Chords for How to play Abilene - Guitar Lesson

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Abm] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ [G] _ [D] Hi, _ [A] _ [G] _ _
_ I'm [Bb] Doc Marshall for Lessons.io.
[G]
And [N] today I'd like to look at the song Abilene.
This was done a long time ago, back in the 60s, by George Hamilton IV.
It's a nice song, and it's one of those country classic kind of songs.
We'll do it in the key of G.
Now, the chords that you need are [G] G, _ B, [B] _ _
_ [Em] [C] C.
_ _ [A] You need an A, _ _ [G] a [D] D7, _ [G] and a C [Cm] minor.
_ _ And that's it.
Those are the chords that [Fm] you need.
Now, here's the sequence.
We want [G] to go G, _ _ _ _ [Db] B, [Eb] and D7 [Gbm] probably is your best.
You want [B] that sound, not [Db] that sound.
[G] So you want G, _ [A] _ [Gbm] D7, _ _ [C] up on C, _ and [G] back to the G.
_ _ [Ab] _ [A] _ That's an A chord.
_ [D] _ D7, _ [Dbm] [G] G, _
[C] [Cm] C minor, _ [G] and a G.
[Em] And [D] then you want _ _ D7, and that gives you the set up [A] for [G] the next verse.
[Db] First short [Gm] song, [Ab] and very nice song.
_ _ _ The verse and the chorus sound exactly alike.
What we just [D] sang there was [Eb] the chorus, [G] but also the first verse.
So, we play_
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ Avaline, [C] Avaline, prettiest [G] town I've ever [Ab] seen.
[A] _ Never [E] been, [D] don't treat you [G] mean.
An Avaline, [Cm] _ right [G] on the scene.
[D] _
Okay, [Ab] let's look at the [B] characteristics of this song.
[Bb]
We mentioned that we wanted [G] a G chord.
It's a full G [Dbm] chord.
Now, we go to the [Gbm] B7.
_ _ [B] _ [A] We don't [B] want the B chord [G] on [Gb] [B] a B7.
_ [Db] We go to a regular [C] C chord, _ [E] back to [G] your G.
It's a full G chord.
Now, we're going to go from the [A] G up to the A.
[Gb] But it sounds much [Db] nicer if instead of [G] going here,
[A] _
_ [G] you go [Ab] put that in [D] between chord, that A flat [G] chord there.
[Ab] _ [A] _ [Dbm] Now, what I'm doing there, here [G] I'm playing a G chord.
[Bb] And I'm playing [A] a whole [E] A chord.
But when I hit [Ab] this, I'm staying on those last two notes there.
_ _ [G] So, [Ab] _ _ [A] _ _ [Db] _ [G] slowly, on the whole chord, [Ab] just the first couple of strings there,
and [A] then the whole chord again.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [A] _
_ [G] Because we really [Ab] want to hear [A] this. _ _
[G] G, [Ab] _ [A] _ A.
[Dbm] And then, after [A] we play the A chord,
we're [Ab] going to a D7, [D] _
_ and then [N] back to [G] our G. _ _
And then [Db] we hit [D] that [Cm] C minor.
_ _ [Ebm] _
[G] _ _ The _ [Cm] _ _ [G]
turnaround _ [E] _ _ [Ab] [D] chord is our D7.
That sets this up for our [G] next [A] verse.
So, all [G] together.
_ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Ab] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ D7, [G] G, [Cm] C minor, [G] G, [D] _ D7, _ [G]
and so on.
[E] _ [Bb] Now we look at the right hand to [E] see how the strumming works on here.
[G] _ _ _
_ _ _ You want to hit the bass note,
but you don't want to separate it from the chord [E] too much.
You wouldn't want to play [G] it like this.
It's a _ _ [A] _ [B] _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Db] _ particular [Gm] sound.
So, we want to emphasize [E] the bottom notes,
but we want to [G] do it as part of the chord. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [A] _ [Eb] _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ See, I'm hitting it harder first,
_ [Ab] and then [G] I'm ramping it. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] It's a cowboy [Dbm] song, so we want to hear a horse in there, don't [G] we?
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] [E] It [A] _ helps [Ab] too when you go and hit that A [Dbm] flat [G] section in there.
[E] _ _ Hit it along with the down strokes.
_ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Ab] _ [A] _
_ Whereas [G] before, I'm hitting it _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] on all the other chords.
[G] I want to do that once, second.
_ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ [Cm] _
_ _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
And [Eb] you can [Ab] vary the tempo on this too.
You can play it [G] a little faster or a little slower,
but you want to have a nice middle-of-the-road feel. _
Happily, [E] _ [A] _ happily,
_ [C] _
this town _ [G] I've ever [Ab] seen.
[A] _
Women there [D] don't treat you mean.
[G] D7, G, [Cm] C minor, [G] G, [D] _
D7, [G] and so on.
There's your whole [E] song, done in the key of G for you.
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Bye for now. _ _ _ _ _ _ _