{"id":169,"date":"2021-04-12T19:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:17:03","slug":"play-12-songs-with-2-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/play-12-songs-with-2-chords\/","title":{"rendered":"Play 12 Songs With 2 Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the chords, strumming patterns, and hundreds of other things there are to learn on the guitar it can seem like playing your favorite songs is a lifetime away. In this beginner guitar lesson, we&#8217;re going to take some time to focus on playing the easiest popular songs on the guitar. The songs we&#8217;ll be looking at only require you to play two chords and use simple strumming patterns. By the end of this lesson, you&#8217;ll have twelve great songs under your belt as a guitarist.<\/p>\n<p>The only prerequisites for this lesson are that you know some basic chord shapes, know the basics of changing between chords, and know how to strum the guitar. A few of these songs use bar chords, but you can feel free to skip those if you haven&#8217;t quite made it to bar chords in your learning yet.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/guitareo.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/12-songs.pdf\" class=\"download-button\" rel=\"noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"resources\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/guitareo.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/12-songs-sheet-music.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the chords, strumming patterns, and hundreds of other things there are to learn on the guitar it can seem like playing your favorite songs is a lifetime away. In this beginner guitar lesson, we&#8217;re going to take some time to focus on playing the easiest popular songs on the guitar. The songs we&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}