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5 Essential Guitar Open Chords for Beginners (With Finger Positions)

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Top 5 Guitar Open Chords for Beginners With Finger Positions
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This guitar chord chart is designed for those who have never picked up a guitar but want to play something straight away. I’ve mindfully removed all distractions to let you focus on just placing your fingers and actually playing the chords. There are hundreds of chord variations on a guitar but these are the top 5 essential chords that every beginner player should learn. They are also not random chords but the ones which work and sound good together.

Features and focus of this compilation

  • For beginners with no experience
  • No confusing theory and symbols
  • Easily playable
  • All chords sound good together
  • All chords have 1 or more open strings
  • Both major ("happy") and minor ("sad") chords
  • Only one basic type of chords—triads
  • No hard-to-play barre chords
  • Shows which fingers to use
  • Chords that are used by popular songs

Once you get comfortable with these 5 easy chords I recommend you move on to the top 7 guitar chords for beginner which contains all the main chords from 3 musical Keys (A-major, G-major and D-major) which allow you to play thousands of songs.

Chords in this collection

G, Am, C, D, Em

Work together

These 5 chords belong to one "family" (G-Major) which means you can play them basically in arbitrary order and they will all sound good together. Try it!

Easily playable

Guitar is an instrument where one and the same chord or even a single note can be played in numerous ways and positions. E.g., a chord can be played the hard way or an easy way suitable for a beginner player. Notes that make up these chords have been carefully chosen so that if you’ve never picked up a guitar before you could play them all and make music from day one.

Used by famous popular songs

Every song uses a specific collection (or “family”) of chords which gives that song its concrete sounding (happy, sad, romantic, etc.). The interesting fact about this compilation of chords is that they form the basis of hundreds of insanely successful pop songs. Great music should not be complicated just like these chords.

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Date added May 20, 2022
Date last updated June 3, 2024
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