Country Roads Guitar Lesson for Beginners by John Denver

[@LaurenBateman]

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[@joethecomputerguy1]

Looks like it is Mrs by that ring on that finger.

[@jenny9249]

I am 71 years of age and this is something I've always wanted to do. Love your tutorials, I feel more comfortable about myself and feel I'm learning so much❤

[@LaurenBateman]

Wonderful!

[@mikefaunce100]

I saw John Denver in concert in 1976,have always been a fan and now I can play “Country Road”...!!!! Quite FabTasTic...!!!!

[@LaurenBateman]

Oh that's awesome. What a treat.

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I am in shock how much I have learn just in a month with yours videos !!!! practice practice is the KEY! ❤

[@LaurenBateman]

I'm so glad to hear that! Keep it up. You got this! :D

[@hedrush41]

Thank you for showing an easy way to play this song. I am from WV, so not knowing how to play this, is almost a sin here in WV lol.

[@LaurenBateman]

Ha ha ha.

[@michiehanda2803]

Hi lauren .. thanks to you now I feel motivated to pick my 🎸again 'n "scratch" some 🎼🙏🏻

[@hananshells8055]

I am staying with the easy version, like that one. Thank you dear. God Bless. Greetings from Israel. ❤️

[@LaurenBateman]

Wonderful! Hello Israel!

[@bigtruckbrad]

Thank you for sharing this one. This may be THE greatest campfire song of all time.

[@LaurenBateman]

It's a good one.

[@kenrosloniec9546]

Hi Lorraine, Have you ever done a lesson on John Denver's sunshine on my shoulder regular or for begginers. Thank you for all that you Share

[@LaurenBateman]

Oh I have not yet!

[@freeb1111]

You have an easy going manner that comes across well for those of us beginning at an old age :D Thanks!

[@LaurenBateman]

I appreciate that!

[@Maidenize666]

Had 10 mins to perform in a short notice at a stage function. You're a life saver Lauren... Thank you very very much

[@LaurenBateman]

Oh wow. You're welcome!

[@davidgallie1365]

Hello Lauren, from the UK. I've struggled with the guitar but enjoyed your tutorials. You may like to know that this tutorial works fine using my Baritone Ukulele and playing the same chords!

[@LaurenBateman]

Fantastic!

[@robinsonchristian702]

Thank you very much for your Lesson.. God Bless you.

[@LaurenBateman]

Same to you!

[@patgto2469]

Hello. I'm Pat from FRANCE (DIJON). I speak a little english. Your lessons are very good. It's not easy in english but i try. Bye bye

[@LaurenBateman]

Thank you! Hello France! 😃

[@cheewan8]

You are the best 👍wish you had demonstrated the whole song for us🙏

[@MrEricgal]

You’re a great teacher. This is a great song and a great lesson thanks

[@LaurenBateman]

My pleasure!

[@judyhoomalamalama]

thank u , Great instruction . I use a capo on the second fret and it makes it sound better to me. still a beginner but taking chances.

[@LaurenBateman]

Yes, for a woman's voice capoing it can make it easier to sing.

[@SuperWhofan1]

Thanks again for a great video! I would love to see you play the song to show how it should sound

[@LaurenBateman]

Great suggestion! I sometimes do play alongs for people to see them.

[@alinegiordano7593]

This music is something I was looking forward to learn. ❤️🎵

[@LaurenBateman]

Awesome!

[@tsongofficialvlog3540]

Wow now I have idea how play and strum ❤❤❤

[@LaurenBateman]

Fantastic!

[@pattyhhh1]

Thank you so much for doing John Denver love him

[@LaurenBateman]

You're welcome.

[@bharatpdas]

Great lesson! Very easy to follow!

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You’re welcome

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Thank you soo much have subscribed to your course and it is helping me tremendously!!!

[@LaurenBateman]

That makes me very happy.

[@NealLandarech]

Thank you so much, Lauren. Like for this lesson.👍

[@LaurenBateman]

You're so welcome! Thank you!

