[AlienCloak]

Hello, I'm learning how to play piano right now and would like to play as SP song but I want to start with something easy. But for people learning guitar, bass or drums, recommend some starters for those instruments as well.

[oryann]

One of the easiest songs to learn on the guitar for me was Today. The chord progressions are pretty simple throughout.

Also Whir.

For piano, I learned For Martha. It's a bit challenging at first, yes, but if you play it a lot you really get it quick. The intro especially. They have tabs all over the place I believe, but it's pretty simple to figure out even by ear.

[AlienCloak]

Haha! I actually know how to play the first minute of For Martha.

[oryann]

Awesome! Let's see here... Blank Page is pretty easy too, as it's just a bunch of chords..Lots of Adore songs. Soot and Stars is also pretty easy.

[KieranR]

I personally thought Spaceboy was easy on Guitar and Tonight, Tonight.

[robochimp7]

Off the top of my head Disarm, Ava Adore, Today, and Zero sans crazy solos are pretty easy on guitar.

[FaceMelter44]

For drums, it's songs like Blew Away, Spaceboy and Today. I found Muzzle easy as well

[machina5514]

33 is easy on guitar, at least the version I play

[themadcaplaughs]

Right off the top of my head on guitar

-Shame
-Ava Adore
-The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)- without Billy's crazy solo of course
-Today
-Bodies
-Pennies
-Perfect
-Cupid de Locke

[frednirv632]

on bass:

-where boys fear to tread
-today
-xyu
-transformer
-blue
-crush
-ava adore

anyting,really. if you put some time into it SP bass is really easy, even for beginners.

[RottingApples]

Brain Stew. Wait...

[skylar44]

no one mentioning 1979? it's a breeze on guitar and bass

[BitterRootOfSelf]

Today is the first song i learned on guitar and is what i teach people how to play that have never played before. If they can somewhat do the intro after a few tries, you know they have potential.

[DeathRockBoi]

For guitar: Today, In the Arms of Sleep, Lily, Tarantula (minus the solo), Bullet With Butterfly Wings, ...Said Sadly, Stand Inside Your Love

Bass (evrything is bassically easy, these are just fun songs): Bury Me, Rhinoceros, Silverfuck, Widow Wake My Mind (this is a little difficult),

-Cupid de Locke

Can tell me how do you play this on guitar?

[Cundinama]

disarm

[IAmOneGeekUSA]

Tristessa is pretty easy and fun

[dmeyer]

I sent my mom the score for MCIS (the song) and have her play it for me when I visit.

[MachinaAdore]

Bass: Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Very easy, and interesting to. Try Rhinocerous also *points to Bass players*, good stuff.

[Loxlax]

we only come out at night is quite easy :-)

[hotoriousDICK]

Aeroplane Flies High. Drop Tuning and is the same progression for 95% of the song.

where boys - simple riff through out the whole song

Acoustic version of rocket.

Starla save for this one part in the middle (where you supposedly hear the sirens) i can't figure out and no tab seems to have it correct.

Today but it gets a lil crazy at first cuz of the chord changes in the 'choruses'

[Carrie]

ive been playing guitar,bass,vox etc. for a while but for the piano u should try Soma,its a small part but somewhere to start

[Michael]

Cupid de Locke is definitely the easiest SP song (I learned that on my own in under a minute). You really only play the same 6 notes over and over again.

[afroguy10]

1979, learned it in 5 minutes .

Nothing is that difficult by the pumpkins on guitar and bass apart from some of the guitar solos but even those haven't stopped me much. Break most of the harder songs into playable chunks and then piece them together when you get the hang of them .

[tristessa560]

For a really easy song I would begin with 'Sweet Sweet'...essentially only 3 chords.

[jpisciotta]

cherub rock. It has basic chords, is fun to play, and helps you learn to get your hands movin quickly.

[afroguy10]

cherub rock. It has basic chords, is fun to play, and helps you learn to get your hands movin quickly.

I don't know about easiest, it's certainly not solid but there's definitely easier IMO and the guitar solo took me weeks to nail it almost perfectly. It's a great practice song, warms up the fingers .

[hotoriousDICK]

cherub requires some strength in order to get that slide with the octave chord to sound right.

I really think the easiest song to play in Eb tuning is Where Boys Fear To Tread

and in E tuning: Today and Starla.

[Carrie]

cherub rock. It has basic chords, is fun to play, and helps you learn to get your hands movin quickly.

people he plays keys not guitar

[themadcaplaughs]

I really think the easiest song to play in Eb tuning is Where Boys Fear To Tread

A bunch of people I know used to insist this song was in drop-D, but yes this is a very simple riff and very easy to noodle around with in a way that sounds very Smashing Pumpkins-y without knowing a lot about guitar.

"X.Y.U" is pretty easy too, minus the noise solo at the end.

[Matteo]

tonite reprise has to be easiest by far,

and for drums, probably mayonaise. there are easier songs on drums like for example luna or galapogos, but nobody's gonna want to play along with those songs on drums....

[Carrie]

A bunch of people I know used to insist this song was in drop-D, but yes this is a very simple riff and very easy to noodle around with in a way that sounds very Smashing Pumpkins-y without knowing a lot about guitar.

"X.Y.U" is pretty easy too, minus the noise solo at the end.

no no no...its actually really easy to play that solo bit at the end.you just have to slide the fretboard along the top of your amp just like BC does live.

[hotoriousDICK]

it helps that you get the pick ups to dangle across the floor too

[Bulletproofmask]

The first couple minutes of Gossamer is easy to play, fun too.

[joeys]

the easiest for me are disarm, daydream, and today

[Splidders]

I've always found Muzzle an absolute breeze but incredibly fun to play.

[Michael]

I love playing Today on guitar along with the recording, it's really fun and pretty easy to learn

[DrownPumpkin]

I can't play piano for shit but I can still play:

-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
-For Martha
-Annie Dog (easiest song in this thread to learn. 100% sure of it).

[debitsandcredits]

Thirty Three is really pretty easy on piano, plus its easily distinguishable

[ZeroThirtThree033]

cherub rock, disarm, today, spaceboy, rhinocerous, starla

[aztec_litany_service]

oryann, on 07 May 2010 - 06:04 PM, said:

Awesome! Let's see here... Blank Page is pretty easy too, as it's just a bunch of chords..

i tried memorizing that chord progression once and found it impossible. just when i thought it was getting to a pattern it would change a little. hell i even wrote it all down and tried to make sense of it and gave up.

33 is damn easy to play. i can't imagine 1979 sounding that good on piano...zero is one of the easiest songs to play on guitar ever. the chords to a lot of sp songs can be easily memorized, what i learned from trying to play sp was this kind of finesse i guess in bill's playing, and the attn given to dynamics, very thoughtful playing even on sth damn simple like today or disarm, anyone can play those songs but if you really pay attn to his playing you see a lot of nuances that i guess just come naturally to someone w/ talent to burn. billy could shred metal all day but it's the dynamics that made him great. there's a lot of great examples but soma comes to mind instantly. so soft then so brutal.

[Burma8]

Jupiter's Lament is super easy.