version to learn. You're gonna have a lot more fun if you learn songs based on how much you enjoy them. Nobody likes the person who goes "I just learned a song meant for someone way better than I should be" and likewise, to anyone already good at guitar don't say anything belittling to someone worse than you. They may look up to you for being a better player and if you say something mean that could ruin instruments for them for a long time.
this guy is awesome!!!i actually learned to play 'BIG LOVE' with his lessons,and it's all for free he deserves hell of a lot more than 50k, you r epic,keep it up man !!! thank you
It's funny, I've learned lots of difficult guitar parts over the years including classical stuff and, when I first heard Angeles, I instantly fell in love with the song and I was pretty sure it wouldn't be that difficult to play. How wrong I was! It took me quite a while to get that picking pattern down and then to get it up to speed. Well worth it though..
And there are a looot of Elliott songs that should be in this list like The White Lady Loves You More, Tomorrow Tomorrow or Somebody That I Used To Know
Hes not very well known but Bruce Cockburn is probably the most underrated guitarist out there... train in the rain and foxglove are amazing songs all played without a pick (and if you believe it only one guitar)
This man is the real deal! The only person on youtube I've found that actually plays and teaches the songs as they're played on the recordings! Huge thank you!
Exactly, I had tears in heaven down within 3 months of starting, and 12 months later I still think it was a million times easier to learn than landslide
I can't say I ever thought of Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love" as a top fingerpicking song. Or a top song, for that matter. But I am glad you included FM's "Landslide" and especially "Never going back again," a great but often overlooked tune.
I have a feeling that your RUclips channel will surely succeed, so my heart is full. As the algorithm introduced, I just looked down and saw your video. RUclips seems to be a backpacking trip and long-distance marathon to go far and far alone. I didn't know that your video was very good until I met your video. Your video shines so beautifully, but it's a pity that you can't easily meet it without the RUclips algorithm. even after a long time I will remember your video deeply in my heart. The RUclips world feels like running into a rough field. I think I met your video at the end of that hill where a rainbow more brilliant than jewels lives. The moment I watched your video, the first feeling was very good. I did. I think you will be happy in the morning because of your video today. It is a feeling that you will surely achieve the dream you want to wake up to in the huge RUclips world. After watching your video, thinking about it now, your video came to the depths of my heart and instilled emotion and happiness in me. As you have worked hard for your dreams, I hope that your channel will gradually develop and become a very big channel. I am not lonely and I am so happy that I happened to watch your videos in the endless universe-like RUclips world.
Sultans of swing, Have you ever really loved a woman, love in vain, Midnight in Harlem, Change the world, Wish you were here, Shine on you crazy diamond. Etc, etc, etc,
I'd like to mention that 'house of the rising sun' as arranged by the animals is played with a plectrum! And that you haven't played the notes in the right rhythm! The ascending part of the arpeggio is played faster than the descending. For a real fingerpicking version of house of the rising sun check out dylan or van ronk's version.. Cheers
Perhaps the only list in the world to include both 'Somewhere over the rainbow' and Elliott Smith! A great list - thank you. Right, back to practising Southern Belle (in my dreams).
Because it is. Learn to play it and you'll see. People hype Neon a lot. So everyone else follows it as well without even trying to play it. Neon is not tougher than Classical Gas or even Who Says by John Mayer himself. I know how to play all these songs. Who Says took me 3 months to perfection. It has more thumb chords, tougher riffs, harder to master strumming technique. Neon's main riff which people hype so much took me 2 weeks to get clean with. Neon is mostly hyped by people who actually never tried learning it. Unpopular opinion.
Neon is an easy song at least for me since I am familiar with the idea of only using index finger and thumb you just need to practice chord changes and I believe you can do it with one day of practice
Lots of my favs in there... I'm wondering what your criteria are for Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced. Some of the "Beginner" ones looked harder than some of the "Advanced" ones - at least for me.
Just discovered this channel and great video! Love how you’ve managed to start from the easiest to the hardest fingerpicking songs to play! Now I can learn more songs to choose from this list! Thanks man! 👍
That's a very decent list, Well done. However Dust in the wind (And other songs) is not beginner-intermidiated, it's even tougher than many other intermidiate songs on the list due to it's speed.
