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Browse 2031+ 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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House of the rising sun
The Animals
Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
Under the Bridge
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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
5.3 / 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
7.5 / 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
6.7 / 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
3.4 / 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
9.8 / 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
7.3 / 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
3.7 / 10The first riff nearly every guitarist learns, and the one nearly every guitarist learns wrong.
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The Animals
3.4 / 10The song where most guitarists stop strumming and start picking, with one F chord standing in the way.
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Do I Wanna Know?
Arctic Monkeys
4.7 / 10A modern riff with beginner notes and a groove that exposes every rushed beat.
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Come As You Are
Nirvana
3.6 / 10A two-fret riff that only sounds like Nirvana once the tuning and the chorus pedal are right.
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Back in Black
AC/DC
5.2 / 10Three chords and a lot of silence: the riff that teaches you how to stop notes, not just play them.
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Paranoid
Black Sabbath
4.5 / 10Beginner power chords at a tempo that turns a simple riff into a stamina test.
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Metallica
5.6 / 10The friendliest way into Metallica: a mid-tempo palm-muted riff, with a wah solo waiting at the end.
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Nirvana
3.9 / 10Four power chords anyone can fret, and a sixteenth-note strum that decides whether it sounds like Nirvana.
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Seek & Destroy
Metallica
6.0 / 10Early Metallica at a manageable speed: the song that teaches thrash downpicking without breaking your wrist.
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Creep
Radiohead
4.3 / 10Four chords on repeat, two of them barres: the song most guitarists learn barre chords for.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
6.1 / 10A gentle-sounding song whose intro is an intermediate lesson in Hendrix-style chord embellishment.
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Everlong
Foo Fighters
5.2 / 10Easy drop-D shapes with ringing open strings, strummed at a pace that makes it a real stamina song.
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Fade to Black
Metallica
4.4 / 10Metallica's first ballad: open-chord arpeggios and mid-tempo power chords, with one of metal's best-known outro solos at the end.
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Blackbird
The Beatles
4.4 / 10A mid-ladder fingerstyle song: two-note shapes, a right hand that never stops and bars that refuse to stay the same length.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
4.8 / 10Open chords and a famous clean riff at a moderate tempo, with a solo section that asks for barre chords, bends and vibrato.
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Highway to Hell
AC/DC
3.0 / 10Three open chords, an early riff entrance and a record that players report runs flat of concert pitch: easy shapes, honest timing.
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. New to guitar? Start with the 15 easiest D-tier songs, ranked by player ratings.
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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
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
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 beginners filter songs by difficulty?
Yes. Every song in the library carries a community difficulty score from 1 to 10 and a tier from D to S, and the tier filter works without an account. Beginners should start in D tier (1–3.9) and move to C tier (4–5.9) once those songs feel comfortable.
Which guitar app lets you choose songs by difficulty level?
Riff Quest does. The free song library ranks every song by difficulty ratings from guitarists who practiced it, groups songs into tiers from D (beginner) to S (legendary), and filters by tier and genre without an account.
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.