BeginnerMajor

G Chord

The G is a major chord that sounds bright, happy, and resolved. Major chords are the backbone of countless songs. Their bright, stable sound makes them perfect for strumming, picking, and rhythm playing across every genre.

Notes:GRoot (1)BMajor 3rd (3)DPerfect 5th (5)

Open Position

G213

Chord Diagrams

Open Position

No barre required

G213

Barre Shape, Fret 3

Uses a barre chord technique

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How to Play G

Follow these steps for the open position fingering:

#StringInstructionNote
1Low E (6th string)●Fret 3 with your middle fingerG
2A (5th string)●Fret 2 with your index fingerB
3D (4th string)○Open, play the open stringD
4G (3rd string)○Open, play the open stringG
5B (2nd string)○Open, play the open stringB
6High E (1st string)●Fret 3 with your ring fingerD

○ = Open string (no fingers needed)

✕ = Muted string (don't play)

● = Press your finger down firmly just behind the fret

Notes in G

The G chord is built from 3 distinct notes, each serving a harmonic role:

G
Root (1)
The root, gives the chord its name
B
Major 3rd (3)
The major third, creates the bright sound
D
Perfect 5th (5)
The fifth, adds power and stability

Songs Using G

These songs from our play-along library feature the G chord:

Your Idol

Saja Boys

intermediate

Mr. Jones

Counting Crows

beginner

Amarillo by Morning

George Strait

intermediate

seasons

wave to earth

advanced

Summer of '69

Bryan Adams

intermediate

Here Comes the Sun

The Beatles

intermediate

One Name

Anirudh Ravichander, Super Subu

intermediate

Where's My Phone?

Mitski

intermediate

Ho Hey

The Lumineers

beginner

Brown Eyed Girl

Van Morrison

beginner

ZLATA OGNEVICH

Zlata Ognevich

intermediate

Hotel California

Eagles

intermediate

A Horse with No Name

America

beginner

Nicole Kidman

ADÉLA

intermediate

Better Together

Jack Johnson

intermediate

Yesterday

The Beatles

intermediate

Babydoll

Dominic Fike

intermediate

Putaapu Gang

Anirudh Ravichander, Thamizh Aadhavan

intermediate

Strangers

Kenya Grace

beginner

Pink Skies

Zach Bryan

intermediate

In A Minute

Lil Baby

beginner

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

beginner

Redemption Song

Bob Marley

beginner

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

masterofacdcsuckaS

beginner

Hey Joe

Jimi Hendrix

beginner

More Than a Feeling

Boston

intermediate

Quebec

Drake

intermediate

Ala Bolelo

Anirudh Ravichander, Arunraja Kamaraj

intermediate

No Woman, No Cry

Bob Marley

advanced

Low Fade

Karan Aujla & MXRCI

intermediate

Love Me Do

The Beatles

beginner

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

Steam

advanced

Monster Mash

Bobby "Boris" Pickett

intermediate

Dust in the Wind

Kansas

intermediate

What I Got

Sublime

beginner

Freestyle

Lil Baby

intermediate

Barsaat

Banjaare, Roni

beginner

Boston

STELLA LEFTY

beginner

KATSEYE (캣츠아이) "PINKY UP" Official MV

HYBE LABELS

advanced

Kesariya

Arijit Singh

beginner

La Bamba

Ritchie Valens

beginner

Dream On

Aerosmith

intermediate

November Rain

Guns N' Roses

advanced

someday i'll get it

Alek Olsen

intermediate

Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone Remix)

Andrew Gold

intermediate

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin

intermediate

Gehra Hua

Shashwat Sachdev, Arijit Singh, Irshad Kamil & Armaan Khan

intermediate

Dance The Night

Dua Lipa

intermediate

Thinking Out Loud

Ed Sheeran

beginner

Channa Mereya

Arijit Singh

beginner

undressed

sombr

intermediate

Touch

KATSEYE

intermediate

Safar

Arijit Singh

beginner

Zombie

The Cranberries

beginner

I Will Survive

Gloria Gaynor

intermediate

Disturbia

Rihanna

intermediate

No One Noticed

The Marías

beginner

broken

lovelytheband

beginner

You Shook Me All Night Long

AC/DC

intermediate

Psycho Killer

Talking Heads

intermediate

Angel Of My Dreams

JADE

intermediate

The Days (Notion Remix)