Thanks. I've used your Blackbird and Fast Car to begin learning finger picking. There were a LOT of these songs that I look forward to learning. I guess with Tommy Emmanuel near the end, these must be ordered easy to hard. Thanks for that, too. I like your style of teaching and playing. Wish I had found you sooner.
Been playing a little over 6 months and my first song of choice was "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You." I think any song is a beginner song if you're driven enough to learn it. :) (Of course I don't sound as great as Paige or Justin Derrico). Either way, this playlist/medley is super inspiring and I want to play all of them.
John Fahey? There's some good non-standard tuning stuff of his, and some really intricate and beautiful standard tuning stuff (yellow princess comes to mind). Drop D too, when springtime comes again.
great channel , i am gonna start learning these songs , i was surprised though , not a single one of the great Mark Knopfler , at least Romeo & Juliet !!! good job
Yes it is great... but I can not spend money on tutorials so it is always sketchy to find some well skilled teacher like yourself for free... thanks for the free tutorials...
Great video. I was hoping for some Martin Simpson at the end. He is fantastic but not as well known as the majority of the artists on the video. Well worth a listen.
All faberge egg-grade tunes,impeccably executed.I would have placed John Raymond's 'Lay me down' in there, the one sung by Crosby and Nash which is insanely overlooked.You got me inspired with Rhiannon.Sounds incredible on an acoustic and quiet eery when 'Never going back again' was tackled exactly at the...''l wonder if he'll do nev'' ?....point.
Landslide is great because it's basically a beginner, intermediate, or advanced song depending on how you play it. Verse and basic version of chorus = beginner Learn to play the chorus the way Lindsey Buckingham does = intermediate Learn to play the live solo version = advanced
I guess you could take any song ever written, pick it finger style and call it a top [insert number here] finger picking song of [insert date range here].
Yeah, I know I missed this song and that song... but I'll teach your favourite fingerpicking song if you just ask nicely.
I think you should consider putting up some Tommy Emmanuel tutorials up. There is not enough out there
I would love to learn Hey You by Pink Floyd. I've seen someone fingerpick it before and it sounds really nice.
Wonder wall and smoke on the water
@@slightlyinsaneartisticmeme5875 He said nicely.
Skullk1ng 0 please?
0:00 1. Time of Your Life - Green Day (Beginner)
0:11 2. Everybody Hurts - R.E.M (B)
0:25 3. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton (B)
0:38 4. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers (B)
0:49 5. House of The Rising Sun - The Animals (B)
1:01 6. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (B)
1:11 7. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling (B)
1:23 8. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (B)
1:35 9. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac (B)
1:46 10. Every Breath You Take - The Police (B)
1:58 11. Dust in the Wind - Kansas (Beginner-Intermediate)
2:09 12. Freight Train - Elizabeth Gotten (B-I)
2:20 13. Dear Prudence - The Beatles (B-I)
2:29 14. Is There Anybody Out There? - Pink Floyd (B-I)
2:44 15. Naked As We Came - Iron&Wine (B-I)
2:56 16. Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Intermediate)
3:05 17. Guaranteed - Eddie Vedder (I)
3:18 18. Yesterday - The Beatles (I)
3:28 19. Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton (I)
3:41 20. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who (I)
3:52 21. Fire and Rain - James Taylor (I)
4:06 22. Shape of My Heart - Sting (I)
4:17 23. Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Bob Dylan (I)
4:31 24. Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard (I)
4:41 25. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (I)
4:54 26. Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel (I)
5:04 27. Don't Know Why - Norah Jones (I)
5:16 28. Old Pine - Ben Howard (I)
5:30 29. Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Yip Harburg (I)
5:42 30. The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel (I)
