How to Play We Rode in Trucks by Luke Bryan

All right, what’s up? It’s Aaron. This lesson I’m going to do right now is a song called We Rode In Trucks by Luke Bryan it is a good country song, so I want to do this song. There are two tabs for you okay, the first tab is the way I think it sounds better. I’m going to run through that real quick and the second tab is you are going to play with a capo. So I am at standard tuning right now. So the first video for the first version, it is going to be one I prefer. If you don’t have any problems with an E chord, an A chord, A B chord which is this bar chord here. [Demonstration] If that doesn’t bother you, you don’t like it. F sharp minor is an easy bar but don’t worry about that. You’ll learn that from the tab. [Demonstration] Okay the B chord is really the one that is going to be the problem for you if you don’t like bar chord. I still suggest you learn it because it sounds better this way. But all right at this way, before you’re going to start up the into is just an E to an A and E to an A. So that’s E. [Demonstration] All right so that is the kind of the strum patter I suggest you play if you got the whole song. The intro with the E, I just play— [Demonstration] And switch into the A, [Demonstration] So in the E chord. [Demonstration] And switch to the A. [Demonstration] Back to the E. [Demonstration] Now the little thing it gets on there if you want, when you’re playing this A chord, move one of your fingers up here to the 3rd fret on the B strings, so instead of open up into two, two it will be open in two, two, three okay. And that’s sounds something little like this, if you go throw that in, [Demonstration] You’re mixing it in there wherever you want. That intro you hear in the song is played on electric guitar. You can play it on electric or distortion if you want or you can play it on acoustic guitar. So that E chord is actually two measure for the verse so, [Demonstration] So the chord progression diverse is E to an A then E to the B. I’m not really familiar of this song because we have songs with you but I can get a nice try and give it a shot. What I will do is I’m not going to sing the very first part, I am going to sing the second verse because I want to show you at the end where it say’s Jesus always walked close by our side. Where I grow up, we rode on truck’s, he say’s where I grew up you’re going to play an F sharp minor. All that is, your bar across all six strings and put your ring and pinky here on the 4th frets and your A—an easy bar for you guys if you don’t get it. Remember to keep it close to your body so you have strength in the bar. So I’m just going to run through that real quick, at the end of verse one. [Demonstration] All right then there’s a whole a lot of life you can learn on a bus--okay those verses are all basically the same and that pre chorus where I grow up is the F sharp to the B to the E. The chorus is just a B starts out with B, that’s us. [Demonstration] All in hail is an A chord, [Demonstration] The second time through is a B chord, [Demonstration] That is us, [Demonstration] To A, make sure you are in the tone, to F sharp minor when the work is done, [Demonstration] And then in my mind B, [Demonstration] I can still A, [Demonstration] C is now, [Demonstration] Riding down is the E and then Buck Island on the road is E/G sharp, all I mean is, [Demonstration] Just don’t forget that the G sharp is pointing in E, finish Buck Island on the road on A [Demonstration] That wasn’t that long ago, A to F sharp minor. Okay, we are not to do for this song, I want to try and cover this song not because I think I can sing it very well, but because I want you guys to see how the chords move through and you can watch my hands and start and stop if you want. So now what I am going to do is show you the second way you can play it, that is with capo in the 2nd fret. I’m sorry I forgot to teach you the little—that I like to hear in that song, I think it is a cool to learn too just to finish this song, I try. So the end of the song is going to sound like this way. [Demonstration] Okay so at the end it seems I was playing like the D, to A to G, to A to G to A and it ends on the D chord so— [Demonstration] Okay so let me slow it down for you. We’re in a D chord. The cool thing about a D chord really was only moving one finger. You can do a lot of cool stuff. So we are going to start on the D string the forth string— [Demonstration] All right now when you play the one string, you can play four three, three instead of one string you going to play it open, you’re going handle on and then pull off so, your are playing in it one time, in your hammer and finger on. Can make the note and pull it down to this side. Kind of down bar guitar. You can make that pull off. You get more volume measure to go. So you’re going to go— [Demonstration] I’m just sticking my last finger off, you don’t have to do I’m just going to show you and see this part. And then you’re going to come back up— [Demonstration] And then you’re going to put that middle finger back down on that high E string, so you’re going to have D chord, now I want you to put your pinky finger down to the 3rd fret for this next note [Demonstration] And you put that pinky finger and your middle on the high E string and you’re playing high E once and pull your pinky off. That’s going to be real more difficult for beginners. [Demonstration] Then high E, [Demonstration] And you will repeat two three, and you will put your high E open again, hammer on the 2nd fret so— [Demonstration]