CHRYSTAL

beginner

Patient Zero

Taylor Swift

beginner

Galliyan

Ankit Tiwari

intermediate

expectations

Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan

intermediate

Sweet Home Alabama

Lynyrd Skynyrd

beginner

Francis Forever

Mitski

intermediate

(Don't Fear) The Reaper

Blue Öyster Cult

beginner

Stop Waiting

Cigarettes After Sex

intermediate

Play On

Geoff Gibbons

beginner

With or Without You

U2

intermediate

Magic Man

Heart

intermediate

Stuck in the Middle with You

Stealers Wheel

intermediate

Rebel Yell

Billy Idol

intermediate

I Remember Everything

Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves

beginner

PUSH 2 START

Tyla

beginner

Dil Diyan Gallan

Atif Aslam

intermediate

Poison

Alice Cooper

advanced

Wicked Games

The Weeknd

advanced

Best Day Of My Life (Acoustic)

American Authors

beginner

All I Want for Christmas Is You

Mariah Carey

advanced

Ik Vaari Aa

Arijit Singh

advanced

Too Sweet

Hozier

intermediate

Marvins Room

Drake

beginner

Flowers

Miley Cyrus

intermediate

Rock That Body

Black Eyed Peas

advanced

We Are Young

Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe

intermediate

Up Around the Bend

Creedence Clearwater Revival

beginner

Have You Ever Seen the Rain

CCR

beginner

March Madness

Future

intermediate

"Soda Pop" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation

Sony Pictures Animation

intermediate

What You Saying

Lil Uzi Vert

beginner

Baarishein

Anuv Jain

beginner

Easy Lover

Miley Cyrus

beginner

Tujhe Bhula Diya

Mohit Chauhan

intermediate

Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

intermediate

I Was Made For Lovin' You

Kiss

advanced

Could you Be Loved

Bob Marley

intermediate

Beautiful Things

Benson Boone

beginner

Espresso

Sabrina Carpenter

intermediate

Madwoman

Laufey

advanced

Tere Bin

Atif Aslam

beginner

American Pie

Don Mclean

beginner

Ordinary

Alex Warren

beginner

Staring at the Sun

The Offspring

intermediate

Something In The Orange

Zach Bryan

beginner

Dreams (2004 Remaster)

Fleetwood Mac

beginner

Perfect Strangers

Deep Purple

intermediate

The Fate of Ophelia

Taylor Swift

beginner

Bulleya

Amit Mishra

advanced

Beds Are Burning

Midnight Oil

intermediate

Gives You Hell

The All-American Rejects

intermediate

Back In Black

AC/DC

intermediate

Mishri

Anuv Jain

beginner

Hurt

Johnny Cash

beginner

Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin

Sonu Nigam

intermediate

Kryptonite

3 Doors Down

intermediate

One way or another

Blondie

intermediate

Kun Faya Kun

A.R. Rahman

intermediate

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

intermediate

Here I Go Again

Whitesnake

beginner

Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)

The Hollies

intermediate

Samjho Na

Aditya Rikhari

beginner

Life is a Highway

Rascal Flatts

intermediate

Let Her Go

Passenger

beginner

Count on Me

Bruno Mars

beginner

I Write Sins Not Tragedies

Panic! At The Disco

intermediate

Sunday Morning

Maroon 5

intermediate

Woh Ladki Jo

Abhijeet

advanced

Home

Phillip Phillips

beginner

Hey There Delilah

Plain White T's

beginner

Golden

HUNTR/X

intermediate

Stereo Hearts

Gym Class Heroes feat. Adam Levine

intermediate

I Ain't Worried

OneRepublic

intermediate

Tom Sawyer

Rush

intermediate

Xanadu

Rush

advanced

Like a Stone

Audioslave

intermediate

Barracuda

Heart

intermediate

Can't Get Enough

Bad Company

beginner

Austin (Boots Stop Workin')

Dasha

beginner

Gimme All Your Lovin'

ZZ Top

beginner

Houdini

Dua Lipa

intermediate

Welcome to the Black Parade

My Chemical Romance

advanced

Gerua

Arijit Singh

intermediate

Panic in Detroit

David Bowie

intermediate

Free Bird

Lynyrd Skynyrd

intermediate

Guess feat. billie eilish

Charli xcx

intermediate

I Had Some Help

Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen

beginner

The Stroke

Billy Squier

intermediate

Eyes Closed

Ed Sheeran

beginner

Dead Fresh

Lil Baby

beginner

The Final Countdown

Europe

intermediate

The Offspring

YoSabina

intermediate

Girls, Girls, Girls

Mötley Crüe

intermediate

Winning Speech

Karan Aujla, MXRCI

intermediate

LUNCH

Billie Eilish

intermediate

Lose My Mind

Don Toliver feat. Doja Cat

beginner

Iris

Goo Goo Dolls

beginner

Physical

Dua Lipa

intermediate

All The Stars

Kendrick Lamar, SZA

intermediate

Is This Love?

Bob Marley

intermediate

Tears

Sabrina Carpenter

intermediate

Wants and Needs

Drake feat. Lil Baby

intermediate

Not Like Us

Kendrick Lamar

intermediate

I Just Might

Bruno Mars

intermediate

Busy Woman

Sabrina Carpenter

beginner

Bol Do Na Zara

Armaan Malik

intermediate

Sports car

Tate McRae

advanced

Stranglehold

Ted Nugent

intermediate

New Religion

Bebe Rexha & Faithless

intermediate

Livin' On A Prayer

Bon Jovi

advanced

Apna Time Aayega

Divine

intermediate

Lover

Diljit Dosanjh

intermediate

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Bob Dylan

beginner

Please Please Please

Sabrina Carpenter

advanced

All Along the Watchtower

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

beginner

Dude Looks Like A Lady

Aerosmith

intermediate

Take Me Home, Country Roads

John Denver

beginner

DENIAL IS A RIVER

Doechii

intermediate

Linger (SiriusXM Session)

Royel Otis

intermediate

Creep

Radiohead

intermediate

I Bet on Losing Dogs

Mitski

advanced

Venus

Shocking Blue

intermediate

Stiff Upper Lip

AC/DC

intermediate

Rock of Ages

Def Leppard

intermediate

Sweet Emotion

Aerosmith

beginner

Demons

Imagine Dragons

advanced

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Green Day

beginner

Iktara

Kavita Seth

beginner

It All Goes

Eloise

intermediate

JUMP

BLACKPINK

intermediate

Losing My Religion

R.E.M.

