Chords for One Horse Town by Blackberry Smoke – Totally Guitars Lesson Preview
Tempo:
92 bpm
Chords used:
C
E
Am
D
Dm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D] [Am] [D]
[C] [E] [Am]
[N] Hey, we're going to take a look, I got to hand it to my students.
I get exposed to a lot of new things because they come in and say, hey, have you heard
this or have you heard that or have you heard of this band?
And this is a band I was not familiar with until a few weeks ago, until one of my students
came in and said, hey, I'm working on this song called One Horse Town by a band called Blackberry Smoke.
Well, it turns out these guys have some really cool tunes.
And the main songwriter, guitar player, singer is named Charlie Star and he's got a great voice.
And it's kind of in the contemporary country, southern rock sort of sound.
Nice little lead in the middle of it.
And the reason I haven't played any of the rest of it yet is I'd like you to listen to
it first and see what you can figure out because you can hear the chord changes pretty easily.
You probably saw what I just played right there.
You could probably figure that out by what you heard and what you saw.
Pay attention to the bass notes.
There's a little run of four notes, doo doo doo doo, leading into an alternating bass
on a couple of chords.
And those two chords are a big clue as to what key it's in and what other chords to
be looking for.
It uses mostly chords from one key, the key that those two chords are in that I started
with, which were A minor and C, by the way.
I'll give a little of this away.
And then, but there's also a secondary dominant that happens in there and it uses not really
all the chords in the key but really close.
All three majors, two of the minors, and one secondary dominant.
So check out the videos first before, well, you can go right into the lesson.
It's a pretty easy strumming song.
We're going to take a look at the [C] lead too.
[D]
[Dm] [Am] [E] [C] [G]
[E] [C]
[Bb] [Ab] [C] [N] So there's a really cool little lead that happens in there too.
We'll talk about that.
So I don't usually throw those into, I don't throw those into many lessons, but that one's
kind of nice.
And so we will take a look at it as well.
That's it for this little introduction.
Listen to the song, see if you can figure out the chords.
It doesn't follow the normal sequence of a lot of country type songs.
So it uses, it just sometimes goes where you don't expect, which makes the melody a little
more interesting than a lot of others.
So anyway, coming up, a lesson on Blackberry Smoke's One Horse Town.
[E] [Am]
[Bm] [C]
[E] [Am] [E]
[C]
Well, there you have the intro.
And I have tablature to this, just pointing [N]
out and picking out those notes.
But it's a very simple little pattern of four eighth notes starting on beat three of the measure.
And so we're going to be alternating downs and [D] ups.
It's [E] D, [D] E, [C] D, C, and give the [Gm] C a little bit of a bend just to make it sound a little more
twangy country [D] kind of [E] sound.
[Am] As [E] opposed to [C] [A] right there, I just [C] hit it flat.
You want to hear this.
[A] Tiny little [E] yank on it, pulling it down.
Once [D] we get to the A in the bass, [E]
[A] that A is on beat one of the first [D] measure of A [E] minor.
[Am] [E] We start our [Am] strumming pattern.
And so I just have the bass notes written in in the tab, not [C] the strumming, [A] but it's
bass, [Am] down, [E] up, bass, [Am] up, down, up.
Or you could have the up in the first half as [Em] well.
It really wouldn't make that big a difference.
[D] The second run [E]
lands on B instead of C [Em] because it's going to a [C] C chord.
And this is a good time to work on your C chord alternating the bass back and [E] forth
as opposed to trying to [B] remember to use [C] your fourth finger for that C, which is not, would
not seem, it's not [N] difficult, but it's not particularly intuitive.
So, okay, so that's what we have in the intro.
The little run into the A minor using, with the bent [D] C, [D]
[Am] and then the run into the C.
[E] [C] Now, one other thing I do when I'm picking out single notes for more than just like [N] a
single bass note is you can anchor your hand lightly.
What I do is put the knuckle of my little finger kind of goes almost on the sound hole.
So [A] I've been [Am] strumming, [E]
[Em] and that gives really good accuracy [E] for picking out those notes.
