So, you’re pretty new to the guitar and want to bolster your repertoire with some easy guitar songs? Your wish is our command! We’ve picked out five tunes today that are not only brilliant songs, but are also really straightforward and easy to play. You’ll need some basic chords but we’ll provide diagrams for you for each tune so can can quickly get the shapes under your fingers. We’ll also include a video of each original song so you can play along!
You’ll find the chords you need for each song alongside each choice, but for reference, here are all eight of the chords we need today, all in one place:
Don’t worry too much about the ‘add9’ and ‘sus4’ parts of the chords right now. What’s important to know is that they are just variations - different voicings - of the basic chords. In other words, if you decide to play a normal C chord instead of a Cadd9, the song will still work!
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G, C and D in particular tend to be the most common chords and you'll find they're used in thousands of well known songs! These chords fairly easy to learn and they sound great together.
We’ll start with this super popular hit from the Californian pop punks Green Day. Billie Joe Armstrong certainly knows plenty about using direct, straightforward techniques to write effective songs. This tune uses a loose, easy strumming pattern that alternates between the lower and higher strings. Just have a listen to the track and you’ll see what we mean!
For the verse, it’s G | Cadd9 | D twice through, followed by two measures of Em | D | C | G before getting to the chorus, which is Em | G | Em | G | Em | D | G. That last G brings you back to the main verse part. Job done!
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Here’s some good news: everything you just learned can be successfully transferred across to this tune! Sweet Home Alabama is a staple for guitar players, and whilst it may be a little while before you’re throwing out the solos, you can certainly get the basic chords down pretty fast!
The vast majority of the song is just a backwards version of the main part in the Green Day song. Play D | Cadd9 | G over and over, and try playing along to the video below to practise your timing:
Record uses a simple four chord progression for the entire track, so there’s not too much to learn here if you want to play along!
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What you’ll notice, though, is that there isn’t any rhythm guitar to speak of. Instead, U2 guitarist The Edge plays textural accompaniment parts for most of the song, whilst bassist Adam Clayton lays down a simple but authoritative bassline that drives the song. We suggest following the bass on this song rather than any particular guitar part, and you’ll have success in no time!
Bob Marley was a master at getting lots out of some simple musical moves. This upbeat, delightful tune uses three of the most basic chords out there, and it’s an absolute classic. Here are the three chords you’ll need:
The song starts off with the chorus, which is a simple back and forth of A and D. The verse follows, which goes a little like this: A | E | A | D | A | E | A.
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Our last tune is another stone cold classic, with an interesting twist for you as a guitarist: we need a capo! If you have a capo, attach it to the 3rd fret of your guitar, and then treat the frets as if the capo is fret zero. In other words, after the capo is on fret 3, fret 4 becomes fret 1 to us, fret 5 becomes our fret 2 and so on. Make sense? Good!
The chords for this song are shown below as if there were no capo. Simply treat the capo as the guitar’s nut and you’ll be fine:
The D chord is ‘really’ an F because of the capo, but we don’t tend to think of things that way when it comes to capos. It could be laziness on our part as guitarists, but we’re all the same!
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Free Fallin’ is like the U2 song in the sense that it follows the same chord progression all the way through the song. Start with the capo on the third fret and then it’s D | G | D | Asus4.
It’s worth noting that you can still have fun strumming these chords without the capo, you just won’t be able to play along with the recording because all of your chords will be three frets too low!
These examples today are a good way to demonstrate just how much mileage you can get from a few simple chords. In truth, there are thousands and thousands of songs that use only a few basic chords. This selection of easy guitar songs for beginners will get you on the path, but check out the artists you love and see if they have some deceptively simple songs! Good luck!Disclosure: This lesson contains affiliate links. As a Guitar Tricks affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. This helps cover costs of maintaining this website.
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Nothing keeps you motivated to play the guitar quite like learning new songs, particularly when you’re first starting out. So, in this lesson I’ve compiled a list of 52 easy guitar songs for beginner players.
Oh, and just because these are beginner guitar songs, don’t get the wrong idea and think that these songs are boring. This list represents a good mix of uptempo and slower tempo rock ‘n roll guitar songs. They range from simple three-chord progressions to more complex seven- and eight-chord progressions and are fun to play whether you’re a beginner or advanced player.
There are 52 songs on this list, so you can mix these songs into your daily practice routine and learn a new song each week over the next year. If you find some too challenging, you can always come back to them when you’ve made progress on the easier songs.
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As an additional learning opportunity, you can experiment with the different CAGED chord shapes and substitute triads in place of the full chords to expand your playing a bit.
“Nutshell” is a four chord song in the key of Em. The ring finger essentially acts as a pivot point between chord changes, making this a particularly easy chord progression to play.
. The F – C – Am – G chord progression is played on repeat throughout the song with only minor variations, making it one of the easiest songs to learn on guitar.
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A simple 3-chord progression, “Dead Flowers” by The Rolling Stones is about as easy as it gets. What I love about it is with three chords you get a verse, pre-chorus, and chorus that are all distinct from each other.
Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” is a great, hard rocking song played in the key of Em. It’s an easy guitar song to lear and one every beginner player should get under their belt.
“The Celestials” by The Smashing Pumpkins is a great song to practice fundamental strumming patterns. This song is played with a capo on the 2nd fret, but the chords shown here are based on the open forms.
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Another easy acoustic guitar song. “Used to Love Her” by Guns N’ Roses is almost identical to “Dead Flowers” by The Rolling Stones. It uses the same three beginner guitar chords, only the chord progression varies just a bit. If you know one, you essentially know the other as well.
Probably my favorite U2 song, “One” is also an easy song to learn on guitar and a perfect song for a beginner.
“Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” provides a good first look at slash chords, which are chords in which a note other than the root is in the bass position, noted by the slash in the chord name. The left side of the slash indicates the chord, while the right side of the slash indicates the bass note.
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When it comes to The Lumineers’ music, they get a lot of mileage out these 4 chords. “Ho Hey” is no exception. It’s a perfect song for a beginner guitar player. This song also provides opportunities to vary the fingering on the F and G chords, so feel free to play around with it.
Album. It’s a five-chord song in the key of G major. It consists of five open chords, making it a perfect guitar song for beginners.
Don’t let the number of chords fool you, The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane” is not a complicated song. It does, however, provide a pretty cool strumming pattern that is loads of fun to play. Be warned, there are a lot of barre chords in this one, so it can get rather fatiguing.
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