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Easy Guitar Songs for Beginners

Popular guitar songs built from a few beginner-friendly open chords.

These 708 songs are the easiest on ChordLines — each is built from just a few beginner-friendly open chords, with no barre chords to trip you up. They're the perfect starting point if you've just picked up the guitar. Try Do I Wanna Know (acoustic), Used To Get High, and Mama Take Me Home.

  1. 121 Do I Wanna Know (acoustic) Arctic Monkeys Am 1.0K
  2. 122 Used To Get High John Butler Trio Em 1.0K
  3. 123 Mama Take Me Home George Jones G 1.0K
  4. 124 The ones the wolves pulled Down Garth Brooks D 1.0K
  5. 125 Send The Light Hymnal D 1.0K
  6. 126 Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way Waylon Jennings G 1.0K
  7. 127 Rising Sun Cold Chisel D 1.0K
  8. 128 I Me Mine The Beatles Am 1.0K
  9. 129 A Piece Of My Heart Amy Macdonald Ab 1.0K
  10. 130 Late Night Telephone List Casey Donahew Band D 1.0K
  11. 131 Asombrado Ebenezer Gm 1.0K
  12. 132 Oh Me Nirvana G 1.0K
  13. 133 Seeing Nellie Home Johnny Cash A 1.0K
  14. 134 The Trooper Iron Maiden Em 1.0K
  15. 135 Force of Nature Oasis G 1.0K
  16. 136 Helter Skelter The Beatles G 1.0K
  17. 137 The Unicorn Song Irish Rovers C 1.0K
  18. 138 Guantanamera Joan Baez C 1.0K
  19. 139 The Legend Of The Rebel Soldier Lee Ann Womack G 1.0K
  20. 140 The Solid Rock Praise and Worship D 1.0K
  21. 141 Taxman Oasis E 1.0K
  22. 142 Teri Deewani Kailash Kher Em 1.0K
  23. 143 A-beggin I Will Go Traditional Em 1.0K
  24. 144 Pharoah Pharoah Praise and Worship A 1.0K
  25. 145 Youll Never Run Out Of The Blood Unknown G 1.0K
  26. 146 Mountain Song Jane's Addiction D 999
  27. 147 Cannibal Kesha Em 998
  28. 148 Darling Say Youll Love Me When I'm Old Foster and Allen G 996
  29. 149 Come To Me Catie Curtis G 996
  30. 150 Can The Circle Be Unbroken The Carter Family A 992
  31. 151 Only Trust Him Hymnal G 991
  32. 152 Into My Arms Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds) Dm 990
  33. 153 Red River Rising James Keelaghan Em 988
  34. 154 Closer The Chainsmokers C# 988
  35. 155 Bullet the Blue Sky U2 Dm 986
  36. 156 Heroes Oasis D 986
  37. 157 Simple man Bad Company Am 984
  38. 158 SAD! XXXTentacion Am 983
  39. 159 My Testimony Elevation Worship Bb 980
  40. 160 Blinding Lights The Weeknd G 979
  41. 161 Long Tall Sally The Beatles G 977
  42. 162 Paperback Writer The Beatles G 976
  43. 163 Simple A Kanta Ilocano Song G 975
  44. 164 Mama-mia ABBA D 975
  45. 165 Big Balls In Cowtown Bob Wills G 974
  46. 166 God Moves In A Windstorm Blue Highway G 972
  47. 167 O Mistério Elias Silva D 971
  48. 168 Anna Sun Walk The Moon G 970
  49. 169 August Taylor Swift Bb 970
  50. 170 Give Peace A Chance The Beatles D 968
  51. 171 Let Go Aaron Carter G 968
  52. 172 All Shook Up The Beatles G 968
  53. 173 Shes Leaving OMD A 966
  54. 174 Shot Me Down Nazareth C 965
  55. 175 She´s A Woman The Beatles A 963
  56. 176 Blue Suede Shoes The Beatles A 960
  57. 177 Cheater Cheater Joey & Rory E 959
  58. 178 Blue Jay Way The Beatles C 956
  59. 179 Nil Nirjane Cactus G 955
  60. 180 Rainbow Demon Uriah Heep Am 955

Frequently asked questions

What makes a guitar song easy?

We rank a song as easy when it uses only a handful of simple open chords (like C, G, D and Em) and no barre chords.

What are good easy songs to learn?

Popular picks include Do I Wanna Know (acoustic), Used To Get High, and Mama Take Me Home — see the full list above, ranked by how often people play them.

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