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Country Roads Chords | How To Play Country Roads By John Denver

Performance Notes For Country Roads Chords

In this lesson our lead guitar tutor James Mulligan is going to be teaching a country classic, and by the end of this lesson you’ll know How to play country roads on guitar.

Originally written by John Denver the song country roads involves 4 chords G Major, E Minor, D Major and finally C Major… If your new to the guitar learning how to play country roads on guitar will be difficult at times, especially when changing chords and trying to put it all together.

There is a lot of changes in this song whiskey in the Jar, so I’m taking the time to explain each section carefully telling you were each finger goes for what chord… so you learn this classic song the easiest and the quickest way possible. So patience and persistence is required when reading and going through each section of the song. Whiskey In The Jar is in the key of G Major and uses five chords.

G Major, G/F#, E Minor, D Major and finally C Major. The strumming is complimenting the picking and lead guitar lines.

Country Roads Chords

Country Roads Chords/Lyrics

Country Roads Chords/Lyrics | Verse

G Em D C G

Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.

G Em D C

Life is old here, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowin

G

like a breeze.

Country Roads Chords/Lyrics | Chorus

G D Em C

Country Roads, take me home, to a place I belong

G D C G

West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.

Country Roads Chords/Lyrics | Verse 2

G Em D C
All my memories gather round her, miner’s lady, stranger to blue

G
water.

G Em D C
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my

G
eye.

Country Roads Chords/Lyrics | Chorus

G D Em C

Country Roads, take me home, to a place I belong

G D C G

West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads.

Teacher’s advice for practicing and playing country roads chords

“Before your start learning the country roads chords, make sure you practice and learn all the chords so the changes go smoothly… The strumming for the country roads chords is very basic with a continuous down-down-up-down-up That’s all the parts of this country roads by John Denver, We hope you’ve gotten a lot from this guitar lesson…and have improved your strumming, chords and chord changes”- Your Guitar Success

The finger hand shows what left hand finger you should fret when playing chords. Match up the your fretting hand with the colour-coded-diagrams.

Teaching You Country Roads By John Denver

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