Two Chord Songs

In this short video you will learn to play 20 songs using only two chords.

Two chord songs. There s something for everyone in this 20 song list so don t be afraid to have som. That s right even the beatles wrote some 2 chord songs. Best songs to learn on guitar. Also notice that the fret number to the left of the chord chart is labeled 2.

2 chord songs eleanor rigby by the beatles. Most two chord songs of the root and fifth are going to be in the folk gospel and country genre but we have a few that fit in the modern rock category. The only prerequisites for this lesson are that you know some basic chord shapes know the basics of changing between chords and know how to strum the guitar. The line connecting the two 1 s is the bar.

The songs we ll be looking at only require you to play two chords and use simple strumming patterns. Look at the image below. 1 jambalaya on the bayou it just doesn t get much better than hank williams who wrote jambalaya back in 1952 well he most likely co wrote it based off an old cajun melody. Eleanor rigby uses the e minor and c major chords.

Chords one of the most famous two chord songs mainly because it makes no bones about its simplicity ping ponging back and forth between the home key of e minor and an enigmatic d6 9 chord with a f bass. You can use just 2 chords to play tomorrow never knows paperback writer don t let me down and eleanor rigby. You might also encounter what s called a barre or bar chord such as b major.