5:49 31. Why Georgia - John Mayer (I)
5:59 32. Homeward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel (I)
6:08 33. Oh Susannah - James Taylor (I)
6:20 34. Blackbird - The Beatles (I)
6:30 35. More Than Words - Extreme (I)
6:41 36. Street Spirit - Radiohead (I)
6:52 37. Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac (I)
6:59 38. Toulumne - Eddie Vedder (I)
7:12 39. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles (I)
7:22 40. Julia - The Beatles (I)
7:31 41. Stop This Train - John Mayer (Intermediate-Advanced)
7:42 42. Going to California - Led Zeppelin (I-A)
7:51 43. Nothing Else Matters - Metallica (I-A)
8:01 44. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin (I-A)
8:11 45. What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong (I-A)
8:32 46. Angeles - Elliot Smith (I-A)
8:43 47. Hey Hey - Eric Clapton (I-A)
8:55 48. Signe - Eric Clapton (I-A)
9:05 49. Neon - John Mayer (Advanced)
9:10 50. Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (A)
9:21 51. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys (A)
9:32 52. Never Going Back - Fleetwood Mac (A)
9:43 53. Papa George - Tommy Emmanuel (A)
9:54 54. Ruby's Eyes - Tommy Emmanual (A)
10:05 55. Classical Gas - Mason Williams (A)
10:16 56. Mister Sandman - Chet Atkins (A)
10:27 57. Big Love - Fleetwood Mac (A)
10:35 58. One Day - Martin Taylor/Tommy Emmanuel (A) 💜
10:49 59. Embryonic Journey - Jefferson Aeroplane (A)
11:00 60. Haba Na Haba - Tommy Emmanuel (Advanced)
Annyeong haseo 👋☺️
✨I'm a BTS fan✨
💜You nice, keep going💜
stob it!!💜
MVP!
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thanks 😊
Your Blackbird is not quite right. theres a strum to it with the fingertips in between picking the main elements, not just the forefinger hitting the B string. Mostly in the verses but also at other times
He shouldve put "john mayer" as difficulty the for neon
HAHAHAHAHAHAH this HAHAHA
@@dreadnoughtguitarist5394 He has a full tutorial for the entire song, intro, chorus etc. He plays the entire thing there.
@yberez No it's not.
@yberez Do you actually play it or its RUclips comments by beginners you're influenced with?
@yberez It has no complex rhythm, it's 4/4. Syncing is not an issue for a guitar player unless you're shredding. Right hand picking pattern in Neon is not tougher than his other songs that include Slap+note picking. Chords arent as tough as Who Says, Stop this train, Why Georgia either. Lol I'm pretty sure you're trolling who's just a listener and never tried to either learn Neon or any other JM song for that matter. It is not John Mayer's toughest song, beginners have overhyped it in the video comments and you are following it blindly.
I don’t know but it seems everybody always forgets about Jenny Wren by Paul McCartney, it’s like the blackbird 2.0 but a lot harder since there are a lot more chord changes, hammer ons, and pull offs on that song compared to blackbird plus it’s a really beautiful sounding song where the guitar itself could sing the lyrics to you like here comes the sun or while my guitar gently weeps.
Yep very similar to blackbird , he prob just extended the idea for jenny wren
Lol
Finally, a good finger picking channel
Thank you Jeremiah, that means a lot.
I agree! But check out Tommy Emmanuel too:)
Yeah but neither of those guys do actual free lessons
@@echoicaegon3613 Tommy Emmanuel does but you gotta already be good at guitar to understand his lessons
Most guitarists are so used to the squeaky finger-slide noises between notes/chords that they don’t notice. A non-guitarist pointed this out to me and so I started playing more carefully. It sounds so much better. Now I notice when anyone else does it.
These are some great tunes and they’re otherwise played brilliantly. 👍🏻
Niall Matthews I’m a noob at guitar.
Part of it is just old strings right? Also depending on the song string squeaking sounds good
Bro if you’re playing a sad song 100% keep those squeaks in. I’m a noob at guitar but I always heard them and my friends agree they somehow make sad songs better. Something idk
Oh Man, I can't believe you missed this song & that song.. shame on you
Awwwww man
But if you talk about great fingerpicking songs you just can't miss time in a bottle
@@peshu5307 creeper...
