Songs to play along
Easy guitar songs for beginners
51 songs and pieces to play along with on a virtual guitar, free in your browser.
Each one opens on the guitar with its best-known part, an intro or a verse, looped so you can play along. The key, capo, tempo and strum or picking pattern are set for you, and the song's page shows its chord diagrams. Playing a real guitar along? Choose Play my guitar to slow the song down.
Easy songs with 2 to 4 chords
Start here. Two to four chords, looped, so you can learn the changes before the song moves on.
A Horse with No Name America2 chords: Em D6add9/F#
Here Comes the Sun The Beatles3 chords: D G A7capo 7
Riptide Vance Joy3 chords: Am G Ccapo 1
Yellow Coldplay3 chords: B F#6 Emaj7
Fast Car Tracy Chapman4 chords: Cmaj7 G5 Em Dadd4capo 2
Let Her Go Passenger4 chords: Fmaj7 G Am Emcapo 7
Love Yourself Justin Bieber4 chords: E B/D# C#m F#m
Photograph Ed Sheeran4 chords: E C#m Bsus4 Asus2
Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd4 chords: D Csus2 G Cadd9
Wonderwall Oasis4 chords: Em7 G Dsus4 A7sus4capo 2
More songs to strum, 5 chords and up
Well-known songs with a few more chords, most with a picked and a strummed version.
- Don't Look Back in Anger Oasis5 chords: C G Am E F
Dust in the Wind Kansas5 chords: C G/B Am G Dm7
Hallelujah Jeff Buckley5 chords: G Em7 Em C Dcapo 5
House of the Rising Sun The Animals5 chords: Am C D F E
Knockin' on Heaven's Door Bob Dylan5 chords: G D Am Cadd9 C- Let It Be The Beatles5 chords: C G Am Fmaj7 F
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd5 chords: Em7 G C/G D/F# Am
Creep Radiohead6 chords: G B Bsus4 C Csus4 Cm
Hey There Delilah Plain White T's6 chords: D5 F#m Bm G A D
I'm Yours Jason Mraz6 chords: C G Am F D Em
Zombie The Cranberries6 chords: Em C5 G Dadd9/F# Cmaj7 G6
Shallow Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper7 chords: Em7 D/F# G5 Cadd9 D G C
Stand By Me Ben E. King7 chords: A F#m D E G Em C
Take Me Home, Country Roads John Denver7 chords: A F#m E D G Em C
Tears in Heaven Eric Clapton7 chords: A E/G# F#m F#m/E D/F# E7sus4 E7- Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran7 chords: D5 D/F# G5 A5 D G A
Wake Me Up When September Ends Green Day7 chords: G5 G5/F# Em7 G5/D C Cm G
Can't Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley8 chords: C Em Am Am/G F G7 G Dmcapo 2- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Green Day8 chords: G5 Csus2 D5 Em C G Cadd9 Dsus4
Hotel California Eagles9 chords: Em B7 Dsus2/A A7/C# C G Am7 Dsus2 Em/C#capo 7- Perfect Ed Sheeran9 chords: Ab Fm7 Dbsus2 Ebsus4 Eb G Em C D
Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin9 chords: Am E+/G# C/G D/F# Fmaj7 G/B Am7 Dsus4 D
Nothing Else Matters Metallica10 chords: Em Am C Dadd9 D G B7 Cadd9 G5 B7sus4
Classical guitar pieces
Famous melodies arranged for guitar, picked over their chords. They sound best on the Classic guitar.
Eine kleine Nachtmusik Mozart2 chords: G D7
Für Elise Beethoven2 chords: Am E
Gymnopédie No. 1 Satie2 chords: Gmaj7 Dmaj7
In the Hall of the Mountain King Grieg2 chords: Bm D- Morning Mood Grieg2 chords: E C#m
Spring Vivaldi2 chords: E B
Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude Bach3 chords: G C D7
Habanera Bizet3 chords: Dm Gm A7- Toccata and Fugue in D minor Bach3 chords: Dm A7 D
- Rondo alla Turca Mozart4 chords: Am Em B E
Swan Lake Tchaikovsky4 chords: Bm Em G#dim7 F#7
Canon in D Pachelbel5 chords: D A Bm F#m G
Greensleeves Traditional5 chords: Am C G F E
Lágrima Tárrega5 chords: E B7 C#m F#m F#m7
Minuet in G Petzold5 chords: G G/B C Am D- Ode to Joy Beethoven5 chords: D A7 A F#7 Bm
- Bourrée in E minor Bach6 chords: Em B7 D7 G Bm D
- Moonlight Sonata Beethoven9 chords: Bm Bm/A G C/E F#7 F#7/A# Em D/A A7capo 2
Play your own songs
Is your song missing? Open the guitar, choose Songs & recordings, then My songs, and paste its chords from any chord site. It plays along with the strum or picking pattern you pick.
Tune up first with the free online guitar tuner.