Play along
A song on this page is a progression — an order of chords — looped against the click. Progressions are not copyrightable; only melodies and lyrics are. No melody, no words. Beginner loops stay at four beats. Intermediate adds barre and 12-bar. Advanced cuts the beats, adds 7ths, and mutes on purpose.
Player
Start the metronome for a click; the player also follows that tempo when the metro is running.
Three tracks
Beginner
Four-chord, Ghar, three-chord, waltz, G–Am–D folk (Resham / Chari Maryo map). Four beats each. Downs first, then D-DU-UDU when the left hand is honest. Capo 0.
Intermediate
50s loop, relative-minor, Am campfire, lok 6/8, 12-bar. Then C–G–Am–F (needs F) and G–Bm–C–D (needs Bm). Capo 2 or 3 for a singer.
Advanced
Set beats-per-chord to 2. Blues with 7ths. Quick-change 12-bar (IV in bar 2). Chunk on 2 and 4. Read the TAB while you play — do not look at your left hand.
Loops
How a lesson works
Hal Leonard Book 1 treats a song as changes you can count, not a recording you copy. Berklee guitar lab adds one rule: the right hand stays on the click while the left hand changes. A “lesson” here is a map — verse, chorus, or 12 bars — written as letters and counts. Still no melody.
Four-chord song — I – V – vi – IV in G
One loop is the whole song. Verse and chorus use the same four bars. Count 1 2 3 4 on each chord, pattern D-DU-UDU when the left hand is honest.
| 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 | | G | D | Em | C |
Load Four-chord song in the player. Capo 2 if the singer’s Sa wants A; capo 3 for a B♭-ish film key — same shapes.
Ghar loop — I – IV – V in G
Original campfire loop (no existing song). Home, away, away-more, home. This is the three-chord backbone Hal Leonard starts with, written as a Nepali-friendly ghar / home cycle.
Verse / chorus (same): | G | C | D | G |
12-bar blues in G
Hal Leonard Book 1 introduces the 12-bar as the first long form: four bars of I, two of IV, two of I, then V – IV – I – V. Still only G, C, and D.
| G | G | G | G | | C | C | G | G | | D | C | G | D |
Three-chord in A / E
Same I–IV–V job as Ghar, new letters. A · D · E, or E · A · B7. Capo 2 on Ghar sounds like A–D–E if you want the old pictures.
G–Am–D folk
I – ii – V in G. The Resham Firiri / Chari Maryo (capo 2) teaching map. Still no melody.
Am–F–C–G
The Nepali pop workhorse once F is honest. Adhuro Prem, Nepali Thito, and a pile of film verses share the letters.
Am courtyard — original
i – iv – V – i. Am · Dm · E · Am. Not a named song — a courtyard cadence for practising Dm next to Am.
Four-chord in C — needs F
Same numerals, teaching key C. Intermediate because F is a barre. Load Four-chord in C.
| C | G | Am | F |
G with Bm — needs the A-shape barre
I – iii – IV – V. Bm is the chord G-major songs were missing. Load G with Bm.
| G | Bm | C | D |
12-bar with 7ths (advanced)
Same map, dominant 7ths. The pull is the lesson — G7 wants C7, D7 wants G.
| G7 | G7 | G7 | G7 | | C7 | C7 | G7 | G7 | | D7 | C7 | G7 | D7 |
Quick-change 12-bar (advanced)
IV arrives in bar 2. Hal Leonard / blues-method “quick change.” Still G, C, D — the hard part is the early shift.
| G | C | G | G | | C | C | G | G | | D | C | G | D |
Famous titles (chords only)
These songs share the loop. Titles are a recognition aid — not a transcription. Usual guitar teaching key is G or C plus capo (Berklee / Hal Leonard habit), not always the recorded key.
