Chords for Guitar Town - Steve Earle - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial

_ Guitar Town is just a great classic song from Steve Earle who also wrote it and it's pretty accessible
So it's not too difficult on the acoustic guitar
We're in standard tuning and we're gonna use key of G chords
the hardest part about the acoustic guitar part is just
Kind of understanding the roadmap and how long to hold out the chords at the end of some of these sections and that kind of
Thing on the lead guitar.
We've got this really recognizable country guitar riff.
That's got some tremolo on it
That's gonna come in and out throughout the song
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_ _ _ [C] Tennessee just that awesome
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[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
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[D] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ Hey, baby, I read it for me.
It's good rockin that enough [C] Tennessee _ _
Just that awesome
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right, we've got a really fun acoustic guitar part for this song and it's pretty straightforward
We just have to talk through some of the kind of roadmap issues
Like I mentioned in the intro
Where we hold out some of the chords a little bit longer in the middle of the verses and that kind of thing
But we just have three chords.
We've got a G chord a
C chord [D] and a D chord.
Let's start by talking through this G chord.
So normally [G] we'd play a standard G chord like this
But for this song we're gonna do [D] this _
_ _ _ Pretty much every time we get to a G chord.
So let's start by getting our fingers here, which is third fret of low E
mute the a string [C] one two
three
four second half of [D] verse one
two
three to the C
[C] _ _ [D] _
One two three go
All _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ right.
The main thing we're [G] gonna learn here is
The kind of signature really recognizable country guitar riff that comes in and out through the whole song and then there's just a couple other little
Riffs we're gonna learn along the way.
So this is all tabbed out right beneath the video player at six string country.com
Make sure you pull those up
That'll help a lot.
We're gonna be in drop D here
So we just need to take one string this low E string down one full step.
So right now I'm in standard
Just do it [E] together this low E string needs to go down one full step.
So it's an octave [D] below this D string
It's _ [D] _
_ _ _ pretty close _ _
All right [C] before we launch into that first riff.
Let's quick talk through the tone
We usually just put the notes up on the screen, but it's really [G] important on this song
We need to start with just a real good crisp treble II country guitar tone.
We use the bridge pickup here
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Then we need to on top of that put some tremolo on there
That's kind of got I've got just a little slap next thing
We're gonna do is actually come in with that signature riff.
So we're gonna start here
_ _ Let's get just that much we've got pinky finger on the fifth fret of low E
One two three and [B] then second fret of a open [A] a back to fifth fret of [G] low E
[B] Then second fret of a [D] fifth fret and third fret one [G] two three go
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[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] Okay
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