10 Party Sing-Along Songs You Should Know on Guitar!

Hey, how are you, Justin? Today we are going to look at 10 amazing

songs

by

party

sing

ers that you

should

know

because one day someone will throw a

guitar

in your lap and say: Hey, you play the

guitar

, let's

sing

and you. I'm going to say, "Oh my God, what am I going to play?" As happened to me exactly a little over a month ago, on a skiing holiday in France, one of my friends thought it would be a good idea to tell the owner of In the restaurant we were having dinner at, I was a famous guitarist and I had to play a song for everyone and then the owner went and got his guitar and went to play something and to be honest I wasn't really feeling it.

At the time he had my newborn son with me and it was like, oh God, what is going on? One of the other guys in our group knew how to play, so he entertained a few people and then it was my turn and I ended up playing number. Two on this little list I'm going to give you, but they really made me think about what to play in that situation. I tell people all the time that they

should

have a bunch of

songs

on there. One thing I would recommend is that you keep a small copy of the lyrics and chords of the songs you choose for your playlist on your phone, that way you don't have to waste time trying to find the Internet, we had very bad reception in the mountains , so everyone was singing with their phones trying to hear the lyrics, but if you already have them in your notepad, like if you have the justing guar songs and lessons app, maybe you're going to use the one that requires a phone. uh connection or maybe you're going to use the justing gar.com website and use your tab selection to have the lyrics and the chords here on the screen.

Well, all of those things work, but only if you have an internet connection, so I would recommend it. I also have an option without internet for you, so I'll give you what I think is a very good top 10 list that will work for most people, like the young people who

know

it, the slightly older people who know it with relative ease. Most of them also have different levels, so you can play them quite simply, but you can introduce a bit of riffing. If you're a little more technical, you might want to start imagining these songs so most of them have different options, but they all work very well.

Let me know what your top 10 list would be in the comments below. I'd love to know what other Kraken songs there are that I've missed that you definitely put on your list. anyway let's start with number 10 some people call me space cowboy some people call me the love gangster some people call me Maurice CU talk about the poet of love I'm a gatherer I'm a smiler and I'm a lover and I'm a sinner I play my music in the song I'm a joker I'm a smoker I'm a midnight smoker I shouldn't want to hurt anyone so yeah, number 10 is of course the Joker by Steve Miller Band, amazing tune, very popular, sing this one you can play with real basic chords, so you can start the verses going from G to C, to D to C, if you have some people calling me the space cowboy, you can do that. with a really simple strum, if you want someone to call me the love gangster, I have to warn you to do the riff at the same time as you sing much louder, so if you can't do it, just strum the chord, it's much better to stay on time. that trying the chorus is still very simple, it's just a G chord, do a c chord back to the G chord and back to the C g chord and then it's C that goes from D to C, does it twice and that's your chorus and repeat those little sections.

Around you you have the whole song where it began I can't begin to know when, but then I know it's getting loud It was in the spring and the spring turned into the summer, who believe that you come, you come, hands touching, hands outstretched, touching me, touching you. Sweet Caroline The good times never seem so good. I've been believing they would never do it, but now this one is super popular with the ladies for a singer and a really fun one to play too, and again there are lots of little things you can add, you don't have to start with the right one if you're going to find if you can't do that, just start from where you started and you can stay with relatively simple chords, but there are all these others. interesting things you could add there too.

I love songs like that because you know as you grow as a guitarist you can start adding all these things to some of your standard repertoire that you already have. I'm going to go over the intro in this lesson because you can go to the website and see all of that in its entirety, the verses are really simple, they just start with the a where it started and then the d chord. I can't begin to know when. go back to I can't believe it's very strong, repeat all that, the precour is a and if you know it, you can add six hands that touch, otherwise you stay on the a and then extend your hand towards D, touching me, touching me, and then you have this little e d to go to the beats it never looks so E A to go to D and if you want, you have this is just a d triad on the 10th fret 10th fret the two thinnest strings 11th fret so it looks like a D chord with your finger index in the 9th fret is actually an A or D chord A over D is just one of those really nice little details it's not that hard and it's worth it if you're going to play this song at a

party

having the nice car if you can go to all of them like, oh yeah, this guy can play guitar just by editing those little things, there's a really fun song and that's it, there's a lot of other things you can choose to add to this song, like more advanced different chord voicings and stuff, but I think that's the kind of version I would choose if I were planning it at a party when I find myself in times of trouble.

Mother Mary comes to me telling me words of wisdom, let it be and in my darkness she is standing right in front. of me speaking words of wisdom let it be let it be let it be now let it be a whisper look of wisdom let it be no the top 10 list would have been fine without a Beatles song okay this is another one of those I can play it with really simple chords, but if you want to go in and learn the little riff at the beginning it works great too, the little riff is super fast F and then single notes going down to C B flat a g f c a lot of people miss it. that F small F major 7 the note E D going to the C C B flat a g f c then it is the cable C make a problem g a m rest for me seek guidance for G Cod let the cable F and C go to the cable G she is a mine where to see C going a CH C let it see Let it in minor let it G let it f then let it c c card going to G card let it f going to C riff F to C B flat a g f c I mean this is one of those tunes that is a couple of simple chord progressions, it's a fantastic song to play, everyone loves to sing along with this B, nibbling on a biscuit watching the sun bake, all these tourists covered in oil, strumming my sick string on my porch swing, smelling those shrimp that started on B was standing. away again in Margaritaville 1 plus mi L sugar salt some people claim there's a woman to blame but I know she ain't nobody's family you gotta have a little Jimmy Buffer in there if you're talking about party songs but Funnily enough it's really big in states outside the US, no one knows what it is in the UK.

I know people who have never heard of Margaritaville, most people have never heard of Jimmy Buffett, so he's one of my American friends, uh, I just discovered him. To be honest, a few years ago the students in my workshop were really talking about how great he was and I just didn't get it, but now I probably do, I call myself head, he's got some real genius stuff going on. It's so much fun to play this super simple song on the guitar. You can add some riffs if you're playing it with your partner and want to add a couple of lead lines, but we'll start with a d here.

We go nibbling sponge cake and we just stand there looking at the sun, all these tourists covered in acorns now just stay a while strumming my six strings on my porch swing smell those shrimp that started in Bo chorus G We Stand an A C de new to d d cord bille G looking for mi a Shaker of tea G some people a that there is a day a for G but a that's no one's fault and that's it, they are the two main progressions, if you save them in your memory bank, You can play this tune and it's guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser, of course I shortened the intro here a little so you think you can tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain, can you tell a green field from a cold still lane , a smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell it apart? in the chorus how I wish how I wish you were here we're just two l swimming in a fish tank year after year running on the same old ground how we found the same old fear I wish you were here okay, now this is one of them Junes, wishing you here, of course, from Pink Floyd, if you know the intro, if you want to spend a little extra time learning that's your time to shine and show off a little. I can play the guitar, but then everyone else. You will love to sing this is a lovely tune to sing along with the verses and choruses, same core progression throughout so whether you don't know the intro or not it all goes wrong and you're not really sorry just skip to the verse and have everyone sing, even if they don't know the words to the verses, they will definitely know them for the chorus.

Really, a big crowd plays this one. I've played this at parties. God knows. how many times, hundreds of times, probably, so I'm not going to explain the introduction to you. If you want a full and detailed lesson, there is one on the website, but just to give you a quick summary of the verse chords and the chorus goes C do you think you can D Sky from a minor G blue Skar can you say it on the day that C for a cold you still see steps to a minor and then it goes back to a g and it repeats that again for the verse repeats it for the chorus and probably if you're going to do it, if you have a partner that plays guitar, you can do some solos on that central progression and also take the intro as you see fit if you know the solo or that intro. solo, a lot of people learn that little solo there, so if you have to do the place with the guitar and you have two guitars, man, if you both have learned, this tune really sounds Wicked, you know what song it is, oh baby, baby, How was it?

I was supposed to know something wasn't right here, oh baby, baby I shouldn't have let you go and now you're out, show me how you want it to be, tell me baby 'cause I need to know now 'cause my loneliness is killing me and I gotta confess that I still believe that I still believe that when I'm not with you I'll lose my mind give me a sign Hit me, baby, once again, this is one of those surprise party favorites. I get this one out of everyone. of the time because it's a very simple progression and you'd be surprised how many people know the lyrics to this song that you wouldn't think would literally know.

This has probably been my favorite party song. The first time I heard Travis do it, they played it at the Glastenbury Festival, obviously it's a Britney Spears cover, but that was the first time I heard it on an acoustic guitar. I thought that sounds fantastic, they're also very good basic chord progressions, so we have a minor oh baby baby how was I supposed to see the E chord 2 3 4 the D Cod wasn't here a my oh baby baby that is, you see that the D chord was not an E chord in minor still the same chords for the E course, say I see Cod because I need to decode the cable now they are the same chords in the chorus and I see that I must confess that I must confess that I must confess that I owe the a in a baby, it's time to give me a seat to go to town, just think of it as some kind of downbeat rock tune, that's the thing now, the only progression central a little complicated here is the bridge, it starts the same, so a baby, baby, eats it, you see, oh, pretty baby, I'll come and leave you.

So we're back to fasting and my lonely nails are killing me now, don't you know? I still think you should be G and give me a day, hit me baby, one more time, so I want to say this is my acoustic arrangement, obviously the original. The recording is slightly different for that, but be warned, it would be shit to play the whole song, have everyone sing, and then fall apart at the bridge, so just make a little mental note of this one, like I mentioned before. I think it's really good. The idea is to have a little sketch pad of these songs written out, save them on your phone so that if we play this song, you can take a quick look and remind yourself, oh yeah, this is this chord progression, but it has that F chord. .on the bridge, you know, write the whole bridge if you really need to, but have something there that you can activate your imagination.

She's a good girl, she loves her mom, she loves Jesus and America too. She is a good girl crazy about Elvis, she loves horses and a boyfriend too and I am free Free Fallen and not free I am Free Fall. I mean, this is pretty much the same central progression for the entire song, so one of thethings I haven't mentioned yet that are really important when you're Playing solo in a party situation keeps things a little softer for the verses and turns it up for the chorus that way, when it's quiet, people will be able to sing along and watch their phones, listen to the lyrics. for the verse, but the chorus is the part where you want everyone to sing even though there are people who don't know the words to the verses well, so you really want to telegraph a song like this, especially since it's the same in everyone .

Along the way, if you just play it, the same thing gets real boring, so think, let me walk you through the riff and then we'll talk about ways to alter the dynamics, so it starts with a d, but this is the second chord. A lot of people get it wrong, this is basically a like a d sus 4 but with a G bass note or you could think of it as a G chord with a nine added, I don't really think if it was a g n to be honest, so we've gone D, the little finger goes down, the second finger goes.

Go to the bass string, then you'll play that again on a normal D and now the second finger will go to the second fret of the fourth string, so this is an Aus 2, you may have played it like this or sorry, a 4 . not like 2 um so d g g d a obviously you have to get the rhythm right two and three and four and one and two and three four it's all about getting the rhythm if you don't get the rhythm right even with the right chord it's going to sound a little complicated. if you want more details on that again, go to the website and watch the full lesson, it's still free and all that and, yeah, we give you a decent amount of detail so you can play. this song very well, I mean, it's just a great melody that you want to think about, since I mentioned the dynamics, so when the time comes, if you play that riff at the beginning, you'll get some feedback from everyone, oh wow, it's playing freef. fall oh come on let's all look on our phones she's a good girl turn it down so people can hear the lyrics you sing cause if you kept it loud no one would hear it and they wouldn't get excited cause now you let's build it for free , so you have to have that space to go, so when it comes to the choir, you can really go a little bit and encourage everyone and everyone wants to sing because it gets louder, those little tips.

That's actually very important if you're playing solo, if you want people to join in and sing properly, you want to be aware of your dynamics, quiet on the verses, much louder on the choruses and Telegraph, give it a bit. A little anticipation, start building in the chorus to let them know it's coming. Hey, where did we go? Days when it rained in the H playing a new game, laughing and running, jumping in the mid-morning fog with hearts. you're pumping in you a brown eyed girl you my brown girl remember when we used to sing like that man this is the tune right everyone wants to sing along to this because they don't have to know the words you can just TR but it's another one of those in which you would be surprised how many people know the words to this song, if you can, it's a grower, you can learn the little intro part first finger seventh fret second finger eighth fret first finger go up one fret third finger go down the tenth fret move it up up two frets back and then to the starting point then you do exactly the same on the 12th fret go back to the seventh fret now here we have the seventh fret the tenth fret on the third string and the second string and then there are seven 8 10 leave that note until the end G hey, where did it go back to the days G when the D lowered G on the cord SE G playing a game of D G laughing and the SE G then goes to decode G in the misty sea with and G with a stom deod and C a D my brown i g du E minor C you are my brown ey G a D and then it goes through another verse too so that it lasts little part I call the chorus so it goes verse chorus verse chorus and then in the chorus the chorus goes sh see and see C goes to g c and then to d g g is going to sing The D if you ever have a pause in a song a little dull hits don't just leave a pause dead people lose their rhythm quickly if they are not musicians they are not playing and feeling the rhythm and they are They ask what's happening, so, what's happening now, that's That's not the greatest song to sing at a party that ever was.

