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Grow Old With You by Adam Sandler is a perfect beginner guitar song because it’s more about feel than flashy technique. With simple chord shapes and a relaxed strumming pattern, you can focus on playing smoothly and keeping the rhythm steady. In this guitar tutorial, we use easy chord substitutions (like Cadd9 instead of C)
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Free Fallin’ is one of those songs that feels great to play because it uses the same chord progression the entire time. That makes it an ideal choice for beginners—you can focus on staying relaxed, keeping time, and getting comfortable with your strumming hand instead of worrying about lots of changes. In this lesson, you’ll
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Stand By Me is one of the best beginner songs you can learn on guitar because it uses just a few familiar open chords and a steady, repeatable strumming pattern. Once you get the feel of the groove, the entire song flows naturally from start to finish. In this lesson, you’ll focus on smooth chord
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When It Rains It Pours by Luke Combs is a great beginner song because it uses familiar chord shapes and a steady, repeatable strumming pattern. In this lesson, you’ll focus on G and Cadd9 using a simple 2-finger trick that keeps your hand relaxed and makes chord changes smoother. We break the rhythm down step
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What I Got by Sublime is hands-down one of the best beginner guitar songs ever written. It uses just two chords (D and G) the entire way through, which means you can focus on rhythm, feel, and sounding musical instead of stressing over chord changes. Once you get the common strumming pattern locked in, you
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Brown Eyed Girl is one of the most popular beginner guitar songs, and in this tutorial we make it even easier using my 2-finger G trick. We’ll walk through the chords step-by-step and simplify the switches between G, C, D and Em so they finally feel smooth and controlled. You’ll also learn a super common
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“Sundown” is a great choice for beginners because it uses just a few repeating chords and a strumming feel that’s easy to simplify. Even though the original has lots of rhythmic variation, you can play the whole song using one steady pattern, and then add a second pattern later for extra groove—especially over those E7
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This beginner-friendly tutorial walks you through the full chord progression for You Should Probably Leave, using simple shapes and an easy acoustic strumming feel. You’ll learn the intro groove, the main downstroke pattern, and how to switch smoothly between the repeating Em–G–C–G progression. We’ll also break down the chorus pattern (Du-U-udu) and show you how
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This beginner-friendly guitar tutorial breaks down the upbeat groove of Man! I Feel Like a Woman! and shows you how the strumming starts early—on the “+ of 4”—so you can feel the rhythm instead of fighting it. We’ll walk through the main riff, simple chord shapes, and an easy strumming pattern that makes the whole
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🎧 Full Song Play-Along Track → Members Click Here 🎸 Not a member yet? Join the All-Access Pass to unlock every full play-along, step-by-step course, and all my tutorials. In this guitar tutorial, we’ll learn how to play Burn One Down by Ben Harper, a laid-back acoustic anthem that’s perfect for beginners. The song uses
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