Chords for Diamond Rings & Old Bar Stools - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Tim McGraw

_ _ Diamond Rings and Old Barstools is a big hit for country artist Tim McGraw, and it was written by Barry Dean, Luke Laird, and Jonathan Singleton.
It's a very cool song, it's in the key of F, so on the acoustic guitar, we're going to put a capo on the first fret so we can play a nice melodic part using open key of E chords.
On the lead guitar, I did my best to weave together all the different guitar tracks on that original recording, including the pedal steel, into one playable lead guitar part. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm _ [Dm] going to play a little bit of the lead guitar part, and then I'm going to _ [C] play the rest [Bb] of the lead guitar part.
It _ _ _ ain't [Dm] like watered [C] down whiskey, _ [F] bro.
_ [G] Alright, there's just three sections to get through this entire song on the acoustic guitar.
We're going to have a capo on the first fret, and we're going to start with the intro, solo, and outro section [F] that looks like this. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ One more time. _ _
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Alright.
_ And that's all there is to it, so it's really just one figure that repeats.
We're going to start on this E chord, standard E chord.
_ [C] Open low E string, [F] second fret of A, [A] second fret of D, [C] first fret of G, [F] open B, open high E.
We're going to do the first downstroke just on the low strings, the second one on all the strings. _
_ _ Then on the A string, we'll [C] slide up from two to four.
_ [D] _ Then we'll [F] bar our first finger like we're making an A bar chord on the second fret of [Bb] D, G, and B.
[Cm] So, [Bb] _ [F] we'll do that again.
[Dm] Notice that the first two downstrokes, I'm aiming just at the low ones.
Down, down, then at all the strings.
Down, _ [C] down, down, down, [F] _ _
down, down, down, down, up, up, down, down.
_ _ And then for the last half of the chorus, we're just going to alternate between an E and an A2.
_ _ The strumming pattern looks like this.
_ Down, down, up, up, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, up, down, down, up.
_ _ One, two, three, go. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ All right, this lead guitar part's a lot of fun.
There's a lot of really tasteful licks, kind of country, bluesy kind of licks that we're going to [D] learn.
We're just going to follow the tabs in order.
There's not a whole lot of repetition, so we've got quite a bit to learn.
We're going to skip over the solo and the chorus three, which we riff over, which we'll learn in the next tutorial.
So, like I said, we're just going to go in order of the tabs, starting with the intro riff, which looks like this. _ _
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_ All right, so we're kind of walking up position three pentatonic in the key of F, right?
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[F] _ [C] We're starting on this eighth fret of _ _ the low E string.
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Fifth fret of A.
_ [Fm] _ Eighth fret of A.
_ [Em] _ _ Fifth fret of G.
[Cm] And then we're going to get on.
All right, we've converted the pedal steel guitar solo into an electric guitar solo.
And then we're going to continue on and kind of play through that third chorus where we hear some guitar riffs and some pedal steel work happening.
So, all together, right from after the second chorus when the solo picks up, it's going to sound like this.
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_ _ _ _ [B] _ Then, [A] now the chorus is in, and we're going to do this riff.
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_ [D] [C] One, two, three.
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] Down in [C] _ Rainsville.
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ We [Dm] all like to ride [C] the cigarette _ [Bb] smoke.
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