[@mikevullo3452]

Thanks again Lauren

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[@ginoschembri3853]

AGAIN THANKYOU BEAUTIFUL

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Thank you too

[@alanmounter9125]

Thank you Lauren

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[@ibfubar]

Thank you!! ⛰️🏔️

[@LaurenBateman]

Our pleasure!

[@robinsonchristian702]

Thank you very much for Lesson.

[@LaurenBateman]

You are welcome!

[@jackwhite7317]

You're awesome and I LOVE THE SHIRT

[@LaurenBateman]

Thank you!!!!

[@jackwhite7317]

@@LaurenBateman A link to the past if my old eyes don't deceive me lol.... May I ask your age? I was playing that at the age of 14 I believe in about 1991! By the way I am a beginner and I have learned so much from you already. I think you're terrific.

[@gerrylowrey1235]

I love this song, I have had a few tries at playing it finger style, with not a lot of success, do you fancy teaching it, fingers crossed.

[@LaurenBateman]

I did do a finger picking version. Search Lauren batman country roads Fingerpicking

[@charleneriedl3044]

Inspired to try!

[@LaurenBateman]

Please do!!!

[@leofernandez037]

Thanks Lauren for the lesson! If you could give us a little play through that would be great!

[@LaurenBateman]

Thanks Leo. I will try to do a Play Along

[@leofernandez037]

Thank you Lauren. Btw, your voice is so soothing and instruction so easy to follow and understand.

[@Btonrugby-Dan10]

That would be awesome.

[@brianodonnell1384]

cool clip. Nice and easy

[@LaurenBateman]

Glad you liked it!

[@garypogue907]

64 and still trying thanks!

[@LaurenBateman]

Keep it up Gary!

[@raymondrichards9102]

RayR. Great job you make it fun

[@LaurenBateman]

Always 😀

[@emiliebetke4785]

Very good lesson. One of my favorites. It was great that you chose this song.

[@LaurenBateman]

Oh good! Glad you liked it.

[@thomasluthwig6165]

Hi Lauren, I really enjoy your videos here... could you please do LA BAMBA ? Picking ( intro ) and strumming please...

[@LaurenBateman]

Great suggestion! Will keep this in mind for future videos. Thanks for watching :D

[@tonywongahsui1]

Thanks Lauren You are being really helpful I would request if you could help me with an easy version of Somewhere over the rainbow by IZ Thanks again, i really enjoy your classes

[@LaurenBateman]

Great suggestion!

[@Zico804]

Thanks, Lauren ,for taking time doing this video. I really enjoy it.

[@LaurenBateman]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jaymcraven6540]

Awesome you're great

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Thanks!

[@katalinsztankovits2340]

Thank you very much, I love your lessons

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Glad you like them!

[@sanjaymathur9676]

Thanks

[@LaurenBateman]

You're welcome!

[@serdardevirmis6916]

G G Em Em Almost heaven, West Virginia FOR G NOTE----------------- ON STRUM PATTERN - WE PLAY E- STRING (ON TOP STRING-First from Top) is it correct ? and for Em we play E string again ?

[@LaurenBateman]

Correct

[@sonnypenales7]

Thanks for the easy tutorial.

[@MustafaBaabad]

When we play E and G, we always strum from the very top. For A, C and B we strum from string 2 from the top (string number 5). For D and F, we strum from the third string from the top (string number 4 from below).

[@freeb1111]

@@MustafaBaabad thanks for that bit of info, I've often wondered.

[@antonioafonso5719]

She very good to explaining cord ,my self pickup very soon .when learn .I will play for my Jesus Christ

[@LaurenBateman]

Antonio that's amazing!

[@virgil2738]

Awsome lesson. Keep safe and keep up the great work. Really helping us though these difficult times.

[@LaurenBateman]

Thanks, will do!

[@MostSimple]

Wow! Love your tutorial style. Im inspired by how well your channel is doing and will continue to pump out lessons daily.

