

Be sure to check the tuning of your guitar if you find yourself taking the capo on and off multiple times. Half step increments.Īnother thing to note is that you can’t play any strings below the capo (it won’t really make any sound).Īnd as a general warning, sometimes when you take your capo on and off, the tension can cause your guitar to go out of tune. We won’t dive too deep into what keys are here - this is something for a lesson on music theory.īut the basic gist of it is, for each fret that you raise your capo, the pitch of each string on your guitar goes up by half a step. In music theory, a key is essentially a collection of notes, or a ‘scale’, that forms a piece of music. This shortens the strings, causing your guitar to change keys. Keep transitioning between 2-3 chords until you can easily do it without having to shuffle your fingers around.Īnd when you can finally switch between chords in about a second or so, that’s when you know you’re doing pretty good. Don't worry about picking up any more advanced pedals quite yet - focus on practicing without mistakes. You just have to keep playing one song over and over again until you get it. Pretty soon you'll find yourself getting more advanced, maybe even picking up a reverb pedal or two! With a couple hours of practice, you should be able to start picking up your first chords and transitioning your fingering between them faster and faster.

With these two criteria, you’ll start playing in literally no time at all. We did sprinkle in some more difficult chords in there, but we also marked those songs so you’d know that the chords might be harder to pick up on your fret board.īut don’t underestimate the simplicity here… The songs we chose below all have chords that are simple for you to get. Some chords are harder to get to than others, and just take more practice to master. When you’re first starting out you’re still developing calluses and getting comfortable with picking out chords. The chords are easy to find on the fret board for a beginner. A beginner can practice 2-3 chords and then have the ability to play the entire song! Pretty cool, right?Ģ. In my eyes, a good beginner song has the following traits:ġ. What makes a song “easy”? What separates a regular guitar song from one of the ones on our list down below?

Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone When You Say Nothing At All by Alison Krauss If you want to jump down to the list, click here!.
