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E3 · Take Me Home, Country Roads

Black walnut, blue-ridge burst

The ridge guitar

Figured black walnut under a misty burst the colour of a ridge line at distance — smoke blue at the top, falling to black at the rim.

The inlay

The road is the song. It runs down the board the way the chords run down the key.

Fret 3the road, nearest the nut
Fret 5the road climbing
Fret 7ridgelines
Fret 9ridgelines, higher
Fret 12the sun rising over the ridge

What the episode teaches

The same four chords as Zombie, started on I instead of vi — and home is a happy place again.

The instrument

Body: Dreadnought
Woods: Figured black walnut under a misty blue-ridge burst, smoke blue falling to black, ebony board
Hardware: Bone nut
Song: Take Me Home, Country Roads · John Denver, 1971
Key: G (capo 2 for the record's A)
Chords: G Em D C, and F in the bridge
Numbers: I vi V IV, and ♭VII

Where to watch

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Imagined instruments. Each guitar here is an AI-made photograph of a one-of-a-kind guitar, designed for its song. They are not for sale and they do not exist. Every chord, fret and number in the episodes is computed, never generated — AI makes the mood, code makes the truth.