Chords for Brent Mason with Telecaster & Xotic Guitar XS 1
Tempo:
119.35 bpm
Chords used:
E
G
A
Em
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E]
[G] But this guitar, this is not a very pretty guitar, but I bought this, when I first came
in Nashville in [Em]
1982, I was playing in a group, [A] Don Kelly was in the band, and Don was always
known to hire hot [G] guitar players, new guys in town, you know, it was like the place to
[A] be in town, where all the musicians, it was kind of like the musician's musician [Em] type
gig, you know.
So we would [Ab]
play on the show, and I was playing, it was this little club,
it was on Murfreesboro [Abm] Road in town, kind of a honky [Gm] tonk dive, I was about 22 years
old or something like that.
[Em] And one day he goes, you need to go get yourself a guitar
that's good for country, you know, because I was kind of playing jazzy stuff, [G] and I think
it was a Hagstrom Swede I was playing.
He said, that's not quite the Nashville guitar,
it's a good guitar, but not what you need here, you need to get a, [A] you know, like a
Telecaster, but he was doing a lot of stuff like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and all
the west coast kind of country stuff, and I said, oh yeah, I love those.
So we all went
out to [Ab] the music store one day, and these were hanging up in the music store, Hughley's
Music Store outside of Nashville, and he bought one, and I [Gm] bought one like for $300, it was
$300.
It wasn't paint, this is how it looked, it was like somebody had stripped the paint
off of [Ab] it and the lacquer and was going to repaint it, they primed it, and was going
to repaint it, you know, and before they did, they went, ah, they traded it on on something,
they took it in and traded it in, so it came like this, it's like a car primer.
And Don
had a cream colored one, and actually he picked this one, I picked the other one, and I go,
you know, we played them [G] out live, and I said, yeah, I kind of like that gray one better,
he goes, well, just take that one, I'll take the other one, it doesn't [E] matter to me.
This
is how I got this thing, and I never had it, but I did experiment with it, so it's [B] a little
bit of a hybrid, you know, I had a middle pickup put into it, and it sort of caught
on and a lot of people were putting middle, you know, like pickups in the middle with
a volume knob here.
Joe Glazer put that in, a guitar builder in town, so it has this Seymour
Duncan pickup in the middle, but he put an extra volume [A] knob for it, so when you turn,
it's in the back, [E] you bleed in the volume of that, so you get an [A] out of phase.
I [Gb] found
that I use it more [G] of an EQ [F] type move, you know, rather than try to duplicate a [A] Stratocaster
sound.
It takes a little [C] bit of the annoying high end out of it if you just bleed [Bb] a little
of the volume in on it.
[A] Other than these, the middle pickup and [Em] this volume, it's the
same as [A] any, you know, Telecaster, so if you put it in the neck position and turn it on,
you get these two.
Or in the middle, this is the main volume, this is just the volume
for that, you just get the middle.
[Bb]
[Bm] Just the middle.
So, anyway, I played this, you can
see all the smoke that's inlaid in there from all the years of playing in honky -tonk,
you know, cigarette smoke, all that lovely toxic stuff, you know, kind of made its way
into the wood there.
But it sounds so good, I never, you know, of course I didn't, it
wasn't for the [N] superficiality of it, I kept it the same because I thought it sounded good
because the less, I found the less lacquer on a guitar, you know, like on this, on the
guitar here, your guitar, just an oil finish on it, it's the best way to do a neck.
Also,
you know, you're playing on a hot day and you get sort of sweaty, you get hung up on
it instead of using a bunch of lubricant, you know, which can make the strings go bad
fast, you know.
This is all wore off, it originally wasn't like that, of course.
So, I find it
better to make guitars with oil finishes and stuff, and actually the sound of the body
of the guitar sounds better when the lacquer starts to rub off, you get [Gb] the wood sound
into it, it breathes, you know.
Surprisingly enough, even [B] solid body guitar, the wood plays
a big part in the sound of a guitar.
Oh, right, because, well, yeah, good question.
You know,
when we were doing the, there's a song we had on the [E] Players album called Don't Try
This at Home, which starts out real kind of a hot country picking kind of thing, because,
you know, it's like, [Em] [D] [E]
[A]
[Em] [A] [E]
[Dbm] [Gb]
[E]
[B] there's a part in it where we go, [E]
[Dm] it goes, I [Bb]
mean, [Em] [G] we're in G at
that point, it goes from E to [C] G, then it goes into a slow shuffle.
[G] [Bb] Slow blues, so when
I'm doing all that, then I'll switch back, and I picked up, you know, [G]
[Dm] you know, getting
into [E]
[C] [G] the
You get that nice pickup [E] sound that this
[C]
[Gm] [E]
[B] [D]
[Db] [D]
[Dm]
[G] [E] You know, [C] so
[Gm]
[E] [D]
[G] [Em]
[A]
[D] [F]
[G] It's a nice switch
up.
Of course, then we go back to our fast thing, and then, you know, it starts going,
picking up, and then in the [E] meantime, while somebody's soloing, I go back and grab that,
and I'm doing back to the country thing, so it's
I don't know if you guys saw, did
you see that?
Yeah, so that's kind of what that is.
[G] But this guitar, this is not a very pretty guitar, but I bought this, when I first came
in Nashville in [Em]
1982, I was playing in a group, [A] Don Kelly was in the band, and Don was always
known to hire hot [G] guitar players, new guys in town, you know, it was like the place to
[A] be in town, where all the musicians, it was kind of like the musician's musician [Em] type
gig, you know.
So we would [Ab]
play on the show, and I was playing, it was this little club,
it was on Murfreesboro [Abm] Road in town, kind of a honky [Gm] tonk dive, I was about 22 years
old or something like that.
[Em] And one day he goes, you need to go get yourself a guitar
that's good for country, you know, because I was kind of playing jazzy stuff, [G] and I think
it was a Hagstrom Swede I was playing.
He said, that's not quite the Nashville guitar,
it's a good guitar, but not what you need here, you need to get a, [A] you know, like a
Telecaster, but he was doing a lot of stuff like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and all
the west coast kind of country stuff, and I said, oh yeah, I love those.
So we all went
out to [Ab] the music store one day, and these were hanging up in the music store, Hughley's
Music Store outside of Nashville, and he bought one, and I [Gm] bought one like for $300, it was
$300.
It wasn't paint, this is how it looked, it was like somebody had stripped the paint
off of [Ab] it and the lacquer and was going to repaint it, they primed it, and was going
to repaint it, you know, and before they did, they went, ah, they traded it on on something,
they took it in and traded it in, so it came like this, it's like a car primer.
And Don
had a cream colored one, and actually he picked this one, I picked the other one, and I go,
you know, we played them [G] out live, and I said, yeah, I kind of like that gray one better,
he goes, well, just take that one, I'll take the other one, it doesn't [E] matter to me.
This
is how I got this thing, and I never had it, but I did experiment with it, so it's [B] a little
bit of a hybrid, you know, I had a middle pickup put into it, and it sort of caught
on and a lot of people were putting middle, you know, like pickups in the middle with
a volume knob here.
Joe Glazer put that in, a guitar builder in town, so it has this Seymour
Duncan pickup in the middle, but he put an extra volume [A] knob for it, so when you turn,
it's in the back, [E] you bleed in the volume of that, so you get an [A] out of phase.
I [Gb] found
that I use it more [G] of an EQ [F] type move, you know, rather than try to duplicate a [A] Stratocaster
sound.
It takes a little [C] bit of the annoying high end out of it if you just bleed [Bb] a little
of the volume in on it.
[A] Other than these, the middle pickup and [Em] this volume, it's the
same as [A] any, you know, Telecaster, so if you put it in the neck position and turn it on,
you get these two.
Or in the middle, this is the main volume, this is just the volume
for that, you just get the middle.
[Bb]
[Bm] Just the middle.
So, anyway, I played this, you can
see all the smoke that's inlaid in there from all the years of playing in honky -tonk,
you know, cigarette smoke, all that lovely toxic stuff, you know, kind of made its way
into the wood there.
