Waylon Jenning's "Hank Done It This Way" Guitar Lesson

[@averagejoe8213]

I can't believe I'm only finding your channel now! Subbed and will be binging all your content!!

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Thank you.

[@golfcoursemanager33]

I'm not even a "country guitar player" but your teaching and playing is very inspirational. 5 stars!

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Thanks Johnathon! I'm glad you liked it.

[@kandj1001]

I always wanted to play guitar but just couldn't get my left hand to coordinate so its always a pleasure to watch someone make it look easy. It isn't.

[@kentbeery4941]

Thank you for all that you do here 🤟

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Thank you Kent. Happy holidays!

[@pete357able]

Love your lessons and you're a great player to boot😊

[@kennyscarborough250]

Ken you're the best! Great guitar player and instructor!

[@SpicyMcHaggis]

You are awesome Sir, such a good teacher! It's always fun watching your videos. Thank you so much, highly appreciated! Best regards from Germany, Matthias

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Thank you.

[@ChrisPippin]

When my band has played this song I played example four. Great full rhythm sound.

[@TheFarold]

Awesome! Love your teaching technique!

[@monmixer]

Yup, Waylon wasn't the best player in the world or even close but he was unique. I remember the Maestro phase shifters and yes that is what he used. Not common in country music then and still isn't. I suppose that's why it was so unique to his sound. I worked many Waylon shows as an audio engineer and he was a guest on our live radio broadcast many times. I always looked forward to it. Basic simple good stuff.

[@clintonmusic7884]

Great lesson!! Are you making new lessons and if you are could you work up a lesson on the lead solo to drinking problem by David Ball

[@sixsentsoldiers]

Great lesson.

[@tylerjones934]

I have one request the good ole boys guitar lessons Waylon Jennings

[@LonskiBig]

....wow...hugely sophisticated lesson.....great....!!!!

[@CountryGuitarChops]

+Lonnie Christopher Thanks Lonnie!

[@reverbdeluxe]

You should do one on Ain't livin' long like this. It always seems to be a crowd pleaser. Of course, you could just do a lesson on Waylonisms. He definitely had his own style.

[@cardboard316]

Great lesson I'm in

[@LonskiBig]

.....yahhh....that B power chord and E got it........you can't go an hour in Nashville without hearing this song....

[@walterkersting9922]

I bought a Peavey heritage VTX, because of the phaser because of Waylon.

[@joelolofsson3604]

thank you sir! just wanted to learn what pedal to use to get that classic swampy sound, its the phase shifter! also learned lots more 😊 greetings from sweden

[@rogueassassin42gaming83]

Can we get a solo lesson I can not find a tab or any video on the internet been searching for days

[@CountryGuitarChops]

This is a short preview of the full lesson. You can join my online members section on my website and have full access to hundreds of lessons. countryguitarchops.com

[@davelewis3239]

Ralph Moon on steel bade the whole thing fall together

[@billmenz7113]

I enjoy your teaching style and have learned guite a bit thus far. I'm having a hard time trying to get the classic country sound. What pedals do you recommend I get to achieve the sounds of Waylon, Merle and Buck Owen's. I'm using a Fender Telecaster. Thanks...

[@CountryGuitarChops]

The tone comes from the guitar and amp, and the pedals are just the sugar coating on top. What kind of an amp are you using? It's hard to beat the sound of a deluxe reverb, or just about any other fender amp. The only pedals I use for songs like this are the compressor, which is on all the time, and some reverb. I might have a little bit of delay going on, but very subtle for a song like this. Realistically, a song like this will sound just fine with just reverb. Oops, I almost forgot, this is a "Waylon" song, so it's got a "Phase Shifter" effect on the rhythm guitar parts, which I talked about in this video. Did you watch it far enough to get that?

[@billmenz7113]

@@CountryGuitarChops I'm using a Blackstar amp and playing around with a Spark amp,I know they aren't the best but just wanted something small to get playing again.

[@CountryGuitarChops]

@@billmenz7113 That could be why your not getting tone your looking for. I can't say for sure because I haven't played through them. If you have a local music store, you might consider going there with your guitar and playing through various amps to see which one best to you. Ideally, for this kind of tone you want that fender amp tone, and even the cheaper solid state amps will have that tone.

[@billmenz7113]

@@CountryGuitarChops thanks 😊 for the info, I may need to do that.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Maybe do some Trower from the mid 1970's like Lady Love

[@loungecruz]

nice

[@couchcutter3124]

Sweet i subscribed, im gonna learn me some country licks

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Thanks. Enjoy all the lessons!

[@cacornett58]

I been playing 40 years rock and blues, and I have come to terms that country players are bad asses. Pedal steel guitar links are my passion.

[@flintrub62]

Can you could cover more of the lead part?.

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Katie Moe The entire song lesson is available on my website countryguitarchops.com - Thanks.

[@jamespelkey8150]

Do you know the intro to Waylon's "singer if sad songs"

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Sorry, No

[@johnk3108]

Genius

[@bsnf-5]

Whose cover of this song you used as the backing track?

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Profiledek My own.

[@bsnf-5]

CountryGuitarChops Great job, Mr Ken! Would love to hear a full cover.

