In this guitar lesson, we’ll work on some red dirt country strumming in this style of Tyler Childers. First you’ll learn a country strumming pattern that is modeled after the strumming pattern Tyler Childers uses in his song “Whitehouse Road”. Then we’ll practice this strumming pattern over a couple chord progressions in drop D tuning with our capo on the second fret. After we practice the strumming pattern a bit, we’ll add some chord embellishments to our strumming to give it a nice red dirt country sound. Later in the lesson we’ll also work through an intro riff in the style of Tyler Childers. Overall this is a great lesson for learning some useful drop D chord embellishments that will spice up your country rhythm guitar. Please support Tyler Childers on iTunes and check out more of his songs on his YouTube Channel.
Awesome lesson! Love this one!
Welcome back Devin. Great lesson! this is my favourite Tyler song along with “Matthew”.
Tyler played a solo gig here in London a few months back. He talked about Whitehouse road, and how he worked as a Sears delivery driver (when he dropped out of college I think). The lyrics are about the guy he worked with and what he used to talk/brag about while they were driving around….
“damn good feelin’ to run these roads”.
He’s such a great storyteller. Real country music.
Thanks Kate! I agree, this is the real country right here. Tyler sounds really good live on all the YouTube videos I’ve watched…especially when it’s just him and his acoustic guitar. I bet it was a great show. And really cool story behind the song, I always assumed he was singing the whole song about himself.
Great one, thanks Devin!
Nice. Time to get to work on this one! Coincidentally I’m learning it on that exact guitar.
Great lesson , i have been practicing this song for a while but it did not go very well ,with this lesson i am going to nail it !! Thanks Devin
I learned a trick from this Steve Earle video https://youtu.be/6p1GTEJVdlc where you can get drop E tuning capo’d at the second fret by placing the capo on from underneath (the treble side) and only capo the five highest strings leaving the low E string open. the cool thing about this method is that an open G chord still sounds the same yet you also have the benefit of being able to play the two string five chords as with drop D tuning. just wanted to share that,thanks for another great lesson!
FYI we just added back the AB Loop and the playback speed controls to the lesson videos. New buttons will show up below the video players. Hope y’all like it!
This is an awesome lesson on such a great song. Thank you! Would love to see some more Childers lessons in future or some more songs or tricks for drop D tuning. About the only other thing I do in drop D is Harvest Moon by Neil Young.
Awesome lesson! Should do one for Lady May so I can finally get the intro down. I’m very happy I finally after months decided to join. Been 3 or 4 days and have learned a lot! Just found out about the points this morning so time to get to work if I’m going to win this months prize.
I love this one too!!!
Great instruction! Really enjoyed the lesson – well done.