🎸 The Gambler • easy guitar lesson w/ no capo (Kenny Rogers)

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Here's my lesson teaching you how to play "The Gambler", the classic 3-chord country song made famous by Kenny Rogers (originally written by Don Schlitz). During this lesson, I'll teach you the chord shapes, explain the verse & chorus chord progressions, and break down the strumming patterns. Together, this should give you all you need to pick up your guitar and play this song. Note, this will be a lesson for a no-capo version of this song (add a capo on the 1st fret to play the song in the same key as Kenny Rogers).
Timestamps:
0:28 Greeting & lesson overview
1:01 Quick capo disclaimer
1:40 Chord shapes needed
3:04 Timing & chord progression
6:17 Strumming patterns
11:25 Adding alternating bass notes
13:05 Changing key in the 2nd half
14:37 Full play-along cover
17:22 Farewell & thanks

My play-along cover of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqssPCLOMw8

An improvisation lesson I did using this song's melody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGAMzzpeIew
Note that for the 2nd half of the song, I'm modulating (changing key) by one whole step – i.e., moving from the key of D (D/G/A7) to the key of E (E/A/B7). Kenny Rogers only moves up one half-step, so I'm deviating from what he does - but I think my choice is more practical in that it requires no capo.

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