If you look at an average songbook featuring lyrics and chords of most popular songs, you will see that there are some chords that appear more often then others.

That would be: C, D, E, F, G, A, dm, em and am

What does these letters mean?
If you see a capital 'E', you're dealing with E major chord, and if you see 'em' or 'Em' then you know that is the E minor chord. That's all you need to know so far. So here are the guitar chords diagrams (following images were taken from chorder.com, a website that's all about guitar chords with fingering):

If you look at any one of those chords, you will find it very self explanatory how to play 'em. Each number represents one finger, and where you see the dot on the fretboard there you need to push! :)

That's it! Simple as that.

Here goes, the 'Don't Want To Live Without Them' guitar chords are:

B, cm, fm, gm, bm

These chords are not so often used, but sooner or later you'll play across some song that does. So, why not be ready?

If you look at the definition of a chord:

'In music and music theory a chord is three or more different notes that are played simultaneously, or near-simultaneously.'Wikipedia

you realize that you can make many variations of the same chord, if you know your music theory. There are chord database websites that have thousands of chords listed!

But to make things simple, you need to memorize only small numbers of mostly used guitar chords to be able to play most songs.

However, there are other important things to know if you want to be a great guitar player, and most people struggle to learn good playing technique. How to learn guitar chords might be an easy task comparing to that, so please, save yourself from trouble, and start playing using correct technique, or you'll have a lots of trouble if you get it wrong at start.

Here is one good article that will help you learn how to play guitar chords, and another site to help you keep in tune with completely free guitar tuner online.

Learn and practice,
Take Care!

Martin McFly