John Denver – Sunshine On My Shoulders

Learn how to play John Denver – Sunshine On My Shoulders note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty Level: Easy except for 1 barre chord.
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
This preview video contains the 1st section taken from the complete lesson for the song Sunshine On My Shoulders.
The complete song lesson contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, full tabs and chords and lyrics sheet. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 181 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll receive the chords/lyrics and guitar tabs as PDF files.
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Graham Lawrence says
I have found Jerry’s Guitar Bar to be always reliable. The internet is littered with people supposedly showing you how to play John Denver’s “Sunshine on my Shoulders”. The only correct and accurate version I’ve found is Jerry’s. (I had the same trouble with McCartney’s “Blackbird”, but there are one or two people apart from Jerry who get it right – and again, an awful lot who don’t, however well intentioned they may be.)