Aw man
I feel the same way. But I can help but just ask why theres nothing on here from Nivk drake. I still feel the same way I hate being that guy I cant help it
4:40 Wow. I’ve never seen a Ben Howard song on one of these top acoustic guitar song videos. The guy is just so underrated. Thank you for recognizing and featuring a Ben Howard song !! 🙌🏽🙌🏽
It’s amazing how different people learn different songs faster. Like I learned big love and I’m still trying to get my hear around never going back again and land slide
I would definitely say never going back again is the hardest to learn of those 3 songs. Big love is quite tricky also
The Fleetwood Mac made my heart so happy🥰 Lindsay Buckingham is one of the most underrated guitar players of all time. That man is amazing...also LOVE Going to California-LZ, my favorite song by them. Great list 👏👍🏼
I'd go for underacknowledged/appreciated with this guy.w Only when attempting to play his stuff does it become very apparent.I find even his 'simpler stuff such as Landslide can be slightly...uncomfortable, in contrast to say Harrisons 'Here comes the sun' for example,which is extremely enjoyable to play; when mastered but seemingly complex at first.No middle ground with Lindsey lol.Mans a musical mathematician.
And here I was thinking I was a master on the guitar being able to play those songs you labelled as “beginner” 😭
Totally bro. And I thought Neon was the holy grail. But no, not even close.
Don’t worry dude, some of the songs that were labeled as beginner are definitely harder than a few in intermediate
@@markhinde710 honestly, for me neon was way harder to learn than all the other songs from this list, so you were not wrong :)
@@lifeisshortdontwasteitread2830 Oh honestly? Learn any song you want to play but if you want to learn a certain technique, include at least 30 minutes of practice in your Daily playing. Just do the thing you want to learn and Focus on that. Don't focus on learning just one song in which you need to use that one technique. You'd learn a song but wouldn't get the overall ability. I realized that when I started learning Dragonforce- Through the Fire and Flames.
Almost forgot: Always use metronome when training
@@lifeisshortdontwasteitread2830I used to think the same way you do. Believe me that if you'd start using metronome, you'll definitely change your mind about being "pretty good rhythm wise". I speak mostly about using it, when you PRACTICE. That is because most people tend to change the tempo during excercise, without even knowing it and it really makes it more difficult, frustrating and makes your progress coming way slower. Want to know how to use it? With a song: google its title and add "bpm" That's it.
During training: Set your speed for the excercise and when you're okay in a certain tempo, then speed the metronome up a little bit.
The essence of the metronome is that it should sound with your guitar like it was an additional percussive instrument playing along with you.
I think I'll try to learn all of these, they're all great! Thank you for putting such great studying material on the internet for free!
You're very welcome. There's an awful lot more than 60 songs available now!
John Mayer; **exists**
Six string; _"i n t e r m e d i a t e"_
That's 'cause of tommy emmanuel
To anyone starting out or maybe only a year or two in, don't obsess about how difficult something you can play is. It overall makes playing less enjoyable, if you're intermediate and you wanna play a beginner level song cause you love it, go ahead. Likewise if you're a beginner but you want to play a difficult song, try it out and if you can't do it just come back later when you've honed your skills a bit more or perhaps find an easier version to learn. You're gonna have a lot more fun if you learn songs based on how much you enjoy them. Nobody likes the person who goes "I just learned a song meant for someone way better than I should be" and likewise, to anyone already good at guitar don't say anything belittling to someone worse than you. They may look up to you for being a better player and if you say something mean that could ruin instruments for them for a long time.
As a guitar teacher I feel like I've just stuck a pitchfork in the ground and oil came out. Thank you for curating this list of playable tunes!
this guy is awesome!!!i actually learned to play 'BIG LOVE' with his lessons,and it's all for free
he deserves hell of a lot more than 50k,
you r epic,keep it up man !!! thank you
I looked at the title and said "there's no way angeles would be on here" turns out it was and I was satisfied!!
Oh yeah
First thing I did was check to make sure Elliott was on there!
It's funny, I've learned lots of difficult guitar parts over the years including classical stuff and, when I first heard Angeles, I instantly fell in love with the song and I was pretty sure it wouldn't be that difficult to play.
How wrong I was! It took me quite a while to get that picking pattern down and then to get it up to speed.
Well worth it though..
And there are a looot of Elliott songs that should be in this list like The White Lady Loves You More, Tomorrow Tomorrow or Somebody That I Used To Know
Im going to learn every song in this video, and once I’ve done that, I’ll buy an electric guitar
Edit:
Yeah fuck that couldnt wait bought one anyway
My favourite picking song I play is Bron-yr-aur Led Zeppelin
Street Spirit (Fade Out) actually uses a pick. Check how Thom plays it live, it’s really cool
Hes not very well known but Bruce Cockburn is probably the most underrated guitarist out there... train in the rain and foxglove are amazing songs all played without a pick (and if you believe it only one guitar)
This man is the real deal! The only person on youtube I've found that actually plays and teaches the songs as they're played on the recordings! Huge thank you!
Thanks a lot, appreciate the kind words and pleased to hear you like my lessons
I feel like the difficulty of these songs are biased. I’ve learned some of the harder ones before I could wrap my head around some of the easier ones
Yeah same
Same, I know how to play babe I'm gonna leave at it's original tempo but I can't with behind blue eyes
Exactly, I had tears in heaven down within 3 months of starting, and 12 months later I still think it was a million times easier to learn than landslide
When is difficulty not biased? Everyone’s different
I agree.. And dust in the wind is difficult too
I really can't wait for the tutorials. nice one man 👍👍👍
Paul Dike Thank you. The first few are up already.
Bob Dylan, don't think twice its alright was my favourite 4:45
But what about that one song you missed? And that other song?
And that other one
@@maffyeew nice
Reminder for self:
6:00
8:40
Mafia Blox u must be good 👍🏻
Angeles is an incredible song, I learnt it and it’s so rewarding
Wow this is a real confidence boost since I can play most of the advanced songs. Thanks for the video.
You should be the one that have over a million subscribers. You are THE BEST, Chris.
That’s so kind, thanks a lot!
Thanks!
I got really happy when I saw that you included elliot smith on this list, he's amazing
How can a fingerstyle guitarist ignore elliott smith
@@esatgursoy7076 okay true
@@esatgursoy7076 too many do!
I was so happy to hear Classical Gas in here. I’ve been trying to learn that song for years.
I noticed a lot of Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey Buckingham. He’s a master at the TRAVIS pick
some great songs to learn and in difficulty order ! anyone wanting to improve can use this video, thank you !
I can't say I ever thought of Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love" as a top fingerpicking song. Or a top song, for that matter. But I am glad you included FM's "Landslide" and especially "Never going back again," a great but often overlooked tune.
I have a feeling that your RUclips channel will surely succeed, so my heart is full. As the algorithm introduced, I just looked down and saw your video. RUclips seems to be a backpacking trip and long-distance marathon to go far and far alone. I didn't know that your video was very good until I met your video. Your video shines so beautifully, but it's a pity that you can't easily meet it without the RUclips algorithm. even after a long time
I will remember your video deeply in my heart. The RUclips world feels like running into a rough field. I think I met your video at the end of that hill where a rainbow more brilliant than jewels lives. The moment I watched your video, the first feeling was very good. I did. I think you will be happy in the morning because of your video today. It is a feeling that you will surely achieve the dream you want to wake up to in the huge RUclips world. After watching your video, thinking about it now, your video came to the depths of my heart and instilled emotion and happiness in me. As you have worked hard for your dreams, I hope that your channel will gradually develop and become a very big channel. I am not lonely and I am so happy that I happened to watch your videos in the endless universe-like RUclips world.
Sultans of swing, Have you ever really loved a woman, love in vain, Midnight in Harlem, Change the world, Wish you were here, Shine on you crazy diamond. Etc, etc, etc,
Thank you for including Fire and Rain. And bigger thanks for sharing your talent and your love of music!
I’m happy you included a bunch of Beatles songs but it was a little surprising to not have here comes the sun on there!
Is this dude a Beatles member?
Great list. Thanks for all of your posts.
I would include:
As tears go by - rolling stones
Rain song - led zeppelin
Holiday - scorbion
When the smoke is going down - scorpion.
So glad you put Guaranteed and Toulumne in here - Just Breath is also a nice one.
