As an answer thread to the "complex" thread:

Maybe "Dead Flowers" D-A-G in 4/4 time. About as easy as they get. Any others?

What do you mean? Guitar? Piano? Drums? Sitar? Screw it - easiest to play? All of 'em - on some kind of record player!

Shake Your Hips. For guitar anyway

skip, in my case, guitar (and VERY limited piano).

Yeah, I'm pretty good with albums, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, and IPOD.

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As an answer thread to the "complex" thread:

Maybe "Dead Flowers" D-A-G in 4/4 time. About as easy as they get. Any others?

and the chorus, G - D

simple and grooves. No Expectations is another easy one...

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Shake Your Hips. For guitar anyway

Shake Your Hips is easy to play - badly. It is actually quite a tricky groove.

I would say No Expectations - just strumming E/A/D is easiest. In fact, it's the first song I learned to play on guitar all those many years ago.

It must be I'm Free, it's all about 2 chords...

I've tried with Memory Motel on piano but a friend of mine said it was pretty hard for a newbie.



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DandelionPowderman
Shake Your Hips. For guitar anyway

Shake Your Hips is easy to play - badly. It is actually quite a tricky groove.

If syncopated notes are unknown to you, that is

i'd vote for dead flowers too.

Keith's part (not the slide pat) on Love In Vain isn't too hard to figure out either.

The rhythm guitar to 2120 S. Michigan Ave?
The electric rhythm guitar part to the studio version of SFTD...

But I'd have to also agree with skipstone; they're all easy to play....just fire up the turntable or cd player and hit "play"!

'We Want The Stones' (from Got Live e.p.) is pretty easy to play on guitar.

... Or pretty difficult, depending on how you look at it.

Probably Hand of Fate. Just the same few chords over and over.

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Alef
Probably Hand of Fate. Just the same few chords over and over.

And then comes the bridge and the middle eight. More difficult than the main riff, imo.

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Alef
Probably Hand of Fate. Just the same few chords over and over.

And then comes the bridge and the middle eight. More difficult than the main riff, imo.

Hmm, the bridge is only a couple of chords played by one finger (straight forward open G).

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Probably Hand of Fate. Just the same few chords over and over.

And then comes the bridge and the middle eight. More difficult than the main riff, imo.

Hmm, the bridge is only a couple of chords played by one finger (straight forward open G).

The rhythm break in the middle eight (HOF) would be very hard to do for beginners. Love In Vain, on the other hand, would be possible.

Yeah SFTD is pretty easy strumming EDAE with a B thrown in, I think.

"I'm Free" - C & F?

"Far Away" - 3 chords - in G?

I guess, the "easist song" asks for a beginner's song. Besides the rhythms/grooves or being able to express a Country or Blues feel, a beginner of the guitar has first of all problems to play Barre chords (f.e., therefore B is a difficult chord). Open tunings is something for sophisticated players. Yau have to learn new chords, you have to learn familiar notes in different places. I started with Mother's Little Helper.

"When The Whip Comes Down" springs to mind

You Can't Always Get What You Want - C-F & a bit of D. The double time at the end can be tricky for a beginner.

how about the bridge (which the Stones left out live often)?

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It must be I'm Free, it's all about 2 chords...

There are 4 chords in the song: C, F, G and Bb. And as 71Tele alluded, it's not so much about how many chords a song has but about getting the groove and feel right. You can know all the chords in the book but if you can't play them with the feel the song calls for then it doesn't matter how many chords or scales for that matter one knows. It's this capability that separates causal strummers from truly great players in my view...



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First song I learned was Dead Flowers and next was Honky Tonk Women which is great to busk to. Picking Love In Vain is great fun too but a bit more intermediate.

Paint it Black on sitar

i was going to say that ... sweet!!!!

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how about the bridge (which the Stones left out live often)?

Really? Examples?

No Expectations