Hi Vivienne @Kate_South, don’t be scared away! Take a few minutes to watch the lesson for the two John Denver songs (Take Me Home Country Roads - Grade 1 and Leaving On A Jet Plane - Grade 2). For Jet Plane, start at 1:15 (Introduction). You’ll find that Justin provides a very manageable strumming pattern for both. You don’t have to play finger style now! Justin often includes various ways to spice up songs - especially beginner songs - so you add in new techniques as your skills develop. 
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Kate
Justin has over 700 song lessons on the website and you can break them down by Grade or even groups of chords.
Just click on the song tab in the main website page, which I see you have found.
Use the filters to find those for G2
Just tick the box
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ok, thanks to both of you. I cant stand websites 
I think my goat could have figured it out better than me 
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Hi!
I don’t see these songs on the App. I’d especially love to learn Common People using the app. Is it possible to add?
Hi Aaron, sadly there are a lot of licensing issues in getting songs added to the app. I don’t know if that’s the issue here, and there would be no harm in making the request! Info on how to do that should be available in this topic.
I remembered the first grade when I was learning a Eve 6 - Promise (90s song). This song is all A/D/E (maybe 1 G). Go have a look for the tab if you’re interested. Cheers.
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Justin, long ago you did a tutorial on Mr Jones by Counting Crows… is that still around, cant find it
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Used to be part of the old Classic Beginner Course and I believe was in BSB Songbook 1. Just checked the song lesson directory and it is no longer there. So I suspect licencing issues that have led to many of Justin’s old lessons being pulled.
Remember playing it back in the day and was good fun. Shame its gone.
Welcome to the community Chris. Lots of good folks hanging here.
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Just dug way back into my old practice spreadsheet that still has the old BC songs as I mapped them out back then. Not sure if this will help but its how I noted the song structure way back when.
It might be enough to get you going and figure it out !!
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Toby, that is some serious detailed notes that you worked on back then in BC years 
I am still working on making notes for the songs in my first listen through all of the beginner songs, since there are so many new songs and I only note the presence of interesting riffs in the song lesson or interesting strum techniques or interesting new chord. Nothing like the detail that you have included. I’m impressed.
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Old Stage 1 to 7 Notes were pretty comprehensive by Stage 8 I’d found the BSB Songbooks. Mr J was one of the easier ones to jot down. Literally writing down as Justin explained each song lesson chord by chord !
I made a reputation of telling folk to practice songs they didn’t like or artists they did not like. Here is one I would always suggested due to the multiple parts and in my style of notation that back then I could easily follow . . . . .in fact there are 2 a Brit Knee was above the one I was referring to :
And some Gallaghers #NotRory.
Happy Days.
#NeverDidSheran 
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Hi Toby. Very well organized song chord summaries and interesting 16th note strumming pattern notation. I was a little lazier (or more pressed for time) back when I was learning the BC stages around 2013 to 2015. When I started I was able to order the beginner book 1 and made a point of playing through all the songs after watching and playing along with the song lesson videos. I also wasn’t connected to the community or forum as it was called then, although. I think I made a few posts. Now I am trying to correct old mistakes or bad habits and interact some with the community and document my progress. I started a crude spreadsheet on my iPad to track the songs, since there are many beginner songs beyond those in the two beginner books as well as the 4 intermediate songbooks. Here is an example of a few lines from my recent grade 2 song lesson notes, with title, songbook and stage, Acoustic or Electric, run-time length of video, date played through or watched the song video and some notes of things of interest to me:
Anarchy In The UK,ELECTRIC,Not a big fan of angry head banging punk, so I will pass on this,
Copperhead Road,Acoustic,17:37, 7/18/25,Folksy-country riff using D chord variations
Walking The Dog, Beginners 2 and Beginners songbook, 5, , ELECTRIC, 11:27, 2/19/24, , A7, D7, E7 blues and then more advanced rhythm and riff
Champagne Supernova, Acoustic, 11:17, , 7/19/25, Asus2, Asus2/G, Asus2/F#, Esus4, 16th note strumming pattern D D U UD DUD, dynamics - softer on verses, louder on chorus, heavier strumming in bridge
Fields Of Gold (Easy Version), , , , Acoustic, 15:25, , 7/23/25, Not sure if this is easier than the grade 3 version, especially with the finger picking version, but does leave out some chord embellishment and this song lesson has reference to the guitar app formerly known as 4Chord and now is Justin Guitar app|
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Notes are good Steve. Its all about how you personally relate to the songs or the lessons. Reckon we must have been on a parallel path back in the day as i started the old BC about the same time as you. Shame you didn’t find the forum back then. It was really useful to me and sadly many of the old guard never got over to the new place. But there are still some stalwarts around from back in the day. Keep doing what you are doing, developing nicely and well integrated in the new house.
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Thanks Toby. I think that I might try your chord summary for some songs that I like that are not in any of the song books. It will be a good exercise and help with learning to play the song. No one can complain about not having chord song sheets since Justin spells out the chord progressions that you need in every song lesson in the JG website.
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Yeah exactly all you need to do is listen and scribe. Whatever system works for you. These days i just load songs into Songbook Pro but also wtite my own stuff freehand. But that old BC stuff is always there as a reference for chord progressions and inspiration!
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Hi - I have been playing guitar about 8 years and I am progressing through the courses beginning at grade 1 just to see because I don’t want to skip over anything. I paid for the Justin Guitar Tab for a year subscription, but I don’t know if I really need the subscription at this point, can someone tell me if there is any benefit to the Guitar Tabs at this point? I want to start playing along with some of the simple songs such as Walk The Line. Do I need the Guitar tab subscription for that? Thank you.
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How does one figure out the correct strumming patterns for the songs in the app? Every single one shows the same strumming pattern on the display of 4 down strokes… but that doesn’t match up with most the songs. For example, Nobody to Blame but Myself seems like it might be DDUDDU pattern? Anyway, just curious how one figures this out if they want to try and match play to the song?
The strumming patterns in the app are kept simple to match the level the songs are introduced. In lesson 2, upstrokes haven’t been introduced yet, so all downstrums it is.
As for figuring out which strumming pattern is ‘right’: if it sounds good, it is good. A lot of songs can be played with different strumming patterns and still sound good.
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Todd, for the simple songs you could use the “Chord” view or chord/songsheet in the TAB menu to play the song. I am starting to use that for songs with a lot of lyrics. You can zoom in on the lyrics and start “Autoscroll” at your preferred speed and have a scrolling song sheet. With 8 years of experience, you could also do what i did for grade 1 and use more advanced strums like the “boom-chick-a” bass note and DU strum that Johnny Cash is famous for in your playing.
You could add Married in Vegas by The Vamps. It’s just E A and D the entire song