Chords for Tennessee Whiskey - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Chris Stapleton

[N] _ _ _ [E] Tennessee Whiskey is a popular country [C] song.
It's been done by a number of different artists.
It was written by [Db] Dean Dillon and Linda Hargrove.
It was originally done [Abm] by David [Dbm] Allen Coe.
A couple [A] years after that by George Jones.
[Ab] We're going to teach Chris [Gb] Stapleton's version.
_ Stapleton does it a little bit differently.
It's in [Bb] 6-8 instead of 4-4.
And he kind of lays [B] it back and gives it this [G] country blues feel.
[Db] If you look [B] live to find videos of him performing [Eb] it, he does it in a lot of [B] different styles himself.
He's got this solo [C] acoustic thing that he does, which is more [A] like_ _
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_ So we will teach that version [Ab] as a bonus tutorial.
But the main lesson will [G] be _ matching what he does on his Traveler album.
[Eb] We're going to speed it up a [Db] little bit like they did it at the CMAs.
But [Ab] we are going to include all the [Abm] parts from the acoustic [C] to the [Eb] electric guitar.
And [C] that really nice tasteful solo that you hear on his album.
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_ _ you rescued me from the last of your [Bm] _ enemies _ _ _
_ Honey I stayed strong, all your love, _ _ [A] all the time
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_ _ _ You rescued me from [Bm] the bottom _ _ _ _ _ _ and brought me back
_ _ _ The air is new [A] for _ gone, _ _ _ _ you rescued _ me
Alright, before [Db] we get going, just to let you know, you're going to be able to pick which set of chords you want to use.
I'm [Dm] going to teach it like I hear [A] it on the record. _
A bar [Bm] chord and B minor.
[Eb] But [Gb] you're also going to have an [G] option [Eb] to [E] capo up to fret 2 [A] and use a G chord and an [Bm] A minor chord.
_ _ _ [Gb] [G] Alright, so let's go over the [Ab] chords first.
[A] No capo, we've got this A major, _ _ which is open A string, 2nd fret barred of D, G and B.
We're going to mute that high E string [G] kind of naturally.
And [A] you can reach around with your thumb [Em] if [A] that's comfortable for you and mute this low E string.
_ Then [Bm] we've got a B minor chord.
So for [B] B minor, we're going to go [C] one time through a regular [Abm]
progression,
then one time through a progression like we're in the verse and do that riff.
Then one time like we're coming out of that last chorus [Ab] and do that final [Gb] variation.
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This [F] is a bonus tutorial that's going to take us through more [Db] of the way Chris Stapleton [A] plays this song
when he's just playing with one acoustic guitar and his voice.
You can find some videos [C] online [G] of him doing it like this.
And it's [Ab] kind of a different style of playing when he's just doing this on the acoustic.
And one of the things I love about _ Stapleton and [Db] watching him perform is that he does it a little bit differently [G] every time.
He lets the song live and breathe [Bb] a little bit.
It's not [C] formulaic at all.
So this [Dbm] isn't as much of a [Bb] tutorial where you should try and learn exactly every single note I'm playing,
but we're just going to talk [Gb] stylistically [Ab] _ about [Bb] _
how Chris [G] Stapleton plays it more in this solo acoustic [Dm]
style.
[G] So this is going to be kind of [E] a starting point for [G] us.
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_ _ Alright, this is going to be a quick tutorial that [Abm] talks through all the different parts [Bb] of the electric guitar
that we [Eb] hear on the Traveller record for this [G] song, except for the solo,
which we're going to learn in the next tutorial [Bm] separately.
Alright, so we're going to talk tone for a second.
_ There's a [Ab] tremolo on this guitar [G] that you can set to a good [Bb] medium depth.
You can probably use [Dbm] a 16th note [Ab] if you have a digital tremolo that can sync up,
or if you [C] can tap it, tap to [B] 16th [Ab] notes.
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That's kind of [Dm] an important part of the [A] sound.
Then we're going to just dial up a nice warm blues [G] tone.
So I've got all [Db] my tone knobs [Ab] cranked, my volume knob cranked,
and I've just got my pickup set to just my net pickup on this guitar.
It kind of [G] gives us that nice_
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Alright, so we're just looking for that nice blues tone _ with a little tremolo,
[Dbm] just a little bit of gain on there. _
Let's launch in and [Bm] let's learn [Eb] these in order that we experience them [G] in the song,
which is also in order of the tabs, [E] which are right beneath the [Gb] video player at 6stringcountry [G].com.
So first is this intro [Gb] riff, which sounds [E] like this.
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_ [Dbm] _ _ [E] Alright, [Bb] man, this is just a great [E] progression to try and [C] create tasteful solos over.
So I'm going to play through [Em] Chris Tappleton's solo, one time nice and slow but in tempo.
[B] We'll go through it note by note and [G] then at full speed along with the metronome.
As always, it's tabbed out right beneath the video player at [Ab] 6stringcountry.com.
So pull those up, that'll help [F] a lot.
Then at the end of [Db] the tutorial, when we're done learning it,
we're going to go over [Ab] _ [Db] some concepts like mode mixture and playing through the major pentatonic
and [Ab] the blues pentatonic [G] scales, kind of alternating back and forth
if we want to do some [Gb] improvisation [F] and practice some riffing over this progression.
So, [G] here's how the solo looks.
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