Learn Big Yellow Taxi Song on Guitar

Joni Mitchell, Canada's queen of folk/pop wrote this song and performed it in the 1970's. However, this song was recently revived with renditions from popular artists such as Counting Crows.

Jamplay has kindly offered this video guitar lesson to you guys FREE and Mark Brennan is the guitar instructor as he takes you through a step by step guitar lesson in learning the song. At the end of the lesson, there is also a special performance by Mark and his wife.

This is the FULL version of the song. Nothing is held back in this guitar lesson.

Note please: Do take note of the special tuning on the guitar for this song. Enjoy... 

Points to take note of when learning to play Joni Michell's Big Yellow Taxi

1 - Big Yellow Taxi is a really fun song to play especially if you are new to the guitar. This song can do wonders in helping you practice and learn the barre chords. Be sure to build up your finger strength and endurance prior to learning this song.

2 - Alternate tuning - The song is played with an open D tuning. Alternatively, if you find that this is difficult for you to get started, you might want to use a capo on the 2nd fret so that it reduces the strain on your instrument.

3 - Practice with a metronome. The strumming patterns in this song are somewhat repeative. Once you can play along and keep time to a metronome, the rest of the song is a cakewalk.

4 - As with learning new things, I highly suggest you break this songs up into chunks to learn. For example, you should tackle the introduction first before moving on to the verse and so forth. Once you can play the individual parts with relative ease, you can then combine the pieces that you had learn and form a full song. This is a tried and proven way in which my students learn a song easily.

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