Here’s a detailed guitar lesson on how to play American Idiot by punk rock band, Green Day.

This is definitely an intermediate guitar song. There are way too many bar chords and the chord progression moves along very fast. The main riff of American Idiot comprises of A flat, D flat, G flat, D Flat, and A flat.

He teaches you the basic of the songs and incorporates a couple of cool tips. I wouldn’t suggest this song for a beginner, there are a couple of power chords in the song.

He conveniently plays it on the key of E so you don’t need to drop d tune your guitar. (switching from Drop D to standard is so annoying!).

Check it out!

This song is a bit hard to play but here’s guitar lesson that breaks it down. It only has a couple chords and they’re all fairly basic so it’s pretty easy to play. You’ll need a capo on the fifth fret.