Some songs are far easier to play than others. In this lesson, let’s look at some easy songs that use some of the simplest guitar chords you will learn.
These songs are surprisingly easy to learn so read through all the advice and you’ll have everything you need to get started.
If you plan on singing along with the chords, read through this guide on how to memorize song lyrics. You can also use the same methods and tricks to memorize the chord progressions.
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Important: If you don’t know how to read chord diagrams, check out this Ultimate Guide to Reading Chord Diagrams. The guide explains everything you need to know to read guitar chord diagrams, including how to use a capo with the diagrams and other helpful tips. It also includes a PDF you can download with common chord shapes.
Read this lesson to learn how to practice guitar chords as well as how to rapidly change back and forth between chords. If you find it difficult to play these songs, try going through the exercises in that lesson.
Riptide is an easy song to learn because it only uses four basic open chords. The strumming patterns are also very simple so it’s a good starting point if you’re just starting to learn chord-based songs on guitar.
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This song uses a capo on the 1st fret. You don’t have to use a capo to play this song, but if you want to play along with the recording a capo is recommended.
If you don’t have a guitar capo, check out this Ultimate Guide on Capos to find out why they’re handy and what type to get.
There are only four chords used in this entire song and for most of the song only three of those chords are used.
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Note: If you don’t know how to read the above chord diagrams, check out this Ultimate Guide to Reading Chord Diagrams before you continue reading this lesson.
If you don’t already know these chords, memorize them. Am, G, & C are used in countless songs. Fmaj7 is an easy alternative to F, so if you see a chord that uses F but you can’t properly play it yet, you can substitute Fmaj7.
There are two basic strumming patterns used in this song. Of course, you can experiment with adding variations to the strumming patterns, but start by learning these two patterns.
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Start practicing these strumming patterns using one chord (eg: Am), then when you build your confidence in the pattern you can practice it with the full chord progression (eg: Am G C).
You will notice that the second strumming pattern is almost identical to the first. Listen to the song and see if you can pick when the first pattern is used and when the second pattern is used.
Practice alternating between the two strumming patterns to build your confidence in each one. Then while you play the song you can effortlessly change back and forth as you want.
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Zombie is a great song to learn because it combines an interesting strumming pattern with some surprisingly simple chords that have complicated names.
Every other beginner lesson I’ve seen online doesn’t give the proper chords for this song, so if you’ve seen this song on another website and wondered why it didn’t sound right, it’s because they gave you the wrong chords.
I’ve seen some sites say to ‘simplify’ the chord progression into: Em, C, G, Em. While that might sound like a good idea, it ruins the sound of the song.
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The good news is that the original chords not only sound better, but they’re easier to play. So there’s no need to ‘simplify’ the chords at all.
This is a good example of why you shouldn’t stress whenever you see a chord with a confusing name. Some of them are easy to play.
If you had to say this chord’s name (Em11/F#) out loud, you can say “E minor 11 with F sharp in the bass”. It basically means we’re playing an Em11 chord, but we’re playing an F# as the lowest note.
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If you haven’t seen E5 or C5 chord names before, you might know them as something else: power chords. Any time you see a note name with ‘5’ at the end, it’s a power chord. Check out the Guitar TAB to see how we play the E5 and C5 power chords.
The key to practicing a pattern like the one above is to constantly move your hand up and down as if you were hitting the strings each time. When you see an arrow, hit the strings in that direction. When you don’t see an arrow (eg: on the first ‘e’), still move your hand in the natural direction (eg: up), but don’t hit the strings.
This might feel awkward if you haven’t done this before, but it will make a big difference to your strumming abilities. Your strumming hand should be constantly moving up and down and only hitting the strings when there is an arrow in the diagram.
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If you listen to the song, each chord hit sounds powerful and consistent. Playing every hit with a downstroke helps achieve this sound. If you were to play down-up-down-up, the rhythm would be the same, but each chord would sound different (try it to see what I mean).
The below Guitar TAB shows the verse chord progression. It may look confusing, but keep in mind that what you see below is the exact same strumming pattern as shown above.
Notice that all of the strings aren’t played for every chord hit? This is an important point to keep in mind when learning to strum chords. By only strumming some of the strings instead of all of the strings, you can change the way the chord sounds.
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In this song, try alternating between strumming the high strings and all the strings. Don’t worry about being precise in which strings you hit. If the above TAB shows only the top three strings and you hit the top four strings, that’s fine.
To understand why this is important, try strumming every chord the same by playing all strings. Sounds kind of boring, right? By breaking the chords up and changing how many strings you play each time, it makes the progression sound more interesting.
The below Guitar TAB is for the chorus. This is meant for a distorted electric guitar, but you can still play it on an acoustic.
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You can start off with a simplified version, then as you learn new skills you can move towards the actual recorded version.
What I like about this song compared to many of the other songs in this list is the way it splits up the chords. Instead of strumming all of the strings during the intro and verses, you split the chords up as shown in the Guitar TAB later.
Many beginners have trouble with F, so instead of listing the full barre chord version, I’ve listed the simplified four-string version. With this simplified version, you flatten your index finger across the first fret on the first two strings.
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If you can’t play this chord yet (you will with practice), you can substitute it for Fmaj7 as shown earlier in the Riptide guitar chords.
The verse is incredibly easy. You strum Am three times in a row, then after a pause, you strum C three times then strum D three times.
Normally when playing something like this you would strum down-up-down. Other sites I noticed suggest that strumming pattern. The reason I recommend all downstrokes is because it better prepares you for what is actually played in the song.
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There are two ways you can play the chorus. The reason there are two ways is that there are two guitar parts layered on top of each other in the recording.
One guitar constantly strums the chords in a constant down-down-down-down pattern. But this pattern only works if you play a certain way, which I will explain later.
The difference that will make it sound like the song is when you split the chords up as shown in the below Guitar TAB:
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In fact, for the first two hits of the chord, you only play a single string. You still place your hand in the full chord position and hold it, but you only pick one string.
If you play the above TAB, you’ll instantly hear how it matches the song. This is why I listed the strumming pattern as all downstrokes. Playing this as all downstrokes is easier and sounds best.
Remember how I said there are two ways you can strum the chorus? Well, let’s look at the first way where you’re constantly strumming.
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All of this is played with downstrokes. Notice that almost every second hit only plays the bottom couple of strings. That’s really important to get right, so take your time practicing this at a slow tempo before you speed it up.
You will also notice the last chord hits for F, C & G lift the fingers completely off of the strings. As you will see in a lot of other songs, many guitarists like to do this to give them extra time to move into the
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