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:
Summer of '69
Bryan Adams
Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
Latin City
Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin
Sonu Nigam
Tujhe Bhula Diya
Mohit Chauhan
seasons
wave to earth
Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles
Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Unknown
Dasha - Austin
BagOnly
Mitski - Where's My Phone?
Mitski
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Heart of Gold
Neil Young
Nothing Else Matters
Metallica
With or Without You
U2
Hotel California
Eagles
A Horse with No Name
America
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT.
ROSÉ
Better Together
Jack Johnson
Yesterday
The Beatles
Burning Pile
Mother Mother
Zach Bryan - Pink Skies
Zach Bryan
Eddie Money - Shakin'
EddieMoney
Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO!
Unknown
Dominic Fike - Babydoll
Vibe Music
Problems
Mother Mother
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
The Beatles
Redemption Song
Bob Marley
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
masterofacdcsuckaS
Dominic Fike - White Keys
Ethereal Music
The Who - Baba O'riley
Zumie94
Goo Goo Dolls
Unknown
You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Davis
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Miluzie
*NSYNC
7clouds
Training Season
Dua Lipa
Love Me Do
The Beatles
Jolene
Dolly Parton
Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tyla - SHE DID IT AGAIN ft. Zara Larsson
Tyla
Queens of the Stone Age - No one Knows
0foofighter0
What I Got
Sublime
Dust in the Wind
Kansas
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Green Day
LUNCH
Billie Eilish
Creep
Radiohead
Don't Fear the Reaper- Blue Öyster Cult
SpiritWriterSong
The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
ABKCO
Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please
Lost Panda
Eagles - Hotel California (Live 1977)
Eagles
Kal Ho Na Ho
Sonu Nigam
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
TacoBender79
juju - Wasted Summers
jujumusic
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
acdc
La Bamba
Ritchie Valens
Stop Waiting - Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex
Tere Bin
Atif Aslam
Agar Tum Saath Ho
Arijit Singh
Dil Hai Na
Aditya Rikhari
Dua Lipa - Dance The Night
7clouds
Noah Kahan - Call Your Mom
NoahKahan
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Boston
Lut Gaye
Jubin Nautiyal
Thinking Out Loud
Ed Sheeran
Ik Vaari Aa
Arijit Singh
Wonderful Tonight
Eric Clapton
Crying City - Urn
Chill Only
Akele hain to kya gum hai
Alka Yagnik,Udit Narayan
KATSEYE - Touch
Unknown
sombr - undressed
sombr
Blackbird
The Beatles
Zombie
The Cranberries
Safar
Arijit Singh
Motley Crue - Wild Side with Lyrics
Unknown
Mr. Jones
Counting Crows
Ae Watan
Arijit Singh
James Arthur - Train Wreck
Lazy Fox
broken
lovelytheband
Alphaville - Forever Young
Pizza Music
ZZ Top - La Grange
Michael Baker
Kaun Tujhe
Palak Muchhal
CHRYSTAL - The Days (Notion Remix)
CHRYSTAL
Harry Styles - Aperture
HarryStyles
Billy Squier - The Stroke
Unknown
Galliyan
Ankit Tiwari
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
ChappellRoan
Samjho Na
Aditya Rikhari
Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mitski - Francis Forever
Mitski
Soch Na Sake
Arijit Singh
Tyla, Sean Paul - PUSH 2 START (REMIX - Official Music Video)
Tyla
Sooraj Dooba Hai
Arijit Singh
Olivia Dean - A Couple Minutes (Lyric Video)
Olivia Dean
LISA - NEW WOMAN feat. Rosalía
Unknown
Take Me to Church
Hozier
Teri Deewani
Kailash Kher
Heart-Magic Man
Unknown
Play On
Unknown
Made You Look
Meghan Trainor
Lady Gaga - Disease
LadyGaga
Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
Kun Faya Kun
A.R. Rahman
Mishri
Anuv Jain
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you
Unknown
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Unknown
Tyla - PUSH 2 START
Unknown
Under the Bridge
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
v94j
Lizzy McAlpine - Staying
LizzyMcAlpine
Dil Diyan Gallan
Atif Aslam
vampire
Olivia Rodrigo
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Zaroorat
Mustafa Zahid
Best Day Of My Life (Acoustic)
American Authors
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Nickelback
The Weeknd, Playboi Carti - Timeless
Unknown
Welcome to the Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
Alex Warren - Eternity
Unknown
Hozier - Too Sweet
Hozier
21 Guns
Green Day
Rock That Body - The Black Eyed Peas
Pizza Music
Flowers
Miley Cyrus
We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe)
Fun.
