Level 1

Learn a few chords and start playing songs immediately!

Master Your Chords With These Beginner Guitar SongsGood Guitarist

Level 1 Chords: G Cadd9 D

Chords are notated from the low E string to the high e string (EADGbe) with the vertical lines representing each string. The horizontal lines represent frets. The "X" above the diagram means to not play that string while the "O" means to play the string open (nothing fretted). The dots on the diagram represent where your fingers should go on the fretboard; 1=pointer, 2=middle, 3=ring, 4=pinkie.

G Major	Cadd9 (C Major with a D added)	D

Level 1 Songs (Group 1)

For each of the songs below, practice strumming up and down with consistent eighth notes: downstrokes (indicated with an open-bottomed box above the note) on the downbeats and upstrokes (indicated with a V above the note) on the upbeats.

See if you can figure out the chord progression by ear using the three chords above.

Up n’ Down Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan) Leavin’ On A Jet Plane (John Denver) Paperback Writer (The Beatles) Everyday People (Sly And The Family Stone)

Downstrokes Love Me Do (Beatles)

Upstrokes We Are Gonna Be Friends (The White Stripes)

Level 1 Songs (Group 2)

Rock n’ Roll Stone In Love (Journey) You Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC)

Fingerstyle Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd) More Than A Feelin’ (Boston, simplified, verse adds Am and chorus adds Em)