A plethora of pretty pieces, pensive poems, and plectrum-pumping pile drivers. Take your pick!
Allman Brothers - Melissa
Aly and AJ - Greatest Time of Year
Beatles - Revolution
Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Beatles - Let it Be in key of G (revised)
Ben Folds - The Luckiest
Michael Buble - Everything
Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
Hank Card, et. al. - The Other Shore
Brandi Carlile - What Can I Say
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away
David Allan Coe - Would You Lay With Me
Elvis Costello - (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Susie Q
Daughtry - It’s Not Over
John Denver - Annie’s Song
Dire Straits - When It Comes to You
Steve Earle - Ft. Worth Blues
Flaming Lips - She Don’t Use Jelly
John Fogerty - Rhubarb Pie
The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)
Great Big Sea - Lukey
Nanci Griffith - Gulf Coast Highway
PJ Harvey - Send His Love To Me
John Hyatt - Feels Like Rain
Indigo Girls - Hey Jesus
Waylon Jennings - Slow Rollin’ Low
Jet - Move On
Jack Johnson - Wasting Time (revised)
Diana Jones - My Remembrance of You
Lucy Kaplansky - End of the Day
Lucy Kaplansky - Ten Year Night
The Kings of Mongrel Folk - Neighbor of the Beast
Tom Lehrer - Be Prepared
Curtis Mayfield - People Get Ready
Paul McCartney - Maybe I’m Amazed
Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You
Tom Petty - Listen to Her Heart
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb in Am (easier)
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb in Bm (how they do it)
Plain White Ts - Hey There Delilah
Bonnie Raitt - Love Me Like a Man
Recess Monkey - The Littlest Monkey
Emma Roberts - Dummy
Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (revised)
Semisonic - Closing Time (revised)
Elliott Smith - Say Yes
Bruce Springsteen - Reason to Believe (Aimee Mann cover)
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
James Taylor - You’ve Got a Friend (Carole King cover)
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Traditional - There Ain’t No Bugs On Me
Gillian Welch - Look at Miss Ohio
Lucinda Williams - I Asked Him For Water He Gave Me Gasoline
Pete Yorn - Crystal Village
Dan Zanes - Sunny Side of the Street
Have fun!
December 1st, 2007 at 10:38 am
Love your site. Glad you make those songs available for all of us out here. Nice organization on those by the way.
December 1st, 2007 at 10:58 am
awesome collection of songs and chord charts!! thanks.
December 1st, 2007 at 11:04 am
Very good, keep it up.
HZ
December 1st, 2007 at 11:48 am
Thank god all of us have you, I love your updates I always find songs to ad to my repertoire.
CJ.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:12 pm
i really appreciate your hard work. this is good music
December 1st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Always great stuff!
December 1st, 2007 at 1:04 pm
terrrific
December 1st, 2007 at 1:11 pm
You did it again. thanks for your time and all you do. Great site.
THANKS again, R.W.
December 1st, 2007 at 4:03 pm
These are super…thank you…would u have the chord for Lucky Man…by Verve?
toni
December 1st, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Thanks for all your nice words, everyone! I’m glad you’re digging the music.
Toni, sorry, I don’t—all the chord charts I have are posted here: http://www.heartwoodguitar.com/chords.htm
And I can’t take requests. These are all chord charts I’ve written for my students, and I just don’t have time to do more.
Try http://www.ultimate-guitar.com, the biggest archive around.
Good luck,
Rob
December 1st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Rob - Thanks for making all this songs available to the public. To give information about strumming and more difficult rhythm passages helps heaps for the humble beginner.
December 1st, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Thanks for all the good songs, easy to follow, great job!!
December 1st, 2007 at 7:51 pm
thanks!
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:35 am
That’s a graet collection indeed. I’m wondering if you’ve had ay trouble with publishing transcriptions of licensed music. I know they’re coming down pretty heavy on that stuff these days.
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:15 am
Hey Rob- Recorvery from brain surgery went well. Just wanted to thank-you for the great work on your site. I’m still having fun on the guitar. Peace, Love and Happiness
Sincerely,Ron
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:30 am
Rob,
What I like about your site is that you also put in some whimsical songs (There ain’t no bugs) I can play for my grandkids.
Do you have Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” available?
Thanks
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:43 am
absolutely brilliant your updates really good great site keep em coming thanx again
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:01 am
Jon—no trouble, thankfully. I don’t have an ethical problem with it: I believe encouraging people to play music is good for the music industry and the artists.
