Harry Chapin – Taxi Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Harry Chapin – Taxi note-for-note on guitar with our Harry Chapin – Taxi Guitar Lesson.
This lesson teaches Harry’s guitar part as he played it in live versions of this song. It leans heavily on the version he played at The Capitol Theater, New Jersey, October 1978 (available on YouTube), where he plays the song solo with just his guitar accompaniment.
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Barre chords: Yes
- Thumb over chords: No
- Playing Style: Fingerpicked and finger strums
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Harry Chapin – Taxi 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 6 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson Part 1
- Part 2: Guitar Video Lesson Part 2
- Part 3: Guitar Video Lesson Part 3
- Part 4: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 5: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 6: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 642.5 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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Rick says
Ah, Harry. The reason I picked up the guitar in the first place some 40 years ago. I’ll always be happy to see a Harry lesson! I was all excited to see this on the “Coming up” page.
Based on some of the live performances I’ve seen on YouTube, it looks like Harry fingered the D/D9 combo the second way you showed. Not sure yet which way will be easier for me but I love that you show varying ways to finger the chords.
Thank you for this one. Always a favorite. And as always, you do excellent work. So easy to follow and learn from!
Jerry says
Thanks Rick :)