Easy Acoustic Guitar Lesson on Basic Chords For Beginners

Guitar Control presents founder and instructor Claude Johnson with an Easy Acoustic Guitar Lesson on Chords – Learn the Basic Guitar Chords For Beginners Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here from guitarcontrol.com and I want to give you a real quick mini-lesson for beginners on playing the song “Lola“. It’s a great example of how a few basic chords come together in a beautiful song. So you have your E chord and then you have an A chord and a D chord. We’re not going to go through the whole song, but just the first part uses just three chords. The message that I keep giving you guys, you beginners out there, is that once you learn a few basic chords you can easily put them together into almost all your favorite songs. The first part of this song is two bars of E and then it goes A, D, E, A. It’s just three chords. Check the link in the video description for the chord chart and I also go over, in some of my other videos, the exact fingerings you need. But hopefully you’ll do that first; learn those basic chords. Once again, the seven chords you need to know: E minor, G, C, D, A, A minor and E. I keep saying that in so many of my videos. Just to give you an example of how it sounds, and I’ll show you the strum in just a second, too. That’s the basic idea. The strum is one, two, three, four. So you hit the one and the three and then you do one-and, two-and, and, four-and. Let’s do it again. One, three; one-and, two-and, and, four-and; one, three. I hope that makes sense for you guys. Once again, check the link in the video description and if you’re a beginner and you really want to get going fast, check-out my beginner guitar course. Just go to guitarcontrol.com/beginner. Thanks for watching.