Chords for Wichita Lineman Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Glen Campbell

_ Wichita Lineman was obviously a big hit for Glenn Campbell.
It was written by
Jimmy Webb and it's been done by a lot of other artists as well.
James Taylor did a cool version, Johnny Cash has done a version, Stoney LaRue.
A lot
of artists have done this song.
We're gonna do an arrangement here.
We're gonna
teach an arrangement based on Glenn Campbell's original version and the
acoustic guitar parts gonna be pretty close to that recording that you hear.
On the electric guitar, we'll obviously teach all the electric guitar parts that
you hear but then we'll also be picking up a number of those moving string lines
and then we'll be doing some rhythm comping using some triads as well.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] The acoustic part for Wichita Lineman has a lot of different chords we're
gonna talk about.
That's really the hardest part.
The strum pattern is pretty
straightforward.
We'll pick up on that pretty easily.
It's the chords that
we got to keep track of.
First we got to learn them, then we got to keep track of
the order.
So this is one of those songs where that chord chart right beneath
the video player at sixstringcountry.com is really gonna help.
So pull that up.
We're gonna move through a couple of different keys as we go through these
progressions.
The first thing we have to learn is an intro that has these two
chords [Bb] _ _
and then we're gonna learn the main progression.
And the main
progression plays itself over three times.
We play that main progression
three times exactly the same way.
Then we're gonna have an outro which is just
a little bit different.
So let's first learn this [F] intro which is just one
strum on these chords.
This is an F major [C] 7 with the C in the [F] bass.
_ [C] So we
have [F] third fret of A, [A] third fret of D, second fret [C] of G, first fret of [E] B, open
high E.
[F] _
And then [Bb] we're gonna move up to this chord.
_ [Dm] We'll analyze it in just a
second.
Down, up, down.
Let's just [Bb] stay on there and do it a couple times.
Down, [Dm] up,
mute.
Up, down, up, [Bb] down.
Down, up, mute.
Up, down, up, down.
Down, up, mute.
Up, down, up,
down.
Main progression.
Two, three, go.
[Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _
_ [G] _ _ [B] The electric guitar part that we'll teach for
Wichita Linemen is really arranged more for a band that's formatted with
electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, and drums.
We're gonna cover some of those
string lines on the electric guitar as well as do some rhythm comping that you
don't really hear an electric guitar doing on that original recording.
But I
think goes well with the song and would sound good in this kind of a band format.
I've got it on my middle pickup.
So I've got both the pickups going.
The neck was
just a little too muddy for the lead lines and the bridge on this guitar for
my taste was just a little too bright for the rhythm comping.
So the middle
kind of gets the best of both worlds.
Worked well for me and got just a little
bit of gain, not too much.
A little reverb, a little delay, and then I've got
a little chorus on here as well for this song.
[Bb] And some tremolo.
I don't
want to forget the tremolo, especially for that solo in the middle of the song.
You'll want some tremolo on there.
Okay, so let's start with this intro line,
which looks like this.
One, two, [F] _ _ _ let's get that much.
Visualize [Bb] an F chord here, F
bar chord.
We've got the third fret of G, _ [A] downstroke, upstroke on the [C] second fret
of G, and [F] then third fret of D, [D] open D, [Cm] third fret of A, [F] and then first fret of
low E.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [C] Here's the solo. _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] Intro!
_ _ One, two.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _