Take Me Home, Country Roads Guitar Lesson - John Denver

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    I have a nice fun and easy acoustic guitar lesson for you guys today with all the chords to John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads".
    Released in 1971 on John Denver's Poems, Prayers and Promises album, "Take Me Home Country Roads" went on to become a massive career launching hit for Denver and became his signature song as well.
    In this Take Me Home Country Roads guitar lesson video, I will show you all the chords that make up this massive acoustic hit.
    If you listen to the original recording you will hear multiple guitar layers including one guitar that is arpeggio picking the chords, one playing bass lines and another that is strumming the chords. In a live setting, John Denver simply strummed the chords so that is how I am going to teach you to play it in this lesson.
    The chords are pretty simple with just one bar chord to contend with. You will also find that most of the chord progressions use the same chords just in a slightly different order. So because of that, I hope you will be able to memorize everything relatively quickly.
    There are two ways you can choose to play these chords. You can just strum them in a standard fashion, or you can use the bass note strum method to accent the bass notes during the chord strums. For most of the lesson I chose to use the bass note strum method, since that is how it was played on the original recording. This will require a little bit more control of the picking hand since you need to be able to pick a single bass string followed by full strums. This picking style is used a lot in country and western music so if you enjoy that sort of thing, I suggest you practice playing the song like that. I will demonstrate which bass notes to pick for each chord within the video lesson.
    However, even if you don't use the bass note strum method and just play this song with a standard strumming style, it will still sound great.
    So I hope you guys enjoy learning this acoustic guitar classic! It is definitely a winner by the campfire! :)
    Carl...
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  • @TeddyZ83
    @TeddyZ83 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Thank you, Carl! Great campfire song!

  • @duaneulman9915
    @duaneulman9915 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for this lesson Love John Denver

  • @isaacpadilla1428
    @isaacpadilla1428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dude honestly an amazing tutorial! Thank you, planning on showing my youth pastor since he’s a country type guy. Again thanks! Keep up the good work.

    • @TV-fx8gq
      @TV-fx8gq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just make sure other adults/witnesses are present.

  • @WolfTheDrgnSlyr
    @WolfTheDrgnSlyr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The desire to learn guitar and learn this song brought me here.

  • @ZpunamaFB
    @ZpunamaFB 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is the best on line lesson i have ever seen, thanks a lot. its really help me

  • @bepisman4127
    @bepisman4127 6 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    How many guitar players will Fallout 76 bring here now i wonder???
    Awesome song and awesome lesson

  • @anandgamezzz
    @anandgamezzz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent its simplified beyond imaginaton..Grt Job

  • @bobbyruggs808
    @bobbyruggs808 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The added bass is great, thanks for the lesson.

  • @gamermartin6204
    @gamermartin6204 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent lesson. I will definitely be incorporating the little bass line you showed I wish you would incorporate more - your lessons are very easy to follow for noobs like me.

  • @noahtroyer6717
    @noahtroyer6717 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best tutorial for this song I’ve seen!! Thanks!

  • @BwanaGM
    @BwanaGM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice, clear and concise. Thank you Sir! Graham

  • @jstidgwell
    @jstidgwell 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    great no bs lesson. Thanks

  • @TheBaronVonVik
    @TheBaronVonVik ปีที่แล้ว

    Most accurate and playable. Once again.

  • @xv.luc1d
    @xv.luc1d 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, Sir) You really helped me)
    Have a wonderful day!)

  • @mda037
    @mda037 9 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Great job!!
    Maybe do Rocky Mountain High sometime? I already know how to play it...but others would appreciate it I'm sure :)

    • @shmedwinardo
      @shmedwinardo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      suuuuure yaaaa do!

  • @coppertime
    @coppertime 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks man. Awesome study

  • @RockNRollViewer5
    @RockNRollViewer5 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Hey carl! I love your lessons, they're the best on TH-cam. Also I'd like to say thanks for making a lesson for basically every song I want to learn, but I was wondering, could you make a lesson for estranged by guns N' roses, thanks!!

  • @LucasCaetanoGuitar
    @LucasCaetanoGuitar 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great Job! Master!

  • @ytadilson
    @ytadilson 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great lesson, thanks!

  • @lotsomuch
    @lotsomuch 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    very helpful video big fan of you carl !

  • @jdbroome8125
    @jdbroome8125 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Lesson!

  • @windlive04
    @windlive04 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Congratulation! Very good lesson!