[C] Then when I get to the C chord, I let go again, and I want to put the anchor down again.
[E]
[Am] [E]
[C] [G] And then we're off into the progression.
Well, there's a nice little lead played after the second chorus, and I just decided to show
you pretty much an approximation of it, but it's got some nice little things in it that
are kind of cool.
It comes out of the last chord, the [C] last C chord at the end of the second chorus, [Gm] and
it has a couple of pickup notes.
Most of it takes place at around the fifth fret, [D] following [G] notes out of [C] an A minor scale,
even though we're kind [D] of [G] using, [Dm] it's starting on a D minor chord.
So we're going to see [G] notes out of that D minor chord.
So, take a look at the tab.
We've got a little pickup, three notes, a hammer-on from G to A [Am] and C on the last [B] eighth
[Dm] note of the pickup measure.
And a D minor chord played as a bar would be an A minor [A] shape at the fifth fret.
[G] And that's really what we get a couple of [C] things out of here.
[Dm] We end up with a hammer [C]-on from a tiny bar at the fifth, just three strings is all you
need, hammering on [Dm] two notes out of [Ab] the D minor chord.
[Dm] [C] [Am]
[C] [E] [Am]
[N] Hey, we're going to take a look, I got to hand it to my students.
I get exposed to a lot of new things because they come in and say, hey, have you heard
this or have you heard that or have you heard of this band?
And this is a band I was not familiar with until a few weeks ago, until one of my students
came in and said, hey, I'm working on this song called One Horse Town by a band called Blackberry Smoke.
Well, it turns out these guys have some really cool tunes.
And the main songwriter, guitar player, singer is named Charlie Star and he's got a great voice.
And it's kind of in the contemporary country, southern rock sort of sound.
Nice little lead in the middle of it.
And the reason I haven't played any of the rest of it yet is I'd like you to listen to
it first and see what you can figure out because you can hear the chord changes pretty easily.
You probably saw what I just played right there.
You could probably figure that out by what you heard and what you saw.
Pay attention to the bass notes.
There's a little run of four notes, doo doo doo doo, leading into an alternating bass
on a couple of chords.
And those two chords are a big clue as to what key it's in and what other chords to
be looking for.
It uses mostly chords from one key, the key that those two chords are in that I started
with, which were A minor and C, by the way.
I'll give a little of this away.
And then, but there's also a secondary dominant that happens in there and it uses not really
all the chords in the key but really close.
All three majors, two of the minors, and one secondary dominant.
So check out the videos first before, well, you can go right into the lesson.
It's a pretty easy strumming song.
We're going to take a look at the [C] lead too.
[D]
[Dm] [Am] [E] [C] [G]
[E] [C]
[Bb] [Ab] [C] [N] So there's a really cool little lead that happens in there too.
We'll talk about that.
So I don't usually throw those into, I don't throw those into many lessons, but that one's
kind of nice.
And so we will take a look at it as well.
That's it for this little introduction.
Listen to the song, see if you can figure out the chords.
It doesn't follow the normal sequence of a lot of country type songs.
So it uses, it just sometimes goes where you don't expect, which makes the melody a little
more interesting than a lot of others.
So anyway, coming up, a lesson on Blackberry Smoke's One Horse Town.
[E] [Am]
[Bm] [C]
[E] [Am] [E]
[C]
Well, there you have the intro.
And I have tablature to this, just pointing [N]
out and picking out those notes.
But it's a very simple little pattern of four eighth notes starting on beat three of the measure.
And so we're going to be alternating downs and [D] ups.
It's [E] D, [D] E, [C] D, C, and give the [Gm] C a little bit of a bend just to make it sound a little more
twangy country [D] kind of [E] sound.
[Am] As [E] opposed to [C] [A] right there, I just [C] hit it flat.
You want to hear this.
[A] Tiny little [E] yank on it, pulling it down.
Once [D] we get to the A in the bass, [E]
[A] that A is on beat one of the first [D] measure of A [E] minor.
[Am] [E] We start our [Am] strumming pattern.
