Chords for Lonesome, On'ry and Mean Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Waylon Jennings

_ Lonesome, Honoree and Mean is a classic from Waylon Jennings.
It was written by Steve Young.
And we're going to be doing it like the album version.
On the acoustic guitar it's very
straightforward.
We've just got one progression using D, C and G chords that's going to get
us through the whole song.
Really one strum pattern too.
On the electric guitar we've
got just a ton to work through and it's all really cool country picking kind of stuff.
On that original recording there's a back and forth going on.
They're kind of alternating
verses between the pedal steel and the electric guitar.
And as we often will do we're going
to try and mimic those pedal steel parts as close as we can on the electric guitar.
And
the electric guitar parts will be very close to exact transcriptions from that recording.
And then at the end of the jam along you'll see I'm going to just teach _ improvisation
over the outro.
Something like I would play live.
So we've got a lot to work on.
Let's _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] get started.
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_ In this tutorial we're going to go over the acoustic guitar part for Lonesome, Ornery
and Mean.
_ Just got three chords here folks.
And then one chord progression and one strum
pattern that's really going to get us through the entire song except for just the intro
which is just a very slight variation.
Let's go over the chords.
We've got a D chord which
is open D. _
We've got second fret of G, third fret of B, second fret of high E.
[C] Then I'm
going to play a standard C chord, mute that low E string, third fret of A, second fret
open, first fret open.
[G] I'm going to play this version of a G chord _ which is third fret of
low E, [D] mute the A string, [G] open, open, open, third fret of high E.
_ [C] _ [G] That's a nice transition
when we're going from C to G and then we're going to get back to a D chord here.
[C] So we're
going down, down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, down, up, [G] down, down, down, down,
up, down, down, down, down, up, [D] down, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down,
up.
Alright, _ and it's not, _ _ _ _ _ _ no let's just get on a D chord here and let's just talk about
the subtleties of the strum pattern. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ That's going to get us what we want there.
So the
first down stroke we're kind of aiming low, at the low notes of the chord.
Then the second
down stroke we're aiming higher.
Down, [C] up, down.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Let's do a verse progression.
One, two,
three, four.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] In this tutorial we're going to be going into the intro, verse one and
verse two for these electric guitar and pedal steel parts, which we're going to play on
the electric guitar here.
So let's start right with this introduction, which looks like this.
This is all tabbed out beneath the video player [D] at sixstringcountry.com. If at all possible
you'll really want to pull those up, because we're just going to be reading down the tabs
here and I'm going to be talking through the different subtleties behind what we're playing
as we do it.
So here's this first riff.
_ _ [C] _ _ [A] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
Tone wise on the recording it's really pretty dry.
It sounds like just kind of a real trebly bridge pickup.
_ _ _ _ Not a whole lot on it, maybe
a little bit of compression or something.
But if I'm doing this live I'm going to put
a little slap back delay on it, just a little bit of reverb, bridge pickup and some compression.
Okay, and then let's just dive right in.
First one.
_ [C] _ _ [D] Alright we've got five, seven to nine
on the A string, [F#] two picks on the seventh fret [A] of D, _ [C] then the tenth fret of D, then
we have [Am] this.
_ [Bm] _ _
[B] In this tutorial we're going to go line by line through the solo over the
middle of the song, and then we'll play it with the metronome.
So let's do this first
line.
This is the first half is pedal steel riffs, and then the second half is electric
guitar riffs.
It goes like this.
One, two, _ _ [C] _
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[E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F#] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] and the outro solo.
Two, three, four.
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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