Songs for Intermediate Guitar Players – Develop Your Skills
In this curated list of songs for intermediate guitar players and late beginners, I’ve handpicked a diverse selection to not only entertain, but to provide you with a fun way to build the necessary skills to become an intermediate player.
Each of these guitar tutorials will address a different intermediate skill: barre chords, more complex and expressive strumming, , fingerstyle, riffs & licks, there’s even a simple chord melody!
- Come As You Are
- Comfortably Numb
- Creep
- Don’t look back in anger
- Dust in the wind
- Landslide
- Wild world
- Fly me to the moon
- Hey there delilah
- If I fell
- Layla
- Jolene
- Pretty Woman
- Stand by me (chord melody)
Build the skills to play more songs with confidence.
The Academy gives adult learners a clear path from the basics to complete guitar playing. Each course builds on the last, so you always know what to practise next and can feel yourself making steady progress.
- 1. Learn Guitar Once and For All
- 2. Fingerstyle: Beginner to Advanced
- 3. The Complete Lead Guitarist
- 4. Barre Chords Made Easy
- 5. Music Theory 101
“By chapter two, I feel like I’m playing guitar.”
Charlotte — Academy member
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