Chords for Guitars, Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial

_ _ _ _ Guitars Cadillacs is a big hit for Dwight Yoakam, who also wrote the song, and it's
a great song for country picking guitarists.
It's really just a 1-5-1 8-bar blues progression that repeats itself over and over through
the whole song through verses and choruses, so we're going to learn a really fun rhythm
blues pattern that you can play on either the acoustic or the electric guitar, and then
we'll learn all the lead guitar work, including two authentically country guitar solos.
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_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
[G#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [B] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
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[A] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _
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_ [E] _ [G#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ [G#] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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Alright, _ _ the rhythm guitar part for this song can be played on either an acoustic or
an electric guitar, _ and it just alternates between two different chords.
You've got an A [F#] chord and an E chord, and so we're going to do a blues pattern on each
of those chords, depending on where we are in the progression.
So when we're on an A chord, it looks like [Am] this.
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_ _ _ _ [E] Then we're going to move to an E.
It's the same progression, we're just moving everything
down, shifting it down to the low E string. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And it just goes back and forth between those progressions, but we will learn a walk up
for the chorus _ _ [A] _ _
_ and a walk down for the outro. _
_ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ Alright, so let's jump right in to learning this basic blues progression.
It's a 1-5-1, so we're starting on the A, [A] that's the I chord _ in this song.
We're going to be going between [E] that.
The E progression, which is the [Bm] V chord, with fret of [Am] D.
_ _ [C#m] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] _
But that doesn't feel right, right?
Because that's straight, and we need to play this song swung.
The whole song is swung. _
_ So it's going to be more like this when we start swinging [Am] it.
_ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ [F#] _ Hear that difference?
So [Am] instead _ [C#m] of_
_ [F#m] _ _ [Am] _
_ [C#m] _ [F#] _ _ We're going to [Am] play it_
_ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ [E] _ _ [A] Intro. _ _
1, 2, 3, go. _ _ _
_ _ _ Verse. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ 4 beat. _
_ _ _ [Em] Alright, in this tutorial, we're going to go over all the lead work, except for the
two guitar solos, which we'll do in separate tutorials.
So dial up a nice rockabilly tone, get it nice and trebly.
We're going to have just a little bit of gain, not very much at all.
Some good reverb, and then some slapback delay. _
And we'll learn all these parts.
We're going to start with the intro, which looks like this.
These are all tabbed out beneath the video player at 6stringcountry.com, and those will
be very helpful.
So here we go with the intro. _
Comes in on the second beat.
1, 2, 3, 4, 1.
_ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Alright this tutorial is going to teach the first solo in Guitarist Cadillacs by Dwight
Yoakam, so get a good rockabilly tone, very trebly, just a little bit of gain, some reverb,
a little bit of slapback delay, and some compression will get you real close.
[C] I'm going to play through it once nice and slow, then we'll go through it note by note,
and then we'll play through it at full tempo along with the metronome.
As always, this is tabbed out beneath the video player at _ 6stringcountry.com.
Here's how it looks. _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
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_ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ 1, 2, 3, 4, 1.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ Just a little _ music, _ don't say it keeps [A] me hanging [C] on.
[A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _