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.
Open Position
Chord Diagrams
Open Position
No barre required
Barre Shape, Fret 3
Uses a barre chord technique
How to Play G
Follow these steps for the open position fingering:
| # | String | Instruction | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Low E (6th string) | ●Fret 3 with your middle finger | G |
| 2 | A (5th string) | ●Fret 2 with your index finger | B |
| 3 | D (4th string) | ○Open, play the open string | D |
| 4 | G (3rd string) | ○Open, play the open string | G |
| 5 | B (2nd string) | ○Open, play the open string | B |
| 6 | High E (1st string) | ●Fret 3 with your ring finger | D |
○ = 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:
Read the deep-dive guide for G
Songs Using G
These songs from our play-along library feature the G chord:
Your Idol
Saja Boys
Mr. Jones
Counting Crows
Amarillo by Morning
George Strait
seasons
wave to earth
Summer of '69
Bryan Adams
Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles
One Name
Anirudh Ravichander, Super Subu
Where's My Phone?
Mitski
Ho Hey
The Lumineers
Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison
ZLATA OGNEVICH
Zlata Ognevich
Hotel California
Eagles
A Horse with No Name
America
Nicole Kidman
ADÉLA
Better Together
Jack Johnson
Yesterday
The Beatles
Babydoll
Dominic Fike
Putaapu Gang
Anirudh Ravichander, Thamizh Aadhavan
Strangers
Kenya Grace
Pink Skies
Zach Bryan
In A Minute
Lil Baby
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
Redemption Song
Bob Marley
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
masterofacdcsuckaS
Hey Joe
Jimi Hendrix
More Than a Feeling
Boston
Quebec
Drake
Ala Bolelo
Anirudh Ravichander, Arunraja Kamaraj
No Woman, No Cry
Bob Marley
Low Fade
Karan Aujla & MXRCI
Love Me Do
The Beatles
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Steam
Monster Mash
Bobby "Boris" Pickett
Dust in the Wind
Kansas
What I Got
Sublime
Freestyle
Lil Baby
Barsaat
Banjaare, Roni
Boston
STELLA LEFTY
KATSEYE (캣츠아이) "PINKY UP" Official MV
HYBE LABELS
Kesariya
Arijit Singh
La Bamba
Ritchie Valens
Dream On
Aerosmith
November Rain
Guns N' Roses
someday i'll get it
Alek Olsen
Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone Remix)
Andrew Gold
Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
Gehra Hua
Shashwat Sachdev, Arijit Singh, Irshad Kamil & Armaan Khan
Dance The Night
Dua Lipa
Thinking Out Loud
Ed Sheeran
Channa Mereya
Arijit Singh
undressed
sombr
Touch
KATSEYE
Safar
Arijit Singh
Zombie
The Cranberries
I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor
Disturbia
Rihanna
No One Noticed
The Marías
broken
lovelytheband
You Shook Me All Night Long
AC/DC
Psycho Killer
Talking Heads
Angel Of My Dreams
JADE
The Days (Notion Remix)
CHRYSTAL
Patient Zero
Taylor Swift
Galliyan
Ankit Tiwari
expectations
Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan
Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Francis Forever
Mitski
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Blue Öyster Cult
Stop Waiting
Cigarettes After Sex
Play On
Geoff Gibbons
With or Without You
U2
Magic Man
Heart
Stuck in the Middle with You
Stealers Wheel
Rebel Yell
Billy Idol
I Remember Everything
Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves
PUSH 2 START
Tyla
Dil Diyan Gallan
Atif Aslam
Poison
Alice Cooper
Wicked Games
The Weeknd
Best Day Of My Life (Acoustic)
American Authors
All I Want for Christmas Is You
Mariah Carey
Ik Vaari Aa
