Pinch Me One of the early s most fun radio tracks is a simple progression, made up mostly of F, C and G. The arpeggiated tab sheet is included beneath the chords. Check the button below for the full video lesson, via Guitar Tricks. I Wanna Hold Your Hand Once again Sandercoe takes you through all the details, though you might be able to pick it up simply by watching his demo at the beginning.
Beware of speedy chord changes. Full video lesson via Guitar Tricks is available as well:. Let it Be Same deal here. Sandercoe demos chords and then fills in the details after. A full tutorial of the more complex version of the song can be found via the following button:.
There are a few seventh chords in this one and technically an augmented chord, which the sheet leaves out. Ode to Joy The only difficult aspect of this song is following the lyrics written in German. Otherwise, get your open chords on and you'll be all set. Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, throwin' down. Flickr Commons Image via Aktivioslo. War Pigs There are only two chords in this song, D and E flat.
If you want to make it even easier on yourself, just go with D and E and forget the flats. Blink's hit sounds like a fast punk rock mess, but it's actually an extremely easy song in the key of Am, running through Am, C, F and G for most of the tune. Acoustic or electric guitars can swing it. Why have so many people covered this song? I'd bet it's because a lot of people know how to play G, C, D and Am.
Just C, F and G for this one. If you want to make it modestly challenging, go with the G7 chord flavoring. More than a Feeling The chords are nothing more than G, C and Em, though the tab I linked to covers the solos and lead portions as well. If you need help with those tougher segments, give the Guitar Tricks video lesson a spin.
They'll let you do a free trial for 14 days, which gives you plenty of time to learn at least this song. Mud on the Tires I love the lyrics for this one. Just a great song to learn and sing on an acoustic guitar. Paisley does a lot of complex picking, but the chords themselves are incredibly simple. Paisley is just really good at making simple stuff sound fantastic. HD video courses by Guitar Tricks, from beginner to advanced. Checkout the entire program, FREE for 14 days.
You can substitute Am7 and Bm7 for regular Am and Bm chords, if you don't want to mess with the more complex seventh voicings. The dude who posted this on Ultimate Guitar has a sweet cover he posted on YouTube with an acoustic guitar capo'd at the second fret.
Hurts Like Heaven You need a capo to play along with the track, but if you have one, this song is incredibly easy. All you really have to do is rock back and forth between the G and the C with a few variations thrown in there.
If you don't want to mess with seventh chords, just go with E, A and B. Faceless Man The link has both a lead sheet and a chord sheet following the lyrics. You can tackle the intro if you like, otherwise you can just go with G, C and F. That's all it takes. If you want to nail each note, Henry Olsen has a fantastic video lesson that covers everything.
All you need to play through the entire thing is a firm grasp of G, A and D. Don't spend it all in one place. Crowder does a good job of vamping up an old campfire ish Christian standby.
O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing This contemporary rendition of the old hymn has a pretty distinct electric and acoustic segment, though is an easy song to learn on an acoustic guitar with just a handful of strumming chords.
David Crowder doing his best Duck Dynasty impression. Flickr Commons Image via Doug Oines. The song is in the key of D and uses a couple different progressions. Very doable. An awesome song from a band that fairly puts out a bad track.
Nothing but Dm, F and G chords on this one. The live version kills it. This one made it onto one of the new Call of Duty soundtracks, which brought most of the band's initial attention. It's a bit more difficult than your average campfire tune, but easily picked up by an intermediate electric player familiar with drop D.
Further, a lot of their music makes for easy songs to learn on acoustic guitar with plenty of CAGED system strumming. Jailhouse Rock It's a bluesy tune, so you'll have some seventh chords to deal with.
Though it's almost entirely E, A and B, with maybe a flat or two thrown in to make things interesting. Guitar Tricks has the full video tutorial, if needed. Wonderful Tonight One of Clapton's most recognizable piece is also one of the easiest to play, that is, if you ignore all the lead work. Without it, you've just got to master G, C, D and Em. Cocaine Most of this song is just E and D. If you get really thorough, you'll find a C and B chord in there as well.
Tom Finch, of Guitar Tricks, covers the slightly more difficult electric version. Songsterr has you covered. Blinded by the Sun Once again, four chords get the job done here with a great acoustic guitar song. Flickr Commons Image via Kmeron. Over my Head If you know D, Em and G, you've got a good shot at nailing this down in just a few minutes. Some Nights Terrible band, 'ok' song - fantastically easy chord progression, made up mostly of F, C and G.
Voodoo This song has the unique distinction of not sounding like many other Godsmack songs. The guitar part is understandable just by watching someone play it, which you can do via Mike Olekshy's video tutorial. Time of Your Life Maybe learn the violin part of you want more of a challenge? Power chords will do the trick. Redneck Paradise feat. Radioactive This hit from Imagine Dragons is layered with a thick electronic sounds that overshadowed the guitar playing.
It helped to push them into the mainstream back in early and has been has stood as one of the easiest songs to learn on acoustic guitar ever since. You also need soul. Can't help ya' there.
The Middle There's some fast downward strumming, but if you can handle that, the chords are literally just A, G, and D. Please Don't Go Joel Adams wasn't very well known before this song, but it's a great tune on the piano and easily moved over to guitar.
The transposition here via Ultimate Guitar is close, if not completely accurate. His version is a bit more guitar friendly, and personally, I like it better then the NIN rendition. Moreover, the chords are an easy E-A-B progression, in a kind of bar blues -- very simple.
The free resource for this guide is a songbook that will teach you some popular and easy tunes, like "Bad Moon Raising", " Hallelujah", or "Hey Joe". Click the button below to request your access to the free download area.
