Are you a guitar beginner? Have you always wanted to be able to play a song without having to look up the chords?
It was a hit in the US in 1972, having been written and released first in England. It knocked “Heart of Gold” off the number 1 spot – an interesting fact considering how many people thought it was a Neil Young song.
“Horse With No Name” was inspired, according to songwriter Dewey Bunnell, by a Salvador Dali painting of a desert and an Escher picture with a horse riding out of it.
Horse With No Name Strum
(If you don't understand the above image please read our article How To Read Guitar Chordboxes In 60 Seconds. It will make everything clear!)
Switch chords each measure. There are four beats of Em and four beats of D6/9/F#. Some folks refer to this as the Horse chord.
Knowing why chords are named and what they do not always do very much in the way of helping you understand how to play them.
A Horse With No Name
What chord names do is help you understand the notes in the chord. If you are a beginning guitar player, chances are your knowledge of the note names on the guitar is pretty much limited to the open strings.
That’s okay! You can go for a good long while advancing on the guitar before you have to sit down and deal with the names of the notes all the way up the neck.
To understand why one of the main Horse with No Name chords has such a bizarre name, let’s just dip into it a little bit.
Horse With No Name Free Guitar Tab By Jeffrey Thomas
Chords are made up of notes that derive from the major scale. D’s major chord derives from the D major scale, shown above.
Pro-Tip: The numbers in the chords all relate to the major scale beginning on the note that is the root of the chord.
Learning the names of the major scale notes helps you to quickly identify the notes in the chords you play! Music Theory for Beginners is our lesson to get you started on that road.
A Horse With No Name Sheet Music
Instead of a steady down-up marching strum, which you’d count 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +, you strum down-up with a swing, where the down strum is longer than the up strum.
Ordinarily, when you’re learning a sort of complex strumming pattern, you may want to go slowly to be sure to get the whole rhythm coordinated before you take it at tempo.
Combining the constant down-up motion with phantom down-strums is tricky for everyone, so be patient with yourself if you don’t get it right away. You know the song. It will come.
How To Play Horse With No Name Chords
The chorus is in harmony, so you can pick your starting note – stay with the B if you like! – and sing along with the recording to figure out your vocal line.
Pro Tip: If you’re not up to the challenge of this solo just yet, you can play a one-note solo over this progression!
You need the one note at the high E string, the 12th fret. You can use others, but this is the best one.
Horse With No Name Chord Chart And Lesson
It does not have to get any more specific than that. If the note sounds good to you, then it is the right note to play!
It’s the kind of problem you’d like to have, being in a group of people happily singing and playing your newly-discovered Horse With No Name chords and wondering how to change things up a bit.
The full bass line is a little busier than that. Because of the constant loping strum of the guitars, the bass is responsible for all of the punctuation in the song.
How To Play America's Horse With No Name
Here is the entire bass part for “Horse With No Name.” Can’t read the bass tab? Yes, you can! The strings on a bass are E A D G, just like the low four strings on your guitar. Just remember that, as with all tabs, the strings are upside down!
Instead of the standard E A D G B E guitar tuning, he decided to use D E D D D tuning. The heat was hot, I guess. If you try this, you have to slightly reshape your chords.
Here are the revised Horse With No Name chords using the Beckley tuning, which he never repeated in any other song. That means he probably had a whole separate guitar for this one song.
Horse With No Name Guitar Lesson
Pro-Tip: The vocal harmonies in this song build chords! Find some friends to sing with, pick your notes, and try to harmonise without falling into each other’s part.
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