But it sounds so good, I never, you know, of course I didn't, it
wasn't for the [N] superficiality of it, I kept it the same because I thought it sounded good
because the less, I found the less lacquer on a guitar, you know, like on this, on the
guitar here, your guitar, just an oil finish on it, it's the best way to do a neck.
Also,
you know, you're playing on a hot day and you get sort of sweaty, you get hung up on
it instead of using a bunch of lubricant, you know, which can make the strings go bad
fast, you know.
This is all wore off, it originally wasn't like that, of course.
So, I find it
better to make guitars with oil finishes and stuff, and actually the sound of the body
of the guitar sounds better when the lacquer starts to rub off, you get [Gb] the wood sound
into it, it breathes, you know.
Surprisingly enough, even [B] solid body guitar, the wood plays
a big part in the sound of a guitar.
Oh, right, because, well, yeah, good question.
You know,
when we were doing the, there's a song we had on the [E] Players album called Don't Try
This at Home, which starts out real kind of a hot country picking kind of thing, because,
you know, it's like, [Em] [D] [E]
[A]
[Em] [A] [E]
[Dbm] [Gb]
[E]
[B] there's a part in it where we go, [E]
[Dm] it goes, I [Bb]
mean, [Em] [G] we're in G at
that point, it goes from E to [C] G, then it goes into a slow shuffle.
[G] [Bb] Slow blues, so when
I'm doing all that, then I'll switch back, and I picked up, you know, [G]
[Dm] you know, getting
into [E]
[C] [G] the
You get that nice pickup [E] sound that this
[C]
[Gm] [E]
[B] [D]
[Db] [D]
[Dm]
[G] [E] You know, [C] so
[Gm]
[E] [D]
[G] [Em]
[A]
[D] [F]
[G] It's a nice switch
up.
Of course, then we go back to our fast thing, and then, you know, it starts going,
picking up, and then in the [E] meantime, while somebody's soloing, I go back and grab that,
and I'm doing back to the country thing, so it's
I don't know if you guys saw, did
you see that?
Yeah, so that's kind of what that is.
Key:
E
G
A
Em
C
E
G
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[G] But this guitar, _ this is not a very pretty guitar, but I bought this, when I first came
in Nashville in [Em]
1982, _ _ _ I was playing in a group, [A] _ _ _ _ Don Kelly was in the band, _ _ and Don was always
known to hire hot [G] guitar players, new guys in town, you know, it was like _ the place to
[A] be in town, where all the musicians, it was kind of like the musician's musician [Em] type
gig, you know.
So we would [Ab] _
play on the show, and I was playing, _ it was this little club,
it was on Murfreesboro [Abm] Road in town, kind of a honky [Gm] tonk dive, I was about 22 years
old or something like that.
_ [Em] And one day he goes, you need to go get yourself a guitar
that's good for country, you know, because I was kind of playing jazzy stuff, [G] and I think
it was a Hagstrom Swede I was playing.
He said, that's not quite the Nashville guitar,
it's a good guitar, but not what you need here, you need to get a, [A] you know, like a
Telecaster, but he was doing a lot of stuff like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and all
the west coast kind of country stuff, and I said, oh yeah, I love those.
So we all went
out to [Ab] the music store one day, and these were hanging up in the music store, Hughley's
Music Store outside of Nashville, and he bought one, and I [Gm] bought one like for $300, it was
$300.
It _ _ wasn't paint, this is how it looked, it was like somebody had stripped the paint
off of [Ab] it and the lacquer and was going to repaint it, they primed it, and was going
to repaint it, you know, and before they did, they went, ah, they traded it on on something,
they took it in and traded it in, so it came like this, it's like a car primer. _ _
And Don
had a cream colored one, and actually he picked this one, I picked the other one, and I go,
you know, we played them [G] out live, and I said, yeah, I kind of like that gray one better,
he goes, well, just take that one, I'll take the other one, it doesn't [E] matter to me.
This
is how I got this thing, and I never had it, but I did experiment with it, so it's [B] a little
bit of a hybrid, you know, I had a middle pickup put into it, and it sort of caught
on and a lot of people were putting middle, you know, like pickups in the middle with
a volume knob here.