[@LaurenBateman]

Aww hey thanks. Yeah, consistency is key.

[@jnichols5472]

Thank you and excellent as always! Love your lessons

[@LaurenBateman]

Glad you like them!

[@goldozozio5571]

Thank you !

[@LaurenBateman]

You're welcome!

[@MarieSwAnn]

Thanks so much ma’am Lauren for sharing this, I love to play this 😃

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You're so welcome

[@Lasgoo]

Thank you :)

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You're welcome

[@contractorwolf]

Love your videos Lauren, really helping me as a beginner, thx

[@LaurenBateman]

So glad to hear James!

[@contractorwolf]

@@LaurenBateman you know what I found was really helpful? the wagon wheel full walkthrough at 2 speeds. I think I have probably watched and played along with you like 50 times at least. I am still kinda terrible, but I can actually do it now. Glad I decided to try and learn the guitar during COVID lockdown. Thanks for the help getting me through these rough times :)

[@LaurenBateman]

That's awesome James. Glad to help. It's what I love to do 😎🎸🎶

[@contractorwolf]

@@LaurenBateman update: I can do wagon wheel with ease now

[@leopoldmongaya2242]

The best

[@LaurenBateman]

Thank you!

[@timomarra3315]

Nice, Lauren! I'll be playing this tonight! Hey, instead of fm7 chord, what about a small T chord instead?

[@LaurenBateman]

Tim whatever works for you.

[@Kenjames7936]

Awesome video I always enjoy watching you but I must say it made me sad that you didn't play and sing the song for us. I always look forward to hearing you sing and play the songs.. Going to go back and watch can't you see so I can hear you sing and play that :)

[@LaurenBateman]

You can blame KZbin copyright for that

[@serdardevirmis6916]

thanks

[@LaurenBateman]

You're welcome!

[@cicdsatishsatish5979]

SuperB Info :)

[@LaurenBateman]

Thank you!

[@darwintangilan5295]

Nice one i wish i did hehe

[@LaurenBateman]

Cool! 😃

[@andrewkalait9515]

hi Lauren

[@LaurenBateman]

Hey Andrew 😊

[@bingo-fuel]

Have you done a full play through for this song?

[@LaurenBateman]

I don't think I have yet.

[@DonnaMarieArtist]

love John Denver! thank you :)

[@LaurenBateman]

You're welcome. He's great!

[@spudhoo1]

I have learnt a lot from your lessons

[@WELLWELLNOWWHAT]

Can u make a lesson about can't help falling in love i would like to play it right😊

[@LaurenBateman]

I recorded that lesson this week. It needs to be edited.

[@WELLWELLNOWWHAT]

@@LaurenBateman wow thanks😄

[@armandom8408]

Veramente brava

[@LaurenBateman]

Thanks for watching!

[@garrydickie3902]

On full measure we use the DDDUDU but what strumming pattern is used on the half measures, so for example the CG on the Verse?

[@LaurenBateman]

You could do D D for one chord DUDU for the other chord. Two beats each

[@stevelewis8919]

Thanks for the lesson, I was expecting you play through it, though. Since this is a beginner's very first song with chords, it would be beneficial to show how to actually strum the song. You said the chords were GG EmEm DD CG. When do you play the chords? When they appear on the tab? Then where does the strum fit in, I ended up trying to just make the strum fit the song as I was was having difficulty with the DDDUDU pattern. It didnt seems to fit. Thanks again. :)

[@LaurenBateman]

Unfortunately playing through songs risks them getting completely blocked by KZbin and my channel getting shut down. So I try not to do things that while risk my channel being deleted by KZbin. To answer you other question, please take a look at the chord chart on my website

[@stevelewis8919]

@@LaurenBateman Ok, I got you. Strumming is hard for me for some reason. :) Thanks!

[@willjackson3087]

Hi Lauren, I really like your style your style of teaching. You are easy to understand with a soothing voice and good speaking tempo. Like Steve, I was hoping to hear you play it through so I could copy you. An idea would be to post videos to Vimeo or Streamable and let us follow along outside of KZbin. Just a suggestion to make your material even more useful. Thanks you regardless. Keep up the great work!