I – V – vi – IV
| Title (chords only) | Play as |
|---|---|
| Let It Be · No Woman, No Cry | C · G · Am · F (or G · D · Em · C, capo 0) |
| With or Without You · Take Me Home, Country Roads | G · D · Em · C + capo as needed |
I – vi – IV – V (50s / ballad)
| Title (chords only) | Play as |
|---|---|
| Stand By Me · Blue Moon · Heart and Soul | G · Em · C · D |
I – IV – V
| Title (chords only) | Play as |
|---|---|
| La Bamba · Twist and Shout · Wild Thing | G · C · D (or C · F · G) |
| Three Little Birds · Blowin’ in the Wind | A · D · E |
vi – IV – I – V
| Title (chords only) | Play as |
|---|---|
| Zombie · Save Tonight | Em · C · G · D |
Nepali titles (chords only)
Same rule: letters and a loop, not a transcription. Teaching keys below are the ones guitar sites use for beginners — capo if the singer’s Sa sits elsewhere. Cadd9 on those charts is our open C.
| Title (chords only) | Play as |
|---|---|
| Resham Firiri | G · Am · D |
| Chari Maryo (Nepathya) | G · Am · D, capo 2 — or A · Bm · D · E |
| Hamro Nepal Ma (Neetesh Jung Kunwar) | G · C · D |
| Makhamali Pachheuri Le | G · Am · D |
| Timro Nyano (Uglyz) | G · D · C · Em |
| Aankhama Timilai (Nabin K. Bhattarai) | G · Am · C · D · Em |
| Awaz (Albatross) | Em · C · D |
| Pir (Prakash Saput) | C · G · F · Am, capo as needed |
| Nepali Thito (Naren Limbu) | C · Am · F · G |
| Adhuro Prem | Am · F · C · G |
| Chihan Ki Pari (Shirish Khadka) | C · Am · D · G |
12-bar blues titles (Hound Dog, Johnny B. Goode, and the rest) share the G map above — change only the key with a capo. No jazz turnarounds here.
Capo and Sa
Keep the G shapes. Move the capo so the open G chord matches the singer’s Sa, or sits in a comfortable film / lok key. Hal Leonard teaches the capo for this exact job; Berklee studio practice is the same — do not jump to barre just to change key.
| Capo fret | Open G shapes sound like | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | G | Default. Four-chord and Ghar as written. |
| 2 | A | Singer’s Sa is A; many folk / pop keys. |
| 3 | B♭ | A lot of South Asian film and lok keys sit here. |
| 5 | C | Matches open-C piano thinking without new shapes. |
The Lok pulse and Am campfire loops are original — not a named song. Use them when you want a minor or 6/8 feel without learning a recording.
TAB and the count
High e is the top line — the same orientation as the neck on this site. Numbers are frets, not fingers. A lead-sheet count under the letters is the “standard notation” of the change: one bar, four beats. Full staff notation waits until a page earns a real score.
Four-chord song in G — left-hand seats, not a melody:
G D Em C e|--3----------------2-----------------0-----------------0-- B|--0----------------3-----------------0-----------------1-- G|--0----------------2-----------------0-----------------0-- D|--0----------------0-----------------2-----------------2-- A|--2----------------------------------2-----------------3-- E|--3-------------------------------------------------------
Ghar loop:
G C D G e|--3----------------0-----------------2-----------------3-- B|--0----------------1-----------------3-----------------0-- G|--0----------------0-----------------2-----------------0-- D|--0----------------2-----------------0-----------------0-- A|--2----------------3-----------------------------------2-- E|--3----------------------------------------------------3--
Classical and fingerstyle
First-pieces maps (titles and harmony, no printed tunes or riffs) live on Folk, Classical (and concert-hall names), Rock, Metal, and Solo. This page keeps two public-domain / original doorways so classical / fingerstyle also appear as harmony loops:
- Open-string study in Em — thumb on the beat, i–m on the treble strings. Pachelbel’s Canon (1694, IMSLP) is the famous I–V–vi chain; we do not print his melody. Play the Em campfire loop, then take the same right hand to Classical drills.
- Thumb + brush on Ghar — folk fingerstyle seed. Same G–C–D–G map, thumb takes the bass, fingers brush the top. Build it on Folk drills.
Carcassi, Sor, and Giuliani (IMSLP) are the trusted spines when you want a named study. Do not copy a numbered exercise onto this page.