The pure clear sound of the acoustic steel string guitar makes it the ideal instrument to accompany the human voice.
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The guitar is also a very portable and personal instrument plus the fact that so many favorite songs only use three chords makes the guitar easy to learn.
The most guitar friendly keys for guitar accompaniment are: Key of G, key of D, Key of A and Key of E.
Key is a short list of Folk and Traditional songs that use only 3 chords.
Folk and Traditional songs
Beautiful Brown Eyes
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Blue Tail Fly
Careless Love
Cattle Call
Crawdad Song
Frankie and Johnny
Golden Slippers
Goodnight Irene
Goodnight Ladies
Gotta Travel On
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Home On The Range
Jesse James
John Henry
I Gave My Love A Cherry
Letter Edged In Black
Little Brown Jug
Michael Row The Boat Ashore
Midnight Special
On Top Of Old Smokey
O’ Susanna
O’ Them Golden Slippers
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
Red River Valley
She’ll Be Comin’ Round The Mountain
Strawberry Roan
Swanee River
This Land Is Your Land
Worried Man Blues
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There’s hundreds of other Folk And Traditional songs that require only 3 chords keep your ears open and add new titles to this list as you discover them.
Now let’s turn our attention to Sacred and Gospel songs that use 3 chords.
Sacred and Gospel Songs
Amazing Grace
Faith Of Our Fathers
Farther Along
Gloryland Way
I Saw The Light
I’ll Fly Away
In The Garden
Jesus loves Me
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Nearer My God To Thee
Old Rugged Cross
Softly And Tenderly
That Old Time Religion
Where Could I Go (But To The Lord)
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Again, this is list is just the tip of the iceberg there’s many more just waiting to be discovered.
The trick is to play all these songs with easy chord shapes while still being able to accompany the vocalist(s) in a key that best suits their voice.
The ideal way to achieve this is to master the three basic chord shapes in the guitar friendly keys and then use a capo to transpose these easy chord shapes into other keys.
The three basic chords in the key of G are G, C & D7.
The three basic chords in the key of D are D, G & A7.
The three basic chords in the key of A are A, D & E7.
The three basic chords in the key of E are E, A & B7.
The best news is you don’t even have to know all the chord shapes listed above, you could play all these songs (and a whole lot more), by learning only three chords in one key. However it’s better if you know at least two keys.
Take your time and learn these basic chords on the guitar, you will be glad to did, they will reward you with many hours of fun on the guitar.
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