Alfred's Easy Guitar Songs: Classic Rock: 50 Hits of the '60s, '70s & '80s: Easy Guitar
50 Hits of the '60s, '70s & '80s
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For beginning musicians, Alfred's Easy series is the fast track to developing a repertoire of well-known and fun-to-play songs, while more experienced players will find an excellent resource of favorite songs. The Easy Hits Guitar TAB format provides melody in notation and TAB, chords, lyrics, and any integral "hook" parts---plus suggested strum and fingerpicking patterns. This Classic Rock edition features songs spanning three decades from such artists as Chicago, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Bruce Springsteen, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and many more! Titles: 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago) * Baby It's You (Smith) * Behind Blue Eyes (The Who) * Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen) * Can't You See (The Marshall Tucker Band) * The Chain (Fleetwood Mac) * The Circle Game (Joni Mitchell) * Colour My World (Chicago) * Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen) * Do You Feel Like We Do (Peter Frampton) * Do You Want to Know a Secret (The Beatles) * Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) * Feelin' Stronger Every Day (Chicago) * Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) * Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin) * Hit Me with Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar) * Hold the Line (Toto) * Hold Your Head Up (Argent) * I Hear You Knocking (Dave Edmunds) * I Saw Her Standing There (The Beatles) * Let's Spend the Night Together (The Rolling Stones) * The Letter (The Box Tops) * Lido Shuffle (Boz Scaggs) * Life in the Fast Lane (The Eagles) * Light My Fire (The Doors) * Lola (The Kinks) * Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills and Nash) * Only Women Bleed (Alice Cooper) * Open Arms (Journey) * Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) * Paint It, Black (The Rolling Stones) * Pinball Wizard (The Who) * Riders on the Storm (The Doors) * Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin) * (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) * Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Journey) * She Loves You (The Beatles) * She's Not There (The Zombies) * Space Oddity (David Bowie) * Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum) * Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) * Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) * Tell Her No (The Zombies) * Time of the Season (The Zombies) * Wasted on the Way (Crosby, Stills and Nash) * The Weight (The Band) * What a Fool Believes (The Doobie Brothers) * A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum) * Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones) * Woodstock (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young).
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Series:
Alfred's Easy
Publisher:
Alfred Music
Page Count:
168
SKU:
00-PB-0001867
More about this title
Why we love this
This collection cuts straight to what students actually want to play, which matters more than you might think for keeping them engaged during those crucial early months. The three-decade span means your ensemble can draw from genuine classics that students recognize immediately, eliminating the cold-start problem of unfamiliar material. You get legitimate rock staples without the technical gatekeeping that usually comes with the genre.
What to expect
Immediate recognition. These are songs people have heard a thousand times on radio, in movies, at parties. Playing them feels like you've unlocked something real from the culture around you rather than working through exercises that exist only in pedagogy.
Who it's for
Beginning guitarists who need a working repertoire without endless hunting through different books, and developing players seeking accessible versions of songs they actually care about. The TAB format removes notation anxiety while the standard notation keeps sight-reading alive.
How to get the most out of it
- Start with the suggested strum patterns printed in the book rather than letting students improvise their own rhythm; consistency across the ensemble matters more at this level than individual interpretation.
- Have your students isolate the "hook" parts separately before combining them with the melody line, since these familiar fragments are often what audiences recognize first.
- Pair the TAB notation with the standard notation from day one; students who only read TAB miss the rhythmic literacy they'll need for other styles later.
How to use it
Build a casual guitar ensemble concert around era themes, pulling three to five songs from each decade and letting students see how rock guitar evolved across the '60s, '70s, and '80s. You can also assign individual tracks as practice repertoire while you work through a more structured method book, giving students both technical scaffolding and musical reward. The 50-song scope means students keep discovering new material throughout the year.
Skills your students will build
- Reading TAB and standard notation simultaneously
- Executing suggested strum patterns with consistency
- Understanding how melody, chords, and rhythm parts interact in rock arrangements
- Sight-reading single-line melodic passages with hooks and fills
- Building left-hand muscle memory across multiple open and partial chord shapes