The best way is to buy a book on scales and learn them, (C.F &G will get you going on a lot of songs) that way you have played virtually every song ever made. (They all use notes from the relevant scale)
Once you have learnt a scale, you can use the Circle of Fifths to find the Main Chords.
Hope this Helps

Bill
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