38 Guitar Songs with Four Basic Chords…

You can play 38 Guitar Songs
with Four Basic Chords.

An Australian comedy group performed 38 songs with four simple chords at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2009.

Over 20 million people have seen this video! Have you? You can watch the video here… (and I’ll show you how to play along!)

Guitar Chords

D Major

A Major

B Minor

G Major

Songs

1. Journey – Don’t Stop Believing

2. James Blunt – You’re Beautiful

3. Alphaville – Forever Young

4. Jason Mraz – I’m Yours

5. Mika – Happy Ending

6. Alex Lloyd – Amazing

7. The Calling – Wherever You WIll Go

8. Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight

9. Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved

10. The Last Goodnight – Pictures Of You

11. U2 – With Or Without You

12. Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet

13. Kasey Chambers – Not Pretty Enough

14. The Beatles – Let it Be

15. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge

16. Daryl Braithwaite – The Horses

17. Bob Marley – No Woman No Cry

18. Marcy Playground – Sex and Candy

19. Men At Work – Land Down Under

20. Banjo Patterson’s Waltzing Matilda

21. A Ha – Take On Me

22. Green Day – When I Come Around

23. Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight

24. Toto – Africa

25. Beyonce – If I Were A Boy

26. The Offspring – Self Esteem

27. The Offspring – You’re Gonna Go Far Kid

28. Pink – You and Your Hand

29. Lady Gaga – Poker Face

30. Aqua – Barbie Girl

31. The Fray – You Found Me

32. 30h!3 – Don’t Trust Me

33. MGMT – Kids

34. Tim Minchin – Canvas Bags

35. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn

36. Five For Fighting – Superman

37. Axis Of Awesome – Birdplane

38. Missy Higgins – Scar

Can you think of any other songs that use these four guitar chords? Leave the song title and artist in the comment section below!

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{ 9 comments }

Louise June 24, 2011 at 10:18 am

This post was just what I need.
I had those four chords down after a
couple of minutes… and some of these
songs made my day!

Thanks Andrew!

@OhHendrie June 25, 2011 at 1:42 am: Thanks Louise!

Glad you found my blog
What song did you learn first?

Hit me up on twitter @OhHendrie
Talk Soon!

Andrew

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Celina September 20, 2011 at 12:10 am

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