John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads

Learn how to play John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate leaning towards easy
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked. The chorus is strummed with thumb and fingers
Tuning: Standard
This lesson teaches an arrangement of the song based on John’s part from the original studio recording. That part on its own doesn’t capture the feel of the track with full band, so some changes have been made, specifically strumming the chorus with bass notes, to try to better capture that feel.
The complete file contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 239 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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