Chords for Look At Us, Johny Hughey, Intro

Hi everybody, this is Mickey Adams in Dallas, Texas.
Thanks for tuning in
everybody.
In this lesson what we're going to do is we're going to duplicate,
try to duplicate, the intro for Look at Us.
Those of you who aren't familiar [Eb] with
the pedal steel, this was recorded by the late great John Huey, who was playing
steel with Vince Gill at the time, and he basically came up with what is going to
go down in history, in [Bb] pedal steel history, as being the most duplicated,
most famous intro of our [Ab] lifetime.
So let's get straight into this one.
Bear in mind guys, it's
very difficult to duplicate the emotion and the technique, etc.,
of another player.
It's something that we strive to do and I think that that should be [N] considered
the most sincere form of flattery.
The song is in the key of E-flat and has an
extremely complicated [Eb] formula.
For E-flat it [Bb] goes five, that's five, one.
_ _ [C] Just a little
bit of humor.
I have to interject something.
Alright, let's place our left foot over the C pedal.
I'm not going to play it and then explain it.
I'm just going to explain it as we go.
One move at a time.
Let's go to [Ab] fret four and play strings three and four.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
Now, [G] with a
pedal depressed, these notes [Bb] are only a whole step apart.
We've seen this in
previous lessons.
[D] _ _ But played smoothly, they don't present a real dissonant
problem.
[Ebm] They actually present a very appealing [Ab] sound.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ Now, if you want to
strike three, four, [Gb] five on this one, you can.
[Ab] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ Now [F] let's move down to four.
Double
stops only, two strings at a time.
Three, four.
[Gm] One, two. _
Four, five with the [Db] A pedal.
_ _ _ Slide into the B pedal with the [Eb] A pedal.
_ _ [Bb] _ Five, six and eight with no pedals.
Now, this
move, we're going to slide from these ringing notes into _ a B-flat first
inversion.
So we have B-flat here with five, six and eight.
_ [C] Now what I'd like you to do is slide
from here and move the B pedal in root, but leave the A up.
And as we get [G] to fret
number one, _ [Bb] have the A pedal to come in as we [Ab] reach fret one.
It sounds like this.
[Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Again, fret four.
Strings three and four.
[Ab] _ One and two.
[Eb] _ [Fm] Four and five with the A pedal.
[Eb] Slide up and depress the B pedal.
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] A pedal coming down.
[Bb] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ Now from [Ab] here what we're going to do is we're going to dampen this B-flat.
We're going to [G] slide all the way to fret number eleven.
And we're going to strike strings three and five.
After striking three and five, we're going to slide down to fret number nine.
And then we're going to do the same thing we did on the previous move.
We're going to depress the B pedal as we go.
[Ab] And we're going to depress the A pedal as we reach six.
And it sounds like [F] this.
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ Now, _ [Eb] _ _ on the record, he actually doesn't strike this E-flat.
_ [F] _ _ He plays it without a strike [N] because he's got, he basically has his strings ringing, has enough gain on his preamp to where the strings are still ringing.
And this is where the emotion in the [Cm] pedal steel comes in.
In other words, this [F] has no emotion.
_ [Gm] But this [F] _ _
has tons of feel.
Big, big difference, [Bb] guys.
So let's start over from the very beginning.
Okay?
Strings three and four.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [D] Release C.
[Bb] _ _ Dampen.
[Ab] Three and four.
One [Eb] and two.
_ [Db] Four and five with the A pedal.
Slide into the B pedal.
[Eb] _ Five and six.
[Bb] Five, six, eight.
B coming down.
A coming down. _
Pedals up.
[Gm] _ Eleven.
_ [Db] _ B pedal [Eb] coming down.
A pedal coming down.
_ The _ _
[Eb] _ _ next phrase is rather simple.
We're going to leave the A and B pedals down.
We're going to strike four and five. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _
Most of [Ab] you will recognize this as four [Bb]-five.
_ _ [Gm] Now, [Gbm] for the emotion part of it, he's sliding.
[Eb] Now, _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gm] _ _
this same [Bb] phrase from the four to the five can also be played here.
We're in E-flat.
So we have A and B [F] pedals.
Open at four is the four chord.
Open at six is the [Bb] five chord.
So we could use the [Ab] B and C pedals and play. _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ But the higher register, I think, has more [Gb] feeling and more tone.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ That's it, guys.
Hey, I hope you have fun