recommend to begin with for a very young boy who has just started devoting himself to learn playing guitar?

Thanks so much for any serious feedback.

Love, dead.flowers

Honky Tonk Women was the first one I learnt followed by Dead Flowers. Easy to sing along with too.

Well, the two first songs I learned (by picking up and dropping the needle of my turntable numerous times) were Angie and Wild Horses.

Honky Tonk Women is in open tuning, so it's probably not the best song for beginners if you want to play it properly.

Personally I'd go for the 3 chord Chuck Berry & blues stuff. After all, that's how Keith & co started...

Let him hear several stones song and make his own choice..
It will be the best...

Play With Fire?

@#$%& Blues is easy to play...

dead flowers is one of the easiest to play along for shure. for openingriffs its satisfaction and HTW.

Dead Flowers is a simple, easy to learn song so i'd recommend it as a good starting point. It works equally well on an acoustic or clean electric.

I learned many RS songs just by playing the same track over and over until you get it.

The chords for the verse are D-A-G-D.

The chords for the "Take me down little Suzi" part are, if memory serves, G-A, then A-D.

You can just learn the basic pattern first and then work out the bits that involve taking various fingers on and off within those chords to get a more sophisticated sound.

Mine was Mother's Little Helper. Don't forget the "Hey" in the end.

Oh yea, Dead flowers is really simple. As Tears Go By is not difficult either. Honky tonk woman is not a good choice, it is not so simple when played properly. At least not for a beginner. Angie is also quite simple if you only want to play chords...

I started with 'High and Dry' at age 15 as I remember it...

2 1 2 0

No offence, friends but Hey Jude would be a very nice approach for the very young one...
Then all the Stones' universe will be open
Sorry, it's my own experience....

OK, "Hey Jude" is nice.
But when you're on a Stones' show... And 100000 people starts crying "you can't always get what you want!" like a Red Army marching on the streets of Moscow, like thousands of prisoners getting free on a dark night, like people dying to be free... oh well ;^)

nevverrmind!

When I was about 10 years old I always wanted to play Angie. I wanted to know the chords and progression. I was so devoted to learn, that I could the song when I was about 11 years old. That was only the beginning.
Thanks to The Stones I've learned to play the guitar.

I started off by playing Chuck Berry rhythm, that chugga chugga thing on the two lower strings. This was before I even knew any chords.

Yeah, thank you all so much for the dear and valuable feedbacks. Since my lad and I are already much into singing of Stones songs, I guess we'll enjoy it the more so with the kid on guitar.

worried about you

Can't You Hear Me Knocking

No Expecations

Quite easy to play, I think. Slowly, simple chords (A, E, D), just a few chord changes, good to sing along with...


Edit:
When The Whip Comes Down may be good follower. Fast, but still simple chords (A, D, G) and so on...



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I started off by playing Chuck Berry rhythm, that chugga chugga thing on the two lower strings. This was before I even knew any chords.

That is a very good start! It is very simple and one can go in many directions from there.