Arijit Singh
Too Sweet
Hozier
Marvins Room
Drake
Flowers
Miley Cyrus
Rock That Body
Black Eyed Peas
We Are Young
Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe
Up Around the Bend
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
CCR
March Madness
Future
"Soda Pop" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation
Sony Pictures Animation
What You Saying
Lil Uzi Vert
Baarishein
Anuv Jain
Easy Lover
Miley Cyrus
Tujhe Bhula Diya
Mohit Chauhan
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
I Was Made For Lovin' You
Kiss
Could you Be Loved
Bob Marley
Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter
Madwoman
Laufey
Tere Bin
Atif Aslam
American Pie
Don Mclean
Ordinary
Alex Warren
Staring at the Sun
The Offspring
Something In The Orange
Zach Bryan
Dreams (2004 Remaster)
Fleetwood Mac
Perfect Strangers
Deep Purple
The Fate of Ophelia
Taylor Swift
Bulleya
Amit Mishra
Beds Are Burning
Midnight Oil
Gives You Hell
The All-American Rejects
Back In Black
AC/DC
Mishri
Anuv Jain
Hurt
Johnny Cash
Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin
Sonu Nigam
Kryptonite
3 Doors Down
One way or another
Blondie
Kun Faya Kun
A.R. Rahman
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Here I Go Again
Whitesnake
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
The Hollies
Samjho Na
Aditya Rikhari
Life is a Highway
Rascal Flatts
Let Her Go
Passenger
Count on Me
Bruno Mars
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Panic! At The Disco
Sunday Morning
Maroon 5
Woh Ladki Jo
Abhijeet
Home
Phillip Phillips
Hey There Delilah
Plain White T's
Golden
HUNTR/X
Stereo Hearts
Gym Class Heroes feat. Adam Levine
I Ain't Worried
OneRepublic
Tom Sawyer
Rush
Xanadu
Rush
Like a Stone
Audioslave
Barracuda
Heart
Can't Get Enough
Bad Company
Austin (Boots Stop Workin')
Dasha
Gimme All Your Lovin'
ZZ Top
Houdini
Dua Lipa
Welcome to the Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
Gerua
Arijit Singh
Panic in Detroit
David Bowie
Free Bird
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Guess feat. billie eilish
Charli xcx
I Had Some Help
Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen
The Stroke
Billy Squier
Eyes Closed
Ed Sheeran
Dead Fresh
Lil Baby
The Final Countdown
Europe
The Offspring
YoSabina
Girls, Girls, Girls
Mötley Crüe
Winning Speech
Karan Aujla, MXRCI
LUNCH
Billie Eilish
Lose My Mind
Don Toliver feat. Doja Cat
Iris
Goo Goo Dolls
Physical
Dua Lipa
All The Stars
Kendrick Lamar, SZA
Is This Love?
Bob Marley
Tears
Sabrina Carpenter
Wants and Needs
Drake feat. Lil Baby
Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar
I Just Might
Bruno Mars
Busy Woman
Sabrina Carpenter
Bol Do Na Zara
Armaan Malik
Sports car
Tate McRae
Stranglehold
Ted Nugent
New Religion
Bebe Rexha & Faithless
Livin' On A Prayer
Bon Jovi
Apna Time Aayega
Divine
Lover
Diljit Dosanjh
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Bob Dylan
Please Please Please
Sabrina Carpenter
All Along the Watchtower
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Dude Looks Like A Lady
Aerosmith
Take Me Home, Country Roads
John Denver
DENIAL IS A RIVER
Doechii
Linger (SiriusXM Session)
Royel Otis
Creep
Radiohead
I Bet on Losing Dogs
Mitski
Venus
Shocking Blue
Stiff Upper Lip
AC/DC
Rock of Ages
Def Leppard
Sweet Emotion
Aerosmith
Demons
Imagine Dragons
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Green Day
Iktara
Kavita Seth
It All Goes
Eloise
JUMP
BLACKPINK
Losing My Religion
R.E.M.
