Beginner guitar songs may tend to be a riddle for most new guitar players.

Normally when you first start to play the guitar, you are told to work with drills to improve your fingers and try to memorize various chord fingerings and scale positions.

However, focusing too much on technical aspects may create certain negative results in the long run.

Sure it is necessary to work on your technique, strength and speed to become a good guitarist, but neglecting the real musical part of the process can actually get you bored and you may start to consider the guitar playing experience as a chore rather than fun.

Hence, playing songs is not only fun, but also useful to advance your skill level.

Actually, playing and writing songs comes really down to knowing commonly used chords and a few common chord progressions.

Chord progressions are chords played after each other with a specific sequence.

Chord progression is determined by looking at the key chord, which is the first chord played.

For instance, if you start with the key of C (which means the first chord you’ll play will be C), you can use chords F and G and voila, you have just played one of the most common chord progressions used in almost any genre of modern music.

And writing your own songs is very easy once you know the progressions. This is especially true if you can write lyrics and sing while playing.

This may seem hard to some of us at first glance but in reality there are some very basic (I mean elementary-school basic) mathematical rules behind the progressions. The one I mentioned above is the rule of 1-4-5 chord progression which can turn you into a proficient songwriter if you master it.

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