The Charlie Daniels Band Long Haired Country Boy Guitar Lesson, Chords, And Tutorial

You long haired country boy by Charlie Daniels will be played in drop D tuning. If you don't know how that means. It'S where we take our six string, which is usually at an E and we drop the tuning on it, so that it's at a Dean. So it should match your fourth string like in the same note, it would be an octave lower though, and in the intro. To this lesson I was playing two guitars. The guitar that was in the left channel was in drop D. The guitar on the right channel was in standard tuning, but to get the full effect of this walk down. You'Re gon na need to are you gon na want to have that low D on the end of it? So the opening lid, the opening lid just begins on strumming, a D chord you're gon na have your first finger on the 3 string. 2 fret ring finger on the 2 string 3 fret second finger on the 1 string, 2 fret and you will be plucking. The open 4th string pluck it and then hit down across the cord and then pluck the open, 4th string again and get down across the chord so that you got after that. You you have that little lick will begin by hitting or plucking. Rather the open five string and then hammering on with your first finger to the 5 string 2 fret. Then you hit the open 4th string so that we've got and then we'll come back and hit the 5 string 2 fret again where our first finger should still be roughly and then we'll finish this little part of the lick by taking our second finger, putting it On the fourth string 3 fret we plug that and we're going to bend that note after we pluck it so that we're kind of bending it up towards one fret higher, but instead of sliding up there were bending to it and then we're going to open the Fourth string and in opening it we're going back into our stomach pattern, but here, instead of just striking the open four string each time, which is what it does on the D in the intro here, we'll begin to alternate between open fourth string of the five string On the D for vibe, in the song, from here on out in the strumming pattern of the verses, it keeps that to beat bass rhythm, essentially where you're hitting the 1 and the 5 and the chord e for strength. Oh, they only say there's a second part of that link, but I've just about forgotten all about so so after you get that F note right. There pull it and get back into the open D chord. We then have whether you want to pull off that last bar you're gon na put your first finger on the 3 string, 5 fret and I kind of deaden all the other strings with my left-hand fingers, so that I can strum across muted strings. But I can get that 3 string 5 fret during out. So you won't move 3 string, 5 fret to read out to ring out and then you'll open up the the 3 string and then we're going to come with our ring finger or second finger. First finger. Whichever is most comfortable to you to the 4th string, 7th fret and from this point forward, we're going to fret and then open and fret and open fret and open our way down from thee, all in the 4th string from the 7th fret to the 5 fret To the 3 fret and then we're going to go, so let me replay this little lick running down it's the 3 string 5 fret 2 3 string open to the 4 string 7th fret fourth string: open 4th string 5 fret fourth string open 4th string 3 fret. Fourth string open and then we're going to hit the open five string again hammer on with our first finger to the 5 string 2 fret in the open for thrown behind it and then hammer on with our first finger to fire to the fourth string. 2 fret and then open up the 4th string and go back into our DC. Our D chord strumming here is where I was meaning to talk about the two beat and a strong of four five open for open five minute before before. I continue on these other chords, it's worth mentioning that in the intro, while the main guitar is hitting that little lick down of it sounds to me like a second guitar comes in on this chord, which is I've, got an open four string. I'Ve got my second finger on the three string: 2 fret I've got my first finger on the 2 string 1 fret and my pinky finger on the 1 string 3 fret strumming from the fourth string down later this, for this chord will just get repect or replaced By a CEO, but in the intro a thing to me, it sounds like it's this board, alright, so the chord progression once we get past, the intro will be a droning on the D and it holds that, for I don't know, like 10 measures, 8 measures, 12 Measures - I really didn't count it, but it just holds on that D for verse, lyrics for really long time before shifting to a G or the way that you'll play the G chord in drop D tuning is that, with your own finger, you'll put your ring finger On the 6th string 5 fret, your ring finger will be muting out the 5 string so 6 string, 5 fret muted 5. Both the fourth string, open 3 string and put your first finger down on the 2 string 3 fret. You got a G chord during this G chord. One of the two guitars is shifting between a G and a g7 which, if you're gon na play that and drop B, it's a little bit more difficult. You would need to have some Arrangements. Some arrangement of fingers fretting those two notes, but then you would look to contort your hands so that you could fret something I'm using my second finger to fret the 4th string 3 fret that gives you that setup field. It'S a lot easier in standard tuning to play that set of color. So, if we're in standard tuning, what we would do is out of a standard G shape. We would just fret the first string on the first fret, while leaving the rest of our chi-town and we're still in drop. So in that G chord, it's worth mentioning that it could be useful to walk up to this G chord out of the D. By going, that would be a six string and I'm really playing it with my phone. My second and ring fingers walking it up, but essentially what it is, is six string 2 fret, 2 6 string 3 fret 2 6 string 4 fret into the cheek I'm gon na give them that G chord, the 2 beat will be the 6 string, 5 fret And the fourth string open, get down hit down five down $ 4 or six down four down six pounds. Then it comes back up to the D and then it's going to go to a bank or just bar with your first finger across the second fret of strings four three and two now here in the a chord I tend to grab with my thumb, the six String 2 fret, which is an e so that I can go open five string and then the sixth string. For that a note, but if you're in standard tuning, of course, it would just be the open five string open six string up and fostering inside of this. A keyboard, and then we've got you got a walk down in the chorus. So after that, a crew, I pull up into a c-shape like a sea, add nine shape by putting my second and ring fingers down on the five and three string. Second, fret, and as I'm hitting that chord, I slide. My second ring fingers up one fret to the third fret of Springs, five and two and then go with your first finger and five string, two threats or work. Once more embassy were immediately walking down to basically an F chord. By going the C note to a B note: 5 string 2 fret to the open five string to the G cool down to the sixth string 3 fret, which will look and kind of pull. And then release into these that big low D chord with the low six string so slowly that is happening like and then it goes back into the lick um after the after that, will they lick the second time the second guitar plays? What to me sounds like a sea at nine, basically, second finger on the five string: 3 fret first finger on the E four string: 2 fret open three string ring finger on the two strung three fret pinky finger on the one string 3 fret, while the main Guitar again is repeating back so I think that's everything you need to know about this song. Those are the chords and the movements to long-haired country boy by Charlie Daniels. Hopefully this gives you an idea of how to approach the song