7 Fun & Easy Guitar Chord Progressions For Beginners

A chord progression is basically a series of chords played one after another in a particular order. But before you learn how to play the following 7 chord progressions, you must know how to play the chords.

Here are the chords you will need to know in order to play these chord progressions:

A Major, A Minor, C Major, D Major, D Minor, E Major, E Minor and G Major

If you are not sure how to play the above chords, click the links below for lessons on how to play each chord:

A Major, A Minor, C Major, D Major, D Minor, E Major, E Minor, G Major

I have also included videos below which demonstrate how to play these chords.

A big thanks to Justin Sandercoe for sharing this great video lessons.  Justin is an exceptional guitar teacher.  You should definitely check out his Website when you have time for more awesome lessons like the ones below.

The A & E Chords:

The D Chord:

The A Minor, E Minor, D Minor, C, G

Watch the videos above and practice those chords first. Then start practicing the chord progressions below.

For the , strum each chord 4 times with a down up down up strumming pattern. Or you can take a look at a post I put together on strumming patterns to make these chord progressions a bit more challenging.  Go very slow in the beginning so that you will be able to change chords smoothly and accurately.

You can test and see if you are playing each chord accurately by playing one string at a time on the chord. If you hear any buzzing , or if any of the notes sound muted, you are either not pressing down hard enough, or one of your fingers or your hand is touching another string.

Here are the Chord Progressions:

G -- C -- D -- G

G -- Am -- D -- G

D -- G -- A -- D

D -- C -- G -- D

D -- E Minor -- A -- D

C -- Dm -- G -- C

E -- D -- A -- E

I know this all seems very difficult in the beginning, and it may seem that way for some time.  The most important thing to remember is to never give up.

Eventually your hands will become stronger, your chords will sound cleaner and your chord changes will become faster.

Enjoy and Happy Guitar Playing!

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13 Comments on "7 Fun & Easy Guitar Chord Progressions For Beginners"

  1. This is magic & fantastic! Keep on developing this on Sun, 17th Aug 2008 2:20 pm 

    Its very funny since i started learn guitar using your site.
    Thanks

  2. KK on Sun, 24th Aug 2008 1:08 am 

    HOW DO FIX A STRING

  3. rserpe on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 6:00 pm 

    Thank you for your wonderful comments and your questions. I am happy you are enjoying the website.

    KK: You asked, How to fix a string?

    The only option you have is to replace the string.

    Replacing a string takes a bit of practice, but it’s not as difficult as it may seem.

    I put together a post not too long ago that includes links and videos which demonstrate how to change your guitar strings.

    Here is the link:

    http://www.learn-acoustic-guitar.com/how-to-change-strings-on-an-acoustic-guitar

    I hope this helps!

  4. Joe on Sun, 21st Sep 2008 9:35 pm 

    Just started playing today, your videos have helped a lot thank you! ;-D

  5. rserpe on Tue, 23rd Sep 2008 12:24 am 

    Hi Joe,

    You are most welcome.

    Thanks for stopping by and the best of luck with your guitar playing!

  6. Daniel on Thu, 9th Oct 2008 9:25 am 

    Hey i haven’t bought a guitar yet, but im looking into it. Anyways yeah i looked at the videos you have posted and i think you will save me alot of money. Thank you so much for posting these videos to help out beginners. You have made me more intrested in learning how to play.

  7. Daniel on Fri, 23rd Jan 2009 5:39 pm 

    I started playin a day or two ago. because of your help im already playin correct chords and learning progressions. thanks a ton!!!

  8. Rebecca on Thu, 13th Aug 2009 1:30 pm 

    Hey, thanks so much for all of this, its really helpful! I’ve written a few songs and now I can sing them and play a few chords too, so they sound much better =] Thanks =D

  9. shane on Fri, 14th Aug 2009 1:48 am 

    well going back to the broken string, there is a way to mend a broken string. however it should be replaced asap because that is the best way to handle a broken string. if need be and your string snaps suddenly,depending on where the break is at it may be able to be fixed by simply twisting the two ends together until tightly wound and proceed to re-stringing.

  10. chris on Thu, 3rd Jun 2010 2:51 pm 

    This is a handy site! I use it to give me ideas for teaching (seeing as though im only 17 and not a fullt qualified teacher). goooooood site!

  11. Annadele on Sat, 16th Apr 2011 9:08 pm 

    This is quite a wonderful webpage. I thoroughly have enjoyed using this… (I’ve only been using it for about 30 minutes:)) thank you for taking your time to help us beginner guitar players! my fingers hurt, but being able to play is well worth it!

  12. Josh on Sun, 22nd May 2011 11:19 pm 

    This website is super helpful for beginners thanks alot!!! Me and my friends reference you all the time & it really does help

  13. rserpe on Mon, 23rd May 2011 2:22 pm 

    Hi Josh,

    You are very welcome! I am very happy to hear you are finding the Website helpful.

    - Ralph

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