  • @rayleeramirez5912
    @rayleeramirez5912 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hey man, love your videos and I'm sure you get lots of requests but if you feel like it, a lesson of to live is to die by Metallica would be awesome. I really can find a solid tab or video that sounds right. So thanks for all the lessons already.

  • @jasonberezny9705
    @jasonberezny9705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for your amazing contributions. You have a gift for teaching. I’ve been playing for 30 years. I’m ok. For me personally, you broken down walls of self doubt on my abilities to try songs I thought I wouldn’t be able to learn. Not this Denver song, lol, I can play it. Just checking it out 😊 The Beatles, Boston, Police and others I have learned from you. And I am a professional drummer 🤘
    I have yet to see another TH-cam guitar teacher as good as you as far as I’m concerned. 🤘🤜

  • @camilolym
    @camilolym ปีที่แล้ว

    so fun and simple!

  • @ai2090
    @ai2090 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Take Me Home, Country Roads
    Almost heaven, West Virginia
    Blue Ridge Mountains
    Shenandoah River,
    Life is old there
    Older than the trees
    Younger than the mountains
    Blowin' like the breeze
    [Chorus]
    Country roads, take me home
    To the place I belong
    West Virginia, mountain momma
    Take me home, country roads
    All my memories gathered 'round her
    Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
    Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
    Misty taste of moonshine
    Teardrops in my eye
    [Chorus]
    I hear her voice
    In the mornin' hour she calls me
    The radio reminds me of my home far away
    And drivin' down the road I get a feelin'
    That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
    [Chorus:Repeat x2]
    Take me home, now country roads
    Take me home, now country roads

    • @alexcrawfordguitar9361
      @alexcrawfordguitar9361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Almost perfect but it’s “Take me Home, DOWN Country Roads

  • @tomsalt1165
    @tomsalt1165 6 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    In german!!

    • @kusunxki3935
      @kusunxki3935 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tom Salt yes

    • @kusunxki3935
      @kusunxki3935 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tom Salt the office

    • @elkhills1
      @elkhills1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      John Denvers Army of Champions!

  • @jamesdean1955t
    @jamesdean1955t 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job.
    Gracias.

  • @claumitie1
    @claumitie1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oi! Hi! Eu estou gostando muito e é o meu primeiro vídeo aula! Obrigada! I like so much and my first video , thanks for fantastic lesson!

  • @mlffreitas7099
    @mlffreitas7099 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Muito bom, show de bola, me ajudou muito.

  • @simonpanter3627
    @simonpanter3627 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks!

  • @sebastiankonieczny1579
    @sebastiankonieczny1579 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great lesson :)

  • @neelkamdar2917
    @neelkamdar2917 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much

  • @neelkamdar2917
    @neelkamdar2917 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Helped me a lott 💓

  • @finbarmcgorrigan7876
    @finbarmcgorrigan7876 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @andonibaranano9908
    @andonibaranano9908 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Job !!!!!!
    a query
    you have the track accompaniment to practice with the banjo

  • @sameenakausar1020
    @sameenakausar1020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for this video !
    It would be great if you could share the chord sheet along with the lyrics for this song for us to play the song in one go.

  • @robertocorrea6633
    @robertocorrea6633 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thanx bro.thats awesome.

  • @TheQakman
    @TheQakman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love all your lessons. Just noticed you have fingers like crab legs. Lol. Beats the heck outta my little chubby fingers.

  • @rowiesimbulan3073
    @rowiesimbulan3073 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Make this free dude!

  • @BlissOn47
    @BlissOn47 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I usually watch the content on this channel because of the lack of enthusiasm, but I liked this one!

  • @szliklurga7709
    @szliklurga7709 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍Good good☺

  • @nategonzalez1321
    @nategonzalez1321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How do you play that beginning riff before the songs starts with the chords can’t find it anywhere

  • @kilgoretrout3966
    @kilgoretrout3966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    on that bridge, throw a D7 on the end to build it another step.

    • @smaganas
      @smaganas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm going to try that thanks

    • @kilgoretrout3966
      @kilgoretrout3966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smaganas Glad to help fellow musicians in any way i can. Honestly we all learn from each other, and that's wonderful. Sevenths are so sweet when they fit...its the wannabe Jazz guitarist in me that loves those little parts that add interest.

  • @justcullen9304
    @justcullen9304 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Fallout 76 is the reason I looked this up for my gitaur

    • @charlieforcino7345
      @charlieforcino7345 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      From now on ill always be playing this song with the ink spots intro lol

    • @DannyBridie
      @DannyBridie 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is the game worth getting? Love fallout but have heard a lot of negative things about it

    • @kennygudz9326
      @kennygudz9326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DannyBridie no, I returned it half an hour after buying it. It's really shit

    • @rifath8152
      @rifath8152 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Danny Bridie I am 3 months late, but it's anything but a Fallout game.

