Chords for Neon Moon Guitar Lesson 1 Brooks & Dunn Brent Mason

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_ Hey everyone, Vinnie for Power Twang. _
_ So today's lesson is just a quick lesson.
This is a little tasty riff that Brent Mason did in the song Neon Moon by
Brooks and Dunn. _ _
If you actually listen to the recording it's pretty low in the
mix, this little riff, but I think it's critical to get that in there so if
you're fortunate enough to have two guitar players in the band, one guitar
player can be strumming the chords and the other one can be playing this little
tasty, tasty riff on the electric guitar. _
_ _ _ _ Okay, so the three chords that we're
going to be playing over today is the A, [Dm] the D, [E] and the E.
And the riff pretty much
stays the same, you just kind of move it around on the neck so that it fits the
fits the different chord.
_ _ Okay, so the first couple of notes [A] here is _ _ basically
just you're doing the _ second fret of the G string, which is A note, _ down
stroking the [F#] fourth fret of the D string and plucking that second fret [G] A note
[F#m] again.
[A] _ _ _ Then you actually pluck that A note again so _ _ it's really, _ _ _ _ it's actually
twice.
_ So the next part of this riff is basically just when you're doing this _ [F#] so
_ it's basically on the fourth string it's four, two, four.
[G#m] _ _ So the timing on this is
pretty much critical and it's kind of what makes the riff [A] but it's
the _ getting _ _ _ _ _ _ that second A note in there and _ _ before you do that last part of the
riff.
So again if we just kind of do that a few times here.
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_ _ [D] Now if we, when we go to
the D chord, _ _ you're just going to take the exact same riff, slide it up to the
seventh position, and now we're going to be playing over the D. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Back down
to the [A] second for the A. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [E] And then now when we go to the E chord, all you're
going to do is take that again, take that same riff and you're just moving it down
a set of strings.
So you're going to be, instead of playing it [F#m] on the third and
fourth, [B] you're just going to be playing it on the fourth [C#m] and fifth. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ [C#] _ _ [D] _ _ Then you go
into the chorus.
_ [A#] _ _ But again if we play all that together, [A] you've got, _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
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[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ [C#] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ okay and really
all that, that little [A] walk up there, _ [B] _ [C] _ [C#] _ _ [D] _ [A] how we're doing is we're walking up from the
A chord [D] to the D for the chorus _ [A] and it's all on the fifth string and you're
just doing open [C] two [C#m] three four [D]
and you _ get to the fifth fret for the D chord.
Or you could play the D here.
_ [B] _ [C] _
[C#] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I will point out too, I believe it's during the
first verse, _ he actually does this little, another little tasty lick.
It's very
[C#] simple.
[B] It's just, [A] _
_ he kind of does that in between two vocal [B] lines.
It's almost
like that walk up that we just did to get to the chorus, but here all we're
doing is we're doing, [A] _ _ _ so [B] all you're doing is you're going to _ pluck the second fret
of the A string and hammer on to the third, then the fourth fret [C] _ [C#]
and _ _ then come
[A] down here with your first finger _ and pluck that A note at the second fret of
the G [B] string.
_ [A] _ _ _ I tend, [B] you could actually [A] just _ like let your finger off the [B] fourth
fret here, [A] _ _ _ but I actually tend to hold it [B] down [A] _ when I hit that A note. _
_ This kind of
helps [B] thicken it up a little bit.
[A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Again, this nice [Am] little tasty lick that you can
do in like a country type ballad.
Again, with this song it's not real loud in the
mix, but I think it's pretty critical.
So if you get the opportunity to put
that in while you're playing this at your gig, I think it adds a lot to the
song.
So anyway, Vinnie for Power Twang.
Thanks for tuning in.
We'll see you soon.
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