# Beginning Acoustic Guitar - Cool Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297 "2003-01-22T22:02:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297/21 "2003-01-23T15:25:10Z")
Oh, and stol? This site: [http://www.olga.net/](http://www.olga.net/) Has a ton of tablature stuff that should get you started. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297/22 "2003-01-23T15:33:01Z")
Thank you, **JC**. I knew you’d get it. To seriously address the OP, I recommend Jerry Silverman’s _Folk Song Encyclopedia_, volumes I and II. They are perfectly enormous collections, and run $19.95 apiece. The first book is a little TOO basic for my taste (“Comin’ Round the Mountain” and stuff like that); I bought Volume II for use on piano (which requires quite a bit of creative filling-in on my part, as they’re designed for guitar…just vocal line and single-note melody, and chords). Lots of great weird material like “The Red Light Saloon,” “The Man Who Waters the Workers’ Beer,” “The Eddystone Light,” “In the Pines,” “I Know You Rider,” “Silicosis Blues,” “Boston Tea Tax Song,” etc. If you don’t entertain people, you’ll baffle the hell out of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297/23 "2003-01-23T16:29:38Z")
And I feel like I’m dying from mining for Gold, Ike. Seriously, **I’m** playing with some guys these days and I might want to get those. That’s some talent, there. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297/24 "2003-01-23T18:45:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rmbnxs \* > \*\*That’s not right. The chords are: > > G D Am7 > G D C > G D Am7 > G D C (D) \*\* Really? I can make it fit on top of D-A-G-A just fine. Oh, “Werewolves of London” - D-C-G-G ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297/25 "2003-01-25T01:22:06Z")
find online tab for cat stevens. good one, uke! ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297/26 "2003-01-25T01:28:31Z")
Wait! Wait! michael row the boat ashore! ---
**Author:** ![Skillet38](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Skillet38](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skillet38)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297/27 "2003-01-25T02:25:19Z")
good practise for playing from the C position is the fingerpicking in ‘Dust in the Wind’ just hold that C major position and walk the moving notes on the low a string (where ur holding ur low C) then it steps up to an open D string on the moving part. Very easy to pick out and good beginner fingerpicking practise ---
**Author:** ![Skillet38](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Skillet38](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skillet38)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297/28 "2003-01-25T02:29:15Z")
Oh, the Damage Done, by Neil Young is similar, taking the basic chord patterns you already know, and finger picking around them and really enhancing what you can do with a single chord position. Walkin those fingers around the melody changes while holding the root position…until your transition to the next chordal motive… way more happenin than the old bar chord assault [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-acoustic-guitar-cool-songs/150297.md?page=1)