Experienced Guitar Instructor Teaches Basic Three or Four-Chord Songs in Fun Fifteen Second Videos

Guitar instructor and athlete James Lenger of Guitar Cities has a wonderful series entitled Fifteen Second Lessons. During each brief episode, Lenger presents a popular song that only uses three or four chords, explains what chords are involved, provides a visual chart of the mostly open chords and then plays the first few measures as an example, all in the titular fifteen seconds promised.

Busy people don’t have time to sit through ten-minute tutorials. Our instructor picked songs you can learn right now.

Lori Dorn
Lori Dorn

Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.