By Andrew Gavin Webber

Which beginners guitar chords are easiest to play?

The easiest guitar chords for a beginner guitarist to play are the ones that only use one finger. There are some guitarists who like to tune their guitar differently so that there are many more easy to play chords, but it is a good idea to rather use the standard guitar tuning and first master your guitar chords that way.

Here are the simplest chords you can play on a guitar with standard tuning.

The G chord – one finger version.

Place your third finger behind the third fret, on the first string of the guitar, and strum the first four strings. That’s a simplified G chord.

Okay, I see I’m going to have to explain a few basics on the guitar. Firstly, the strings on a guitar are numbered one to six, and the first string is the thinnest string and has the highest pitch.

I sometimes catch myself getting this wrong, and assuming that the thickest string is the first one. It’s a natural mistake.

The second thing is the finger numbering, which is quite logical, seeing as your index finger is the first finger, seeing as that’s the one you point with.

The second, third and fourth finger are the rest in logical sequence.

Frets are the metal bars in the fretboard behind which you place your fingers. The frets are numbered from the nut, so the nut of the guitar is basically zero. A long time ago, some guitars had a nut, and then immediately after there was a zero fret that the strings rested on.

Anyway, I’m sure you get the idea.

For this version of the G chord, the reason why I chose to use the third finger is because later, when you play the full G chord, your first and second fingers get used.

If you place your first finger on the first fret of the first string, and play the first four strings, you’ve got a G7 chord.

The simplified C chord on guitar.

For this chord you place your first finger on the second string behind the first fret. Here you only strum the first three strings.

So far, those are the simplest guitar chords I can come up with using standard tuning on the guitar. For small children just getting the hang of playing the guitar, these are an easy starting point.

The C and G guitar chords go very well together, but are only suited to a two chord song on the guitar. It’s a bit limiting. To really learn to play the guitar, a beginner would have to start with the open chords, which are still fairly easy to play.

Open chords are called open because they are all played within the first three fret spaces of the guitar, and use some notes from the open unfretted strings.

The open chords you’ll begin with.

The most common guitar chords for beginners are the major and minor open chords. For the major chords there is A, C, D, E and G.

For the minor guitar chords you’ve got A min (min is the chord suffix for minor) then D min and E min. This is a lot better than the one finger chords, but as you can see from the list, there is a lot more needed to be able to play any song you want.

On the positive side, the open chords are the building blocks for more complex and difficult chords on the guitar, and even though there are some chords missing, by changing the key of some songs, you could easily build a fairly large repertoire of songs to play with open chords.

Andrew Webber is a professional guitarist who’s website play-electric-guitar.net has enough Free guitar lessons to get you started on the guitar, not least of which is his page on Open guitar chords.

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