Chords for Family Tradition - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Hank Williams Jr

[Em] _ _ Family Tradition is a great song, huge hit for Hank Williams Jr.
who also wrote it.
It's in E blues, so we've got a playable acoustic guitar part using key of E chords.
We're going to have some fun with the lead guitar part.
There's no lead guitar solos in that original radio recording,
but I did find one that Hank Williams Jr.
played himself on a live version that we're going to learn.
And then we're going to learn another pass so we can solo over both passes of that middle instrumental break.
A _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ free music singer, having [A] a real close family.
_ _ _ [B] Lately it's summer, can't fall, _ having someone who [E] loves me.
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] _
Don't ask me Hank, why do you drink?
_ [A] Hank, why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] _ Why must you live out the songs that [E] you wrote?
_ _ I'm down.
[Gb] _
_ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
_ [E] _ _ [Gb] _ [G] _ [E] _ [Gbm] _ [Bb] _
[Abm] _ [C] _ [A] _ [Ab] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [D] _ [B] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] _ [G] Sing _ _ _ [E] _
_ it loud if you want to know.
Hank, why do you drink?
_ [A] Hank, why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] Why must you live out the songs that [E] you wrote?
_ _ _ All right, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ so _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that's actually the chord progression and strum pattern that we're
going to use for this entire song.
_ There's no variations, no exceptions.
That's choruses, verses, solos, and everything.
So we're going to talk through that first, and then we're going to talk about a couple
variations we can do if we're just trying to do a guitar vocal or we're trying to sing it along
with the guitar.
There's a couple ways that may feel a little more comfortable for you.
So to start, _ get our fingers on these chords.
This is an E chord, standard E chord.
[B] That's open low E, [E] second fret of A, [Ab] second fret of D, [E] first fret of G.
All right, we're going to do that same strum pattern through [B] every chord that we're on.
So we're going to start on the E two times through, do the A two times through.
We'll do a B7 three times, and then the E one more [E] time, and that's one time through the progression.
So let's do that now, starting on the E, down, up, up, down, up, down, up, down, up,
up to the A chord.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Same.
So let's turn on the metronome.
Let's play through it a few times the album version way, and then we'll play through it
a few times at full tempo the way we just talked about.
_ _ One, two, three, [E] go.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
In this tutorial, we're going to go over everything on the electric guitar except for the two
guitar solos, which we'll go over in the next tutorial.
So we're just going to go right in the order of the tabs, which are right beneath the video
player at sixstringcountry.com.
So pull those up, and we're going to start with this converted fiddle riff that starts
the whole song.
Here's how it will sound on the electric guitar. _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [Em] This whole song kind of plays back and forth between E blues, which up here would be_
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
and E major pentatonic. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's position five right there.
And this riff's a great example of that.
We're going to be up here starting on the 12th fret with a little half bend of the [Ab] G
string, _ _ [B] and then the 12th fret of B.
_ Pull off 14 to 12 on the B [Db] string, _ [Em] half bend on 14 of high E.
I'll play through both passes of the solo that we're about to learn nice and slow.
Then we'll go through it all note by note, and then we'll play it at full tempo along
with the metronome.
This is all tabbed out, as always, at sixstringcountry.com, right beneath the video player.
So pull those up.
That'll help a lot.
Here's how the solos look. _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Gb] _ [E] _
_ [Gbm] _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ [A] _ _
[G] _ [Ab] _ [Dbm] [G] One, two, three, go. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [G] _ [E] _ [Gbm] _ [Ebm] _ [E] _ [C] _ [A] _
_ [Ab] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
[E] _ [B] _ [Dbm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _