Chords for Country Boy by Albert Lee | Totally Electric Guitars Lesson Preview
Tempo:
130.8 bpm
Chords used:
G
F#
E
A
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[F#] [G]
[A] [G]
[D] [G] [E]
[G]
[A] [G] [N]
Hey there, Max Rich with Totally Electric Guitars.
Today we're talking about Country Boy by Albert Lee.
Albert Lee was pretty much anything but a country boy, at least a southern country boy.
He was from England, but you would never know that by listening to him play.
He sounds like the real, you know, home on the range sort of player.
And it comes from his ability to use hybrid picking in his right hand.
And he was one of the real first pioneers on electric guitar to kind of employ this
sort of country picking style, you know, this kind of like Chet Atkins, Jerry Reid sort
of a style.
Apply it to electric guitar and make it sort of, I don't want to say a pop type of genre,
but a much more popular genre spread out among the world.
Back in the 60s and 70s, country music was really confined to like the southern part
of America basically.
But as kind of Albert Lee came up through the ranks of guitar players, he became really,
really popular in England and Europe and kind of brought this or helped bring this kind
of chicken picking kind of like country style of playing over to Europe where now it's like
really, really popular.
And people, you hear really great players that can play country like they grew up playing
it on the farm or something, but they're from England or from France or somewhere like this,
you know.
And like I was saying, it really goes back to his ability to do chicken picking.
And [C#] chicken picking is really [Am] a simplistic way of picking multiple strings using your
fingers and a pick at the same time.
A lot of players I know struggle learning how to use their fingers, you know, stairway
to heaven is like a really common way for guitar players to get used to [N] playing with
their fingers because most of us learn how to play with a pick, especially if we're like
rock based or something.
But once you start getting to the point where a pick isn't enough, you have strings that
separate or strings that are far apart that you want to get at the [E] same time, you know,
if you're going to play the open E and both open Es, [G#] [A] [Em]
right, kind of like Lemon Song, right,
that kind of idea, that's chicken picking, that's hybrid picking just in its [A#] most simplistic form.
You take that then, you follow that a few steps down the line and you end up with Albert
Lee and that's kind of like a really fast souped up version of that, you know.
The only [G] difference is instead of playing strings at the same time, most of the time
hybrid pickers play strings that are adjacent to each other.
So for example, [D#] that kind of an [N] idea.
And another thing that really helps when you're first learning how to do that is to take just
like three strings like I just did, like let's take the D string, the [G] G string and
the B string.
[E] And the best way to go about it is learning how to pick the lowest of [D] those strings with
your pick [G] and the other ones with your finger, two fingers.
I use my middle finger and my ring finger on my right hand and I pluck those together.
And then you learn to separate them, that sort of thing, right, and then you reverse
that.
[N] And you have to kind of like work with all different patterns in your right hand to combine
your fingers and your pick so that you can get the dexterity that you probably already
have with a pick but don't with your hybrid picking.
If all of this sounds like completely difficult and foreign, check out my lesson on hybrid
picking, it'll dive into it much further.
But this lesson is really geared to people who already have some sort of introduction
to hybrid picking because the whole thing is like really fast hybrid picking.
So if you can't chicken pick, check out the other lesson and at the end of that one you'll
be able to handle this one no problem.
Before I dive into the meat of the lesson, what I want [F#] to do is address the issue of
unison notes, [G]
[G#m] really, really common in hybrid chicken picking, especially country guitar.
You know, you have this [Gm] idea where you're [G] plucking the lower note and then finger picking
the higher note at the same [Gm] note.
And the cool thing that or the thing that helps with that or accomplishing that country
sound is sliding or hammering into the [G] lower note.
That [C#] sort of a
[D] [E]
[F#m] That kind of a thing, right?
And what I'm [G] doing is just like [F] sliding or hammering on to the [F#] fifth [G] fret, fourth string,
and then finger picking with my middle finger, the open [F#] third [G] string, and then just going
[F#] back and forth.
[G]
[N] And if you can do that, then you're pretty much almost home with the introduction of country boy.
And right now we're about to dive into it, but I want to just say that we're covering
basically just the introduction of it because the verses and everything are really pretty
Once you can get the introduction, the rest is much, much easier.
And the introduction is kind of like the theme that defines country boy.
So if you can rip that theme, then everyone's going to know that you're an Albert Lee fan
that you can play.
