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Top 30 Easy Guitar Chord Songs for Beginners

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Last Updated on April 24, 2020 by Klaus Crow

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easyguitarsongsIf you are a beginner guitar player or you just need some inspiration for easy guitar songs you’ve come to the right place.

I’ve put together a list of 30 easy guitar songs that are great to strum along with and a lot of fun to play.

Make sure you practice the chords and switching between chords for each song thoroughly. It will benefit your playing.

I’ve put a Youtube link on each song title and two chord links next to it. The “Chords” link will take you to the chords and lyrics for the song and the “More Chords” link will show you the official transcribed chords if you want to learn more songs of the artist concerned.

Some of the songs in the list below are played with a Capo.

The capo is commonly used to raise the pitch and change the key of a song while still using the same open chord fingerings, but a capo makes it also possible to play a different set of chords for a song which makes the song easier to play while still remaining in the original key of the song. This is a common thing in guitar playing and guitar players do it all the time, not just beginners.

Professional singer songwriters use the capo frequently so they can sing in a particular key but still use the beautiful sounds and possibilities of open chord fingerings.

Life is too short not to use a capo.

That being said you still want to improve your guitar playing once you can play these songs because the more you improve, the better it gets! The world of guitar playing is full of infinite discoveries that will make your life more awesome each time you get to the next level.

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Enjoy the songs!

1 – Knockin’ on heavens door – Bob Dylan Chords – More Chords

2 – Love me do – The Beatles Chords – More Chords

3 – Horse with no name – America Chords

4 – Proud mary – CCR Chords – More Chords

5 – Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond Chords – More Chords

6 – Wonderful world – Sam Cook Chords

7 – Stuck in the middle with you – Steelers Wheel Chords

8 – Fire – Bruce Springsteen Chords – More Chords

9 – Hand in my pocket – Alanis Morissette Chords – More Chords

10 – Teach your children – CSNY Chords – More Chords

11 – Runaway train – Soul Asylum Chords – More Chords

12 – Need you now – Lay Antebellum Chords – More Chords

13 – The one I love – REM Chords – More Chords

14 – Wonderful tonight – Eric Clapton Chords – More Chords

15 – Leaving on a jet plane – John Denver Chords – More Chords

16 – Stay with me – Sam Smith Chords

17 – Mull of kintyre – Wings Chords – More Chords

18 – What’s up – For non Blondes Chords – More Chords

19 – With or without you – U2 Chords – More Chords

20 – Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles Chords – More Chords

21 – Redemption song – Bob Marley Chords – More Chords

22 – Brown eyed girl – Van Morrison Chords

23 – Have you ever seen the rain – CCR Chords – More Chords

24 – Three little birds – Bob Marley Chords – More Chords

25 – Lazy song – Bruno Mars Chords – More Chords

26 – Zombie – The Cranberries Chords – More Chords

27 – Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol Chords – More Chords

28 – Clocks – Coldplay Chords – More Chords

29 – Good year for the roses – Elvis Costello Chords – More Chords

30 – Otherside – Red hot chilli peppers Chords – More Chords

 
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Comments

  5. Wayne says

    Hi, Kathleen
    You can play ”Wonderwall” of Oasis and ”Bouleward of Broken Dreams of Green Day” they’re really easy but brilliant singalong, playlong songs, masterpieces of awesome bands :):)

  7. Grace says

    Also Riptide by Vance Joy is pretty easy, it’s just the same 3 chords over and over again until the end

  9. Maddie says

    Thanks very helpful – grade 4 guitarist but stuck on holidays with no capo, these songs are enjoyable and easy to play

  14. Millie says

    This is a great list, I wish I had found it when I was struggling to find easy beginner songs to play! I have just made my own, shorter list, which includes many of these, plus a couple more. I look forward to reading more here, it looks like a great resource! Happy New Year to you!

  16. Sashi Malladi says

    Looks like the tabsrus website is offline. Hope this is a temporary outage.
    Why not move these to a site such as guitar tabs, if you don’t mind that suggestion?
    Thanks
    Sashi

  19. Josip Roncevic says

    That is very useful.
    Concerning me ,almost 70 th , I do like country as Johny Cash,Willie Nelson,Don Williams,Merle haggard,Alan jacsom,Kris Kristoferson,Dan Seals and similar artists.
    Thanks and best from Croatia ,Zagreb!

  22. Ngụy Hoàng Quốc Khánh says

    This, is, really, wonderful!!! No more comments for this sharing. Thank you – the guy who shares this for me!! Best wishes and a great day for you.

  26. Lilly says

    OMG this is amazing I think my favourite song to play is……. ain’t no sunshine!!!!
    I definitely recommend this website! Thanks for the help some wonderful songs in that list, I’ll definitely spread the word!

  27. kunci gitar says

    Great post!!! I read it yesterday but I had some thoughts about it and today I wanted to read it again because it is very well written.
    I really love the quality writing.

  29. Cptn. Wolfe says

    I was expecting Hurt – Johnny Cash to be here because it’s the song that I am thinking of beginning to play

  30. Leo Li says

    The very first song I learnt is Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here
    Learning Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign and Guns N Roses’ Patience right now
    These are easy songs to strum

  31. shyamal says

    hey. I’m trying to sign up. but it keeps saying I’m a bot. haha Maybe abit supper human but still human lol. can you sign me in.
    thank you.

  32. Laura says

    I’ve been taking lessons for a couple of months now, but needed some extra help with pinky exercises and then found this list of songs. It absolutely made my day to play Leaving on a Jet Plane for the first time. I grew up on John Denver, being born in 1961.

  33. kunci gitar says

    I’m a beginner.These songs help me to learn new things.Thanks for sharing , good article

  35. Shehbaz Khan says

    This is too awesome article for readers.
    Thank You so Much for Share with Us.

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