How to Play Hotel California (easy)

In this guitar lesson, we teach you how to play Hotel California by the Eagles on guitar. Hotel California is a classic song that is very recognizable and a lot of fun to play on guitar. In this guitar lesson, we teach how to play this song using beginner guitar chords and a beginner strumming pattern.

Even though this is an easy version of the song, it still contains some trickier guitar chords if you are a beginner, but we will also show you some easier versions of those chords.

The guitar chords you will use in this song are A min, E Maj, G Maj, D Maj, D min C Maj and F Maj. Most of these are easy beginner chords, but a couple are a little more difficult to play (especially for the beginner guitar player), so we will also show you some alternative ways to play these chords. If you are trying to learn how to play Hotel California on guitar, you don’t want to miss this guitar lesson.