Joe Glazer put that in, a guitar builder in town, _ so it has this Seymour
Duncan pickup in the middle, but he put an extra volume [A] knob for it, so when you _ _ _ _ _ turn,
it's in the back, _ _ [E] you bleed in the volume of that, so you get an [A] out of phase. _
_ _ _ _ I [Gb] found
that I use it more [G] of an EQ _ [F] type move, you know, rather than try to duplicate a [A] Stratocaster
sound. _ _ _
It takes a little [C] bit of the annoying high end out of it if you just bleed [Bb] a little
of the volume in on it.
[A] _ _ Other than these, the middle pickup and [Em] this volume, it's the
same as [A] any, you know, _ Telecaster, _ so if you put it in the neck position and turn it on,
you get these two.
_ _ _ Or in the middle, _ this is the main volume, this is just the volume
for that, you just get the middle.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Bm] Just the middle. _ _
So, anyway, I played this, you can
see all the smoke that's inlaid in there from all the years of playing in honky _ -tonk,
_ you know, _ _ cigarette smoke, all that lovely toxic stuff, you know, _ kind of made its way
into the wood there.
But it sounds so good, I never, you know, of course I didn't, it
wasn't for the [N] superficiality of it, I kept it the same because I thought it sounded good
because the less, I found the less lacquer on a guitar, you know, like on this, on the
guitar here, your guitar, just an oil finish on it, it's the best way to do a neck. _ _
Also,
you know, you're playing on a hot day and you get sort of sweaty, you get hung up on
it instead of using a bunch of lubricant, you know, which can make the strings go bad
fast, you know.
_ This is all wore off, it originally wasn't like that, of course.
_ So, I find it
better to make guitars with oil finishes and stuff, and actually the sound of the body
of the guitar sounds better when the lacquer starts to rub off, you get [Gb] the wood sound
into it, it breathes, you know.
_ _ Surprisingly enough, even [B] solid body guitar, the wood plays
a big part in the sound of a guitar.
_ _ _ _ Oh, right, because, well, yeah, good question.
You know,
when we were doing the, there's a song we had on the [E] Players album called Don't Try
This at Home, which starts out real kind of a hot country picking kind of thing, because,
you know, it's like, _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ there's a part in it where we go, _ [E] _
_ _ [Dm] it goes, I [Bb] _ _
_ mean, _ [Em] _ _ [G] we're in G at
that point, it goes from E to [C] G, then it goes into a slow shuffle. _
_ [G] _ _ [Bb] Slow blues, so when
I'm doing all that, then I'll switch back, and I picked up, you know, [G] _
_ [Dm] _ you know, getting
into _ [E] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ the_
You get that nice pickup [E] sound that _ this_
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Db] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ You know, [C] so_
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ It's a nice switch
up.
Of course, then we go back to our fast thing, and then, you know, it starts going,
picking up, and then in the [E] meantime, while somebody's soloing, I go back and grab that,
and I'm doing back to the country thing, so it's_
I don't know if you guys saw, did
you see that?
Yeah, so that's kind of what that is. _ _ _
[G] But this guitar, _ this is not a very pretty guitar, but I bought this, when I first came
in Nashville in [Em]
1982, _ _ _ I was playing in a group, [A] _ _ _ _ Don Kelly was in the band, _ _ and Don was always
known to hire hot [G] guitar players, new guys in town, you know, it was like _ the place to
[A] be in town, where all the musicians, it was kind of like the musician's musician [Em] type
gig, you know.
So we would [Ab] _
play on the show, and I was playing, _ it was this little club,
it was on Murfreesboro [Abm] Road in town, kind of a honky [Gm] tonk dive, I was about 22 years
old or something like that.
_ [Em] And one day he goes, you need to go get yourself a guitar
that's good for country, you know, because I was kind of playing jazzy stuff, [G] and I think
it was a Hagstrom Swede I was playing.
He said, that's not quite the Nashville guitar,
it's a good guitar, but not what you need here, you need to get a, [A] you know, like a
Telecaster, but he was doing a lot of stuff like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and all
the west coast kind of country stuff, and I said, oh yeah, I love those.
So we all went
out to [Ab] the music store one day, and these were hanging up in the music store, Hughley's
Music Store outside of Nashville, and he bought one, and I [Gm] bought one like for $300, it was
$300.
It _ _ wasn't paint, this is how it looked, it was like somebody had stripped the paint
off of [Ab] it and the lacquer and was going to repaint it, they primed it, and was going
to repaint it, you know, and before they did, they went, ah, they traded it on on something,
they took it in and traded it in, so it came like this, it's like a car primer. _ _
And Don
had a cream colored one, and actually he picked this one, I picked the other one, and I go,
you know, we played them [G] out live, and I said, yeah, I kind of like that gray one better,
he goes, well, just take that one, I'll take the other one, it doesn't [E] matter to me.
This
is how I got this thing, and I never had it, but I did experiment with it, so it's [B] a little
bit of a hybrid, you know, I had a middle pickup put into it, and it sort of caught
on and a lot of people were putting middle, you know, like pickups in the middle with
a volume knob here.
Joe Glazer put that in, a guitar builder in town, _ so it has this Seymour
Duncan pickup in the middle, but he put an extra volume [A] knob for it, so when you _ _ _ _ _ turn,
it's in the back, _ _ [E] you bleed in the volume of that, so you get an [A] out of phase. _
_ _ _ _ I [Gb] found
that I use it more [G] of an EQ _ [F] type move, you know, rather than try to duplicate a [A] Stratocaster
sound. _ _ _
It takes a little [C] bit of the annoying high end out of it if you just bleed [Bb] a little
of the volume in on it.
[A] _ _ Other than these, the middle pickup and [Em] this volume, it's the
same as [A] any, you know, _ Telecaster, _ so if you put it in the neck position and turn it on,
you get these two.
_ _ _ Or in the middle, _ this is the main volume, this is just the volume
for that, you just get the middle.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Bm] Just the middle. _ _
So, anyway, I played this, you can
see all the smoke that's inlaid in there from all the years of playing in honky _ -tonk,
_ you know, _ _ cigarette smoke, all that lovely toxic stuff, you know, _ kind of made its way
into the wood there.
But it sounds so good, I never, you know, of course I didn't, it
wasn't for the [N] superficiality of it, I kept it the same because I thought it sounded good
because the less, I found the less lacquer on a guitar, you know, like on this, on the
guitar here, your guitar, just an oil finish on it, it's the best way to do a neck. _ _
Also,
you know, you're playing on a hot day and you get sort of sweaty, you get hung up on
it instead of using a bunch of lubricant, you know, which can make the strings go bad
fast, you know.
_ This is all wore off, it originally wasn't like that, of course.
_ So, I find it
better to make guitars with oil finishes and stuff, and actually the sound of the body
of the guitar sounds better when the lacquer starts to rub off, you get [Gb] the wood sound
into it, it breathes, you know.
_ _ Surprisingly enough, even [B] solid body guitar, the wood plays
a big part in the sound of a guitar.
_ _ _ _ Oh, right, because, well, yeah, good question.
You know,
when we were doing the, there's a song we had on the [E] Players album called Don't Try
This at Home, which starts out real kind of a hot country picking kind of thing, because,
you know, it's like, _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ there's a part in it where we go, _ [E] _
_ _ [Dm] it goes, I [Bb] _ _
_ mean, _ [Em] _ _ [G] we're in G at
that point, it goes from E to [C] G, then it goes into a slow shuffle. _
_ [G] _ _ [Bb] Slow blues, so when
I'm doing all that, then I'll switch back, and I picked up, you know, [G] _
_ [Dm] _ you know, getting
into _ [E] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ the_
You get that nice pickup [E] sound that _ this_
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Db] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ You know, [C] so_
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ It's a nice switch
up.
Of course, then we go back to our fast thing, and then, you know, it starts going,
picking up, and then in the [E] meantime, while somebody's soloing, I go back and grab that,
and I'm doing back to the country thing, so it's_
I don't know if you guys saw, did
you see that?
Yeah, so that's kind of what that is. _ _ _