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Learn And Master The Guitar: Gospel And Folk Camp Songs With Only 3 Chords
By Mike Hayes | November 30, 2008
Acoustic guitars are always popular as accompaniment instruments for Gospel, Sacred, Folk and traditional get-togethers. The pure clear sound of the acoustic steel string guitar makes it the ideal instrument to accompany the human voice.
The guitar is also a very portable and personal instrument plus the fact that so many favorite songs only use three chords makes the guitar easy to learn.
The most guitar friendly keys for guitar accompaniment are: Key of G, key of D, Key of A and Key of E.
Key is a short list of Folk and Traditional songs that use only 3 chords.
Folk and Traditional songs
- Beautiful Brown Eyes
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Blue Tail Fly
- Careless Love
- Cattle Call
- Crawdad Song
- Frankie and Johnny
- Golden Slippers
- Goodnight Irene
- Goodnight Ladies
- Gotta Travel On
- Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
- Home On The Range
- Jesse James
- John Henry
- I Gave My Love A Cherry
- Letter Edged In Black
- Little Brown Jug
- Michael Row The Boat Ashore
- Midnight Special
- On Top Of Old Smokey
- O’ Susanna
- O’ Them Golden Slippers
- Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
- Red River Valley
- She’ll Be Comin’ Round The Mountain
- Strawberry Roan
- Swanee River
- This Land Is Your Land
- Worried Man Blues
There’s hundreds of other Folk And Traditional songs that require only 3 chords keep your ears open and add new titles to this list as you discover them.
Now let’s turn our attention to Sacred and Gospel songs that use 3 chords.
Sacred and Gospel Songs
- Amazing Grace
- Faith Of Our Fathers
- Farther Along
- Gloryland Way
- I Saw The Light
- I’ll Fly Away
- In The Garden
- Jesus loves Me
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
- Nearer My God To Thee
- Old Rugged Cross
- Softly And Tenderly
- That Old Time Religion
- Where Could I Go (But To The Lord)
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Again, this is list is just the tip of the iceberg there’s many
more just waiting to be discovered.
The trick is to play all these songs with easy chord shapes while still being able to accompany the vocalist(s) in a key that best suits their voice.
The ideal way to achieve this is to master the three basic chord shapes in the guitar friendly keys and then use a capo to transpose these easy chord shapes into other keys.
The three basic chords in the key of G are G, C & D7.
The three basic chords in the key of D are D, G & A7.
The three basic chords in the key of A are A, D & E7.
The three basic chords in the key of E are E, A & B7.
The best news is you don’t even have to know all the chord shapes listed above, you could play all these songs (and a whole lot more), by learning only three chords in one key. However it’s better if you know at least two keys.
Take your time and learn these basic chords on the guitar, you will be glad to did, they will reward you with many hours of fun on the guitar.
From Mike Hayes – The Guitar Coaching Guy & the Express Guitar
System
http://www.GuitarCoaching.com
http://AdvancingGuitaristProgram.com
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