King Of The Road (Roger Miller) Guitar Lesson with TAB

King Of The Road Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this guitar lesson, we look at how to strum King Of The Road in different areas of the neck, there are 5 TAB examples!


King Of The Road | TAB


Initially, I tried to turn King Of The Road into an acoustic guitar arrangement, focusing on building from that bass line.

I gave up as I sounded like a guitar player who wanted to play bass.

Instead, I’ve developed 5 ideas for how to strum these chords in a band that has a bass player. The first four are in Bb, the last in B.

They are all identical rhythmically, but the chord shapes differ.

My goal is that you learn all these, then improvise what shape you use throughout. Here’s idea 1, we use the A shape, C shape and E shape.

King Of The Road TAB, idea 1.

Next up, idea 2, we start in the same way but then move to a C shape for the F, an E shape for the Bb, and an A shape for the Eb.

King Of The Road TAB, idea 2.


For idea 3, we are using the E shape for the Bb and A shapes for the Eb and F.

King Of The Road TAB, idea 3.

The final idea for the key of Bb starts with the C shape for the Bb but maintains the previous A shapes for the Eb and F.

King Of The Road TAB, idea 4.

As we switched to the key of B, I was again tempted to change the concept to playing mainly bass lines, perhaps I should buy a bass and start doing some gigs again…

After regaining focus I realised that wasn’t working. Here’s a simple concept showing you how we can do everything you did in Bb in B.

King Of The Road TAB, idea 5.

When all examples feel easy, aim to improvise what area of the neck you play in. If you do this in gigs, you’ll improve tremendously.



King Of The Road TAB | Related Pages


King Of The Road | Chords + Lyrics

King Of The Road chords lesson.

You can learn to play King Of The Road by Roger Miller using chords, lyrics, chord analysis, a chord chart, and the original recording.

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Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics

When you can play the TAB for King Of The Road, try these five tunes from the songbook.


Roger Miller tunes

Roger Miller wrote King Of The Road.

Roger Miller started out as a songwriter in the ‘50s and released his own tunes in the ‘60s. In the ‘70s, he went back to being a songwriter again, now for Disney.

His best-known tunes include Billy Bayou, Oo-De-Lally, Dang Me, England Swings, and his signature song, King Of The Road.


Roger Miller on the web

Listen to Roger Miller on Spotify.


About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson on King Of The Road's chords.

This guitar lesson by Dan Lundholm features TAB and covers King Of The Road. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.

Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.


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