Guitar Chords for Beginners

So you want to learn some easy guitar chords for beginners? The first step to learn guitar chords for acoustic or electric guitar is to know how to read guitar chord charts. Don't worry it's easy and you'll soon be playing enough basic guitar chords to play hundreds of songs!

Guitar chord diagrams have 6 vertical lines that represent each of the 6 strings on an acoustic or electric guitar. The horizontal lines represent the frets and the dots tell you where to put your fingers. To learn how to play guitar chords you look at which strings have dots on and put your finger in the same place.

These guitar chord shapes are all easy to play and used in countless songs. Once you've got the hang of playing this practice changing between them.

A Major Guitar Chord





A Major guitar chord

D Major Guitar Chord

D Major guitar chord


E Major Guitar Chord

E Major guitar chord | beginners chord shapes
E major guitar chord



G Major Guitar Chord

G Major guitar chord | beginners chord shapes
G Major guitar chord | beginners chord shapes


C Major Guitar Chord

C Major guitar chord | beginners chord shapes
C guitar chord

A minor Guitar Chord

A minor guitar chord | beginners chord shapes
A minor guitar chord | beginners chord shapes



E minor Guitar Chord

E minor guitar chord | beginners chord shapes
E minor guitar chord | beginners chord shapes


B7 Guitar Chord

B7 guitar chord | beginners chord shapes
B7 guitar chord | beginners chord shapes


D minor Guitar Chord

D minor guitar chord | beginners chord shapes
D minor guitar chord

F Major Guitar Chord

F major guitar chord | beginners chord shapes
F major guitar chord | beginners chord shapes


Playing all of these beginner guitar chords will let you play thousands of songs on acoustic or electric guitar.