Patience

How to play Patience by Guns N' Roses on guitar

These are the sounding chords. With a capo on fret 4 you play A, G, D, E, Bm, B and more, the shapes the player above shows.

Patience is a great song to learn because it moves at a steady pace and gives you time to hear each change clearly. It feels relaxed but still needs clean timing, so you can focus on making the chords ring smoothly and keeping the progression even.

You get one open shape in the chart, E, while the rest are barre shapes like C#, B, F#, G#, and D#m. That means the main challenge is holding the barre chords cleanly without muting strings. The opening progression C# - B - F# - G# is the change to watch closely, since it sets the feel for the whole song.

Start by practicing each chord shape on its own, then loop C# - B - F# - G# slowly until the switches feel natural. Once that is comfortable, play through the full chart at a relaxed tempo and only speed up when every change sounds clean. Keep your hand loose and aim for steady, even transitions.

Use the play-along above to follow each chord change in time with the music, or learn the shapes first with the chord diagrams below.