Manchild
Sabrina Carpenter
Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan
Leaving on a Jet Plane
John Denver
Bekhayali
Arijit Singh
Smooth Criminal
Michael Jackson
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son
masterofacdcsuckaS
Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Rupert Holmes
Jump
Van Halen
How It's Done
HUNTR/X
Nothing Else Matters
Metallica
Burning Pile
Mother Mother
Nain Matakka
Dhee, Diljit Dosanjh, Thaman S, Irshad Kamil
Wonderful Tonight
Eric Clapton
Rockstar
LISA
Time After Time
Cyndi Lauper
Zaroorat
Mustafa Zahid
luther
Kendrick Lamar
Akele hain to kya gum hai
Alka Yagnik,Udit Narayan
Khairiyat
Arijit Singh
Ae Watan
Arijit Singh
Kisses ft. bbyclose
BL3SS x CamrinWatsin
Lies
Zach Bryan & Lana Del Rey
Beauty and a Beat
Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj
Call Your Mom
Noah Kahan
Wild Side
Mötley Crüe
Lush Life
Zara Larsson
Lut Gaye
Jubin Nautiyal
I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
Solo Sounds
Opalite
Taylor Swift
Come As You Are
Nirvana
Mere Rashke Qamar
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
End of Beginning
Djo
CHANEL
Tyla
tv off
Kendrick Lamar
Tears in Heaven
Eric Clapton
Heart of Gold
Neil Young
Wrecking Ball
Mother Mother
Teri Deewani
Kailash Kher
New Woman
LISA feat. ROSALÍA
Gone Gone Gone
David Guetta, Teddy Swims, Tones and I
Down on the Corner
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Banana Pancakes
Jack Johnson
Muskurane
Arijit Singh
O Mere Dil Ke Chain
Kishore Kumar
Pain
Jimmy Eat World
Eternity
Alex Warren
Roxanne
The Police
Forever Young
Alphaville
Smoke On the Water
Deep Purple
Enter Sandman
Metallica
Love Me Not
Ravyn Lenae
Zara Zara
Bombay Jayashri
Why Don't You Get A Job
The Offspring
Timeless
The Weeknd & Playboi Carti
Hawa Banke
Darshan Raval
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
Pretty Ugly
Zara Larsson
Mann Bharrya
B Praak
Hawayein
Arijit Singh
Indigo
Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna
Under the Bridge
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Carry On Wayward Son
Kansas
Aperture
Harry Styles
White Keys
Dominic Fike
Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Footloose
Kenny Loggins
Calling After Me
Wallows
Ilahi
Mohit Chauhan
Internet Girl
KATSEYE
Guess featuring billie eilish
Charli xcx
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Bad Habits
Ed Sheeran
Enna Sona
Arijit Singh
Let It Be
The Beatles
Tu Jaane Na
Atif Aslam
Take Me to Church
Hozier
THE GREATEST
Billie Eilish
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
Blackbird
The Beatles
Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Top
Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash
Kashmir
Led Zeppelin
Good Luck, Babe!
Chappell Roan
Staying
Lizzy McAlpine
Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Tom Petty
Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar
Ashke
Karan Aujla, MXRCI
BbY WOW
KAROL G, Judeline, & rusowsky
Golden
HUNTR/X
La Plena (W Sound 05)
Beéle, Westcol & Ovy On The Drums
Aerosmith Walk This Way
Aerosmith
Somedays
Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, D.O.D
I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
She & Him
DYNAMITE
Tyla x Wizkid
One Wild Night
Bon Jovi
Disease
Lady Gaga
Tweeter and the Monkey Man
Headstones
Renegade
Styx
Bad Angel
Anyma, LISA
Abracadabra
Lady Gaga
Gift or a Curse
Porter Block
APT.
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars
Anxiety
Doechii
A Night To Remember
beabadoobee, Laufey
Take A Slice
Glass Animals
GRIMACE (Original Song)
CG5
Sign of the Gypsy Queen
April Wine
Living After Midnight
Judas Priest
SHE DID IT AGAIN ft. Zara Larsson
Tyla
Don't Fear the Reaper- Blue Öyster Cult
SpiritWriterSong
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age
Shakin'
Eddie Money
So Easy (To Fall In Love)
Olivia Dean
Urn
Crying City
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