Once you have decided on a song to play and sing you will want to sing along with the original recording and then learn the guitar parts without singing.

At that point you can start breaking down the melody and guitar part together.

I quite often like to learn the melody on guitar and sing each line while playing the melody on guitar.  Then I sing the line again with the actual guitar part.

And if you play piano, that is another great way to learn to sing the melody while playing it in your right hand and then just hold the chords in the left.

These Need to be Listed by Difficulty

Links to Video and Cover Found Below

Bob Dylan - Knockin on Heavens Door
Coldplay - Lost
Paramore - The Only Exception
Neil Young - Heart of Gold
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Tegan and Sara - Call if Off
Oasis - Wonderwall
Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes
John Mayer - Daughters
One Republic - Secrets
Broken - Seether
Passenger - Let Her Go
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Bedoiun Soundclash - When the Night
The Beatles - Blackbird

Possible new ones:

Justin Beiber - Love Yourself
Ed Sheeran - Perfect

This lesson explores the popular I V vi IV progression (don't worry if you don't know what that means) and uses open G, D, Em and C chord.  Also explains capo and bar chords.

This lesson also uses a capo and the popular chord forms G, Dm and C.  Because of the capo we hear B, F#m and E.  This lesson also explores strumming in 6/8 time.

This lesson is a bit more advanced.  It uses bar chords and a very cool rhythm pattern that may take a bit to get used to.  But once again the breakdown will get you there if you put in the time.

This is a fun song to play and sing by One Republic.  It uses arpeggios in the verse and then a combination of open and bar chords in the chorus.  The cover was done by myself and a past student.

This is that very popular Passenger song.  It uses some tricky fingerpicking making it the hardest of the singing/playing lessons.  However the strum parts while singing are not bad.