[@contractorwolf]

hey Lauren, still taking recommendations? would love to see an easy version of John Denvers "Thank God Im a Country Boy". Still learning and still loving your videos, they have helped a TON. Thx

[@LaurenBateman]

Thank you, James for the recommendation. I get lots of song requests so I cannot guarantee that I will get to it, but I will definitely add it to my list.

[@aliahfayeabadilla1004]

More subscribers.... ❤❤❤❤

[@LaurenBateman]

Thank you!

[@hedrush41]

Could you please post a video of you playing this song all the way thru? Just so we can play along with you, just to check ourselves. Thank you. 😉

[@LaurenBateman]

Hi, I can most definitely try.

[@hedrush41]

@@LaurenBateman thank you very much. I can imagine how busy u must be.

[@tombeckett7567]

Hi Lauren: which string do you hit for the bass note of a C chord?

[@LaurenBateman]

That would be the 5th string Tom.

[@1markhaworth]

Good stuff. Only wish you would play the entire song so we can play along with you.

[@LaurenBateman]

Hi Mark, I sometimes do Playalong lesson videos. I've been so busy trying to get new content up, I haven't done any recently. Maybe I will pick them up again.

[@badbonezth2ndlegnd568]

Your lesson was not complete as far as I was concerned you should have played the entire song so we could play along with you I was disappointed in that. The rest of it was good though

[@williameddy9919]

Can you teach country rock rhythm versus a traditional country rhythm?

[@LaurenBateman]

Will take note of this

[@dannyprisk8818]

Please help me I love guitar music and I've always wanted to play I'm 61 and I love your videos and I know you can help me I would very much appreciate the help ty

[@LaurenBateman]

Danny, absolutely. You got this!!!

[@emilemontiere6128]

Can i use your easy C chord for this song?

[@LaurenBateman]

You sure can!

[@trepi8306]

Hei Lauren, takk

[@LaurenBateman]

You're welcome.

[@tedjamieson640]

Hi Lauren, love this tutorial for this song but one question I have is what can be used for an introduction for this song. I've seen various online where it's the same note 4 different times but each version is a different note. What would you suggest for a beginner level?

[@LaurenBateman]

When I play live, I play half a verse: G G Em  Em D  D  C G

[@tedjamieson640]

Great to know ! Thanks so much. 👍

[@rickysimpkins5511]

been watching you for awhile trying to play are they any way to see the chords for the hole song at once

[@LaurenBateman]

On video, no, but I do have chord charts on my website: www.laurenbateman.com/guitar-chord-charts

[@rickysimpkins5511]

thanks I got it now lol

[@ge45gecalled39]

don't get me wrong Lauren, just noticed the ring, you must of broken many a heart when they saw the ring, take care and keep teaching, thanks

[@LaurenBateman]

Awww thank you. Yes I got married Oct 2019. Thank God we didn't get married his year. 😬

[@aaronkirkland212]

In order to improve the lessons I would advise that you play the song at teh beging of the video so that folks have a reference point.

[@LaurenBateman]

Hi Dale, I used to do that but I get hit with copyright infractions. I've had complete lesson videos of mine blocked in the past for doing just that. So I don't do that anymore. You can thank the copyright holders :(

[@aaronkirkland212]

@@LaurenBateman ahh that's bummer in the summer. What a silly world.

[@stevemercure902]

Awesome lesson Lauren, and thank you for sharing. Perhaps my ear is weird, but I actually prefer the sound of the FM7 chord at that place in the song.

[@LaurenBateman]

Whichever chord calls to you :)

[@AnneLiseKlaris-ze6yg]

fine

[@LaurenBateman]

Thanks for watching!

[@Btonrugby-Dan10]

I love your lessons. But what would be awesome, is after the lesson, or maybe a different video, you play the whole song, as you just taught. No one else does this, and I think it would really give you the edge over the other tutors.