[@bsnf-5]

CountryGuitarChops Vocals totally rocks on this one

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Profiledek Thanks! The full song is included in the dvdor download version of this lesson, which is available on my website countryguitarchopc.com

[@sonnycampbell6474]

L

[@FineMeg]

He play`d it in C/F the later years actually...tho pretty much the same as the video :)

[@daydooms]

Nice video what amp and pedals are you using or do you cover this another vid?

[@CountryGuitarChops]

I have part of a tone lesson here on youtube that discuses how I set up my amps here, kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4Xae5eKf89pbbM - But for this song, the effects I used were comp, delay and reverb. Thanks!

[@autumnfall1511]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@kevinmalone8903]

I heard he used a Peavey 212 with built in phaser

[@kentbeery4697]

WAYLON did it that way......

[@rambodonkeykong4853]

The live from american outlaws version was good

[@gregktm]

What's up with that low E tuning peg on your guitar?

[@CountryGuitarChops]

+Greg Meola It's a drop D banjo tuner. Look at Waylon Jennings and Marty Stuart's Tele's and you'll see the tuner on their axes

[@gregktm]

+CountryGuitarChops cool. Thank you

[@jjstudiosjj2408]

Oh nice. B and E So simple. Oddly reminds me of beast of burden by The Rolling Stones

[@walterkersting9922]

I saw a video of Brian Setzer back in the day when they had a standup bass and just a drum set in him and I don’t know what the occasion was, but he says for Eddie Van Halen to get his ass up there on the stage. And Ed Van Halen came up to the stage, and then he says Steve Miller get up here and here comes Steve Miller, then he says Eric Clapton, and just on and on like 10 other of the best guitarist in the world at the time, I think, even Les Paul he said was on that stage, and then he says Waylon Jennings and they all get up on the stage and played.

[@kriscodangus2851]

How do you get that Waylon sound, besides using a tele anyways...

[@NICKWAPPERER117]

Krisco Dangus use a phaser and don't use a pick

[@joshlower1]

You do not

[@bigrig4385]

@@NICKWAPPERER117 Go Browns! Actually Waylon played with a very thick pick if I remember correctly. But the biggest secret to tone is touch and feel. A lot of the skin on his thumb made contact with the string.

[@TheAzmountaineer]

That's the lesson I want to see - how to play Waylon-style guitar.

[@brockbusa21]

You gotta turn that E string way down and then it will sound like Waylon.

[@spacecatboy2962]

WAS THIS RECORDED WITH WAYLONS BAND OR DID CHET USE THE COMPANY MUSICIANS?

[@Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed]

His own I believe. He wrote it in the car while driving to the session.

[@23hunter152]

This was written after Waylon got complete artistic control over his music and production, so it was with his own band.

[@brockbusa21]

You gotta turn that E string down if you want it to sound like Waylon.

[@CountryGuitarChops]

The song is in the key of B, which means the E is the 4 chord. I have a feeling you don't know what I'm talking about here, but a drop D would not work in the key of B. If you looked, you might have noticed that I use the same kind of drop D tuner that Waylon used on his tele, and I use it when ever possible. The key of B is not one of those times. And I guaranty you that Waylon didn't use it on this song when he played it in B either.

[@brockbusa21]

@@CountryGuitarChops I literally know nothing about the guitar. Waylon is my favorite musician and I just remember him saying in an interview that his sound came from turning the E down. That may have been a particular song .

[@CountryGuitarChops]

@@brockbusa21 No worries. If you were to ask any guitar what the Waylon "sound" is, 100% of them would tell you it's the phaser pedal he used on just about every song. The drop D tuning would be used on songs in the key of A and D, and possibly G. With that said, he may have played this song live in the key of A once in a while if he had throat issues, so then he would have used the D tuning. Have a great day!

[@johncruz9357]

It was probably studio player...

[@WILDBILLSOUTDOORS]

I always thought it was A and D, at least that's the way we do it, but same concept either way.

[@CountryGuitarChops]

I just had a conversation with a guy the other day about this song. He commented on how I played it in the "record" key of B as opposed to the key of A like most cover bands do. Check the record, it's B.

[@davelewis3239]

mxr phase 90 plain script ,,59 bassman amp ....

[@spacecatboy2962]

IM PRETTY SURE HANK DIDNT DO IT THIS WAY

[@ht2275]

TigerShark, tell me one more time just so I'll understand

[@iamamish]

@@ht2275 are you SURE Hank done it this a'way?

[@carter2351]

Did ol’ Hank really do it this way

[@bigrig4385]

Naw.

[@provost5752]

You can't play this without a small stone phaser. Come on man !!

[@CountryGuitarChops]

It was a "Maestro" shifter, and later he used an mxr 90, which is what I used on the rhythm guitars, just like the record.

[@hayeztattooz3168]

come on bud you cant play waylon with out chucking.

[@abeldoesit6559]

Not a good lesson

[@CountryGuitarChops]

Sorry about that. All my "Preview" videos state at the beginning that they are a preview of the entire lesson. I just realized that I didn't state that on this particular video. Regardless, this is just a very small part of the full lesson available at my website countryguitarchops.com - The lesson comes with jam tracks and tablature and covers the entire song and all the solos.