Chords for Chattahoochee - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Alan Jackson

[N] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Em] Chattahoochee was a [F] big number one hit single for [D] country star Alan Jackson who co-wrote the song along [Gb] with Jim McBride
_ [G] The song is still getting a lot of radio play a couple decades later
And it happens to be a great song to learn on the [D] guitar.
It's in the key of C
[G] There's nothing real fancy going on with the acoustic part, but it does have some kind of fun
fast strumming parts that we're gonna learn
There's a lot of cool chicken-picking [Gb] work on the lead guitar and in the radio version
The fiddle [Abm] takes the solo in the middle of the song
But [Gb] we're a guitar website and thankfully they released an extended version that has a great chicken-picking guitar solo
_ [G] That will learn [Eb] instead of the fiddle part
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_ _ _ [C] Yeah, there's a little old mother on the _ _ Chattahoochee, do you know how much she mother taught [G] her men?
[C] When I learned how to swim, I learned how _ to paddle a little, _ _ _ paddle a little, _ [G] paddle a little, _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
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_ [D] _ paddle a little
_ [G] Yeah, _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] there's a little old mother on the Chattahoochee, do you know how much she mother [G] taught her men?
[C] I pulled her off her head [G] but I didn't [C] go
_ [F] Down by the river on a Friday night, [C] she threw me in a can through the pale moon
_ [F] Got my mouth caught in a dream about winning, [D] never had a plan [G] just to live in for the living
_ _ [C] Yeah, I always knew
[G] Alright, we've got three parts to learn on the acoustic guitar
We'll start with the [C] intro, which is the same as the outro, [Bb] and then we'll do the verse, then we'll learn the [D] chorus
And for the intros and the verses, we just have two chords
The [C] first one _ is a [G] standard C [C] chord
_ [Eb] The next [Bb] one, we have a [G] standard G chord _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] So, when we get [Bb] to the band coming in, the [C] lead guitar will start the [Bb] whole song and the intro just by itself
[Eb]
Then we'll come in with the drums, and [Fm] it will sound like this
[C] _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ Then we keep going
down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, [G] down,
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up, down, _ down, down, down, down, up, down. _
And then [G] the verse comes [B] in.
So we can kind of make
it feel a little bit more authentic if we aim our downstrokes and [G] upstrokes a little bit.
So
the first downstroke will be on just the low strings, [C] down, the next one.
The strum pattern
is actually the same that we learned in the verse.
So let's [Db] take a chorus nice and slow using
[B] upstrokes and downstrokes.
We're going to start [Bb] on the F.
_ _ [F] Down, down, down, up, down, down, down,
down, up, down, to the [C] C.
_ Down, down, up, down, down, down, down, up, down, back [F] to the F.
_ Down,
down, up, down, down, down.
Now to the D [D] major _ and _ now to the [G] G.
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_ _ _ _ And that's [F] kind of what I would
consider the first half of the chorus.
Then [Eb] when we get to the second half of the chorus, [D] [F] we play
it just exactly the same way that we play the verse.
On a C, [C] down, _ down, down, up, down, [Eb] down,
one, [C] two, three, go. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Verse.
_ _ _ _ _ All [G] right, this tutorial is going to cover everything except for the guitar
solo on the lead guitar.
We'll learn the solo in the next tutorial. _
We're going to start with one
of the more recognizable [Bm] licks in country music.
It sounds like this.
This is the intro [B] and outro
lick.
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_ _ _ _ _ All right, [Dbm] so we start with just our pointer finger sliding up from two to three on the A
string.
_ And I like to kind [C] of_
All right, I'm going to play the solo in tempo but nice and slow,
[D] then we'll go through it note by [F] note, and then we'll play it at full speed [Gb] along with the metronome.
Here's how it [F] sounds. _ _ _
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All right, so we're going to break this up into four different sections.
Section one is [D] pretty short [G] and sweet.
It's [F] this. _ _ _ _ _ _
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One, two, [F] one, two, three.
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_ _ _ One, _ _ two, _ _ _ one, two, three. _
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