JustinGuitar Beginners Songbook 1

The JustinGuitar series of books are excellent resources for learning to play the guitar. Whether you're a complete beginner, becoming an intermediate player, or you just want to learn some songs, JustinGuitar has a book to help.

With over 20 years of experience as a professional guitarist and educator, Justin Sandercoe has become one of the most popular and trusted guitar teachers online. Justin has built up an impressive learning resource on his website justinguitar.com and has amassed over 1,650,000 subscribers across his two YouTube channels, JustinGuitar and JustinGuitar Songs.

Here's What JustinGuitar Says About the Beginners Songbook 1

This is our most popular book and one of the bestselling guitar songbooks in the world - over 100,000 copies have been sold since its release in 2010.  

Designed to accompany the JustinGuitar Beginner’s Course, this book gives you 100 songs which you’ll love to learn and play, and which will improve your playing as you work through them. There’s 10 songs for each of the nine stages of the course (plus 10 bonus songs) - which means that as your guitar skills develop you’ll be able to put them into practice and build a repertoire of amazing songs, which is very cool! 

All the songs feature full lyrics and chords, with a written lesson and playing tips. Chord boxes, strumming/fingerpicking patterns and small sections of TAB are used as necessary to show specific detail. 

The songlist includes classics by The Beatles, Ed Sheeran, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, Taylor Swift, B.B. King, Leonard Cohen and Crowded House, so there’s something for everyone. 

All the songs in the book are supported by a free-to-access video tutorials on JustinGuitar.com, so there’s everything you need to learn the songs and develop your playing.

Complete Songlist:

Stage 1

• Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Feelin' Alright - Traffic
• Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
• Walk Of Life - Dire Straits
• I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
• The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
• That's All Right - Elvis Presley
• Love Me Do - The Beatles
• How Bizarre - OMC
• Common People - Pulp

Stage 2

• A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins
• Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
• I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
• Natural Mystic - Bob Marley & The Wailers
• St James Infirmary Blues - Traditional
• All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
• Twist And Shout - The Beatles
• Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
• Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
• Wild Thing - The Troggs

Stage 3

• Hey Joe - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Mad World - Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules
• Hey Ya! - Outkast
• Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
• Yellow Submarine - The Beatles 
• Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane
• How To Save A Life - The Fray 
• What's Up? - 4 Non Blondes
• This Year's Love - David Gray
• Working Class Hero - John Lennon

Stage 4

• Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack
• (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
• …Baby One More Time - Britney Spears 
• Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry
• Celebrity - Brad Paisley
• Back To December - Taylor Swift
• Black - Pearl Jam
• Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
• Live Forever - Oasis
• I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles

Stage 5

• Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At Yourself) - Eric Clapton
• Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
• Sweet Little Angel - B. B. King
• Crossroads - Robert Johnson
• Evil (Is Going On) - Howlin' Wolf
• Mary Had A Little Lamb - Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Going Down Slow - Jimmy Witherspoon
• I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
• Mrs Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
• That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly

Stage 6

• Please Forgive Me - David Gray
• I'm a Believer - The Monkees
• Dakota - Stereophonics
• No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley
• Pink Bullets -The Shins
• The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King
• Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
• The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
• House Of The Rising Sun - Traditional

Stage 7

• Summer Of '69 - Bryan Adams
• Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
• Lucky Man - The Verve 
• California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas
• Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
• You Really Got Me - The Kinks
• Have A Nice Day - Stereophonics
• Love Is All Around - The Troggs
• Down Under - Men At Work 
• Weather With You - Crowded House

Stage 8

• Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen 
• Fast Car - Tracy Chapman 
• Fields Of Gold - Sting 
• Vincent - Don McLean
• Wonderwall - Oasis 
• Polly - Nirvana 
• Molly's Chambers - Kings Of Leon 
• The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel 
• All The Small Things - Blink-182 
• Pretty Fly For A White Guy - The Offspring

Stage 9

• Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
• Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Wherever You Will Go - The Calling 
• American Pie - Don McLean 
• Redemption Song - Bob Marley & The Wailers 
• Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton 
• The A Team - Ed Sheeran
• Zombie - The Cranberries 
• Hand In My Pocket - Alanis Morissette 
• Let It Be - The Beatles

Bonus Songs

• You're Beautiful - James Blunt 
• Imagine - John Lennon 
• Hey, Soul Sister - Train
• Wild World - Cat Stevens
• Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
• Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel 
• Dream Catch Me - Newton Faulkner 
• Substitute - The Who 
• Driftwood - Travis 
• Times Like These - Foo Fighters

• The JustinGuitar Beginner's Songbook by Justin Sandercoe
• Spiral Bound
• 224 Pages
• 248x170mm