Learn C & Am Chords - Your Second Acoustic Guitar Lesson | Beginner 2

In this beginner acoustic guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the C and Am chords, practice slides and hammer ons, and apply these skills to songs. This is lesson 2 in a step-by-step beginner guitar series.

In this lesson you will learn:
How to play the most common G chord
How to play a C chord
How to play an Am chord
How to use slides and hammer ons in guitar tabs
What to practice
How to apply these skills
Get ready for the next lesson in the series

Extra Practice Tabs (Ultimate Guitar):
Ghost Riders in the Sky: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/...
Auld Lang Syne: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/...

Tabs linked above are user-submitted on Ultimate Guitar. I do not own or distribute these tabs.

Song References (Educational):
Knockin’ on Heavens Door – Bob Dylan
Simple Man – Lynyrd Skynyrd

This video contains simplified, educational demonstrations of chord progressions and rhythm concepts. Song titles and artists are referenced for instructional purposes only. No original recordings, lyrics, or official transcriptions are used.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:17 How to play G chord
1:50 Exercise 1 for G chord
2:50 How to play C chord
4:51 Exercise 2 for C chord
6:20 How to play Am chord
7:38 New strum pattern
8:46 Exercise 3 for Am chord
9:26 Guitar Tabs: slides
10:55 Guitar Tabs: hammer ons
12:21 Song 1
15:43 Song 2
18:09 What to practice
19:25 Outro

Keywords: beginner guitar, guitar chords, C chord, Am chord, guitar tabs, slides, hammer ons