So without [Am] any further ado, here
[A] [G]
[D] [G] [E]
[G]
[A] [G] [N]
Hey there, Max Rich with Totally Electric Guitars.
Today we're talking about Country Boy by Albert Lee.
Albert Lee was pretty much anything but a country boy, at least a southern country boy.
He was from England, but you would never know that by listening to him play.
He sounds like the real, you know, home on the range sort of player.
And it comes from his ability to use hybrid picking in his right hand.
And he was one of the real first pioneers on electric guitar to kind of employ this
sort of country picking style, you know, this kind of like Chet Atkins, Jerry Reid sort
of a style.
Apply it to electric guitar and make it sort of, I don't want to say a pop type of genre,
but a much more popular genre spread out among the world.
Back in the 60s and 70s, country music was really confined to like the southern part
of America basically.
But as kind of Albert Lee came up through the ranks of guitar players, he became really,
really popular in England and Europe and kind of brought this or helped bring this kind
of chicken picking kind of like country style of playing over to Europe where now it's like
really, really popular.
And people, you hear really great players that can play country like they grew up playing
it on the farm or something, but they're from England or from France or somewhere like this,
you know.
And like I was saying, it really goes back to his ability to do chicken picking.
And [C#] chicken picking is really [Am] a simplistic way of picking multiple strings using your
fingers and a pick at the same time.
A lot of players I know struggle learning how to use their fingers, you know, stairway
to heaven is like a really common way for guitar players to get used to [N] playing with
their fingers because most of us learn how to play with a pick, especially if we're like
rock based or something.
But once you start getting to the point where a pick isn't enough, you have strings that
separate or strings that are far apart that you want to get at the [E] same time, you know,
if you're going to play the open E and both open Es, [G#] [A] [Em]
right, kind of like Lemon Song, right,
that kind of idea, that's chicken picking, that's hybrid picking just in its [A#] most simplistic form.
You take that then, you follow that a few steps down the line and you end up with Albert
Lee and that's kind of like a really fast souped up version of that, you know.
The only [G] difference is instead of playing strings at the same time, most of the time
hybrid pickers play strings that are adjacent to each other.
So for example, [D#] that kind of an [N] idea.
And another thing that really helps when you're first learning how to do that is to take just
like three strings like I just did, like let's take the D string, the [G] G string and
the B string.
[E] And the best way to go about it is learning how to pick the lowest of [D] those strings with
your pick [G] and the other ones with your finger, two fingers.
I use my middle finger and my ring finger on my right hand and I pluck those together.
And then you learn to separate them, that sort of thing, right, and then you reverse
that.
[N] And you have to kind of like work with all different patterns in your right hand to combine
your fingers and your pick so that you can get the dexterity that you probably already
have with a pick but don't with your hybrid picking.
If all of this sounds like completely difficult and foreign, check out my lesson on hybrid
picking, it'll dive into it much further.
But this lesson is really geared to people who already have some sort of introduction
to hybrid picking because the whole thing is like really fast hybrid picking.
So if you can't chicken pick, check out the other lesson and at the end of that one you'll
be able to handle this one no problem.
Before I dive into the meat of the lesson, what I want [F#] to do is address the issue of
unison notes, [G]
[G#m] really, really common in hybrid chicken picking, especially country guitar.
You know, you have this [Gm] idea where you're [G] plucking the lower note and then finger picking
the higher note at the same [Gm] note.
And the cool thing that or the thing that helps with that or accomplishing that country
sound is sliding or hammering into the [G] lower note.
That [C#] sort of a
[D] [E]
[F#m] That kind of a thing, right?
And what I'm [G] doing is just like [F] sliding or hammering on to the [F#] fifth [G] fret, fourth string,
and then finger picking with my middle finger, the open [F#] third [G] string, and then just going
[F#] back and forth.
[G]
[N] And if you can do that, then you're pretty much almost home with the introduction of country boy.
And right now we're about to dive into it, but I want to just say that we're covering
basically just the introduction of it because the verses and everything are really pretty
Once you can get the introduction, the rest is much, much easier.
And the introduction is kind of like the theme that defines country boy.
So if you can rip that theme, then everyone's going to know that you're an Albert Lee fan
that you can play.
So without [Am] any further ado, here
Key:
G
F#
E
A
D
G
F#
E
_ [F#] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ [N] _
Hey there, Max Rich with Totally Electric Guitars.
