4 Easy Guitar Songs Using Chord E, A & B7

I use these easy and fun guitar songs to teach my beginning guitar students chords E, A & B7. As the songs progress, they also learn some addition chords, like B5 and Esus along with a couple of great easy guitar riffs.

Some beginning guitar players first chords are E, A & B7. These chords are a little trickier than other beginning guitar chords, so if you’re new to playing, I’d recommend that you first start by checking out my earlier guitar lesson posts in this order:

• The First Seven Songs I Teach All of My Beginning Guitar Students
• Easy Songs for Guitar Using Chords G, C & D7
• Learn Chords D & A7
• Easy Guitar Songs With Minor Chords

Already know chords G, C, D7, G7, D, A7, Em & Am? Then you’re in the right place!

First Song – an easy 2 chord song

Most of my students don’t know this song before learning it, but almost all of them end up loving it. It has a great tab lick at the beginning including a bend. It also has only TWO CHORDS and an EASY STRUM PATTERN! This makes learning the song a breeze. B7 is a tricky new chord and this song does the job of teaching how to play it and move back and forth from B7 to E easily.

Second Song – Three Chord Song

Three Little Birds is a great way to learn how to play the A chord.  I usually teach this song after my students have already learned E and D.  This is why I teach Tulsa Time first.

This song uses a reggae strum pattern. This is all upstrums. You’ll notice an eighth note rest before each upstrum. If you’re just starting out, the easiest way to do this is by losing the guitar pick for this song and using your fingers. When you see an eighth rest, mute the strings with your fingers and then strum up for the upstrum. This will get you a great reggae sound.

Third Song – Three Chord Song

This easy 3 chord song teaches a couple of great concepts. The first is the B5 chord. The B5 chord will get new guitar players fingers a workout, because you need to stretch your third and fourth fingers to the 4th fret while keeping your first finger on the 2nd fret.

The other concept that this song teaches is how to palm mute. I’ve included an image below to help explain how this works. The entire Proclaimers song sounds best if you use a palm mute throughout.

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Fourth Song

This song teaches how to play the Esus, which is also known as the E suspended chord. You can play it without the suspended chord, which is how it’s written. You’ll notice an alternate strum pattern for the E and Esus chord at the bottom of the page. In the recording, they play this suspended chord every so often. There is also a simplified version of the bass line that starts out this song.