Good Guitar Chords for a Love Song – How to Write a Love Song on Guitar

If you’re looking for good guitar chords for a love song, I would certainly suggest using minor chords somewhere in the progression because minor chords tend to set the right key, however it’s not completely necessary.

Let’s take a look at 2 very popular love songs and see why. Bryan Adams has written 2 hits, ‘Heaven’ and ‘Everything I do’. Now, if you asked me, I’d say that both songs would have strong minor chords, but surprisingly only one of them does, which is that the song that I would have bet money on being mostly minor chords, ‘Everything I do’ actually only has 1 minor chord.

‘Everything I Do’ has only 4 chords: A, D, G and Em, so it is the melody of the vocals and the lyrics that provide the strong love song element to the piece. It’s a great song to play on just acoustic guitar because of the simplicity of the song, but you can also play it on electric guitar and it will still sound pretty good.

‘Heaven’ again has a very strong vocal arrangement with emotional lyrics and is more of a rock ballad than ‘Everything I do’. The guitar chord sequence has 2 minor chords and they are as follows: Am, Dm, C, F, G. Again, it’s a good song to play solo on acoustic guitar, but the chorus lends itself to power chords, so if you want to touch it you may need to change the arrangement slightly.

If you’re trying to write your own love song, I suggest first using chords that have already been laid out for you, and then adapting the chord sequence to fit your song. So think of a classic love song that you like, or why not try using the chords from either of the two songs we’ve looked at in this article? Try not to use too many clichés in your lyrics as you will find your song less appealing so try your best to find some original lines.