Alex Warren - Ordinary
7clouds
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
CCR
Lil Uzi Vert - What You Saying
Unknown
Luke Combs - When It Rains It Pours
LukeCombs
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
DJSocio18
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
ImagineDragons
Baarishein
Anuv Jain
Aerosmith Walk This Way
Aerosmith
I Thought I Saw Your Face Today - She And Him
Cassiopeia
Stick Season
Noah Kahan
good 4 u
Olivia Rodrigo
Miley Cyrus - Easy Lover
MileyCyrus
Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You
Kiss
Sabrina Carpenter - House Tour
SabrinaCarpenter
Could you Be Loved
Bob Marley
STIF UPPER LIP LYRICS
Unknown
Let It Be
The Beatles
Nain Matakka
Dhee, Diljit Dosanjh, Thaman S, Irshad Kamil
Don McLean- American Pie
Unknown
Ho Hey
The Lumineers
Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter
Rain On Me
Lady Gaga
Noah Kahan - Stick Season (Lyric Video)
NoahKahan
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun
0ffspring0
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
JudasPriest
Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
DeepPurple
APT.
ROSÉ
Dreams (2004 Remaster)
Fleetwood Mac
Mere Rashke Qamar
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Stephen McElvain
Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia
LatinHype
Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
Gerua
Arijit Singh
Channa Mereya
Arijit Singh
Eloise
Unknown
Enna Sona
Arijit Singh
Hurt
Johnny Cash
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
3DoorsDown
Time After Time
Cyndi Lauper
One way or another
Blondie
Imagine Dragons - Demons
ImagineDragons
Pain! - Jimmy eat world
Meerschweinchen99
Here I Go Again-Lyrics-Whitesnake
eggs712
Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress-The Hollies
Unknown
Life is a Highway
Rascal Flatts
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Panic! At The Disco
Let Her Go
Passenger
Sunday Morning
Maroon 5
Count on Me
Bruno Mars
How It’s Done
HUNTR/X
Gives You Hell
The All-American Rejects
Home
Phillip Phillips
Me And My Broken Heart
push baby
Hey There Delilah
Plain White T's
Bruno Mars - Risk It All
Unknown
Golden
HUNTR/X
I Ain't Worried
OneRepublic
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
TedNugent
Audioslave - Like a Stone
Audioslave
Rush - Xanadu
Rush
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
ABKCO
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Rush
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
GunsNRoses
Bad Company - Can't Get Enough
Unknown
Heart - "Barracuda" (1977)
Heart
ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
Unknown
Deep Purple - Smoke On the Water
Deep Purple
Aerosmith - Dream On
Aerosmith
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins
Austin (Boots Stop Workin')
Dasha
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
BonJovi
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
TomPetty
Strangers
Kenya Grace
Houdini
Dua Lipa
The Offspring - Why Don't you get a job? Lyrics
YoSabina
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Unknown
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower
JimiHendrix
Kill Bill
SZA
Cruel Summer
Taylor Swift
Van Halen - Jump
Van Halen
Guess feat. billie eilish
Charli xcx
Lose Control
Teddy Swims
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
OzWho
Eyes Closed
Ed Sheeran
Aerosmith - Dude Looks Like A Lady
Aerosmith
Europe - The Final Countdown
Europe
I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
Solo Sounds
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (With Lyrics + HQ Sound)
TheJukeboxRock
Mötley Crüe - Girls,Girls,Girls
Unknown
The Offspring
YoSabina
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
kansas
BED
Joel Corry
Bad Habits
Ed Sheeran
Sweet Melody
Little Mix
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights
TheWeeknd
The Marías - No One Noticed (Visualizer)
The Marías
Physical
Dua Lipa
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Unknown
Zara Larsson - Pretty Ugly
ZaraLarssonMusic
Don Toliver - Lose My Mind (feat. Doja Cat)
Don Toliver
Sam Barber - Indigo (feat. Avery Anna) (Lyric Video)
Sam Barber
Tate McRae - Sports car
TateMcRae
Kendrick Lamar - luther
Kendrick Lamar
Bruno Mars - I Just Might
Bruno Mars
SZA - Kill Bill
SZA
Billie Eilish - LUNCH
Unknown
Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar
Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman
SabrinaCarpenter
Charli xcx - party 4 u
Charli xcx
W Sound 05 "LA PLENA" - Beéle, Westcol, Ovy On The Drums
W Sound
Laufey - Madwoman
Laufey
Zach Bryan - I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
