Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children note-for-note on guitar with our Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children Guitar Lesson.
Teach Your Children is often thought of as a simple strum-and-sing song, but when you isolate the acoustic guitar part, there’s more going on than first meets the eye. In this lesson, you’ll learn the acoustic guitar part as it’s actually played, including the small chordal additions and inner-voice movements that give the song its warmth and character.The arrangement is taught in Drop D tuning, which allows the bass movement and chord voicings to fall naturally under the fingers. While the lesson does not include the pedal steel part, the acoustic guitar on its own is far from bare — those subtle embellishments are what make the part feel alive rather than static.
Despite that added detail, the lesson never rises above an easy level. There are no complex techniques or awkward shapes, making it an ideal introduction to altered tunings for players who’ve never ventured beyond standard tuning but want to hear and feel why Drop D is so effective.
You’ll receive:
-Two clear, step-by-step lesson videos
-A full performance play-through video
-Accurate tab, chords, and lyrics sheets
By the end, you’ll be able to play Teach Your Children as a complete and musical acoustic accompaniment — faithful to the original guitar part and a perfect example of how Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young often achieved depth through small, thoughtful details rather than complexity.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Barre chords: Yes (Bm)
- Thumb over chords: No
- Playing Style: Strummed with a couple of picked bass notes
- Tuning: Drop D
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children Download Details
The complete lesson contains a lesson video and a performance-standard play-thru video. It also contains the guitar tabs as PDF files and a songsheet with the chords and the lyrics of the lesson (if applicable), also as PDF files.
The videos are MP4 format and will play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
You’ll receive an email with a Zip file containing a total of 5 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson – Intro
- Part 2: Guitar Video Lesson – Chorus, bridge & outro
- Part 3: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 4: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 5: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 313.4 Mb
You’ll need to extract the MP4 and PDF files from the Zip file/s to be able to use them and you’ll need software to do so. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Peazip which you can get free, here.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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