Every guitar song
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Browse 1733+ songs ranked by real community difficulty ratings. From D-tier beginner picks to S-tier legendary challenges — find exactly where you are right now.
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Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
Deep-dive song guides.
Full difficulty breakdowns of the songs every guitarist eventually faces — which parts are hard, how long they take, and what to play before and after.
Nothing Else Matters
Metallica
5.4 / 10A beginner-friendly intro that grows into an intermediate fingerstyle piece: the perfect first 'real' fingerpicking song.
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Master of Puppets
Metallica
7.4 / 10A stamina test disguised as a song, built around downpicking, palm muting, and rhythm precision.
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Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
6.6 / 10Five songs stacked into one: a complete course in acoustic and electric guitar that happens to end with a legendary solo.
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Hotel California
Eagles
4.8 / 10A campfire-friendly progression hiding one of the great lead-guitar finals: pick your exam.
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Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns N' Roses
6.5 / 10A string-skipping etude that grew into an anthem: moderate riff, serious solo, and the best picking-accuracy workout in classic rock.
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
3.8 / 10Open chords at 60 BPM with nothing to hide behind: an easy song to play and a genuinely hard one to make sound right.
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The White Stripes
2.3 / 10Four notes anyone can learn today, wrapped around a full song that asks for real dynamics and a bendy blues solo.
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Thunderstruck
AC/DC
7.0 / 10The best-sounding 'easy' riff in rock: one four-note pattern, one string, and a reputation far scarier than the fingering.
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Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne
7.7 / 10A beginner-friendly gallop riff that hides one of rock's most advanced guitar solos right behind it.
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The Trooper
Iron Maiden
7.0 / 10The definitive galloping riff: one rhythm, four minutes, and a picking hand that has to stay relaxed the whole way.
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Snow (Hey Oh)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
9.0 / 10One 16th-note pattern at 105 BPM that never stops: a pure endurance and string-crossing test disguised as a pop single.
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Tornado Of Souls
Megadeth
9.7 / 10A thrash picking exam with one of the most-copied and least-matched solos in metal bolted onto the end of it.
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Eruption
Van Halen
10.0 / 10102 seconds of tapping, tremolo picking and dive bombs, recorded a half step down: the piece that rewrote what a rock guitar solo could be.
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Smoke on the Water
Deep Purple
3.6 / 10The first riff nearly every guitarist learns, and the one nearly every guitarist learns wrong.
Read the guideUnderstanding Guitar Song Difficulty Tiers
Every song in our library is rated 1–10 by guitarists who actually practiced it. We group these into 5 tiers — so you always know what you're getting into.
Legendary difficulty. Reserved for the most technically demanding songs.
Expert-level pieces that challenge experienced guitarists significantly.
Advanced songs with complex fingering, speed, or expressive demands.
Intermediate songs requiring basic technique and consistent practice.
Great starting point. Simple chord progressions and beginner-friendly riffs.
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Frequently asked questions
How is song difficulty determined?
Difficulty ratings come from the guitarists who actually practiced each song. Instead of a single expert score, each song's rating reflects the real-world experience of the community — averaging out all submitted scores.
What are the guitar tier levels?
We use a 5-tier system from D (Beginner) to S (Legendary), based on a 1–10 difficulty scale. D tier covers scores 1–3.9, C covers 4–5.9, B covers 6–7.4, A covers 7.5–8.9, and S tier covers 9–10.
Can I filter songs by genre?
Yes — you can filter by genre and tier directly on this page, or search by song and artist name. Inside the full app you can also filter by difficulty range and sort by popularity or rating count.
Is the guitar song library free to use?
Yes — the song library, progress tracking, and every feature in Riff Quest are free forever. There are no Pro plans, paywalls, or locked features.
How do I add a song to my practice list?
Create a free account, then click any song to add it to your Want to Learn list, mark it as Practicing, or log it as Learned. Your progress is saved automatically.
Questions about the app rather than the library — points, streaks, note detection or what any of it costs — are answered on the frequently asked questions page