I would include:
A7x - Dear God
Creed - One Last Breath
Steve Howe - Clap
22 Shape of my heart is also same tune (Lucid Dreams -JuiceWRLD) 4:08
I'd like to mention that 'house of the rising sun' as arranged by the animals is played with a plectrum! And that you haven't played the notes in the right rhythm! The ascending part of the arpeggio is played faster than the descending. For a real fingerpicking version of house of the rising sun check out dylan or van ronk's version.. Cheers
I am going to start practicing these songs from today onwards and I will update when I am done with all songs. Let's see the improvement !!!
Perhaps the only list in the world to include both 'Somewhere over the rainbow' and Elliott Smith! A great list - thank you. Right, back to practising Southern Belle (in my dreams).
I love how Neon is classed easier than Dont fear the reaper xD
Because it is. Learn to play it and you'll see. People hype Neon a lot. So everyone else follows it as well without even trying to play it. Neon is not tougher than Classical Gas or even Who Says by John Mayer himself. I know how to play all these songs. Who Says took me 3 months to perfection. It has more thumb chords, tougher riffs, harder to master strumming technique. Neon's main riff which people hype so much took me 2 weeks to get clean with. Neon is mostly hyped by people who actually never tried learning it. Unpopular opinion.
Neon is an easy song at least for me since I am familiar with the idea of only using index finger and thumb you just need to practice chord changes and I believe you can do it with one day of practice
While Don’t Fear The Reaper was being played, I played my air-cowbell.
his side view looks like mr bean
Paul mcartney and mr. bean’s nephew
@@monke7156 rory mcilroy and mr bean had a kid
He is Mr bean moron
Love it! You are a insperation. You helped me finding some songs to play self!
61 - Windy and Warm (Doc’s version)
62 - My brother Thom (Marcel Dadi)
Love playing windy and warm
The fact a few of those Ben Howard songs made it one here :) ...He's genius, the reason why i learned guitar!
Lots of my favs in there... I'm wondering what your criteria are for Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced. Some of the "Beginner" ones looked harder than some of the "Advanced" ones - at least for me.
House of the rising sun by the animals was done with a pick, it just was done with a sweeping motion to pluck the individual notes.
I was expecting "Let her go" by Passenger but its fine
That's a very good finger Pickin song the riff is amazing
Riding to New York is really fun to play
I mean yeah it is one of the most iconic acoustic songs but just overplayed. I can't stand the song thanks to other people.
I think Bring on the Night - The Police would’ve been a nice addition. Good video either way!
Just discovered this channel and great video! Love how you’ve managed to start from the easiest to the hardest fingerpicking songs to play! Now I can learn more songs to choose from this list! Thanks man! 👍
The Clagga glad you enjoyed it! I hope it helps. Doing a video tutorial one song released every Thursday. More lesson available on the site too.
That’s awesome! Btw I have two requests! Could you do Neon by John Mayer? and also Angeles by Elliott Smith? Cheers 🤘
The Clagga they’re both on the list (46/49). They’re a way off but I’ll get to them soon enough!
That's a very decent list, Well done.
However Dust in the wind (And other songs) is not beginner-intermidiated, it's even tougher than many other intermidiate songs on the list due to it's speed.
Thanks. I've used your Blackbird and Fast Car to begin learning finger picking. There were a LOT of these songs that I look forward to learning. I guess with Tommy Emmanuel near the end, these must be ordered easy to hard. Thanks for that, too.
I like your style of teaching and playing. Wish I had found you sooner.
Been playing a little over 6 months and my first song of choice was "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You." I think any song is a beginner song if you're driven enough to learn it. :) (Of course I don't sound as great as Paige or Justin Derrico). Either way, this playlist/medley is super inspiring and I want to play all of them.
Really glad you like the list Alicia. It's true - you can master any song if you're driven enough to, it can take years to get some down.
If you haven't subscribed yet, you must not like quality tutorials.
best selection omg
Great video. So many great songs. I kinda wish the titles were a darker font. Kinda hard to read em.
Good job, man....I'll certainly pick some of the them to advance my fingerpicking chops...thanks for the contribution in that sense.
