Learn About the Four Open Acoustic Guitar Chords

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Tom, I'm doing this for Expervillage.com. In this installment we're going to talk about the four magic chords that allow you to play eighty percent of the music that's on the radio. These four chords, and I'll review them, are G, C, the D chord and an E minor. And believe it or not friends, with those four chords you can play most music around. For example, if I think of an old Beatles tune, watch my hands, so I start on a G, "When I get older losing my head many years from now, will you still be writing me a valentine, birthday greeting, bottled wine." And that was two chords, the G and the D. Or, how about that Monkeys tune, I'm a believer, that I think Smashing Pumpkins did a version of it as well. Same thing, start on G. "I thought love was only true in fairy tales, maybe for someone else not for me. Love was out to get me, that's the way it seemed." And as you can see, that I'll I'm doing is playing three simple chords, G, C and D. And you'll find that most of the songs you listen to on the radio are made up of just three or four chords that I'm going to show you today."