Zach Bryan
Zach Bryan - Something In The Orange
Zach Bryan
Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun
Unknown
"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video
Unknown
David Guetta, Teddy Swims, Tones and I - Gone Gone Gone
David Guetta
Taylor Swift - Opalite (Lyric Video)
Unknown
Anyma, LISA - Bad Angel
Anyma
Tyla x Wizkid - DYNAMITE
Tyla
Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer
Taylor Swift
Bon Jovi - One Wild Night(album version)
Unknown
KATSEYE (캣츠아이) "PINKY UP" Official MV
HYBE LABELS
Doechii - Anxiety (Visualizer)
Iamdoechii
Bebe Rexha & Faithless - New Religion
Bebe Rexha
Charli xcx - Guess featuring billie eilish
Charli xcx
Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please (Lyric Video)
Sabrina Carpenter
ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man
Unknown
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
KendrickLamar
Doechii - DENIAL IS A RIVER
Unknown
Styx-Renegade Lyrics
RockinBassPlayer3
Headstones - Tweeter and the Monkey Man
blind51de
Linger (SiriusXM Session)
Royel Otis
Kansas - Dust in the wind 1977
Magnus Schult
I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
70sand80s4u
Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, D.O.D - Somedays
Sonny Fodera
Good Times by Finger Eleven
RockofVengeance
BL3SS x CamrinWatsin - Kisses ft. bbyclose
BL3SS
Luke Combs - Where the Wild Things Are
LukeCombs
Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages lyrics
MeJeNiFeRx
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Unknown
Post Malone - I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen)
PostMalone
AC/DC - Back In Black
acdc
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
ShawnxXxMichaels
BLACKPINK '뛰어(JUMP)' (Color Coded Lyrics)
Unknown
Iktara
Kavita Seth
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Bob Dylan
Alice Cooper - Poison
AliceCooper
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
remhq
Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild
Vibe Music
Tu Jaane Na
Atif Aslam
Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan
Leaving on a Jet Plane
John Denver
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
onlythepianoplayer
Sign of the Gypsy Queen
April Wine
Rupert Holmes - (Escape) The Pina Colada Song
Unknown
High Hopes
Panic! At The Disco
Hey Joe
Jimi Hendrix
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son
masterofacdcsuckaS
LISA - ROCKSTAR
SyrebralVibes
Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not
R&BHype
SZA
BangersOnly
Sabrina Carpenter - Taste
Lost Panda
Ariana Grande - twilight zone (lyric visualizer)
ArianaGrande
SZA - Snooze
Unknown
Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance
Vibe Music
Lady Gaga - Abracadabra
7clouds
Saja Boys - Your Idol KPop Demon Hunters
Unknown
Justin Bieber - Yukon
Lost Panda
Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison
Sabrina Carpenter - Tears
TrendingTracks
Wild Thing
The Troggs
Kendrick Lamar - luther ft. SZA
Unknown
Justin Bieber - Beauty And A Beat ft. Nicki Minaj
Unknown
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT.
Vibe Music
Doechii - Anxiety
Vibe Music
Post Malone & Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help
Unknown
KATSEYE - Internet Girl
7clouds
Zara Larsson - Lush Life
Dan Music
Huntrix
Unknown
Cody Simpson - Baby Blue
Cody Simpson
Taylor Swift - Opalite
Unknown
Porter Block - Gi
Unknown
Big Thief - Vampire Empire (Lyric Video)
Big Thief
Come As You Are
Nirvana
Djo - End Of Beginning
Unknown
Perfect
Ed Sheeran
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
beabadoobee, Laufey - A Night To Remember
beabadoobee
She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
Unknown
Tears in Heaven
Eric Clapton
CG5 - GRIMACE (Original Song)
CG5
Mitski - I Bet on Losing Dogs
Mitski
Wrecking Ball
Mother Mother
Saiyaara Reprise - Female | Ahaan, Aneet | Tanishk, Faheem, Arslan | Shreya | Irshad
YRF
Billie Eilish - THE GREATEST (BILLIE BY FINNEAS)
Unknown
Bekhayali
Unknown
Down on the Corner
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Banana Pancakes
Jack Johnson
Muskurane
Arijit Singh
Kesariya
Arijit Singh
O Mere Dil Ke Chain
Kishore Kumar
Apna Time Aayega
Divine
Khairiyat
Arijit Singh
Roxanne
The Police
Bol Do Na Zara
Armaan Malik
Tere Bina Full Video - A. R. Rahman | Guru | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan
Sony Music India
Enter Sandman
Metallica
Bulleya
Amit Mishra
Zara Zara
Bombay Jayashri
Hawa Banke
Darshan Raval
Mann Bharrya
B Praak
Hawayein
Arijit Singh
Qayde Se | Metro…In Dino | Anurag Basu
T-Series
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