Free Guitar Chord Lyrics

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Finding free guitar chord lyrics websites can help all guitar players quickly and easily learn how to play their favorite songs. If you're a beginner, visiting these sites will expose you to new music that will increase your abilities as a player. You can use these sites as a sort of virtual music school that doesn't cost you a dime. More advanced players often visit these sites to quickly figure out how to play a song that they like. Even though these players could probably sit down with the song and figure it out, sometimes it's nice to have someone else do the hard work for you, especially when you don't have to pay them to do it. This article explains how free guitar chord lyrics websites work, and then refers you to some of the best sites on the Internet.

Understanding Free Guitar Chord Lyrics Websites

You will most likely encounter a similar format at all these websites. When you select the song that you want to learn, you're presented with the song's lyrics. Written above the lyrics are the names of the guitar chords that are used to play the song. The chords are placed above the lyrics to indicate when you are supposed to change chords. Look at this quick example:

C-------------G

This is the first verse

C-------------D

Of my new hit song

The song begins with a C chord and changes to the G chord when the lyrics sing the word first. After that, the song returns to the C chord before changing to the D chord on the word hit. You'll notice you're given no indication of how to sing the lyrics or how to strum the chords, so you will either need to know the song very well or have a recording of it handy so you can get the rhythm right. These websites give you a simple sketch that you can follow, but they are not nearly as detailed as tablature websites or guitar sheet music.

Resources on the Internet

Here are some of the best websites that provide guitar chords and lyrics for free.

Chordie – Chordie is a great website that provides free guitar chords and lyrics for thousands of songs. You can use this database to search by artist or by song, and you can even register so you can even personalize the site to remember your favorite songs.

Ultimate Guitar – One of the oldest and biggest guitar chord and lyrics websites is Ultimate Guitar. When you search for a song here, you're presented with a list of different formats in which the song can be viewed. Just scroll down until you find one that says chords. One thing you need to be aware of here is that users like yourself submit these transcriptions, so sometimes the chords and/or the lyrics might be wrong. The site attempts to help out with this by allowing users to rank the transcriptions. If you see a chord transcription with a low rating, it's probably because there is some sort of inaccuracy with it, so make sure you look at highly rated transcriptions so you don't waste your time.

Heartwood Guitar – Heartwood Guitar is a clean, well-organized site that provides easy to read, accurate transcriptions. You can either search by song name or artist, or you can scroll down through the alphabetical list until you see something you like.

The Guitar Guy – The Guitar Guy provides an extensive list of chords and lyrics to songs from a wide variety of genres. The transcriptions are accurate and easy to read.

Classic Country – If you favor country music, here's a website just for you. Search for songs by Alabama, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton and many more.

Guitar Unleashed – Guitar Unleashed is another great website for chords and lyrics. This one is very well designed and extremely easy to use. One of the best features of this site is that you can put your mouse over the chord name and a chord chart will appear and show you how to play the chord; this is extremely useful. Songs by Neil Young, Nirvana, The Eagles, Jeff Buckley and many more can be found here.

Tune Up and Practice

Now that you are empowered with more songs than you know what to do with, it's time to pick out a few good ones and try to learn them. Take them slowly at first, and only try singing along once you know you have the chords down. You'll be ready for an open mic night before you know it.

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