[@LaurenBateman]

Adding these back in. Sometimes videos get blocked because of that

[@nauniang]

can u do a play along as well?

[@LaurenBateman]

Sometimes I do. Some songs it's hard because KZbin blocks our videos.

[@nauniang]

@@LaurenBateman ohh ok thanks actually my friends and I are going to sing this song this coming sept 5th soo i was the one to play guitar tht's why😁 thanks for the tutorial😇

[@deniseshaw3871]

I play this on Ukulele Im just learning guitar

[@LaurenBateman]

Oh lovey!

[@ChicosYouTube]

I think I would’ve been interested if you played the song at the beginning

[@LaurenBateman]

John I used to but copyright laws sometimes block my content. So I no longer sing or do a lot of demo. I know it stinks. It really stinks when you put hours into making a video Lesson only to have it blocked by KZbin and the copyright owner.

[@violetnaidoo7829]

Thanks Lauren but it would really help if you could play the song after the tutorial

[@LaurenBateman]

It would be but then I would get hit with copyright and could risk my entire channel getting shut down. Blame copyright laws.

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Hello good morning beautitul

[@LaurenBateman]

Hello 😊

[@ir-arantxagaldos8400]

👌😍👌😍

[@LaurenBateman]

🥰

[@brianodonnell1384]

simply lessons means strumming only, no plucking

[@LaurenBateman]

Hi Brian, I'm a little confused. I go over the strumming pattern for Country Roads here. If you don't want to do finger picking then don't do it.

[@dianasantiago7164]

🎶🎸💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🙋

[@LaurenBateman]

💕👍

[@timomarra3315]

I meant small f chord

[@LaurenBateman]

I figured :)

[@61cheezil]

Eeek not brave to even try this yet, if this is considered easy I must be really hopeless :(

[@LaurenBateman]

Aww don't worry. Is it the strumming pattern? Make it even easier, just do 4 down strums per chord.

[@61cheezil]

@@LaurenBateman yes thankyou, the strumming patterns are easy & the chords are becoming easy but putting them together is the hard part for me atm (you seem to go too fast for me to understand exactly where I'm meant to change chords at which part of the strum) & keep the beat too, tbh...)

[@LaurenBateman]

If you download the chord chart each chord is one measure in length.

[@61cheezil]

@@LaurenBateman thanks, still haven't come across that yet, will take a look see if i an find it somehow :)

[@61cheezil]

@@LaurenBateman so I found the chord charts but I cannot get my head around them at all & I'm totally freaked out by them (the way the strums are in relation to the chord, I have no idea how to understand them), will stick to the vids I think for now I think

[@Scott.V.Grube1]

I have changed from a thumbs down to a thumbs up. At the time of the thumbs down I was on night shifts and when I don't get enough sleep I hate everything. lol

[@LaurenBateman]

Aw thanks. Night shifts are rough for sure.

[@davidav8orpflanz561]

Play songs like Denver, don't fly like him!!!

[@LaurenBateman]

Poor John 😞

[@liamnaidoo5380]

Are you Jason Batemans wife

[@LaurenBateman]

Ha ha ha. Not related at all 😃

[@michelclementel8111]

Très intéressant mais le rythme des explications est trop rapide.

[@LaurenBateman]

Hi Michel, you can always rewind and go backwards and rewatch the rhythm parts. Or download the chord chart on my website.

[@brianodonnell1384]

you have over complicated it so bad, nothing easy about this lesson.

[@LaurenBateman]

Hi Brian, this is an EASY Fingerpicking lesson. Here is the difficult one: studio.kzbin.infoSXSVQ_rb4rE/edit You may want to try this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL10FTzm-zsiJTviS73rT6mt9jIl3N1UcO

[@marciaparks5934]

Her way sounds almost exactly like wagon wheel

[@SohoNights]

Thank you!

[@LaurenBateman]

You're welcome

[@AnneLiseKlaris-ze6yg]

fine

[@LaurenBateman]

Thanks for watching!