The 24 Most Important Beginner Guitar Chords

Learn the 24 beginner chords below, and you can play 250,000+ easy guitar songs collected from Ultimate Guitar, Songsterr, CifraClub, E-Chords, and countless other sites.

Better still, these beginner chords are ranked by importance to help you play as much music as possible at every stage:

• Click the first chord diagram below to see a list of 1-chord songs that use G.

• Click the next diagram for 2-chord and 1-chord songs that use G and C.

• Click the third diagram for 3-chord, 2-chord, and 1-chord songs with G, C, D.

Rinse and repeat until you reach the last guitar chord (Ab). Clicking this diagram reveals up to 264,000 songs - all of which are playable with these 24 beginner chords.