Chords for Alan Jackson Mercury Blues solo1
Tempo:
71.6 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
Am
F#
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
The first for the first video what I've chosen to do is the first guitar solo from Mercury Blues by Alan Jackson
Part of the reason was namely because I couldn't find any really well done
Videos for this solo there are at least one that I'm aware of and it's kind of sketchy
So I thought I'd put a good one out there [B] not [F] to sound arrogant, but at any rate we'll go ahead and listen to the audio
Hear the solo.
I'll pause it go through it lick by lick and then we'll play it again, [F#] and I'll play along with it
[E] So here we go
[G]
[D] [Bm] [D]
[Gm] Okay, so there we go, that's the solo and breaking it down [C] starting with
[D]
Okay, all of that's [G] outlining a D chord the song is in the key of D, and what's at work there is
Typical country flavor he's using the lowered seventh
Really if it's a major sound typically that would be the raised seventh
Half step below the root, but at any rate you could call it minor if you wanted to
It really kind of depends on how [F#] you want to think of it.
I just think of it as that thing the country players do
[C] anyway a bend
[Am] Pull off from three down to two down to the open
I'm not going to dissect everything just note by note that would make for a long video
But I'll hopefully play it slow enough that you can see what I'm doing and if you're interested learn it for yourself
at any rate
after the
[D] [C]
What he's doing there is he's going from F [F#] to F sharp F sharp is the third of a D chord
Then from there what he's doing is he's outlining a D7 chord.
[Am] You've got a C natural and an A and
from there
And [A] what's happening there is pulling off
[D] To the open [D] strings and then coming back down lowering that a down to a flat which is the flat five the blue note I?
Don't think he's necessarily thinking that I just think it's a lick you know he likes the sound of it
It sounds cool, so he does it from there [F] after the
[D]
And now the song at this point is moved to the G chord and what's happening here
Is it looks like he's kind of thinking about D, but he's not really because there's a half-step move from C sharp to D
[A#] And what's happening there [Dm] is C sharp D?
[F] Then F natural on the fourth [A] string
[B] [G] So [C#] from that a moves up to be what you've got is [G] that's that open third string in there
Country players like open strings.
It's a big part of the style a big part of the sound
[G#] anyway, [B] so
That [Dm] leg moves from five to the fourth string to [Am] the open third
Second on the [Em] third string up to the [G#m] fourth fret [Am] okay now from there.
He [D#] goes to this
[G]
What's happening there is if you think of a G triad on the top three strings?
What he's doing is he's bending [F] from the seventh up to the root
[Em]
That's the third on the first string right there [D] more of that mixolydian or dominant seventh sound
At any rate [E] people have played that sliding.
It's [B] not it's stationary top [G] note
Okay, so those are bends going up to G again thinking about the top of that G chord
Okay, then from there.
We're back to D.
And what he's going to do is he's got an a on the second string and
The third fingers playing an F natural [F#] on the third and that's bending up to an F sharp up a half step in
This happens very briefly.
It doesn't last long
Okay, but that's outlining a D chord [A] basically you've got the third and the [F#] fifth of that D chord
Okay, then down to the [D] fifth position your third finger
third string
[Am] fourth [C] string
Okay, [E] then back to that [Am] a note on the fourth string
[Dm]
Pull off and then slide so that whole lick is
[Am] [G]
Part of the reason was namely because I couldn't find any really well done
Videos for this solo there are at least one that I'm aware of and it's kind of sketchy
So I thought I'd put a good one out there [B] not [F] to sound arrogant, but at any rate we'll go ahead and listen to the audio
Hear the solo.
I'll pause it go through it lick by lick and then we'll play it again, [F#] and I'll play along with it
[E] So here we go
[G]
[D] [Bm] [D]
[Gm] Okay, so there we go, that's the solo and breaking it down [C] starting with
[D]
Okay, all of that's [G] outlining a D chord the song is in the key of D, and what's at work there is
Typical country flavor he's using the lowered seventh
Really if it's a major sound typically that would be the raised seventh
Half step below the root, but at any rate you could call it minor if you wanted to
It really kind of depends on how [F#] you want to think of it.
I just think of it as that thing the country players do
[C] anyway a bend
[Am] Pull off from three down to two down to the open
I'm not going to dissect everything just note by note that would make for a long video
But I'll hopefully play it slow enough that you can see what I'm doing and if you're interested learn it for yourself
at any rate
after the
[D] [C]
What he's doing there is he's going from F [F#] to F sharp F sharp is the third of a D chord
Then from there what he's doing is he's outlining a D7 chord.
[Am] You've got a C natural and an A and
from there
And [A] what's happening there is pulling off
[D] To the open [D] strings and then coming back down lowering that a down to a flat which is the flat five the blue note I?
Don't think he's necessarily thinking that I just think it's a lick you know he likes the sound of it
It sounds cool, so he does it from there [F] after the
[D]
And now the song at this point is moved to the G chord and what's happening here
Is it looks like he's kind of thinking about D, but he's not really because there's a half-step move from C sharp to D
[A#] And what's happening there [Dm] is C sharp D?
[F] Then F natural on the fourth [A] string
[B] [G] So [C#] from that a moves up to be what you've got is [G] that's that open third string in there
Country players like open strings.
It's a big part of the style a big part of the sound
[G#] anyway, [B] so
That [Dm] leg moves from five to the fourth string to [Am] the open third
Second on the [Em] third string up to the [G#m] fourth fret [Am] okay now from there.
He [D#] goes to this
[G]
What's happening there is if you think of a G triad on the top three strings?
What he's doing is he's bending [F] from the seventh up to the root
[Em]
That's the third on the first string right there [D] more of that mixolydian or dominant seventh sound
At any rate [E] people have played that sliding.
It's [B] not it's stationary top [G] note
Okay, so those are bends going up to G again thinking about the top of that G chord
Okay, then from there.
We're back to D.
And what he's going to do is he's got an a on the second string and
The third fingers playing an F natural [F#] on the third and that's bending up to an F sharp up a half step in
This happens very briefly.
It doesn't last long
Okay, but that's outlining a D chord [A] basically you've got the third and the [F#] fifth of that D chord
Okay, then down to the [D] fifth position your third finger
third string
[Am] fourth [C] string
Okay, [E] then back to that [Am] a note on the fourth string
[Dm]
Pull off and then slide so that whole lick is
[Am] [G]
Key:
D
G
Am
F#
B
D
G
Am
The first for the first video what I've chosen to do is the first guitar solo from Mercury Blues by Alan Jackson
Part of the reason was namely because I couldn't find any really well done
Videos for this solo there are at least one that I'm aware of and it's kind of sketchy
So I thought I'd put a good one out there [B] not [F] to sound arrogant, but at any rate we'll go ahead and listen to the audio
Hear the solo.
I'll pause it go through it lick by lick and then we'll play it again, [F#] and I'll play along with it
[E] So here we go _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Gm] Okay, so there we go, that's the solo and breaking it down [C] starting with
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Okay, all of that's [G] outlining a D chord the song is in the key of D, and what's at work there is
Typical country flavor he's using the lowered seventh
Really if it's a major sound typically that would be the raised seventh
Half step below the root, but at any rate you could call it minor if you wanted to
It really kind of depends on how [F#] you want to think of it.
I just think of it as that thing the country players do
[C] anyway a bend
[Am] _ _ _ Pull off from three down to two down to the open
I'm not going to dissect everything just note by note that would make for a long video
But I'll hopefully play it slow enough that you can see what I'm doing and if you're interested learn it for yourself
at any rate
after the _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _
What he's doing there is he's going from F [F#] to F sharp F sharp is the third of a D chord
Then from there what he's doing is he's outlining a D7 chord.
[Am] You've got a C natural and an A and _
from there
And _ _ [A] what's happening there is pulling off
[D] To the open [D] strings and then coming back down lowering that a down to a flat which is the flat five the blue note I?
Don't think he's necessarily thinking that I just think it's a lick you know he likes the sound of it
It sounds cool, so he does it from there [F] after the
_ _ [D] _ _
And now the song at this point is moved to the G chord and what's happening here
Is it looks like he's kind of thinking about D, but he's not really because there's a half-step move from C sharp to D
[A#] And what's happening there [Dm] is C sharp D?
[F] Then F natural on the fourth [A] string _
_ _ _ [B] _ [G] So [C#] from that a moves up to be what you've got is _ [G] that's that open third string in there _ _
Country players like open strings.
It's a big part of the style a big part of the sound
[G#] anyway, [B] so
That [Dm] leg moves from five to the fourth string to [Am] the open third
Second on the [Em] third string up to the [G#m] fourth fret [Am] okay now from there.
He [D#] goes to this
[G] _
_ What's happening there is if you think of a G triad on the top three strings? _
What he's doing is he's bending [F] from the seventh up to the root
[Em] _
That's the third on the first string right there _ _ [D] more of that mixolydian or dominant seventh sound
At any rate [E] people have played that sliding.
It's [B] not it's stationary top [G] note
_ _ Okay, so those are bends going up to G again thinking about the top of that G chord
Okay, then from there.
We're back to D.
And what he's going to do is he's got an a on the second string and
The third fingers playing an F natural [F#] on the third and that's bending up to an F sharp up a half step in
This happens very briefly.
It doesn't last long
Okay, but that's outlining a D chord [A] basically you've got the third and the [F#] fifth of that D chord
Okay, then down to the [D] fifth position your third finger
third string
[Am] fourth [C] string
Okay, [E] then back to that [Am] a note on the fourth string
[Dm]
Pull off and then slide so that whole lick is
[Am] _ [G] _
Part of the reason was namely because I couldn't find any really well done
Videos for this solo there are at least one that I'm aware of and it's kind of sketchy
So I thought I'd put a good one out there [B] not [F] to sound arrogant, but at any rate we'll go ahead and listen to the audio
Hear the solo.
I'll pause it go through it lick by lick and then we'll play it again, [F#] and I'll play along with it
[E] So here we go _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Gm] Okay, so there we go, that's the solo and breaking it down [C] starting with
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Okay, all of that's [G] outlining a D chord the song is in the key of D, and what's at work there is
Typical country flavor he's using the lowered seventh
Really if it's a major sound typically that would be the raised seventh
Half step below the root, but at any rate you could call it minor if you wanted to
It really kind of depends on how [F#] you want to think of it.
I just think of it as that thing the country players do
[C] anyway a bend
[Am] _ _ _ Pull off from three down to two down to the open
I'm not going to dissect everything just note by note that would make for a long video
But I'll hopefully play it slow enough that you can see what I'm doing and if you're interested learn it for yourself
at any rate
after the _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _
What he's doing there is he's going from F [F#] to F sharp F sharp is the third of a D chord
Then from there what he's doing is he's outlining a D7 chord.
[Am] You've got a C natural and an A and _
from there
And _ _ [A] what's happening there is pulling off
[D] To the open [D] strings and then coming back down lowering that a down to a flat which is the flat five the blue note I?
Don't think he's necessarily thinking that I just think it's a lick you know he likes the sound of it
It sounds cool, so he does it from there [F] after the
_ _ [D] _ _
And now the song at this point is moved to the G chord and what's happening here
Is it looks like he's kind of thinking about D, but he's not really because there's a half-step move from C sharp to D
[A#] And what's happening there [Dm] is C sharp D?
[F] Then F natural on the fourth [A] string _
_ _ _ [B] _ [G] So [C#] from that a moves up to be what you've got is _ [G] that's that open third string in there _ _
Country players like open strings.
It's a big part of the style a big part of the sound
[G#] anyway, [B] so
That [Dm] leg moves from five to the fourth string to [Am] the open third
Second on the [Em] third string up to the [G#m] fourth fret [Am] okay now from there.
He [D#] goes to this
[G] _
_ What's happening there is if you think of a G triad on the top three strings? _
What he's doing is he's bending [F] from the seventh up to the root
[Em] _
That's the third on the first string right there _ _ [D] more of that mixolydian or dominant seventh sound
At any rate [E] people have played that sliding.
It's [B] not it's stationary top [G] note
_ _ Okay, so those are bends going up to G again thinking about the top of that G chord
Okay, then from there.
We're back to D.
And what he's going to do is he's got an a on the second string and
The third fingers playing an F natural [F#] on the third and that's bending up to an F sharp up a half step in
This happens very briefly.
It doesn't last long
Okay, but that's outlining a D chord [A] basically you've got the third and the [F#] fifth of that D chord
Okay, then down to the [D] fifth position your third finger
third string
[Am] fourth [C] string
Okay, [E] then back to that [Am] a note on the fourth string
[Dm]
Pull off and then slide so that whole lick is
[Am] _ [G] _