And so I just have the bass notes written in in the tab, not [C] the strumming, [A] but it's
bass, [Am] down, [E] up, bass, [Am] up, down, up.
Or you could have the up in the first half as [Em] well.
It really wouldn't make that big a difference.
[D] The second run [E]
lands on B instead of C [Em] because it's going to a [C] C chord.
And this is a good time to work on your C chord alternating the bass back and [E] forth
as opposed to trying to [B] remember to use [C] your fourth finger for that C, which is not, would
not seem, it's not [N] difficult, but it's not particularly intuitive.
So, okay, so that's what we have in the intro.
The little run into the A minor using, with the bent [D] C, [D]
[Am] and then the run into the C.
[E] [C] Now, one other thing I do when I'm picking out single notes for more than just like [N] a
single bass note is you can anchor your hand lightly.
What I do is put the knuckle of my little finger kind of goes almost on the sound hole.
So [A] I've been [Am] strumming, [E]
[Em] and that gives really good accuracy [E] for picking out those notes.
[C] Then when I get to the C chord, I let go again, and I want to put the anchor down again.
[E]
[Am] [E]
[C] [G] And then we're off into the progression.
Well, there's a nice little lead played after the second chorus, and I just decided to show
you pretty much an approximation of it, but it's got some nice little things in it that
are kind of cool.
It comes out of the last chord, the [C] last C chord at the end of the second chorus, [Gm] and
it has a couple of pickup notes.
Most of it takes place at around the fifth fret, [D] following [G] notes out of [C] an A minor scale,
even though we're kind [D] of [G] using, [Dm] it's starting on a D minor chord.
So we're going to see [G] notes out of that D minor chord.
So, take a look at the tab.
We've got a little pickup, three notes, a hammer-on from G to A [Am] and C on the last [B] eighth
[Dm] note of the pickup measure.
And a D minor chord played as a bar would be an A minor [A] shape at the fifth fret.
[G] And that's really what we get a couple of [C] things out of here.
[Dm] We end up with a hammer [C]-on from a tiny bar at the fifth, just three strings is all you
need, hammering on [Dm] two notes out of [Ab] the D minor chord.
[Dm] [C] [Am]
Key:
C
E
Am
D
Dm
C
E
Am
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] Hey, we're going to take a look, I got to hand it to my students.
I get exposed to a lot of new things because they come in and say, hey, have you heard
this or have you heard that or have you heard of this band?
And this is a band I was not familiar with until a few weeks ago, until one of my students
came in and said, hey, I'm working on this song called One Horse Town by a band called Blackberry Smoke.
Well, it turns out these guys have some really cool tunes.
And the main songwriter, guitar player, singer is named Charlie Star and he's got a great voice.
And it's kind of in the contemporary _ country, southern rock sort of sound.
Nice little lead in the middle of it.
And the reason I haven't played any of the rest of it yet is I'd like you to listen to
it first and see what you can figure out because you can hear the chord changes pretty easily.
You probably saw what I just played right there.
You could probably figure that out by what you heard and what you saw.
Pay attention to the bass notes.
There's a little run of four notes, doo doo doo doo, leading into an alternating bass
on a couple of chords.
And those two chords are a big clue as to what key it's in and what other chords to
be looking for.
It uses mostly chords from one key, the key that those two chords are in that I started
with, which were A minor and C, by the way.
I'll give a little of this away.
And then, but there's also a secondary dominant that happens in there and it uses not really
all the chords in the key but really close.
All three majors, two of the minors, and one secondary dominant.
So check out the videos first before, well, you can go right into the lesson.
It's a pretty easy strumming song.
We're going to take a look at the [C] lead too.
[D] _ _
[Dm] _ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C] _
[Bb] _ [Ab] _ _ [C] [N] So there's a really cool little lead that happens in there too.
We'll talk about that.
So I don't usually throw those into, I don't throw those into many lessons, but that one's
kind of nice.
And so we will take a look at it as well.
That's it for this little introduction.
Listen to the song, see if you can figure out the chords.
