About
A song finder that knows how you play
Most song finders give every song a single difficulty number. A fingerstyle piece and a fast rock riff get scored the same way for everyone, and nothing accounts for how you like to play.
How the matching works
Every song here carries a profile instead of a score: the chord shapes it needs, how fast the changes come, whether it works in plain downstrokes or needs a down-up strum or its own pattern, whether it can be picked, how easy it is to sing over, and whether it's recognisable from the guitar alone.
Your answers map onto the same profile. The site keeps the songs you can play now, or with one new chord if you want a stretch, then ranks them by how you like to play. Two people who know exactly the same chords can get completely different songs.
The songs
Songs marked Automatic can get a chord wrong, so look at the full chart before you learn one.
You can name any song you love in question 5, even one with no profile here. It still shapes your list, and you get links to its chords and tab.
Why there are no lyrics or tabs
Lyrics, tabs and notation belong to the songwriters and their publishers. Chord shapes are facts about the instrument, so each song page draws those, explains how to strum or pick them and what to simplify, and links to the full chart on Ultimate Guitar and the tab on Songsterr.
Your privacy
There's no sign-up, and your answers stay in your browser. When you search for a song in question 5, what you type goes to MusicBrainz, a free public music database, to find it. When you add a song, its title and artist are saved, with nothing about you, so the most wanted songs get added next.
Who made it
What Song To Learn is made by Daniel, aka WCHIWA, a producer, composer and guitarist who has taught thousands of students. The site picks songs the way he does for his own students: from what they can already play and how they like to play it.