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Learn to Play Rock

Learn to play Rock with our guitar tabs!

Rock music is a genre of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by electric guitar, bass guitar, and drums. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, and often revolves around the guitar, either solid electric, hollow electric, or acoustic. Early Rock & Roll drew from a variety of sources, primarily blues, R&B and Country. The influence of Rock and Roll is far-reaching, and has had significant impact worldwide on fashion and film styles. Listen to our lesson samples below to learn how to play rock songs.

Song Artist

(What's So Funny Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding	Elvis Costello
A Hard Day's Night	The Beatles
Ace Of Spades	Motorhead
All That I've Got	The Used
All The Small Things	Blink 182
Back In Black	AC/DC
Bad Moon Rising	Creedence Clearwater Revival
Best Of You	Foo Fighters
Black Hole Sun	Soundgarden
Blitzkrieg Bop	Ramones
Brain Stew	Green Day
Breaking The Law	Judas Priest
Brown Eyed Girl	Van Morrison
Burning For You	Blue Oyster Cult
California Dreamin'	The Mamas and The Papas
Can't Buy Me Love	The Beatles
Cheeseburger In Paradise	Jimmy Buffett
Come Monday	Jimmy Buffett
Comfortably Numb	Pink Floyd
Creep	Radiohead
Day Tripper	The Beatles
Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio	Ramones
Don't Be Cruel	Elvis Presley
Dreams	Fleetwood Mac
Drive	Incubus
Don't Wait	Dashboard Confessional
Eight Days A Week	The Beatles
Evil Ways	Santana
Father of Mine	Everclear
Feel Like Makin' 'Love	Bad Company
Fight For Your Right To Party	Beastie Boys
Free Bird	Lynyrd Skynyrd
From Yesterday	30 Seconds To Mars
Grand Theft Autumn	Fall Out Boy
God Of Thunder	Kiss
God Save The Queen	Sex Pistols
Guerrilla Radio	Rage Against The Machine
Have You Ever Seen The Rain	Creedence Clearwater Revival
Helena	My Chemical Romance
Hells Bells	AC/DC
Help	The Beatles
Hey There Delilah	Plain White T's
Highway To Hell	AC/DC
Hound Dog	Elvis Presley
Hypnotize	System of a Down
I Can't Explain	The Who
I Caught Fire	The Used
I Dare You	Shinedown
I Saw Her Standing There	The Beatles
I Wanna Be Sedated	Ramones
I Write Sins Not Tragedies	Panic! At The Disco
Imagine	John Lennon
Immigrant Song	Led Zeppelin
Interstate Love Song	Stone Temple Pilots
Iron Man	Black Sabbath
Jane Says	Jane's Addiction
Jumpin' Jack Flash	The Rolling Stones