It's summer and I've got a little bit of free time. Nothing excessive, but I want to put a couple hours a week for the next 2-3 months and see if I can get to a stage where people can somewhat guess what I am trying to play (as opposed to random noise).

I am going to learn a couple of chords each week, and it would be helpful if anyone can suggest any YUI songs playable with just a small (tiny) repertoire of chords.

Thanks :)

I suggest..It's happy line..very easy or I feel my soul..can't remember others XD

If you want the fewer chords, you can try Oh My God.
Happy line too, if you don't include in the accompaniment styles

i think either TOKYO or Ready To Love..has the fewest and easy chords
to learn and play also Its Happy Line but it has the F chord in which is kinda hard to play

I haven't looked up the chords for all her songs, but among the ones I've seen they all have relatively similar number of chords in the song.

i recommend It's Happy Line and Tokyo. You might remember the chords after quite a few plays. good luck! :good

I personally think Tokyo is easier than It's Happy Line, because of the F chord. Plus, Tokyo has an easier strum pattern...regardless of whether I can do it correctly or not. x_x

Feel my soul MAY have easy chords, but it's not the easiest to learn.

Good luck! Really doesn't matter how easy the song is though, if you practise long enough, you'll be able to play it. Of course, don't go trying a song like LIFE, which contains mostly barre chords.

But LIFE is so upbeat and fun to play! Please learn the intro at least! =P

My recommendation would be It's Happy Line. Though it has F chord, I feel that Tokyo might be a little more confusing cause there are frequent chord changes lol..

We're saying for people who are just starting out on guitar. Yeah, but LIFE intro, you MUST learn it! So much fun. ^_^

I guess it really depends...it's arguable which (It's Happy Line, TOKYO) song is easier to play. In other threads, both songs are suggested several times. Just look through both songs and..play which one you like more? In It's Happy Line, the strum changes for the chorus, but for TOKYO that's not the case. It's true though that in TOKYO the chords change a bit quicker.

I think I learnt TOKYO first. =P

It's Happy Line indeed s quite simple other than the F which beginners loath.

Why don't play it with the non-barre chord F?

F - x33211

Rather than holding down the whole fret with your index finger, you hold down to string with you index finger.

Would this be a better alternative?. Now you get to practice you chords and fretting the minimum number of multiple strings.

IMO i think playing that F is harder then the Barred F

i dont have enough top fingers space to hold the first fret on the 1 and 2 strings...

if u just develop the strength holding the whole fret with ur index finger its easier... and easier positioning for the rest of ur fingers....

F - x33211

It's the F chord I was always doing before I could be able to add the 6th string with the thumb. I still think it's easier than barring all the chords with the index. Talking about acoustic/folk guitars...

@brad: You don't use the top of your finger to fret 2 strings. You do the same like you're doing a barre chord just that you fret 2 strings. Not using the tip but the side where your fingerprint is.

pick tokyo because i uses all the basic guitar chords and one or two hard ones. plus its a great song!

I use the x33211 F chord all the time. And sometimes I do the xx4432 for a Bm. Depends on the song and chord changes before and after. Though I mostly do it with Kobukuro's songs, since the guitar player Kobuchi does non-barre versions a lot.

Tokyo is definitely one of the easier songs (it was easier than It's happy line, imo)

I also found Summer Song to be relatively easy (if you don't do the picking parts -- I still haven't figured out how to play that part :rolleye ) - there's the F chord, but you only play it twice in the entire song, I think.

Connecting to the few posts above me... I normally only play the F chord as 133211 -- I find the other methods WAY harder to do.

Thanks for the feedbacks. Just picked up a shiny new acoustic guitar on Tuesday. Time for practice ^_^

I'll think that I might need to spend two or three weeks focussing on chords and how to change between them before I have a shot at 'easy' YUI songs.

Once I feel ready-ish, I'll try Tokyo first. It must be one of the most covered YUI song on YouTube, I actually had trouble finding the original version :lol:

Could someone please explain how the strumming work in Tokyo (the intro alone would be a great start)? Cheers.

I had a look at the chords here and chord difficulty wise, it looks like okay to start with (as long as I stick with the G in the G/F).

I currently learning to change between the chords used in the intro (I can do the chords but I am still clumsy when it comes to go one to the other), but it never sound 'right' (i.e. like music). The problem is, I am only strumming once when I should be strumming more than once. But I can't tell from the chord chart posted how many times to strum per chords, how fast to strum (are they all 1/4 notes or does it vary) or which way to strum (up down, down up).