Chords for Beginner Guitar Lesson with Chet Atkins

Up to now we've been playing a lot of chords, but you know all great music comes from scales.
And scales would be a good place to start right now.
When we think of scales we think in terms of numbers and letters.
Numbers being the fingers of the left hand.
One, two, three, four.
The scale we'll [C] play is_
[G] _ [F] _ I'll get Elizabeth now to show you the fingering [E] we will use.
_ [Cm] [Bb] Three, [E] one, open, [D] three, [C] [Bm] one, [Dm] open, [G] two, [F] open, [Em] three, two, [D] [C] open, three.
You show off.
That was great.
And the letters of course are the names of the notes we play [G] like
G, a low [C] G, a C, [Gb] and A and so on.
Now show [Em] us the [B] scale that we just played Will.
[Gm] G, [F] F, [E] E, [G] D, [C] C,
[B] B, [Bb] [G] A, G, [F] [E] F, E, [D] [C] G, C. _
[N] Great Will.
We're going to do a couple of new chords that you don't know yet [Am] probably.
An A minor we will do.
Show them the chord there Elizabeth. _
All right, an A minor and then a D minor.
[Dm] _ _ _ Isn't that beautiful? _ _
Okay, here's the scale [Db] tune.
One, two, three, four.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Am] _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ [G] _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ [Am] _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ [F] _ [G] _ [Dm] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [B] _
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[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _ [G] _
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_ [Dm] _ [Am] _ [F] _ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ [Am] _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ [G] _ [Em] _ [G] _ _ [A] _ [G] _
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[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [N] John Denver's Country Roads is one of America's favorite songs.
We're going to show you how to play it now along with a couple of new chords.
E minor is the first one we will [Em] show you.
_ _ Nice little chord requires only two fingers.
_ _ _ And we'll use [E] an F chord in the song [F] also. _ _ _ _ _
There'll be [C] some fancy right hand work in this [Bb] tune too and I'll [Cm] show you how we do that in slow [E] motion.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
And one, two, three, four.
And one.
And so on.
Remember this may be difficult for you at first.
But once you practice and practice and learn something it becomes easy and a lot of fun.
Let's try Country Roads.
One, two, one, two, three, four. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _
Almost heaven, [Em] _ West Virginia.
[D] _
Blue Ridge [C] Mountains, _ [G] Shenandoah River.
_ _ Life is old there, [Em] older than the trees.
_ [D] Younger than the mountains, [C] growing [G] like a breeze.
Country roads, _ take me [D] home, _ [Em] to the place.
I [C] belong, _ West [G] Virginia, _ _ [D] Mountain Mama.
_ [C] Take me home, _ [G] country roads.
_ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] Country roads, _ take me [D] home, _ [Em] to the place.
[C] I belong, _ West [G] Virginia, _ _ [D] Mountain Mama.
_ _ [C] Take me home, _ [G] country roads.
_ Country roads, _ take me [D] home, _ [Em] to the place.
[C] I belong, _ West [G] Virginia, _ Mountain [D] Mama.
_ [C] Take me home, _ [G] country roads.
_ [C] Take me home, _ [G] country roads.
_ [C] Take me home, _ country [G] roads. _ _
Thank you. _ _ _ _ _ _ _