  • @garywellings2281
    @garywellings2281 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sweet close ups on the frets,less replays would be nice on this end,so im using Audipo app to cut and bookmark.

  • @nicksigley4836
    @nicksigley4836 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    could you please do annie's song aswell?

  • @Nergal_Slayer
    @Nergal_Slayer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    *Me to my girlfriend (nonexistent):* What do you want?
    *Her:* 5:39

  • @roadtofingerstyle
    @roadtofingerstyle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi, I would like some advice, I tried to make a country road tutorial only that a copyright dispute arose. Could I kindly know if the same thing happened to you too?

  • @user-xv1nf7zj4v
    @user-xv1nf7zj4v 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤️

  • @jonathandrozario4038
    @jonathandrozario4038 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @jasonstout3719
    @jasonstout3719 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    do you have a link to the chords and words somewhere?

    • @stevenlennon12
      @stevenlennon12 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      seriously? google the song title with the word tabs after it....good luck

  • @kaushalyagautam7462
    @kaushalyagautam7462 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    great sir

  • @budandbean1
    @budandbean1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    yee-haw

  • @RafexExtreme
    @RafexExtreme 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Go andy

  • @thomaslinkins2588
    @thomaslinkins2588 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel like this is a stupid question but where does the bridge take place?

    • @thomaslinkins2588
      @thomaslinkins2588 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      By where I mean when

    • @thomaslinkins2588
      @thomaslinkins2588 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m real dumb I figured it out after listening to the songg

  • @jay4612
    @jay4612 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So now I know where ordinary world by Green Day got its rhythm from

  • @happylover9974
    @happylover9974 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please teach how to play Somebody's Me by Enrique Iglesias

  • @tyejames
    @tyejames 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still can’t get F down even after practicing for hours

  • @marvinhundley8012
    @marvinhundley8012 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    We want to hear you sing Karl.

  • @jujinz
    @jujinz ปีที่แล้ว

    Bridge 6:10

  • @micheleronconi3145
    @micheleronconi3145 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Welcome to galaxy news radio

  • @elrondtasartir2828
    @elrondtasartir2828 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    R.I.P Merlin

  • @danielzatkovich4659
    @danielzatkovich4659 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Any reason you don't sing it as you play it?

  • @donaldmcdonald156
    @donaldmcdonald156 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sólo???

  • @ivanmiguel1300
    @ivanmiguel1300 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where the fallout people? 😂

  • @brucelevine6517
    @brucelevine6517 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you look at video of him he used a capo on the 2nd feet making the G cord into an A cord the D into an E and the c cord a D and the Em an F#minor

  • @jacoblees312
    @jacoblees312 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WEST VIRGINIA

  • @RipperGand
    @RipperGand 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a shame i was born with short chubby fingers and can't do chords on the guitar, I'd love to have been able to play this!! I'll stick to my bass, but great video no less

    • @kicsiqki
      @kicsiqki 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude, if Israel IZ could play the freakin ukulele, Im sure you can play an acoustic guitar :D

  • @akmt123
    @akmt123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All others are teaching in Key G????

    • @ryanr6240
      @ryanr6240 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Possibly because the others are teaching with a capo to avoid the F chord...

  • @harrycoleman727
    @harrycoleman727 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nobody;
    Not a single soul;
    RT Game fans; cOuNtRy rOaDs

  • @bennylam790
    @bennylam790 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    For the first time you look so uncomfortable with a guitar 😂😂😂😂

  • @lozanoguerreroisaias2670
    @lozanoguerreroisaias2670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Like si veniste aqui por la canción de fallout 76

  • @user-hd4ef9gp7z
    @user-hd4ef9gp7z 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No tabs for the riffs ?!?!?!?! That's so unlike him. (why I watch his, because he gives you the little fills and licks) anyway, ,thanks for the video

  • @henriquesupi9461
    @henriquesupi9461 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fallout 76

  • @redneckdrunkz
    @redneckdrunkz 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never realized Jason Mraz (I'm Yours) totally ripped off John Denver. Subtle differences but very similar chord progressions...

    • @scubasteve3778
      @scubasteve3778 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thousands of songs share a very similar chord progression, they're
      very common chords.

  • @parsnip7349
    @parsnip7349 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice , no capo

  • @Atsiful
    @Atsiful 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @Loua440
    @Loua440 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks !