Chords for George Strait The Fireman Guitar Lesson

[A] _ _ _ [D] _ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [F#] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ Hey, I'm Ken Carlson with Country Guitar Chops, and on this guitar lesson, I'm going to show
you how to play Reggie Young's version, or I say his version, how he recorded the guitar
part for George Strait's The Fireman, the classic.
_ I've been playing this song ever since it came out back in the 80s, and I never did
work it up like the record.
You know, I always did something, something my own style, but I always did want to work it up.
And just yesterday, I thought, I'm going to do this.
So anyway, and I'm really glad I did, because I learned a couple little tricks here that
I can incorporate into some of my other licks.
_ [Em] _ _ Especially, I mean, this solo right here, he did some really cool, kind of staccato,
choppy thing.
_ It's a cool little solo.
So let's tear it down.
[A] In the key of A.
Okay?
In the first half of that guitar solo was played by the fiddle, so he's vamping on the,
it goes from an A to an E.
_ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ [G] _ [G] _ [A] _ [E] _ [C#m] _ [E]
Okay?
That's what he's doing there.
I'll slow that [G] down.
[A] I'm not playing it exactly like he did.
I've got the general [G] groove there.
[A] _ _ [G] _ [F#] _
[G] _ [F#] _ [A] _ _ _ [F#m] _ [G] _ [F#m] _
[F#] _ [C] _ [A] _ _ [C#] _ [D] _ [C#m] _ [E]
And he's got a little pause [G] there.
[E] One, [D] two, [E] three, four.
One, two, three, [A] four.
All one.
Coming in on the solo, we've got a pickup [G#] note.
Right down here on the fourth fret, [A] when we slide.
[A] All one, two.
We do a pull off.
Okay?
All one, two.
_ Come here on the B string.
Before I go any farther, I need to [G#m] mention, I forgot.
[Am] He played a strat on this solo as well.
And I didn't want to break out my strats, all the strings are old on them.
So, on my Tele's here, I've got the three pickup configuration like a strat.
So I'm in with a five-way switch.
I'm on one click up, so I've got these two pickups on, giving me that strat out of phase.
_ _ [C#] That's [A] the ending lick right there.
I'll show you that when we're done here.
Okay?
So we've got a strat tone going on.
All right, back to the lesson.
[E] _ [Am] Row one, two, pull off [A] on [D#] the [E] four.
Open [D] E.
[C#m] _
_ [D] Okay?
And then [A] three and two. _ _ _
_ And then we're going to lay our finger down, our index finger, and catch two and three.
Pull off of three to the open G.
[G] _ [A] Okay?
[G] _
_ And then we're going to catch the open G again [F#] to [B] the fourth string, fourth fret.
[E] Second [D] pull off.
[E] Nope, I'm sorry.
That's not right.
_ [A] _ _ [G] [A] From the [G] [D] flipping off there to the open [F#] G to the fourth, [G] back to the open G, _ _ [F#] then again
to [E] the fourth, [D] second pull [C#] off, and then fourth fret of the A string.
So what we have so [A] far is, _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
[C#m] _ I think I kind of missed that.
I missed [Bm] one of those.
Let me play it a little more up to speed.
[Fm] Three, [A] four.
_ _ [G] _ [F#] _ [C#m] _
[G#] Okay, that's how that would [A] sound.
_ [G] _ [E] _ [C#] _
All right?
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_ Okay.
So, we're here.
Now the song [E] goes to D.
And what we're going to do here is pick _ B string [C] on the first [B] fret
and a [Am] pull off.
[B] [Am] Then there's a slight little [B] pause there.
And then we've got first string, second fret, pull off, [Am] _ _ open [E] B, [C] first fret, pull off.
[F#] _ _
_ [E] _ [C] _ _ _ [A] And now we're going to come down here and catch the G string at the second fret, come
back [C] on the B string, first fret, [B] pull off.
[A] Catch [Am] this again [E] and again, [A] pull off.
So here's what we have [C] from the B.
_ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [A] From there, we're going to go. _
Okay.
We're sliding this up to the sixth fret, _ [E] catching the E string [Am] at the fifth fret and a pull off. _ _ _ _
_ _ Let's see here.
[E] _ _ [C] [B] That's [Am] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ how fast that is.
Pick the open E again.
Remember, we pulled off.
Open E again to [D] the B, [C#m] three and [Am] two.
_ [A] _
I missed it.
_ _ _ Again, the B string on the second fret and we do that roll again.
_ Pull off.
_ [Em] _
[A] Okay.
_ [Em] _ _ Pick the open G again [A] _ to the four, two on the D string. _
[C] Come down here on fifth string.
Again, catch [C#m] three, hammer on to four.
[A] Our index finger now moves up to the third string, second fret to resolve that lick.
So _ _ _ [G] _ [F#] _ [Am]
[A] to _ end it, _ _ slide that up to the sixth fret again and catch your A note, fifth fret, E string.
Okay.
I catch myself going, letting that ring and Reggie didn't do that on the recording.
He lifted that middle finger, _ stubbed that note when he hit the E note.
Okay.
I'll try to play this whole thing slow for you now.
[G] _ [D] From a [A] A.
_ [A] _ [Em] Two, [G] _ [F#] _ [A] _
[E] _ _ [D] [E] three, four.
One, two, three, [A] four.
_ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ [C] _ [Em] _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [F#] _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ Okay.
I'll play along with the jam track one more [Em] time.
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ Okay.
As I mentioned, I'll have the tablature and a jam track.
I'll put a jam track together for you that you can practice that too.
I would also recommend _ doing something for the first part of that solo.
_ [E] And before I recommend anything for that, I told you I was going to show you how that ending lick.
_ That's [C#] _ _
[Am] _ [A] _ how the very last lick of the song ends.
[B] So what we're doing, [C] we're on that third string, fourth fret.
Slide that up [C#] to the fifth and then catch your B string on [Am] the second.
[C#] _ _ _ [C] _ [A] _
_ _ [C] All right.
[C#] Two, three, four, [G#m] one.
[A] _ [F#m] _ [A] _ [C#] _ _ _
[A] _ All right.
[Em] So, yeah, like I said, I would recommend trying to come up [D#] with something like the first [A] half of that.
[D] _ [G] _ _ [A] _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _
[F#m] _ [E] _ _ [D#] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ _
_ [Em] I lost myself there.
But anyway, you get the idea.
Then I [A] came into that _ second [E] ride that Reggie did.
Okay.
I hope you enjoyed