_ _ It doesn't follow the normal sequence of a lot of country type songs.
So it uses, it just sometimes goes where you don't expect, which makes the melody a little
more interesting than a lot of others.
So anyway, coming up, a lesson on Blackberry Smoke's One Horse Town. _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ [C] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, there you have the intro.
And I have tablature to this, just pointing [N] _
out and picking out those notes.
But it's a very simple little pattern of four eighth notes starting on beat three of the measure.
And so we're going to be alternating downs and [D] ups.
It's [E] D, [D] E, [C] D, C, and give the [Gm] C a little bit of a bend just to make it sound a little more
twangy country [D] kind of [E] sound.
[Am] _ As [E] opposed to [C] [A] right there, I just [C] hit it flat.
You want to hear this. _
[A] Tiny little [E] yank on it, pulling it down.
Once [D] we get to the A in the bass, [E] _
[A] that A is on beat one of the first [D] measure of A [E] minor.
[Am] _ [E] We start our [Am] strumming pattern.
And so I just have the bass notes written in in the tab, not [C] the strumming, [A] but it's
bass, [Am] down, [E] up, bass, [Am] up, down, up.
Or you could have the up in the first half as [Em] well.
It really wouldn't make that big a difference.
[D] The second run [E] _
lands on B instead of C [Em] because it's going to a [C] C chord.
And this is a good time to work on your C chord alternating the bass back and [E] forth
as opposed to trying to [B] remember to use [C] your fourth finger for that C, which is not, would
not seem, it's not [N] difficult, but it's not particularly intuitive.
So, okay, so that's what we have in the intro.
The little run into the A minor using, with the bent [D] C, [D] _
[Am] _ _ _ _ and then the run into the C.
[E] _ _ [C] Now, one other thing I do when I'm picking out single notes for more than just like [N] a
single bass note is you can anchor your hand lightly.
What I do is put the knuckle of my little finger kind of goes almost on the sound hole.
So [A] I've been [Am] strumming, _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Em] and that gives really good accuracy [E] for picking out those notes.
[C] Then when I get to the C chord, I let go again, and I want to put the anchor down again.
[E] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] And then we're off into the progression.
_ _ _ Well, there's a nice little lead played after the second chorus, and I just decided to show
you pretty much an approximation of it, but it's got some nice little things in it that
are kind of cool.
It comes out of the last chord, the [C] last C chord at the end of the second chorus, [Gm] and
it has a couple of pickup notes.
Most of it takes place at around the fifth fret, [D] following [G] notes out of [C] an A minor scale,
even though we're kind [D] of [G] using, [Dm] it's starting on a D minor chord.
So we're going to see [G] notes out of that D minor chord.
So, take a look at the tab.
We've got a little pickup, three notes, a hammer-on from G to A [Am] and C on the last [B] eighth
[Dm] note of the pickup measure.
And a D minor chord played as a bar would be an A minor [A] shape at the fifth fret.
[G] And that's really what we get a couple of [C] things out of here.
[Dm] We end up with a hammer [C]-on from a tiny bar at the fifth, just three strings is all you
need, hammering on [Dm] two notes out of [Ab] the D minor chord.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] Hey, we're going to take a look, I got to hand it to my students.
I get exposed to a lot of new things because they come in and say, hey, have you heard
this or have you heard that or have you heard of this band?
And this is a band I was not familiar with until a few weeks ago, until one of my students
came in and said, hey, I'm working on this song called One Horse Town by a band called Blackberry Smoke.
Well, it turns out these guys have some really cool tunes.
And the main songwriter, guitar player, singer is named Charlie Star and he's got a great voice.
And it's kind of in the contemporary _ country, southern rock sort of sound.
Nice little lead in the middle of it.
And the reason I haven't played any of the rest of it yet is I'd like you to listen to
it first and see what you can figure out because you can hear the chord changes pretty easily.
You probably saw what I just played right there.
You could probably figure that out by what you heard and what you saw.
Pay attention to the bass notes.
There's a little run of four notes, doo doo doo doo, leading into an alternating bass
on a couple of chords.
And those two chords are a big clue as to what key it's in and what other chords to
be looking for.
It uses mostly chords from one key, the key that those two chords are in that I started
with, which were A minor and C, by the way.
I'll give a little of this away.
And then, but there's also a secondary dominant that happens in there and it uses not really
all the chords in the key but really close.
All three majors, two of the minors, and one secondary dominant.
So check out the videos first before, well, you can go right into the lesson.
It's a pretty easy strumming song.
We're going to take a look at the [C] lead too.
[D] _ _
[Dm] _ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C] _
[Bb] _ [Ab] _ _ [C] [N] So there's a really cool little lead that happens in there too.
We'll talk about that.
So I don't usually throw those into, I don't throw those into many lessons, but that one's
kind of nice.
And so we will take a look at it as well.
That's it for this little introduction.
Listen to the song, see if you can figure out the chords.
_ _ It doesn't follow the normal sequence of a lot of country type songs.
So it uses, it just sometimes goes where you don't expect, which makes the melody a little
more interesting than a lot of others.
So anyway, coming up, a lesson on Blackberry Smoke's One Horse Town. _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ [C] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, there you have the intro.
And I have tablature to this, just pointing [N] _
out and picking out those notes.
But it's a very simple little pattern of four eighth notes starting on beat three of the measure.
And so we're going to be alternating downs and [D] ups.
It's [E] D, [D] E, [C] D, C, and give the [Gm] C a little bit of a bend just to make it sound a little more
twangy country [D] kind of [E] sound.
[Am] _ As [E] opposed to [C] [A] right there, I just [C] hit it flat.
You want to hear this. _
[A] Tiny little [E] yank on it, pulling it down.
Once [D] we get to the A in the bass, [E] _
[A] that A is on beat one of the first [D] measure of A [E] minor.
[Am] _ [E] We start our [Am] strumming pattern.
And so I just have the bass notes written in in the tab, not [C] the strumming, [A] but it's
bass, [Am] down, [E] up, bass, [Am] up, down, up.
Or you could have the up in the first half as [Em] well.
It really wouldn't make that big a difference.
[D] The second run [E] _
lands on B instead of C [Em] because it's going to a [C] C chord.
And this is a good time to work on your C chord alternating the bass back and [E] forth
as opposed to trying to [B] remember to use [C] your fourth finger for that C, which is not, would
not seem, it's not [N] difficult, but it's not particularly intuitive.
So, okay, so that's what we have in the intro.
The little run into the A minor using, with the bent [D] C, [D] _
[Am] _ _ _ _ and then the run into the C.
[E] _ _ [C] Now, one other thing I do when I'm picking out single notes for more than just like [N] a
single bass note is you can anchor your hand lightly.
What I do is put the knuckle of my little finger kind of goes almost on the sound hole.
So [A] I've been [Am] strumming, _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Em] and that gives really good accuracy [E] for picking out those notes.
[C] Then when I get to the C chord, I let go again, and I want to put the anchor down again.
[E] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] And then we're off into the progression.
_ _ _ Well, there's a nice little lead played after the second chorus, and I just decided to show
you pretty much an approximation of it, but it's got some nice little things in it that
are kind of cool.
It comes out of the last chord, the [C] last C chord at the end of the second chorus, [Gm] and
it has a couple of pickup notes.
Most of it takes place at around the fifth fret, [D] following [G] notes out of [C] an A minor scale,
even though we're kind [D] of [G] using, [Dm] it's starting on a D minor chord.
So we're going to see [G] notes out of that D minor chord.
So, take a look at the tab.
We've got a little pickup, three notes, a hammer-on from G to A [Am] and C on the last [B] eighth
[Dm] note of the pickup measure.
And a D minor chord played as a bar would be an A minor [A] shape at the fifth fret.
[G] And that's really what we get a couple of [C] things out of here.
[Dm] We end up with a hammer [C]-on from a tiny bar at the fifth, just three strings is all you
need, hammering on [Dm] two notes out of [Ab] the D minor chord.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _