Chords for Why Not Me - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - The Judds

_ Why Not Me was a big number one hit for the Judds and it was written by Harlan Howard,
Sonny Throckmorton, and Brent Mayer.
The song's in the key of B flat, so we're going to capo up to the third fret, so we
can use a nice open key of G shapes on the rhythm acoustic part.
And then for the lead acoustic part, we'll capo up to the sixth fret, so we'll be thinking
about it like we're playing in the key of E, and we're going to keep a slide on our
pinky the whole time so we can catch that main riff that we hear throughout the song. _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] You've been looking for love all around the world, baby don't you know this country girl's [Ab] still free. _ _
[Eb] _ _ Why [Bb] not me? _ _
_ [F] Why not me?
On a rainy day, why not [Ab] me?
To love you cares [Eb] away.
_ Why not [Bb] me? _ _ _
[F] Baby, why not [Bb] me? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Cm] _ _
[Bb] _ _ Oh, [Eb] _ _ _ [Eb] _
baby, [Bb] why not me?
Finally come down to your old home, baby, why not me?
To your old hometown, you've been sucking girls, waiting _ _ [Ab] patiently.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _
Why not [Bb] me? _ _ _ _
Why not me?
In this lesson, we'll go over the acoustic rhythm part for Why Not Me.
Let's get a capo on the third fret, so we should be able to play a G chord _ _ and have
it sound like that.
So the introduction is just all on this G chord, and I'm actually going to play a little
variation where we're going to leave this A string muted.
So that's the third fret of low E above the capo.
Mute the A string, open D, open G, third fret of B, and the third fret of high E above the capo.
_ _ _ _ All right, and this introduction is going to be a great chance for us to get this strum
pattern feeling really comfortable under our fingers.
It will sound like this. _ _
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_ And that's just going to repeat over and over again.
That's the same strum pattern for the whole song, okay?
So one and two and three and four.
_ Down, down, down, up, down, up, down.
That's one verse cycle.
Now it's going to start over again.
Right here, _ stay on the G, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and back to that F chord. _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ Do a C over E.
Why not [Bb] me?
On the G. _ _
Verse.
_ _ One, two, three, go.
In _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Gm] this tutorial, we're going to go over all of the acoustic lead parts for Why Not Me.
We got a capo on the sixth fret, and we're going to put a slide on our pinky finger and
just leave it there for the whole song.
_ The main thing that we're going to go over are the riffs [Db] that we hear.
_ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ But there's also the chorus that we're going to get into, and _ this little intro riff that
we're going to [Bbm] go over right now.
We're going to mimic this intro riff on the acoustic guitar just for fun.
All _ _ [D] _ right?
[Bbm] So that's open low E string, and then we're going to be doing a lot of chicken picking
here with our middle finger and our ring finger on our right hand.
I've got my pinky down on the actual 13th fret of the E string, and then ring finger
is going to come _ on the 14th fret of B.
And I'm going to go pick, cluck, cluck, and then cluck the B string again and slide it
up to 15.
[Eb] _ _ _ _
One, [Bbm] two, three.
_ [Bb] _ _
_ _ One, two, three.
[Bbm] _
[D] We have this little intro of, _ [Bbm] _ _
_ _ all right?
Then we're going to play that later in the riff as well.
But [Fm] for the first time as we enter the song, we're going to go open B, _ [G] pick that, pick
the second fret of B above the capo, _ [Bb] and then we can cluck that high E string.
And then we get into kind of the meat of this riff.
I'm going to call it riff one and riff two, okay?
Riff one is this. _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] Riff two is this.
[Bbm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm]
Very similar, right?
We're just throwing in one [F] extra _ [B] in riff two.
So let's count that out.
First let's talk through it, then let's count it out.
Okay, so we've got the pinky finger slide here.
We're going to be three frets above the capo on the high E string, and we're going to cluck
this and go up a half step there, up to fret four.
_ [Bbm] _ And then open.
[Bb] So _ _ then B, second fret, [Fm] open the second fret, [Gm] _ _ [Bbm] _ and do that again.
[Gm] _ _ [N] _ One, two, [Bbm] three. _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ Riff one, one, two, three, four. _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] Riff two, _ one, two, three, four. _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ Come down to your old hometown, you Kentucky girl.