Chords, Ideas?

Hi guys, I've recently just started learning the Acoustic, in fact to actually play some Gaslight.. Anyway,
I know A, D, G , and E and Em.

It'd really help my motivation to play a bit of Gaslight, are there actually any songs I could play or learn with those Chords?
Thanks in advance..
X

I don't think they have any songs in A.

My suggestion to you is that you learn Am, F and C in addition to the ones you already know.
With Am, F, C and G you can play like 90% of their songs.

However, it's worth noting that they tune their guitars down a whole step, meaning that instead of
E
B
G
D
A
E

It's

D
A
F
C
G
D

You should tune your guitar that way and get yourself a capo if you want to play Gaslight Anthem songs.
But if you feel like that's too much for you, just learn those chords I told you and start with Old White Lincoln, it's the same chord progression all over: Am, F, C, G

If you only know 5 chords the last post might confuse you. There is a progression you should memorize:

E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# then it loops back again to E F F# ...

Any note you can play on a guitar is assigned one of these letters. If you move up a fret, you move up a position on the scale. The standard guitar tuning and the standard gaslight tuning are given above. Gaslight tunes down a full step (with each move to the left on the scale above being a half step). So E tuned down a full step becomes D, A becomes G, etc... You should be using an automatic tuner at this point so tuning down shouldn't be a problem. It just takes an extra 2 minutes.

Note you can play a D chord, for example, in many positions on the guitar. Don't get confused if you see it in different ways. It has a slightly different tone when played in different places, but it is the same chord.

And Harbortown's comment about 90% of gaslight songs including the progression Am, F, C, and G is correct.

Wouldn't let me type anymore ^^^

It is correct, but if you are gonna put in the effort to learn to play guitar, learn every major and minor chord. It should take a couple of hours at most. It takes some natural talent and a lot of hard work to be able to do what Alex does on some of the Gaslight songs, but anyone in the world can learn to strum chords without a ton of effort. Play the songs you want to learn the most, not the ones that fit the chords you know.

Yeah eventually learn every chord, but learning chords in the key of C will get you off to a great start playing TGA songs.

C Dm Em F G Am (Bdim, don't really need that one for now)

Learn these. You'll be set