Chords for Tulsa Time - Don Williams - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial

_ Tulsa Time has been recorded by a number of artists with some pretty famous recordings
of the song, like Eric Clapton for example, but we're going to do the original version
done by Don Williams.
The song was written by Danny Flowers.
We'll learn three guitar
parts, two of them in standard tuning.
The first is just the basic rhythm acoustic part
that's pretty straight forward, just two chords to get us through the whole song.
Then we'll
learn the electric guitar part that we hear on that recording that's got a couple of really
nice country picking guitar solos in it.
Then we'll get an acoustic guitar into open E tuning
and learn that dobro sounding slide part that's just packed with fun riffs throughout the whole song. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ [E] _ _ _
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
We'll start by learning that opening riff that we hear that the whole band really does,
and then we'll learn the basic acoustic rhythm part in this tutorial, which is just two chords
and it's a repeating pattern to get through the whole thing.
So _ _ not too bad, very doable.
Let's start with the riff.
It looks like this. _ _
_ [D] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [G#] _
[E] We go into the rhythm.
So we're just kind
of walking down here starting on the 7th fret of A, _ [D#m] 6, [D] 5, then we're going to reset with
our ring finger on the 4th [G] fret of [C#] A, _ _ [B] _
then [A] open A string, _ _ 3rd [G] fret of low E, then 4th
[G#] fret.
Then we'll [E] do the raking through the muted strings.
And then on the upstroke, your
left hand is pushing down so that we're hitting the frets, and you're obviously not muting
anything on your right hand, you're just doing a regular upstroke.
And when we combine all
that, we've got mute up, mute up, mute up. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Alright, this tutorial's going to cover the
kind of dobro style acoustic slide work in this song.
We're going to need to be in open
E tuning.
You should be able to play through all the strings and have it sound like that,
making an E chord.
You can watch the tutorial at 6stringcountry.com on how to get your guitar
sounding like this, but the notes are E, B, E, G sharp, B, and _ IE.
Alright?
Chances are
you'll have to, if you set up [G] for standard tuning and you had it in standard [B] tuning,
you'll probably have to go through a couple times.
I'm having to [E] do that right now myself
[G#] actually.
A couple of those [E] are just a little out.
[B] _ _
_ [E] _ _ [E] So, once we're in open E tuning, we're
just going to go through these tabs.
This whole part is really just a collection of
riffs _ that we're doing on the acoustic here.
We're going to have a slide on the pinky finger,
at least that's where I like to have it.
Again, this isn't necessarily a slide technique tutorial,
we do have one of those at 6stringcountry, but just quickly, you'll see me dragging my
pointer finger behind a lot of times. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] This _ _ _
[F] tutorial is going to cover the bridge solo
on the electric guitar.
It's a very cool solo.
Pull up the tabs underneath the video player
at 6stringcountry.com. That will really help.
Dial up a nice, pretty clean, pretty dry country
tone.
So I've got my bridge pickup here, I've got my tone knob cranked all the way open,
and we will go through it nice and slow, but in tempo.
Then we'll play through it note
by note and talk through everything, and then we'll turn on the metronome and play through
it at full speed.
So here's how the bridge solo looks.
_ One and two and three and four [G] and_
_ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [N] This tutorial is going to cover the outro solo on the electric guitar, and it's kind
of cool.
I mean, the electric guitar is kind of soloing really at the same time a lot of
times as the dobro sounding acoustic slide part, but they just kind of work together
really well on this song.
So this one's twice as long as the bridge solo, with some really
cool licks.
We'll go through it nice and slow, but in tempo, then note by note, then at full
tempo along with the metronome.
Again, this is all tabbed out.
Those will really help,
so pull those up right beneath the video player at 6stringcountry.com. Here's how it looks.
_ One, two, and three and four.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ I'm going to sit my watch back view, through what I've been through, living on Charles' [E] time. _ _ _
Living on Charles' time. _ _
Living on Charles' [B] time.
_ _ [N] _