learning the guitar

10 Easy Guitar Chords for Beginners

So you have a new guitar and you’re excited to learn some easy guitar chords for beginners. If you started by looking through a chord book or at chord diagrams online, you probably found yourself completely overwhelmed. There are hundreds of possible guitar chords!

Even if we simplify it down to just the major and minor chords, we still have 24 chords and some of these are difficult for a beginner to play.

Let’s make this much easier. Learn the following 10 easy guitar chords in a variety of keys and you can play almost any song.