C-F-G Songs

This lesson gives you some songs you can play with just the chords C, F, and G. This lets you see some different ways just 3 chords can be combined, and the variety of songs which can be built on just 3 chords; also, it gives you more practice playing songs with chords.

You should practice playing (and singing) each of the examples below until you can play it easily:

Hey Jude
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Blowin In The Wind
This Land Is Your Land

What next? After you've played these C-F-G songs, there are several ways you can go next:

• You can learn to play chords on keyboard or guitar and learn to play lots of other people's songs. This is how most composers start. There are lots of other places to learn how to do this, so I don't teach it in these lessons.
• If you want to learn more chords (besides just C, F, and G) that work together, you can learn this (and much more) in our Pop Music Theory course.
• You can create your own diatonic chord progressions, using the diatonic-chords tool in the Using Diatonics lesson in our Pop Music Theory course.

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by Lennon/McCartney









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by Paul Simon







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by Bob Dylan





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by Woody Guthrie





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This lesson by Conrad Albrecht 2015. Questions, comments, ideas? Tell me on Facebook!