Today we're talking about Country Boy by Albert Lee.
_ Albert Lee was pretty much anything but a country boy, at least a southern country boy.
He was from England, but you would never know that by listening to him play.
He sounds like the real, you know, home on the range sort of player.
_ And it comes from his ability to use hybrid picking in his right hand. _ _
And he was one of the _ _ real first pioneers on electric guitar to kind of employ this
sort of _ country picking style, you know, this kind of like Chet Atkins, Jerry Reid sort
of a style.
Apply it to electric guitar and make it sort of, _ _ I don't want to say a pop type of genre,
but a much more popular genre _ spread out among the world.
_ _ _ Back in the 60s and 70s, country music was really confined to like the southern part
of America basically.
_ _ But as _ kind of Albert Lee came up through the ranks of guitar players, he became really,
really popular in England and Europe and kind of brought this or helped bring _ this kind
of chicken picking _ _ kind of like country style of playing over to Europe where now it's like
really, really popular.
And people, you hear really great players that can play country like they grew up playing
it on the farm or something, but they're from England or from France or somewhere like this,
you know.
_ _ And like I was saying, it really goes back to his ability to do chicken picking.
And [C#] chicken picking is really [Am] a simplistic way _ of picking multiple strings using your
fingers and a pick at the same time.
_ A lot of players I know struggle learning how to use their fingers, you know, stairway
to heaven _ _ is like a really common way for guitar players to get used to [N] playing with
their fingers because most of us learn how to play with a pick, especially if we're like
rock based or something. _ _ _
But once you start getting to the point where a pick isn't enough, you have strings that
separate or strings that are far apart that you want to get at the [E] same time, you know,
if you're going to play the open E and both open Es, _ _ [G#] _ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ right, kind of like Lemon Song, right,
that kind of idea, _ _ that's chicken picking, that's hybrid picking just in its [A#] most simplistic form.
_ You take that then, you follow that a few steps down the line and you end up with Albert
Lee and that's kind of like a really fast souped up version of that, you know.
The only [G] difference is instead of playing strings at the same time, most of the time
hybrid pickers play _ strings that are adjacent to each other.
So for example, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D#] that kind of an [N] idea.
And another thing that really helps when you're first learning how to do that _ _ is to take just
like three strings like I just did, like let's take the D string, the [G] G string and
the B string. _
_ _ [E] And the best way to go about it is learning how to pick the lowest of [D] those strings with
your pick _ [G] and the other ones with your finger, two fingers.
I use my middle finger and my ring finger on my right hand _ _ and I pluck those together.
And then you learn to separate them, _ _ _ that _ _ _ sort of thing, right, and then you reverse _ _ _
that.
[N] And you have to kind of like work with all different patterns in your right hand to combine
your fingers and your pick so that you can get the dexterity that you probably already
have with a pick but don't with your hybrid _ picking.
_ _ If all of this sounds like completely difficult and foreign, check out my lesson on hybrid
picking, it'll dive into it much further.
But this lesson is really geared to people who already have some sort of _ introduction
to hybrid picking because the whole thing is like really fast hybrid picking.
So if you can't chicken pick, check out the other lesson and at the end of that one you'll
be able to handle this one no problem.
_ _ _ Before I dive into the meat of the lesson, what I want [F#] to do is address the issue of
unison notes, [G] _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] really, really common in hybrid chicken picking, especially country guitar.
You know, you have this [Gm] idea where you're [G] plucking the lower note and then _ finger picking
the higher note at the same [Gm] note.
And the cool thing that or the thing that helps with that or accomplishing that country
sound is sliding or hammering into the [G] lower note. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ That [C#] sort of a_
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[F#m] That kind of a thing, right?
And what I'm [G] doing _ _ is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ just like [F] sliding or hammering on to the [F#] fifth [G] fret, _ fourth string,
_ and then finger picking with my middle finger, the open [F#] third [G] string, and then just going
[F#] back and forth.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] And if you can do that, then you're pretty much almost _ home with the introduction of country boy.
_ _ And right now we're about to dive into it, but I want to just say that we're covering
basically just the introduction of it because the verses and everything are really _ pretty_
Once you can get the introduction, the rest is much, much easier.
And the introduction is kind of like the theme that defines country boy.
So if you can rip that theme, then everyone's going to know that you're an Albert Lee fan
that you can play.
So without [Am] any further ado, here
_ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ [N] _
Hey there, Max Rich with Totally Electric Guitars.