Beautiful playing can't wait till I can go through all the levels u listed down 👌🏾
Gonna start learning these, great work and will recommend you to friends as well :)
ACamBetweenWorlds thanks a lot! Visit the site for all the lessons. New song tutorials up every Thursday. Let me know if I can help you in any way.
Six String Fingerpicking Thank you! Appreciate it :)
John Fahey? There's some good non-standard tuning stuff of his, and some really intricate and beautiful standard tuning stuff (yellow princess comes to mind). Drop D too, when springtime comes again.
great channel , i am gonna start learning these songs , i was surprised though , not a single one of the great Mark Knopfler , at least Romeo & Juliet !!! good job
Great list. Thanks!
MARK FRIGGIN KNOPFLER,!! Come on bruh
Matt McPherson I'm only ten songs I and stopping the vid. Came for sultans
@@blaisemacpherson7637 He's playing an accoustic.
@@yz249 there are plenty of songs in here that weren't originally played on acoustic. the John Mayer and Beatles songs come to mind.
Briliant choices👍🏻
Paul McCartney does Yesterday by down tuning a full step and plays it in G, but your way means you don’t have to down tune or have a second guitar.
Very nice tutorials! Please keep it up!
Michael Wong thanks Michael, I will do!
Thank you so much for this, I am going to try to work through your list, you are an amazing guitar player respect Matt
I love that angeles is on this list, but I find it much harder to play than don't fear the reaper. Sick video!
Reminder for myself:
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I will learn every song in this list. Starting today. I will be back once I am done.
How's it going so far?
@@matthewchampion8214 done about 10 atm
ooh how’s it going
I love how fast he talk 😍
Yes it is great... but I can not spend money on tutorials so it is always sketchy to find some well skilled teacher like yourself for free... thanks for the free tutorials...
Thank you. glad you enjoy them!
Thxxx for this video, I was looking for some good songs to learn and here i found manyy!🍃🤟🏼
It's a pleasure, I hope you enjoy.
Great video. I was hoping for some Martin Simpson at the end. He is fantastic but not as well known as the majority of the artists on the video. Well worth a listen.
All faberge egg-grade tunes,impeccably executed.I would have placed John Raymond's 'Lay me down' in there, the one sung by Crosby and Nash which is insanely overlooked.You got me inspired with Rhiannon.Sounds incredible on an acoustic and quiet eery when 'Never going back again' was tackled exactly at the...''l wonder if he'll do nev'' ?....point.
Landslide is great because it's basically a beginner, intermediate, or advanced song depending on how you play it.
Verse and basic version of chorus = beginner
Learn to play the chorus the way Lindsey Buckingham does = intermediate
Learn to play the live solo version = advanced
One of my favorites to play is When The Children Cry by White Lion. it's a beautiful song and I haven't seen a lot of players doing covers of it.
Great picks, but why nothing by Gordon Lightfoot & Mark Knopfler?
Great lesson, thank you
My favorite is the slow bit halfway through "to live is to die" by metallica
Stunning selection sir, just subbed and ill be recommending your channel for sure!! Thanks again
Thanks a lot Luke! The list has basically doubled in size now.
I thought, I 'ooh I'd like to learn that' for EVERY song you added to this list. Nice list
This is amazing !!! I’m so glad I found this channel. Thank you 😊
D Boyd I’m so glad you have too! Welcome along. New song lessons every Thursday.
Super awesome video, I personally think “more than words” would be most appropriate in Beginner, but that’s just me. Thanks Again!!!
Thanks a lot Jose.
Two tunes I was sure you'd pick - Big Love (yay) and Lisa Loeb Stay (next time!)
I guess you could take any song ever written, pick it finger style and call it a top [insert number here] finger picking song of [insert date range here].
IM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL OML
Thanks again, by the way this list is now ongoing. There's probably closer to 100 song lessons on the site now and new ones every Saturday.
How did you rank them? Skill level, social impact, commercial success, etc.?
how did you illuminate and capture the strings? they seem to come out very clear.
The man just vibing to every note
What tuning are you using on Dear Prudence? Great job.