Country music is misunderstood by anyone who doesn’t truly worship it. Truly American, country music was once the binder among friends and foes in the back woods. Reaching across race and age, country music is perhaps, sadly, the child of poverty and long days back before electricity was a sure thing.
If you’re truly new – check out Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton (and read her bio too) and Hank Williams. When you’re ready, continue your music education by checking out classes on Class Curious.
If you want to take an easier route than some of the gorgeous bluegrass numbers out there, check out these 11 Super Easy Country Guitar Songs for Beginners. They will be perfect for you to pick up your pace. But if you want to master you guitar playing in other genres to check out our list of 10 Easiest Acoustic Guitar Songs to Play too.
Country music primarily originated in the Southern United States in the 1920s and evolved from American folk music. Through the years, the style of the music changed, and now there are many sub-genres of country music out there. Two most popular types of songs related to country music are ballads and dance tunes. Although not so popular outside the United States, in its home country, country music is one of the most popular genres of music, and gets the most radio exposure. There are few other countries where country music finds its soil as well. Countries like Canada, UK, and Australia also have notable country musicians and an audience for it.
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Let’s get back to guitar and easy songs you can learn and play. The sound of country music is characterized with string instruments, primarily banjo, acoustic and electric guitar. When we searched for 11 super easy country guitar songs for beginners to recommend to you, we didn’t look just at the number of chords you need to play them, but if the chord progression is the same through the entire song, and if there are frequent changes in the rhythm of playing.
For references, we checked out guitar lessons websites and country music related sites like GuitarControl, Chordie, LearnCountryGuitar, TakeLessons to see which songs they recommend as super easy ones. After we listened to all the songs and checked out the chords for them, we picked 11 easiest ones. So get your guitar and play along.
