Some songs you find on the internet will have a jumble of chords, some of which you've never seen, and some that are a half dozen characters long (what the heck).

What I say is, instead of trying to learn them in your early stages of guitar playing, throw them out!

Let me explain. This won't work in every situation, or for everyone out there. Some people want to play the song exactly, to the T, as written. So I'll say that this concept is mainly for the beginner to novice, who just wants to hurry up and play the song, and have it still sound good.

The fact that there are over 2,000 chords available out there should be a clue that many of those chords are very similar to one another. Some are so similar, in fact, that they can be interchanged and hardly anyone will even notice. So instead of learning every new chord in every new song you want to play, just learn how to simplify a chord chart to its basic foundational structure, and life will be a whole lot easier for you.

Good luck and enjoy!