Easy guitar songs are one of the best things about playing guitar-you can take your acoustic guitar to parties or to the beach or whatever and pretty soon you will have a crowd of people around you all singing along to whatever you play-the best thing about easy guitar songs is that most people know the words too! I’ve compiled a list of a few different songs that are easy to play on guitar, but also guaranteed to make you look cool!
Now it would obviously be pretty tough to give the strumming patterns for each song here, so I have just given the chords and you will easily work out the strumming by playing along or if you already know the song!
Easy Guitar Song 1: House of The Rising Sun, as made famous by The Animals. This is a great song, very simple, and a great way to get people singing along. It’s in the simple key of A minor too, so if you feel like it you can throw in some simple Am pentatonic licks and sound really cool! The chords are: Am, C, D, F, Am, E, Am. It’s literally that simple, and to make it really cool you can throw in some easy flamenco style fast strumming!
Easy Guitar Song 2: Sympathy For The Devil, as made famous by The Rolling Stones. This is another great song-all the more cool if you can get someone to do the “oo-oo!” part in the background. Really simple chords, and it sounds great acoustic or electric if you feel like some high gain! The chords are: E, D, A, E all the way through except the chorus which just goes B to E again and again. If you listen to the original you’ll see what I mean.
Easy Guitar Song 3: Freebird, as made famous by Lynyrd Skynrd. An all time great song, and it’s pretty easy to play if you miss out the solo at the end-don’t worry no one will expect you to play it anyway! The song’s in the key of G major, but in true southern rock style if you want to play a solo you can switch between G major and G minor pentatonics you can sound truly cool! The chords for this easy guitar song are as follows: Note-These are the chords for the main verses G, D/F#, Em, F, C, D The chorus just cycles through F, C, and D over and over, and at the end before the solo when it gets fast it’s just G5, A#5, and C5 over and over.
Easy Guitar Song 4: Knockin On Heaven’s Door, as made famous by Bob Dylan, and then Guns N Roses. This is another all time classic song. Great fun to play, and yet really simple. This is another one in G major, although Guns N Roses tune down half a step so their version is in F#. The chords are: G, D, Am7, just cycled over and over again. Easy huh?
Easy Guitar Song 5: For What It’s Worth, as made famous by Buffalo Springfield. This is by far the easiest of the bunch, and a truly great song. It proves you don’t need monster technique or difficult chords to make great music. Excellent lyrics too. In the key of E major. The chords are: E, A, E, A…… and that’s it-simple but brilliant, as all the best ones are!
I hope you enjoyed these easy guitar songs-building up a selection of tunes like this is a great way to get your skills and your confidence up! Enjoy!
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