111 Best Beginner Classical Guitar Songs

Learning classical guitar songs is one of the best and easiest ways to quickly go from sounding like an amateur guitarist to impressing yourself and others with your fingerstyle finesse and mastery of multiple fingerboard positions. Classical guitars are more affordable now than ever, and if you want to gain confidence on the guitar and prove to yourself that you can create beautiful music on six strings, I recommend picking a few of these beginner classical guitar songs and practicing them to perfection.

The skills required to master these tunes will transfer over to many other genres and playing styles and take your basic chords to a whole new level, so give these best beginner classical guitar songs a listen and get ready to start sounding like you know what you’re doing.

First, you’ll find a few videos to help you see the proper form, posture, and technique, followed by a long list of tabs and many songs including sheet music to get you started on your classical guitar learning adventure!

Top-Rated Classical Guitar Songs For Starters (With Tabs Attached):

1. Night’s Sorrow – Becoming the Archetype – Tab – Video
2. Greensleeves – Anonymous – Tab – Video
3. Für All Ich Krön – Hans Voit – Tab Video
4. Minuet In G Major – Johann Sebastian Bach – Tab – Video
5. Siciliana – Fernando Carulli – Tab – Video
6. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen – Traditional Christmas Song – Tab – Video
7. Op. 211 No. 1 Small Piece – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
8. Op. 51 No. 4 Etude – Mauro Giuliani – Tab
9. Op. 241 No. 3 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
10. Op. 21 No. 2 Allegretto – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
11. Op. 211 No. 4 Small Piece – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
12. O’Hanukkah – Traditional Jewish Song – Tab
13. Op. 21 No. 7 Andantino mosso – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
14. Charmante Gabrielle Op. 52 No. 3 – Napoleon Coste – Tab
15. Le Papillon Op. 50 No 1 – Mauro Giuliani – Tab
16. Op. 60 No. 17 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
17. Op. 60 No. 13 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
18. Op. 21 No. 6 Waltz – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
19. Op. 241 No. 23 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
20. Op. 60 No. 3 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
21. Écossaise – Mauro Giuliani – Tab
22. Op. 5 No. 1 Choix d’Airs – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
23. Op. 241 No. 1 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
24. Op. 60 No. 2 – Fernando Sor – Tab
25. Op. 100 No. 1 Etude – Mauro Giuliani – Tab
26. Op. 50 No. 7 Valse – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
27. Op. 60 No. 14 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
28. Op. 21 No.1 Andantino – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
29. Opus 60 No. 1 Study in C Major – Fernando Sor – Tab
30. Op. 211 No. 3 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
31. Opus 26 Etude No. 1 – Dionisio Aguado – Tab
32. Ode to Joy (Solo) – Ludwig van Beethoven – Tab
33. Op. 60 No. 18 – Fernando Sor – Tab
34. Joy to the World – Lowell Mason – Tab
35. The Water is Wide (solo) – Misc. Traditional – Tab
36. The Twelve Days of Christmas – Traditional Christmas Song – Tab
37. Ricercar – Franciscus Bossinensis – Tab
38. Villancico de Navidad – Agustine Barrios – Tab
39. La Campanella – Niccolò Paganini – Tab
40. Op. 241 No. 11 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
41. Op. 14 No. 17 Waltz – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
42. Opus 35 No. 1 – Fernando Sor – Tab
43. Lagrima – Francisco Tárrega – Tab
44. Op. 60 No. 9 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
45. Op. 211 No. 5 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
46. In the Bleak Midwinter (solo) – Gustav Holst – Tab
47. Chester – William Billings – Tab
48. Adelita – Francisco Tárrega – Tab
49. Etude in E minor – Francisco Tárrega – Tab
50. Opus 10 No. 5 Etude – Dionisio Aguado – Tab
51. Un Dia de Noviembre – Leo Brouwer – Tab
52. Spanish Romance with Tremolo – Anonymous – Tab
53. Opus 35 No. 22 in B Minor – Fernando Sor – Tab
54. Gran Vals – Francisco Tárrega – Tab
55. Variations in Tremolo, Opus 21 – Fernando Sor – Tab
56. Waltz in E Minor – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
57. Op. 60 No. 5 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
58. O Holy Night (solo) – Adolphe Adam – Tab
59. Branle Englese – Emmanuel Adriaenssen – Tab
60. Op. 5 No. 4 Choix d’ Airs – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
61. 26 Studies No. 7 – Dionisio Aguado – Tab
62. Für Elise – Ludwig van Beethoven – Tab
63. Lullaby (solo) – Johannes Brahms – Tab
64. Op. 14 No. 9 Waltz – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
65. Op. 211 No. 2 Small Piece – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
66. Op. 60 No.19 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
67. Good King Wenceslas – Misc. Traditional – Tab
68. Op. 60 No. 10 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
69. Op. 241 No. 2 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
70. O Christmas Tree – Misc. Traditional – Tab
71. Op. 241 No. 4 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
72. Ejercicio – Jose Ferrer – Tab
73. 120 Right Hand Studies – Mauro Giuliani – Tab
74. Op. 51 No. 1 – Mauro Giuliani – Tab
75. This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie – Tab
76. Up on the Housetop – Benjamin Russell Hanby – Tab
77. Holy, Holy, Holy – John Bacchus Dykes, Reginald Heber – Tab
78. Op. 14 No. 18 Allegretto – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
79. Op. 241 No. 5 – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
80. Op. 60 No. 8 – Fernando Sor – Tab
81. La Cucaracha – Misc. Traditional – Tab
82. Andante – Johann Kaspar Mertz – Tab
83. Exercise on the 1st String – Johann Kaspar Mertz – Tab
84. Ja Nuns Hons Pris – Richard the Lionheart – Tab
85. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (solo) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Tab
86. Jingle Bells – Traditional Christmas Song – Tab
87. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas – Traditional Christmas Song – Tab
88. Andantino – Joseph Kuffner – Tab
89. Quant Je Suis Mis – Guillaume de Machaut – Tab
90. Adagio (duo) – Johann Kaspar Mertz – Tab
91. La Fanfare – Francesco Molino – Tab
92. Op. 3 No. 10 Petite Piece – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
93. Gallarda – Gaspar Sanz – Tab
94. Lullaby with Tremolo – Franz Schubert – Tab
95. Etude No. 1 – Fernando Sor – Tab
96. Op. 51 No. 2 – Mauro Giuliani – Tab
97. Recuerdos de la Alhambra – Francisco Tarrega – Tab
98. Bourree (duo) – Johann Sebastian Bach – Tab
99. A Mighty Fortress is Our God – Martin Luther – Tab
100. Canary Dance – Joachim van den Hove – Tab
101. Op. 44 No. 9 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
102. Op. 14 No. 7 Sentence – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
103. Op. 60 No. 11 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
104. Op. 21 No. 12 Minuetto – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
105. Op. 60 No. 4 Etude – Fernando Sor – Tab
106. Home on the Range – Woody Guthrie – Tab
107. Sicilienne – Matteo Carcassi – Tab
108. Andante in G – Ferdinando Carulli – Tab
109. El Fagot (The Bassoon) – Julian Arcas – Tab
110. Tango No. 3 – Jose Ferrer – Tab
111. El Noi de la Mare – Miguel Llobet – Tab