Get The Songbook Now. When we first start playing guitar it is common to learn just a couple of easy guitar chords and most new players are pretty anxious to get playing their guitar as soon as possible. In this mega list we are going to provide some great examples of easy guitar songs for beginners , with a limited number of basic guitar chords.
That way from the very beginning you have something to show for each step of your guitar learning path. There are so many songs of every genre out there, were should you begin when you start getting the hang of playing the guitar? Below are some examples of songs specifically for electric and acoustic guitar.
Anyway, in this article we are going to use songs with easy chords , starting from simple songs with only 2 and adding one chords or two while we advance in the list. In this first section we are going to stick to one of the common keys and in this case the Key of C. Most new guitar players immediately learn C major and G major chords in open position, so let's find a list of music that can be played with just those two chords.
G major being the fifth in this key. In western music the easiest and best sounding interval is the root and the fifth, that's why it is so easy to write simple songs using only the chords C major root and G major fifth. Most two chord songs of the root and fifth are going to be in the folk, gospel, and country genre, but we have a few that fit in the modern rock category!
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It just doesn't get much better than Hank Williams, who wrote Jambalaya back in well he most likely co-wrote it based off an old Cajun melody. This is another simple two chord melody that can be strummed or picked. Sometimes when playing simple two chord songs we want to add a little spice to the strumming since we don't have too much going on musically. Once you have the basic melody and song down, experiment a little! Many folk songs that have two chords will sometimes use the 7th, if you haven't learned G7 yet that is fine as you can still play the song, but you may come across this 7th again with two chord songs so keep an eye out.
As a beginner it is usually ok to play just the G major, but hey it doesn't hurt to learn it now! Here is another great example of the G7 being used in this old time American spiritual.
However, it is fine to play G major in the place of the G7. It will still sound fine and your audience will never know the difference! If you grew up in the early 90's, you probably wanted to scream after hearing this song played a bazillion times!
It wasn't written by Billy Ray Cyrus, but he sure made it popular. Despite it being played into the ground back then it is actually a great song for beginning guitar players. In fact, if you know a drummer and bass player, all three of you can play this with minimal. Even the great and talented Beatle John Lennon wrote his share of really simple songs.
Give Peace a Chance makes a great campfire song, especially for the chorus. This song was written by John during his famous Bed-In with Yoko… ironically like playing this song, peace is really not complicated! This 50's song had a big comeback after the movie Beetlejuice, it is a traditional Jamaican folk song made popular by Harry Belafonte. While this song is simply C major and G major like the rest on this list, the key to playing it is to get the strum right.
Jamaican and reggae type songs often have an emphasis on the 2 and 4 beat, strum with a percussive type effect on these beats as you play the Banana Boat Song. As mentioned before, most songs that only have these two chords in them of C and G will often be kid's songs or folk songs. However, it is always good to know these really simple songs like Mary had a Little Lamb because you never know when you will have a young audience that will want to hear a familiar tune!
I included this great song by The Beatles because it is a good example of how even a two chord song can be a little difficult to play. You will find much of the verse is in G with a short part in the C major chord, in fact many sites have the chord as G7. As you learn to play it, it will seem strange that you are staying in that same G chord for much of the verse. I find this can be fixed by good strumming and switching between G and G7.
It's really all about using your ear. G7 is not that much different than G major and now is a great time to pick it up and start using it. With Paperback Writer you see that even two chords in a song it is not always easy! Sly and the Family Stone has always been one of my favorite bands, and their song Everyday People fits our two chords of C and G perfectly. This song sounds great on an acoustic or electric guitar, just remember to add a little bit of soul and funk to it!
Another song about peace and equality and all it needs is two chords! Technically this song is in the Key of G , but it fits our needs for only using C and G. This song dates all the way back to the 's, so while it may be a simple children's song we have to give it some respect for such staying power.
It transitions back and forth quite simply between C and G without much fuss and is a great beginners song. It sounds fine with basic strumming, but it sounds much better with a little finger picking, give it a try and see what sounds best to you! If you have an electric guitar plug it into and amp and give this old folk tune some rockin' amplification!
Note : this song requires in some parts the F chord. Look at the insight just below on this page. Some of these songs have the F chord in some parts. Full bar chords are not easy for beginners. If you're not comfortable yet with bar chords , you can use one of the simplified shapes that you find on the F major chord diagrams page.
It can be played with fingerpicking or for beginners with a very simple strum and sounds best when you pluck the bass note of the chord and then strum the the rest of the strings. Our lesson series on easy guitar songs that you can play with just some basic chords continues here. In the section above we talked about songs with just 2 chords: here is where our songs really start to expand, by adding the A minor to our C major, G major, and F major chords.
It is actually a little crazy how many tunes follow the pattern of C-G-Am-F. There are so many choices for 4 chord songs that below we will simply pick the easiest ones to represent them.
The Penguins released the song Earth Angel in and it was one of the first songs to crossover from the rhythm and blues charts to the pop charts. Which along with a few other songs from that era helped pave the way for the Rock explosion. Doo Wop songs nearly always followed this same progression as Earth Angel. Yes of course this is a novelty song by Bobby Boris Pickett, but it is so easy to play and fun. And Monster Mash follows the exact progression as most other Doo Wop songs.
This song by Jason Mraz is a little more recent than the others mentioned so far and a big hit, catchy and a very simple progression throughout.
The progression is known as the Axis of Awesome because thousands of songs share it. Once you have learned this axis of awesome you will be able to play way more songs than just this one by Jason Mraz. Even if you do not like this song by Mraz, you will surely find one with the same progression that you love! If you happen to play the ukulele along with the guitar you probably already know this song! You will get a download of all the video guitar lessons, all the guitar tab and charts, plus the tracks to playalong with.
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