Play Every Song (with only 5 chords)

Serenade someone special – or yourself! – with Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud,” guided by star teacher Kyle! Good luck and keep shredding! For more tutorials, click here. To take a lesson with Kyle, click here!

Jam to Vance Joy’s “Riptide,” guided by star teacher Shane! Good luck and keep shredding! For more tutorials, click here. To take a lesson with Shane, click here!

Play your heart out with Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me,” guided by star teacher Shane! Good luck and keep shredding! For more tutorials, click here. To take a lesson with Shane, click here!

Learn to serenade your loved ones with Ed Sheeran’s #1 hit “Perfect,” with star teacher Jaime! Good luck and keep shredding! For more tutorials, click here. To take a lesson with Jaime, click here!

Learn to rock Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” with star teacher Jaime! Good luck and keep shredding! For more tutorials, click here. To take a lesson with Jaime, click here!

Get Started Now. You may have seen the 2009 Axis of Awesome video demonstrating that thousands of songs use the same chord progression. This particular progression, the most popular of them all, is called the I – V – vi – IV (one, five, six, four). In the key of G that’s G, D, Em and C. So without further ado, here are 39 songs in chronological order from 1969 – 2013,

Get Started Now. It was a stretch to do Play Every Bob Dylan Song (with only 5 chords). It’s more of a category title than a factual statement and the same is true of The Beatles. You can’t actually play every Beatles song with only five chords but if you transpose the chords and make the occasional substitution you can definitely play a lot of them. Let’s take a look at a few! 8

Get Started Now. Can you play G, D, Em, C and A7? Great! That means you can play almost every Bob Dylan song ever! If you’re learning guitar, you may already know that it only takes a few chords and couple strumming patterns to play thousands of songs. Today let’s look at the ones by iconic singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and use our capos to make sure we only need a few chords! Blowing in