Today we're talking about Country Boy by Albert Lee.
_ Albert Lee was pretty much anything but a country boy, at least a southern country boy.
He was from England, but you would never know that by listening to him play.
He sounds like the real, you know, home on the range sort of player.
_ And it comes from his ability to use hybrid picking in his right hand. _ _
And he was one of the _ _ real first pioneers on electric guitar to kind of employ this
sort of _ country picking style, you know, this kind of like Chet Atkins, Jerry Reid sort
of a style.
Apply it to electric guitar and make it sort of, _ _ I don't want to say a pop type of genre,
but a much more popular genre _ spread out among the world.
_ _ _ Back in the 60s and 70s, country music was really confined to like the southern part
of America basically.
_ _ But as _ kind of Albert Lee came up through the ranks of guitar players, he became really,
really popular in England and Europe and kind of brought this or helped bring _ this kind
of chicken picking _ _ kind of like country style of playing over to Europe where now it's like
really, really popular.
And people, you hear really great players that can play country like they grew up playing
it on the farm or something, but they're from England or from France or somewhere like this,
you know.
_ _ And like I was saying, it really goes back to his ability to do chicken picking.
And [C#] chicken picking is really [Am] a simplistic way _ of picking multiple strings using your
fingers and a pick at the same time.
_ A lot of players I know struggle learning how to use their fingers, you know, stairway
to heaven _ _ is like a really common way for guitar players to get used to [N] playing with
their fingers because most of us learn how to play with a pick, especially if we're like
rock based or something. _ _ _
But once you start getting to the point where a pick isn't enough, you have strings that
separate or strings that are far apart that you want to get at the [E] same time, you know,
if you're going to play the open E and both open Es, _ _ [G#] _ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ right, kind of like Lemon Song, right,
that kind of idea, _ _ that's chicken picking, that's hybrid picking just in its [A#] most simplistic form.
_ You take that then, you follow that a few steps down the line and you end up with Albert
Lee and that's kind of like a really fast souped up version of that, you know.
The only [G] difference is instead of playing strings at the same time, most of the time
hybrid pickers play _ strings that are adjacent to each other.
So for example, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D#] that kind of an [N] idea.
And another thing that really helps when you're first learning how to do that _ _ is to take just
like three strings like I just did, like let's take the D string, the [G] G string and
the B string. _
_ _ [E] And the best way to go about it is learning how to pick the lowest of [D] those strings with
your pick _ [G] and the other ones with your finger, two fingers.
I use my middle finger and my ring finger on my right hand _ _ and I pluck those together.
And then you learn to separate them, _ _ _ that _ _ _ sort of thing, right, and then you reverse _ _ _
that.
[N] And you have to kind of like work with all different patterns in your right hand to combine
your fingers and your pick so that you can get the dexterity that you probably already
have with a pick but don't with your hybrid _ picking.
_ _ If all of this sounds like completely difficult and foreign, check out my lesson on hybrid
picking, it'll dive into it much further.
But this lesson is really geared to people who already have some sort of _ introduction
to hybrid picking because the whole thing is like really fast hybrid picking.
So if you can't chicken pick, check out the other lesson and at the end of that one you'll
be able to handle this one no problem.
_ _ _ Before I dive into the meat of the lesson, what I want [F#] to do is address the issue of
unison notes, [G] _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] really, really common in hybrid chicken picking, especially country guitar.
You know, you have this [Gm] idea where you're [G] plucking the lower note and then _ finger picking
the higher note at the same [Gm] note.
And the cool thing that or the thing that helps with that or accomplishing that country
sound is sliding or hammering into the [G] lower note. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ That [C#] sort of a_
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[F#m] That kind of a thing, right?
And what I'm [G] doing _ _ is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ just like [F] sliding or hammering on to the [F#] fifth [G] fret, _ fourth string,
_ and then finger picking with my middle finger, the open [F#] third [G] string, and then just going
[F#] back and forth.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] And if you can do that, then you're pretty much almost _ home with the introduction of country boy.
_ _ And right now we're about to dive into it, but I want to just say that we're covering
basically just the introduction of it because the verses and everything are really _ pretty_
Once you can get the introduction, the rest is much, much easier.
And the introduction is kind of like the theme that defines country boy.
So if you can rip that theme, then everyone's going to know that you're an Albert Lee fan
that you can play.
So without [Am] any further ado, here