Chords for Red Haired Boy - Guitar Lesson

_ _ Hey everyone out there, my [E] name is Ryan, you are at musicwithryan.com.
Today I'm going to show you the lesson and the song, Red Haired Boy.
Great tune to kind of get into the Tony Rice style of playing.
Got just a couple of very obtainable Tony Rice licks, or Tony Rice-isms if you will.
So again, very straight ahead on the melody here, beginning intermediate arrangement.
So let's go ahead and give the arrangement a listen to.
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_ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ _ Great so as you've seen, yeah, straight ahead arrangement for Red Haired Boy.
Some people [B] like to call it kind of like a modal tune, because I'm using the flatted
F [G] shape here, in this case a G. _
[B] So this is a good tune to kind of know what that sounds
like and get used to that _ tonality if you will. _
I'm going to break it down measure by measure so you can see exactly what I'm doing, because
I think I've got a great arrangement for someone looking to take this song to the jam and kind
of work from this to get more advanced.
So I'm going to close up to left and right hand again and walk through it measure by measure.
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So let's go ahead and start working on this tune measure by measure.
Alright, so let's go ahead and break that song down a couple measures at a time.
_ Alright, [A] key of A, capo on the second fret of course, playing out of G position. _
Again, _ some of these licks kind of Tony Rice inspired.
The [D#] melody is pretty straight forward.
I just like to add a couple of those, you know, Tony Rice licks.
Keep it fun.
_ _ [E] _ So the first two measures, I've got a couple of hammer-ons right there.
Starting on the D string and on the G string.
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Okay, [C] I'll do that [E] again.
And then, _ _ _ [A] _
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those hammer-ons, I want to make sure that they are equal [B] in duration.
Meaning, I don't want them to be, _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ they're eighth notes, both of them.
So they're _ [A] one and two [E] and one and [Am] two [A] and. _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [D] _
Those are the first two measures.
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Third finger [F#] up here, high E, [E] _ [C#m] open B.
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_ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Next two measures, _
[E] _ quarter note started.
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_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _
_ _ So that's kind of over the F chord there.
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Again.
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[G] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
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_ [E] Pretty subtle.
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_ [G] _ _ And then it just kind of repeats itself. _