As for the legal side…this is a gray area. As a teacher, I’m given some leeway under the “fair use” provision in copyright law. If I were making money off of ads on my site, it would probably be illegal, but teachers are allowed some flexibility if the material is just for educational purposes. How much flexibility, I don’t know.
Ron, great to hear you’re healing.
Vern, I’m sorry, what’s on my chord charts page is what I have. Glad you’re digging the kids songs. I like teaching that one to kids, because it only takes two chords!
Glad you’re all enjoying the music–
Rob
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
THANK YOU! I am a beginner guitarist and your site has been a tremendous help to me! I go to your site then choose a new song to learn and stay up waaaayy too late trying to master it! I’ve been bitten by the guitar bug and I love it!
Thanks for all the time and energy you put into your site! Have a great holiday season.
~cheers, christine
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Thank you so much for the Steve Earle chord charts, especially the picking Guides! On Ft Worth Blues is the chord a D7/F#, or a D/F#?
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Frank, that was a mistake–I just fixed it. It’s D7/F#.
Great song, eh? I love that Travis Picking.
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Thanks Rob. I’m just learning the Travis style picking, and I love ‘Ft Worth Blues’, as well as ‘Goodbye’ and ‘If I Needed You’. It seems that Steve Earle, as well as the late great Townes Van Zandt are actually picking out a melody on these songs, rather than just a set pick pattern. But it may just be my untrained ear.
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Hey Frank,
No, you’re right: They are doing more than just playing one pattern. I tabbed out the solo Earle plays in “Goodbye” and Lovett plays in “If I Needed You”–they’re there at the bottom of the chord chart. Earle tends to throw in the melody while he sings, too. If you learn the solo, try playing fragments of it as you sing. It’s hard!
Have fun,
Rob
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Somehow I just found this site. Great interpretations of lots of good songs I’ve never heard of before. And then there’s the Indigo Girls songs, I love the Indigo Girls. Thanks much for sharing the music interpretations, it certainly helps.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:43 am
i love your site thanks for the collection. ps. please collect some recent music and some RnB that can be played on the guiter thanks alot
December 9th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Thank you for sharing…these are awesome….antonia:)
December 12th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
This is Awesome! I’ve been looking for some Ben Folds Thanks a million!
December 14th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Wow! Excellent guitar website! This post of these songs is excellent. I’ll be posting some about your site this weekend at my website. Guitarists of all ages will find some info here.
December 18th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Very nice guitar site ! great work regards from the Netherlands….
December 26th, 2007 at 10:46 am
rob, thanks as always for more accurate chords. I was trying to play “the luckiest” by Ben Folds and I was wondering what a ritard is. Maybe you can cover it in a future newsletter?
Thanks!!!
January 6th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
excellent songs! Keep up the good work, would put some of them on my guitar site if i had it ready
Oh, and a happy new year!
January 10th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I am a newcomer to this site and I have to say I am pretty impressed. That is a really cool collection of songs you have listed.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Thank you for this great collection. Any chance that you can post some blues material? What you have is great. I’d love to see a step by step method of learning the fretboard. In anycase, your site is now on my site and lets hope your both of them get more recognition.
January 19th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Hey Rob,
Do you have any tabs or links for a song by Poco called “Heart of the Night”? I’ve been able to find the lyrics but tabs are a little hard. If you have something for “Imaginary Lover” by the Atlanta Rythmn Section that would be cool.
Great site…
Regards
February 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Sorry guys, all the songs I post are requested by my students. I just don’t have time to take requests from others.
Make sure you check http://www.ultimate-guitar.com–it’s the biggest archive around.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Hi Rob,
Haha @ your pun! Funny.
Anyway there’s a lot of work put into each of those, and I’d just like to say thanks.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Thanks for stopping by, Rob! We hope we send some of our students to your site…so much good info!
February 27th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Really great site! Thanks for all the great tabs. A lot of good beginner stuff.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I notice you have in there a song by Steve Earle. I have seen him about 15 times now and he is absolute class
March 29th, 2008 at 4:31 am
wow some great tunes there, some really cool old classsics, I love this stuff, and so do people… !!
March 29th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Just found your site, just simply fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your gift.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Nice! Thanks for this post! This should keep me busy for a good while!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:52 am
This is a great resource page you have here for guitarists! Kudos!
July 16th, 2008 at 8:47 am
look forward to new tunes added to your great collection. any news on when we can expect some new tunes?