Chords G, C, D songs (Page 1 of 2)

You can change the key by useing a capo. Some one had posted a sheet here a while ago. You can also go to Ultimate Guitar and they have a transpose function at their site.

This is known as the I IV V chord pattern. Here's a little something on background...

http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnersth … merals.htm

Basically the 3 chords taken from the I IV V are the principal chords of the song. Many many, some would say nearly all, country and gospel songs use I IV V. The good thing is that it applies to any key. If you look at the table from the link you'll see that G, C, D is the I IV V pattern in the key of G (you probably knew that already). So if you come across a song with the chord patter A ,D, E or C, F, G or D, G, A -  these are all I IV V patterns and using your capo you can change the key so that the chord shapes you are playing are G, C, D.

So if the song is in D (D, G, A) and you put your capo on the 5th fret and play chord shapes G, C, D you are still playing in D. Or you can simply just change the key to G and play it open.

I hope I have explained this clearly enough. If not please let me know.

I remember years ago when I was teaching myself (well... re-learning actually after taking lessons as a kid) I used to buy books that were a "made easy for guitar" series. So they had different artists or genres and they were presented with super tab in a really easy to play format. There are many 3 chord songs in those I'm sure... I'm just not sure if they still make those books - geez, I'm feeling old now!

Anyway - the only other thing I would very strongly recommend is that if you can play those three chords fairly easily (and it sounds like you can) you should definitely start to expand your base a bit.
Start with an Am, which is just one finger movement from the C. Then, if you can do that then move all three fingers all up one string and viola - you have an E! and if you can do that, then the Em is right there... soon you'll see that you can quickly expand your G,C,D knowledge into 8 or 10 chords pretty easily. As you do this your level of enjoyment will bloom along with your ability to take on more and more tunes!

Good luck with it - keep playing (that's the biggest thing you can do for yourself).

Glad to hear of your progress Tony. Makes you feel good huh? I agree with Tak. Look for songs that include a fourth chord along with your G C D. It should be very easy for you to add one new chord in with the 3 you already know. Em G C D are in lots of songs. Sounds like you're at the point where you can move on.

Tony, I've been wondering how you were doing with your playing.  I'm glad to hear you're still trucking along!  Don't forget about justinguitar.com for lots of free lessons to get those other chord shapes down well.  I would say look into A, E, Em, and Am as some good ones to work on.  Here's a few in my book,
- If you put the Capo on the 4th fret, and learn the SUPER SIMPLE Em, you can do "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz (G, D, Em, C).
- If you want to try "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty, it's just C, G, D ... but those are super fast changes (good practice!). 
- "Blowing in the wind" adds a Dsus to your G, C, D ... just set your pinky down to make the sus chord and then lift it back up to go back to the D... it's really easy to do, try it, I think you'll like it!!
- Capo on 2nd fret and you can do "Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat (G, D, C, G pretty much the whole thing)

I know these are not country or church music, but they're fairly well known songs you might want to try   Good luck!  Oh, and here's a link to a "cheat sheet" for using that capo!  http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=15164

That's the first song I learned to play toots.  Very simple slow tempo song. Check that one out for sure Tony. And it's a classic so you can't go wrong. There are lots of video lessons on it too.

Grandpa Elliot was awesome!!!!

Excellent video there, toots.  Got goose bumps at one point.

I am happy to hear that Tony!  I was a little concerned with that Cigar Box Guitar... I get the impression that they are two completely different animals (so to speak).  Good to hear you're trying out that capo too!  When you wrap your head around the theory just a little and use that conversion chart, it'll open up a whole new world with just those couple of chords you already know well. 

No, I didn't get a bone bridge yet.  I just changed my strings on my steel string for the first time, and at first I was happy with the sound.  Now, not so much.  So, I am working on finding some strings that I really like over the course of the next few months.  I am thinking maybe once summer is over I'll look into that again.  (guitar playing and wedding anniversary time you know)

I'm a beginner too and I've been practicing Melissa Etheridge's "Come to my Window".  Most of the song is G,C, and D chords.

Toots, thanks, incredible feeling in this clip.
Pete, like you i got goosebumps.
Cheers
Bushy

Hi caron when you go into the forum section here under acoustic you'll see several posts in green; mekidsmon posted a capo conversion chart that you can download and print out. Lots of luck

Eagles song -  Already gone  G D C through the whole song!

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