Easy tutorial for beginners with some explanations, the tab, the lyrics and the chords to play the song Knocking on Heaven’s Door chords by Bob Dylan on guitar.
Knocking on Heaven’s Door with chords
The verses of the song are played in the same way.
We will therefore only look at first verse and chorus.
Chords of Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Here are the few chords you will need to know and master to play the whole song :
When they are mastered, you can continue with the explanations.
Verse 1 of the music
You can continue and read the next tab to play verse 1 :
Remember that the chords are written above the lyrics so that you can play them at the right time. Therefore, it’s better to play while singing. Chords that are to the right of a phrase (not above a word) are played between the two phrases.
To play the verse 2 after chorus, you juste have to follow the same framework with the help of the lyrics.
Chorus of the song
For the chorus, you don’t need to know any other new chords and you can directly follow the tab :
To play another easy guitar song, you can watch for stand by me chords.
Knocking on Heaven’s Door lyrics
The song Knocking on Heaven’s Door chords by Bob Dylan is composed of two verses and a chorus.
The structure of the lyrics is like that:
Verse 1 – Chorus – Verse 2 – Chorus
Verse 1
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can’t use it anymore
It’s gettin’ dark, too dark to see
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door
Chorus
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Verse 2
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin’ down
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door
Chorus x3
If you want to improvise on this song, you can watch for the G scale pattern of our pentatonic guitar scale.
Easy PDF score to play Knocking on Heaven’s Door from Bob Dylan
The following score is a “home-made” easy PDF score for beginners that we created according to the above frameworks and explanations.
Summarizes everything we just covered. You can download it for free to play Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan on guitar.