You read my thoughts.
I’m proud of having learned “Schism” by Tool without having to use a tab 
and I’m proud that I can play a piece of “Anesthesia” by Metallica (that I also learned without a tab).
Of course bass players count! Where would we be without the Bootsy Collinses and Stings of the world?
Most of the stuff I play is my own music…I don’t play other people’s stuff very often. I used to be very proud of my ability to play “Interstate Love Song” and “Pretty Penny” (both guitar parts in full) by Stone Temple Pilots. I also used to be able to play about half of “Classical Gas.” Now I can only play the first part. I can still play the STP tunes, but I haven’t done so in a while.
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I just learned “more than words” by extreme
but my favorites are
“long day” by matchbox 20
and “Girl” by The beatles.
Incidentally, I don’t see anything wrong with learning songs from tab or chordpro. It enables me to learn and improvise a song which I am probably not good enough to do on my own. This is how I get better.
It’s snobbery and elitism to deride someone for learning a song the “easy” way.
I fully agree with dentarthurdent. Start with places like this and you’ll soon learn song structure (and a butt-load of chords) and you can eventually learn songs by yourself.
Remember that these songs are submitted by the masses and are not always exactly right. Let your ear be your guide.
Try a search under ‘guitar tabs’ and you will find tons more sites like this.
Also, you can find sites that have chords (how to make them, e.g. Bdim7) and even audio tuning wavs.
Finally, try substituting barre chords when you can. It makes you more versitle, sometimes your playing will sound more like the original and it’s a LOT easier to ‘pick out’ a song using them.
And practice. If I can learn, anyone can.
“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
To the OP: 'Little Dreamer" - Van Halen.
Heh, I can play the beginning to Schism, and only because orion taught me!
I can also play April 29, 1992 by Sublime and Rearraanged by Limp Bizkit (even though it sounds crappy ;))
On my sister’s guitar I can play…
now get ready for this…
The Pink Panther Theme Song!!!
(insert whistling/applause here)
Oh I can play Brain Stew by Green Day also.
Poker, just flip it over, makes a great mobile card table.
“Mood for a Day” — Steve Howe’s classical guitar solo from Yes’s album Fragile.
And, yes, “Stairway to Heaven.” Not to mention the harmonic introduction and classical guitar riffs from “Roundabout.”
And perhaps my favorite: the beginning of the slow movement from Concierto de Aránjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo.
Lots of Nirvana
So far, I have the intro to Heart Shaped Box down cold as well as Scentless Apprentice and Love Buzz
Also Supernova by Liz Phair
Have you ever heard J.C. Mellencamp’s “Play Guitar”? Lemme give you some good advice, my son, justlearn to how play guitar.
I personally don’t know how. But I’m sitting here listening to my SO ‘piddle around’ as he calls it, as he drinks morning coffee.
There is something so Damned! sexy about a man playing guitar!
Nirvana is so fun to play, just about anything with that dropped D tuning is going to rock. Neil Young “Cinnamon Girl”, all of the other grunge stuff, Lots of RATM, even Eddie Van Halen on just about all of the “Fair Warning” album.
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(when I have calluses) knock-offs of “Suzanne,” “Mr. Bojangles,” and “Fire and Rain.”
I can play lots and lots of acoustic stuff. I can play all of Stairway not just the first five chords or so that most hackers think qualifies them as “knowing how to play” the song.
ANYway… I can do a passable version of Fleetwood Mac’s (really Lindsey Buckingham’s) Never Going Back Again though the one slide part gives me problems.
Also, I enjoy playing Birdhouse in Your Soul (They Might Be Giants of course) which my GF can recognize with the opening chord and never fails to join in with the vocals.
Oh you said it, sister. I’m married to a musician. He noodles around the house a lot, and that’s cool. But when he’s on stage performing with his band…ohhhhhh my.
Mr. Persephone is a truly awesome player. And he’s got that gravel-throated raspy blues voice. GrrrrrrrAARARAAAAR! 
I love to listen to my husband play “Orange Blossom Special,” Hellecasters-style. Oh, that just totally rocks. And his version of the Most Hated Request, “Freebird,” is outstanding. He hates it, but boy, does he ever play the s*** of it.
That’s insane! I taught myself the intro (with the use of tabs) just two days ago! This is the first and only song, (well, part of a song, really) I’ve ever played on a guitar, and I am very proud of myself. My fingers are still in a great deal of pain - I have an acoustic. Man, I love “More Than Words”!
I have a real hard time with “more than words.” I know what I’m supposed to play, note- and chord-wise, but try as I might I can’t get the rhythm down, especially if I try to sing at the same time. If I ever get my guitar back, I’m going to keep trying until I can play that song!
I have to capo up to the third fret and drop my voice down because there’s no way I can reach some of those notes…
I improvise the rhythm a bit, mine comes out more flowing and less stacatto.
it’s 4/4 time so you can use a standard 4/4 strumming pattern.
The best I’ve found is down, down, up, up, down, up.
This pattern will work to improvise any 4/4 song.
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Lots of things.
My band, having played a “LOT” of covers, were huge fans of the OLGA.