Learn 7 Great Campfire songs on Guitar

There’s nothing more fun than belting out your favorite campfire songs with some of your buddies.

Thankfully, most campfire songs are easy to play. And you can learn them fast.

In this lesson, with only 4 chords I will show you how to play 7 great campfire songs.

Here are the 7 songs you’ll be learning!

JOHN DENVER “COUNTRY ROADS” – (Chord pattern G major – D Major- E minor – C major)

THE CRANBERRIES “ZOMBIE” – (Chord pattern E minor – C major – g major – d major)

THE BEATLES “Let It Be” – (Chord pattern E minor – D Major – C major – G major – D Major – C Major – G major)

STEVE MILLER “The Joker” “I’m a joker, I’m a smoker, I’m a midnight Toker” (G major – C major – D Major – C major)

LYNYRD SKYNYRD – “Sweet Home Alabama” – (D major – C major – G major)

TOM PETTY – “stand my ground”

JOHNNY CASH – “Ring of Fire” (G major – C major – D Major)

EXTRA BONUS – Tennessee Whiskey (Only two chords – seriously) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pLETQMsGWic

EXTRA BONUS – Brown Eyed Girl (Three chords, one small riff)

SUPER BONUS – THE OFFICE THEME SONG IN 30 SECONDS OR LESS

(SKIP AHEAD IF YOU KNOW THE CHORDS AND WANT TO GET STRAIGHT TO PLAYING THE SONGS)

Here are the 4 chords we’ll need. G major, C major, D major, and E Minor.

G Major: Place your middle finger on the third fret of the largest string (Low E). Then place your index finger on the 2nd fret of the string beside it (a string). Then on the smallest string (high E) place your ring or pinkie (whichever feels most comfortable) on the third fret. Now just strum!

C Major: Place your ring finger on the second largest string (a string) on the third fret. Then, place your middle finger on the second fret third largest string (d string). Finally, place your index finger on the first fret of the second smallest string (b string). Now just strum!

D Major: Place your index finger on the second fret of the fourth string down from the largest string (g string). Then, your ring finger on the second smallest string on the third fret (b string). Last, place your middle finger on the second fret of the highest string (high e)

Quick Chord Changing Tips –

Learning to change from chord to chord can be slightly challenging, but these few tips should cut down on your cord changing drastically. Here are three really good tips you can us

Visualize or remember the feel of the chord – depending on whether you’re more of a visual or kinesthetic learner one of these options work work better for you. When I first started it really helped for me to do both of these.

Used crazy images to remember the shape of cords – this might sound totally bizarre, but I promise it works this is actually what brain memory competitors do in order to memorize things for competitions. Associate chords with certain images and it’ll be almost impossible to forget them. For example I use A tepee to think of the D chord, since it’s shaped like a triangle.

JOHN DENVER “COUNTRY ROADS” –