Hey guitar enthusiasts Lauren Bateman here in this lesson we're gonna go over
an easy version for playing John Denver's take me home country road. I'll
show you a simple way to strum through this so let's get into the video. So what
I'm gonna do is I'm going to go through the verse the chorus and the bridge
sections of this song and what we're gonna do over those we'll go through
what the chord progressions are and how we're going to strum through so let's
start with our verse section so in the verse we have basically my four easy
chords so if you've seen my easy two finger lesson video you can use these
chords but we're going to be doing a G major chord E minor D major and C major
alright so those are the chords we're gonna be using for the verse and for the
chorus so G E minor C and D and what we're going to do is we're gonna do a
very simplified strumming pattern over these chords but first let's talk about
the order we're going to play them in now if you need the chord chart for this
video in this lesson I'll put a link in this description below so that you can
go over to my website and download it so let's talk about the chord progression
for this verse we have two G chords followed by two e minor chords followed
by two D chords a C chord and then a G chord and that eight chords once you get
through that we just go back to the beginning and we repeat it all again and
each chord is just one measure meaning it's four beats and we're gonna modify a
bit of a strumming pattern you might be familiar with to spice it up a little
bit for with this john denver's song so the pattern we're gonna be playing off
of is one two three and four and what we're going to do is it's going to be
one two three and four and down down down up
down down down-up down-up one two three and four and now you can just go and use
that strumming pattern throughout the song but I think it sounds a little bit
better if you add a little bit of a bass note to it so what we're going to do
instead of strumming all the way down on that first strum we're just gonna try
and hit the low bass note of the chord now if you catch a couple notes that's
okay too but we're gonna try not to strum the
entire chord so it'll sound like this 1 2 3 & 4 & 1 2 3 & 4 & 1 2 3 & 4 & 1 2 3
& 4 & 1 2 3 & 4 & 1 2 3 & 4 & 1 2 3 & 4 so that's what it's gonna sound like so
I just went through that that whole progression so here I'm just kind of
catching the bass note on the first beat so give that a try and if you can't
figure it out don't worry don't worry about doing the bass note just stick
with the full strum so let's go talk about our chorus now if you guys are
enjoying this video make sure to like and comment below and don't forget to
subscribe as well so the chord progression for the chorus changes up a
little bit but we're still using the same chords we still start with to G's
to DS and then we have e mine or twice and C twice now the course doesn't
repeat it actually does another 8 chords and the totally different progression we
do GG DD so that's the same but then we have CC double G so just keep that in
mind when you're playing through the chorus now in terms of the strumming
pattern we're not gonna do anything different on this chorus section so it's
really all you need to know about this section of the song so let's jump ahead
now to the bridge where things change up a little bit okay so in this bridge
section John does something kind of cool he changes keys and if you don't know
what that means don't worry about it too much it just means he kind of changes
the sound of the song a little bit to what we would expect to hear so we're
gonna see a few different chords so our bridge the court
aggression is a minor D GG C GD d and then right around here we're gonna
switch to an E minor and then we go to an F chord which we haven't played yet
in the song and if you can't do full Barre chords you can always use the F
major seven chord which will work just fine for this section so we have E minor
F C G then we have two DS and then we have to d7 which was not played before
in the song so we have D and D seven now could you stay on the D you could
but to make it sound like really sound like the song and give it the essence of
what John Denver intended for this bridge you should learn that d7 chord so
I would definitely recommend that and in terms of the strumming once again we can
just stick with the same strumming pattern for this and then you're gonna
go right after that for the d7 I would hold the second one so we've got and
driving down the road I get a feeling I should've and
yesterday
yesterday Hey so we're gonna hold that second d7
chord for a little bit of a dramatic pause and then we're gonna jump right
back in to the chorus that's John Denver's take me home country road I
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sure to check out another video and I'll see you guys in the next lesson video