Chords for Snake Farm Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - Ray Wylie Hubbard

[E] Hey, this is John six string country and we're gonna learn a song snake farm written and performed by Ray Wiley Hubbard
The song is any and features a heavy blues backing track for the rhythm lesson
I'm gonna teach you parts what Ray does live when he's playing by himself as well as what's in the recording
There's no strum pattern, but I will teach you guys an easy strum at the end of the rhythm lesson for the lead guitar
There's gonna be four guitar solos
I'm gonna teach you all four of those in separate videos as well as teach you a lead lesson with the intro verses and choruses
Let's get started.
She can dance like a little lead him.
She works down at the snake farm
It [G] just sounds nasty [E] snake [G] farm
Pretty [E] much is snake farm.
It's [G] a [E] reptile snake farm
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _
[Em] _ _ _ [D] [E] Well Ramona's got a key
Sense of humor.
She's got a tattoo down her arm is a python
Eating a little mouse wearing a sailor hat that says snake farm snake farm.
It [G] just sounds [E] nasty snake farm
[D] [A] Pretty much [E] is snake farm.
It's a [G] reptile [E] snake farm. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I
Asked Ramona how come she works there?
She said well, hey, it's got [D] its [E] charm
Nothing to do in the weather now and then some kid gets bit at the snake farm
So the rhythm part of this song I'm gonna be playing on my acoustic here.
The song's in E
Very much a blues scale
That we're using here [Ab] and it's a heavy blues background and you're gonna be riffing most of it
So there's not actually a strum pattern
That is in the recording, but I will teach an easy strum pattern for you at the end of this lesson
That can kind of help you if you don't feel [E] comfortable playing the parts
So all this will be in the tablet your rhythm parts will be in the tablature
the song starts off here and
Kind of the E almost that open E bar chord is gonna be your bass for a large portion of your rhythm _
Just [B] open E second fret I'm [E] using my pointer finger and I'm just gonna bar it and that opening riff you start the song off
So you hear the drum count you in?
_ _ [Em] _
So moving on to the chorus all the courses are going to be the same _
The chorus part for you is the rhythm player is the exact same as all the leads
So once there's four different [E] lead sections, you're playing the same thing.
It's the same thing as the courses
pretty much the same as a riff almost as well, but it's a
_ [A] _ [G] _ _ [E] _
[B] _ [G] _ [A] _ [G] Some hitting the G on the third fret E [D] string the open [G] D
[A] _ [E] Open a and second fret E [D] string
[A] So [E] _ [Bm] _ [G] _ _ [E] _ [G] _ _
[A] _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ [Em] _ [E] _
that's gonna be your chorus part.
You should repeat that twice this.
Alright, so let's put this all to a click
_ _ Here's the intro
_ one two three four
_ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ [Bm] _ [G] _ _ [E] _ [Em] _
[E] _ _ _ Here's all the verses _
one [Gbm] two three [E] four _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Here are all the courses
one two three four
[B] So [G] _ _ [E] for the lead [A] lesson, I'm playing my 335 here.
I'm using a bridge pickup [E] and I just kind of have a medium gain
_ _ _ [Bm] _
[G] _ You don't want it too gritty, but you definitely need some
some overdrive in there and
I'm going to teach you the intro
The verses and the choruses and the leads will be in their own separate lesson
That way if you don't if you don't want to mess with them, you won't have that in this lesson
But if you want them individually, you'll have them as well
So let's just move on
so you're sitting out the first half of the intro the acoustic takes on the riff and
you're coming in the second half of the intro [Bm] and
_ _ [Bb] _ It's a pretty simple riff and what's going on there is
Sliding up from the fourth fret G [Bm] string.
I'm gonna use my pointing finger there.
You can use
Any finger this is just simply sliding
So fourth fret G string.
I'm using the open B
Sliding up the seventh fret [E] and the riff starts off here
This will be your tablature, but I'm gonna clear it up.
It starts all in the E open E bar chord and you're gonna
[D] _ [A] _ [G] _ [E] _ _ [G] _ [A] _
[E] _ [Bm] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _
That's the riff so just that open E bar [B] chord open E
[E] Second fret a string.
I'm gonna bar it.
So I'm gonna use my pointer finger second fret D string
So _ you're just gonna simply play that open E.
Okay, so for the third guitar solo, it's a little bit longer
It's gonna be twice as long as the first two
But we've got some cool stuff in there
We're coming right out of the third chorus and you're gonna start right on the dot right on the one
[G] So what's going on there is I'm gonna do a bend on the 12th fret that's the G and B strings
I'm using my ring finger and pinkie finger and we get some help there with my middle finger and pointer finger
[B] So really just a whole bend
[G] You're _ doing two of them
_ Let it breathe and I'm gonna slide from the seventh fret to the ninth fret G string with using the open B and open E
[Em] strings and then sliding up to the 12th fret _ _
That's going for the ninth fret to the 12th fret so [Bm] starting on the 7 [E] and [G] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ then okay, let's put that to tempo
Here's solo 3
_ 1 2 3 4
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
_ [G] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
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