fuck learning metallica, I love the band so much but im sick to death of them when it comes to jamming or playing guitar. I've heard my brother play fade to black at least 10 times more than I've heard metallica do it. Then again, he can now play the solo about 3 times as fast and behind his head.

Like I said though, 'when you're at that stage'. You quickly progress beyond it, and after a few songs, they are pretty boring to learn.

Hmmm..
Learn some Michael Angelo

Fire Garden Suite - Steve Vai

Far Beyond Metal is insanely fun to play, and pretty simple too (depending on your level). Same with Earth Day. Also Crystal Mountain by Death is a great song to learn.

[djskrimp]

"It's Love" by King's X.

Porcupine Tree - Mother And Child Divided

It's easy as fuck, most of the song is one note.

It's really easy to play, but Random Analysis is hella fun to play on guitar.

Regulator! The New Black is also fairly easy if you got the hang of speed picking.

I just got a new guitar on monday and it seems to me I'll grow fond of this thread right here

I'm also mighty proud of myself because I tuned my acoustic guitar to open C and almost learned Hide Nowhere, yeah

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Groovy riff from first level of Doom, tabs included. Informative stuff

Nirvana - About a girl
Outcast - Hey ya
Faith - George Michale
Sublime - Santeria
Wish you were here - pink Floyd
Dire straits - Sultans of swing
Beatles - Help!
Neil young - Heart of gold
Led zepplin - Dyer maker
Metallica - Master of puppets
Deftones - Root
S.y.l - Two weeks

Party favorites. Relatively easy, All in standard tuning.

And for the more advanced....

Zimmers hole - We rule the fucking land
The Black dahlia murder - Nocturnal
Misery signals - Weight of the world
Gojira - Global warming
S.y.l - Aftermath

[swervedriver]

One of my favorites to play acoustically (I barely play electric other than in band rehearsals) is The Silent Man by Dream Theater. It has some interesting chords and the solo isn't that hard either, plus it's an actual song. If you're into playing and singing at the same time this one's also decent for that.

I'm currently learning some Opeth songs because a friend of mine has a Best Of Opeth tabbook and was friendly enough to give me some scans. Closure is nice to play, currently studying The Drapery Falls and Bleak. And one of my own songs which turned into some sort of finger exercise because it's pretty intense to learn (downside of writing something in Guitar Pro I guess). Stupid cramps.