Learn 10 Rockabilly Guitar Chords in 10 Minutes with Free Charts! 

Me too!! Such a great band, no doubt about it!!!

​@@AdrianWhytehowdy from North Carolina I was 5 years old the first time I heard Johnny Cash Luther Perkins is what really captivated me that's when I knew I wanted play guitar I'm 21 now Luther is still my number 1 influence I customize my own set of flatwounds Thomastik 8/50 with a 18 wound third

Them and Reverend horton heat for me

Reverend horton heat made me

Middle age dad brain.. I’m well on the way these days Jeremy! That’s really great to get that feedback, it’s a constant struggle to get the right balance but this video felt really damn good. Funny thing is I had no plan when I started making it.. I just hit record and thought.. ok, 10 chords let’s go! I’m really passionate about knowing how this stuff works and coming from a jazz background its not so complex in this format, so I hope it comes out nice and clear! I’ll definitely make more concept based content and don’t be afraid to ask questions!

Cheers Ev, ps I read your message yesterday and immediately posted another short I had lying around lol!!

Cheers Ian, yeah it’s amazing how listening to other perspectives sometimes helps things click in another way! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback!

Thanks mate!

Glad you enjoyed it mate! Yeah RU-vid are really funny about what they show the subscribers, my advice - hit the bell next to the subscribe button and you’ll know when I release a video, I bet there’s been a few since you last were here! Have a good week mate!

My pleasure!

Cheers Cc! Hope you’re well!

Pretty much! Glad you enjoyed it man :) thanks for commenting!

Hey Tim, that's exactly what it's like in my head teaching students! In a few words, what would you consider the part that people are interested in? Or is it a general smattering of chord and concepts? Thanks for the wonderful feedback, it's great to read!

@@AdrianWhyte Well, when we're talking specifically about rockabilly chords... a lot of us (well, I am, been playing three years now) are kind of coming into this like "Okay, I can tell the song I'm trying to play is a 1-4-5 in A and I know those three major (or minor) chords but it just doesn't sound right the way I'm doing it, and I know it's probably because it's not supposed to be straight major/minor chords." Some of us might even go down the whole wrong rabbit hole, thinking that what's missing is the right pedal or we've got the semi-hollow Gretsch instead of the hollow. But most of us (probably?) know on some level that it's probably some kind of arcane extended or jazz chord (for us less-advanced players, that whole realm gets all murked together) and we don't know where to start looking to figure out what it is. The thing we're trying to avoid is sounding like (with apologies to any local amateur bar bands) the local amateur bar band that plays some old standard with regular cowboy chords and it sounds okay but.... just don't sound right! So, specifically in this instance, what your video filled in was this info gap between "Yeah, we know what a 1-4-5 progression is and we know the basic chords that go in there" and the "Oh, it's that ninth or that thirteenth that makes it sound like Cliff Gallup!" or whatever. Had we tried to figure it out on our own, we would have had to dive into a book full of half-diminished and augmented eleventieth with flat sixths (I made that last one up) and it would be really hard because they're all so physically challenging to do, we wouldn't easily be able to just try each one and go, "Hmm, nope, that's not it." And the way you're teaching it, it takes ten minutes to explain what we otherwise would go down a lot of blind alleys trying to find. I dunno, does that make sense?

But more generally to your question, what brings us to your channel specifically is that you really fill in well that gap between "across-the-board, all-genres guitar playing" rules that we can and do pick up all over the place, and the stuff that specifically makes it sound rockabilly. Chords, yes, but also things like Travis picking, how Scotty Moore does this, how Carl Perkins did that, what gear matters/doesn't matter, etc. And also, because of your jazz chops, the jazz-dipped stuff that we Setzer freaks want to be able to do.

So glad to hear, thank you!

Hi Mark, firstly - it’s ok to play the chord that way, but if you do want the first string involved try different combinations of your third finger and pinky across the G B and E strings. Also experiment with your second finger grabbing closer to the sixth string, even placing the tip between the 6th and 5th and levering the finger downwards onto the 5th string. Another option is bending the upper knuckle on your second finger a little more by rolling your wrist around slightly more pulling your thumb towards the ground slightly more, and finally experiment with how you place your first finger as this can dictate your hand position. You can use slightly more padding of your finger because it’s behind all the other notes anyway. Hopefully something in there helps!

@@AdrianWhyte Best and most comprehensive answer to a guitar question I've ever received-- thank you!! I shall experiment with all your suggestions. Thanks again for a great lesson, and for being so generous. I appreciate your help, good cheer, and enthusiasm!! 👍🙏😊

Hey man! Thank you so much! Yeah this is a 6128 - 57, they are standard Gretsch dynasonics, Seymour Duncan’s are reserved for the custom shop models I believe. Yeah those dearmonds are cool too man!

Oh yeah! Definitely mix in some sugar!!! Anything you can think of!

Standard tuning my friend!

Flat 9/diminished is totally plausible and correct, although a 7b9 can include the root note where as a diminished chord wouldn’t include the root note of the 7b9 chord, does that make any sense? Thanks for your contribution man, feel free to ask if you have any other thoughts or questions!

I totally get your point, although I’m confused entirely! 😂

Cheers man, it’s one of those videos that I didn’t really plan, I just said to myself .. surely I can easily knock out 10 rockabilly worthy chords! Glad you enjoyed it!

Any guitar will work really, a tele would be a perfect axe as well!

Everyone needs a Gretsch

I know it’s terrible isn’t it!