Chords for I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Merle Haggard

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_ _ _ [G#] Alright, I think I'll just stay here and drink by Merle Haggard, who also wrote the song. _
The rhythm parts for the acoustic and the electric are pretty straightforward.
We won't spend a ton of time on that, but we're going to do five solos over this progression _
_ _ _ on the electric guitar, and then we're going to add in an acoustic guitar solo as well.
So we're going to have a lot of fun with country picking in this song.
It'll be a great study if you're into that style or you want to learn more about that style.
_ We'll have a lot of opportunities to get our fingers on some really cool riffs.
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ In this lesson, we'll be talking about how to play the rhythm on the acoustic [G]
guitar
to get through this whole song.
And it's the same progression over and over.
It's in the key of A, _ and we just need three chords, and then it's this eight bar, eight
measure progression that repeats over and over [A] throughout the song. _ _
So we're going to start with this A chord, open A string, second fret, second fret, second fret. _ _
You can really play this A however you want, though.
If you want to play it like that, you can.
Some people play it like that.
_ I'm going to play just this bar chord version.
Mute the low E string, mute the high E string.
[D] And we need a standard D chord, open D, second fret, third fret, second fret.
_ _ [E] And a standard E chord, _ _ _ open low E string, second fret, second fret, first fret, open,
open.
_ _ _ _ _ All right, so _ _ _ when we start the song, [A] you'll hear the whole band just playing A chord.
_ _ _ And then the progression starts on the D.
And we'll be using this strum pattern really
for the whole song.
[D] Down, down. _
In this tutorial, we'll be learning the acoustic guitar solo.
_ We kind of stole this section in the recording from the saxophone player, because, you know,
guitar website, why [E] not?
And it's kind of just a fun progression to jam on, and so I know some of us like playing
some lead on the acoustics, so it's just a good chance to kind of switch it up a little bit.
So I'll play the solo on the acoustic one time all the way through.
We'll go over it note by note, and then I'll turn on the metronome and we'll play through
it at full tempo.
All right, [C] here's how it looks.
_ One, two, three, _ _ four.
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[A] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [B] _ _ Two, three, four.
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_ _ In this tutorial, we're going to be reading down the tabs beneath the sheet music at _ sixstringcountry.com.
This will be electric solo one and two.
This is the first instrumental break in that original recording.
_ The first time through, the progression is exactly what they play on the record.
_ And the second time through _ is going to be kind of my own solo that I created, which
was, I believe, _ the piano part on the record.
Yeah, and the sax we're going to cover with the acoustic later on in a different tutorial.
So this is solo one and two.
I've just got kind of a nice treble-y country [D] pick and tone. _
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_ Just a bridge pickup, _ _ tone knob cranked all the way open. _ _
Got a little tube overdrive.
Not a ton of distortion or anything too heavy, just a little tube overdrive.
Maybe a tiny bit of reverb.
You can kind of season it [D#] to taste if you like some _ slapback delay or something on there.
You can feel free to just get a good country solo tone going.
_ And let's read these down, okay?
And we're going to go nice and slow.
I'm going to play through everything.
We'll talk about it note by note.
Then at the end, I'll turn on the metronome and we'll play through it at full speed.
_ _ _ All right, so the first riff comes in like this.
It comes in on the second beat of the measure.
_ _ So one, _ _
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Some of these are kind of hard to do in slow motion.
These _ are pretty advanced riffs once we get them up to full speed.
So if you're an advanced player, this will be some nice stuff to throw into the toolbox.
And if you're just starting with this style, take it nice and slow and work these up with a metronome.
_ That's really a great way to get to know the style and get some of these riffs under your fingers.
So we're starting here.
We're kind of, you can [E] think A [Am] blues, right? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ We're starting in this box shape.
_ So we're sliding in [D#] six to seven.
_ [E] _ Then [G] five, [G#] six, [A] seven, _ [C] five.
[N] _ All right, so now we're on solo three and four in the tabs on the electric guitar here.
_ So this happens after the last verse of singing.
After the fourth verse, this comes in.
_ And these two passes through are _ _ _ transcriptions of that original recording from Merle Haggard.
And we're just going to go through them line by line.
I'm going to play them, demonstrate the line.
Then we're going to go through it note by note.
At the end, we'll turn on the metronome and we will play through it at full speed.
All right, so here's the first one.
It comes in on _ _ the one E.
So right after the downbeat of the measure.
One E, and a two E, and a three E, and a four E, and a one.
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[B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ All right, that gets us through _ really three measures.
So let's get just that much.
One, two, three, four.
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