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First chords on guitar
Learn three easy chords and play your first song.
By Carlos
Community contributor
- Beginner
- 30 min
- 5 lessons
- English
About this course
Learn three easy chords and play your first song.
What you’ll learn
- Tune up
- Hold it comfortably
- Learn E minor
- Add G and C
- Strum a song
Materials needed
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Lessons
Open a lesson to read it. Mark it complete when you are ready.
A free tuner app works: tune each string until the needle sits in the middle.
Sit up straight, guitar on your right leg, thumb behind the neck.
Two fingers on the second fret of the A and D strings, then strum all six.
Switch slowly between the three chords; speed comes with practice.
Down, down, up, up, down, up: many folk songs need only these chords.
Learn together
Pass it on!
Teach the three chords to someone from another generation and play a song together.
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