intermediate

Manchild

Sabrina Carpenter

beginner

Blowin' in the Wind

Bob Dylan

beginner

Leaving on a Jet Plane

John Denver

beginner

Bekhayali

Arijit Singh

intermediate

Smooth Criminal

Michael Jackson

advanced

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son

masterofacdcsuckaS

beginner

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

Rupert Holmes

beginner

Jump

Van Halen

intermediate

How It's Done

HUNTR/X

intermediate

Nothing Else Matters

Metallica

intermediate

Burning Pile

Mother Mother

advanced

Nain Matakka

Dhee, Diljit Dosanjh, Thaman S, Irshad Kamil

intermediate

Wonderful Tonight

Eric Clapton

beginner

Rockstar

LISA

beginner

Time After Time

Cyndi Lauper

advanced

Zaroorat

Mustafa Zahid

intermediate

luther

Kendrick Lamar

intermediate

Akele hain to kya gum hai

Alka Yagnik,Udit Narayan

intermediate

Khairiyat

Arijit Singh

advanced

Ae Watan

Arijit Singh

intermediate

Kisses ft. bbyclose

BL3SS x CamrinWatsin

advanced

Lies

Zach Bryan & Lana Del Rey

beginner

Beauty and a Beat

Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj

intermediate

Call Your Mom

Noah Kahan

beginner

Wild Side

Mötley Crüe

beginner

Lush Life

Zara Larsson

intermediate

Lut Gaye

Jubin Nautiyal

intermediate

I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore

Solo Sounds

intermediate

Opalite

Taylor Swift

intermediate

Come As You Are

Nirvana

intermediate

Mere Rashke Qamar

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

beginner

End of Beginning

Djo

beginner

CHANEL

Tyla

intermediate

tv off

Kendrick Lamar

advanced

Tears in Heaven

Eric Clapton

advanced

Heart of Gold

Neil Young

beginner

Wrecking Ball

Mother Mother

intermediate

Teri Deewani

Kailash Kher

beginner

New Woman

LISA feat. ROSALÍA

intermediate

Gone Gone Gone

David Guetta, Teddy Swims, Tones and I

beginner

Down on the Corner

Creedence Clearwater Revival

beginner

Banana Pancakes

Jack Johnson

beginner

Muskurane

Arijit Singh

intermediate

O Mere Dil Ke Chain

Kishore Kumar

advanced

Pain

Jimmy Eat World

intermediate

Eternity

Alex Warren

intermediate

Roxanne

The Police

advanced

Forever Young

Alphaville

beginner

Smoke On the Water

Deep Purple

beginner

Enter Sandman

Metallica

intermediate

Love Me Not

Ravyn Lenae

beginner

Zara Zara

Bombay Jayashri

intermediate

Why Don't You Get A Job

The Offspring

beginner

Timeless

The Weeknd & Playboi Carti

beginner

Hawa Banke

Darshan Raval

intermediate

Comfortably Numb

Pink Floyd

intermediate

Pretty Ugly

Zara Larsson

intermediate

Mann Bharrya

B Praak

intermediate

Hawayein

Arijit Singh

beginner

Indigo

Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna

beginner

Under the Bridge

Red Hot Chili Peppers

advanced

Carry On Wayward Son

Kansas

intermediate

Aperture

Harry Styles

beginner

White Keys

Dominic Fike

intermediate

Bad Moon Rising

Creedence Clearwater Revival

beginner

Footloose

Kenny Loggins

advanced

Calling After Me

Wallows

intermediate

Ilahi

Mohit Chauhan

intermediate

Internet Girl

KATSEYE

advanced

Guess featuring billie eilish

Charli xcx

intermediate

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

beginner

Bad Habits

Ed Sheeran

intermediate

Enna Sona

Arijit Singh

intermediate

Let It Be

The Beatles

beginner

Tu Jaane Na

Atif Aslam

intermediate

Take Me to Church

Hozier

beginner

THE GREATEST

Billie Eilish

beginner

Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen

advanced

Blackbird

The Beatles

advanced

Sharp Dressed Man

ZZ Top

intermediate

Ring of Fire

Johnny Cash

beginner

Kashmir

Led Zeppelin

intermediate

Good Luck, Babe!

Chappell Roan

intermediate

Staying

Lizzy McAlpine

intermediate

Seven Nation Army

The White Stripes

intermediate

Mary Jane's Last Dance

Tom Petty

advanced

Heartbreaker

Pat Benatar

intermediate

Ashke

Karan Aujla, MXRCI

intermediate

BbY WOW

KAROL G, Judeline, & rusowsky

intermediate

Golden

HUNTR/X

beginner

La Plena (W Sound 05)

Beéle, Westcol & Ovy On The Drums

intermediate

Aerosmith Walk This Way

Aerosmith

intermediate

Somedays

Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, D.O.D

beginner

I Thought I Saw Your Face Today

She & Him

advanced

DYNAMITE

Tyla x Wizkid

intermediate

One Wild Night

Bon Jovi

intermediate

Disease

Lady Gaga

intermediate

Tweeter and the Monkey Man

Headstones

beginner

Renegade

Styx

intermediate

Bad Angel

Anyma, LISA

intermediate

Abracadabra

Lady Gaga

intermediate

Gift or a Curse

Porter Block

intermediate

APT.

ROSÉ & Bruno Mars

intermediate

Anxiety

Doechii

intermediate

A Night To Remember

beabadoobee, Laufey

advanced

Take A Slice

Glass Animals

advanced

GRIMACE (Original Song)

CG5

beginner

Sign of the Gypsy Queen

April Wine

intermediate

Living After Midnight

Judas Priest

intermediate

SHE DID IT AGAIN ft. Zara Larsson

Tyla

intermediate

Don't Fear the Reaper- Blue Öyster Cult

SpiritWriterSong

beginner

No One Knows

Queens of the Stone Age

intermediate

Shakin'

Eddie Money

beginner

So Easy (To Fall In Love)

Olivia Dean

advanced

Urn

Crying City

intermediate

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