People with a taste for guitar orientated songs often find themselves limited by their own tastes in music. We all have a fairly narrow range of musical experience and we often need some advice on what else is out there to add to our repertoire of songs to listen to and play on the guitar.

If you are a classical or surf guitar fan you probably won't know much about bands like Soundgarden who are one of your more prominent bands from the grunge era. You can find guitar tabs for their songs on tab sites and you will be adding to your musical education by getting some idea of how Soundgarden songs are constructed.

The grunge sound is chunky and expressive and power-chordy. You can get that gravelly sound happening with effects or fooling around with your amp settings. Some songs you could study are Black Hole Sun, Fell On Black Days and Pretty Noose.

Staying with grunge pieces, Nirvana songs will help you feel like a real guitar player without taxing your technique. About A Girl and Polly come to mind as songs for enthusiastic guitarists.

There are some songs and instrumental pieces that sound really intricate but are not hard to play. Classical Gas by Mason Williams is an outstanding example but Fruit Tree by Nick Drake is another song that gives you some satisfaction as do most of his songs. You can also find tabs for Paul Simon songs. His compositions are worth a look for any acoustic guitar player.

If you are up for challenge Tommy Emmanuel arrangements are worth a try. His style is based on Travis picking but his approach to the guitar is totally unique and it's a pleaure to watch him tackle an old favorite the you thought nobody could do anything with.

The theme from the movie The Deerhunter is a nice acoustic piece that is not hard to play. Another classic every acoustic guitar player should attempt is Anji by Davy Graham. Again, this is a simple piece that sounds fantastic. If you pick up a guitar at a party and play Anji you will easily make people forget the guy who played Smoke On The Water.

To begin practicing the songs you find on tabs sites you will need to get your chord fingering and your sense of rhythm going. It won't take months of practice but to play simple chords in time without fluffed notes is the beginning of your career as a guitar player.

Now you have a collection of guitar songs to learn, here's what you must do: Print out the tabs of your favorite songs. Don't put them in any particular order, just start by attempting to play whatever song is on the top of your pile. If it seems too hard to play, grab another one and try it. You will eventually find a song you are comfortable with and when you have learned it you will have one song and a bunch of motivation to go onto a second one. Now keep going till you've gone through your pile of guitar tabs.