Two days will be the day they will return it to you. Somehow you should have realized what you have to do, but I don't know. I think anyone feels what I feel for you now and all the paths we have to walk and travel and all the Lords who take us there blind them and there are many things I would like to tell you but I don't. I don't know how I said, maybe you will be the one to save me, but after all you are my wonderful wall, yes, I mean, it works every time and I'm not sure if it works everywhere in the world, but definitely like in England. and Europe, you start this song, it seems like everyone seems to know it and knows the lyrics, like most of the times I've played it at parties, most people knew all the words without looking at their phones, so it's like It was a great tune again.

It's one you can play without all the attention to detail if you want. I have a very detailed lesson on the website where I go over particularly in great detail the chords are relatively easy to put together what I call stuck three and four chords if you had been doing my beginner course you would have learned them in second or third grade, second degree. I think the hard part here is actually getting the strumming pattern right now, you don't have to, you can. play again you're playing at a party where everyone has some cans it's like no one cares or they shouldn't care but if you want to get the strumming pattern right it really is one of those things that people listening say : "wow, okay, that really sounds like that, you know, so I'd record it." I encourage you to spend a little time learning it because it is a very important song to perform at a party.

Almost the sky Blue West Virginia Rich mountains Shinoa river life is old there Older than the trees Younger than the mountains that grow like a breeze Country roads Take me home to the place I belong West Virginia Mama's Mountain Take me home Roads rural yes, they are country roads John Denver I really feel like this is going to be the most popular song you could play if you want people to sing it. I've played it all over the world at parties all over Europe, America, Australia, everyone knows this song and everyone identifies with it. it's just a great song, really simple chords, nothing too complicated, you don't need anything fancy, it just works really well, really very simple chords, so we start with G almost two bars to g, then E minor for two D and b c. a G sit on G for a while again G 3 4 g 2 3 4 e deer that the mountains see the rope as a g country G take me to the lower that I am I see west of G going to From take me to the SE going to G Now the a little bit, that's complicated, a little complicated in this is the bridge, if you get to the bridge you'll want to know what those chords are, so we start with an E minor.

I hear the D on the G string, she calls me. C lead to G Cod from E D far away e Mina going down from F to C and A G going to D yes to D let me do that one more time because this is the only part where it's like a lot of s chords aren't so clear a pattern like the rest of the song Then e I hear the D in the G she Che sees me C a g c from the D very far he Mina for the f I have a court SE that GM be da stays on De Country Road and so on, I think it's such a great song and so fun for a party, so how many of these did you already know?

How many of these would you put on your own list? I am very curious to know them. There were others that I was so tempted to put on Green Day's Good Riddance a great party song, but I'm not sure that compared to the others, maybe I almost took down Britney Spears there for a while, but I think. Britney's is just a surprise hit, like you didn't expect, but it always works really well, things like Sweet Home Alabama, which is also a pretty popular song, but it really takes a lot more effort to get through the whole Rifts if you play it alone, it's like which Rifts you play and which ones you don't.

Hotel California is another. I thought, oh, that would be cool, but you definitely need a cappo for it to be possible to play. no cppo, but if you're going to play Hotel California for me, you want to have that kind of part involved, it's like playing Wish You Were Here, you can play it without the intro, but I think the intro really does it. All of these songs have detailed lessons on the website, so go and check them out. Remember that you can subscribe to Justin Tabs if you want lyric sheets or tabs for many of the songs on there or maybe you want to check them out.

Justin's guitar songs and lessons app that has thousands of guitar karaoke songs where the lyrics and chords scroll on the screen so you never have to forget the chords or the lyrics, so, yeah, really I hope you enjoyed this. Lesson, see you very soon for much more. Have a fantastic day everyone. Bye bye.