Hank Williams III - Country Heroes Guitar Tutorial with Tabs

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Today we are going to learn how to play "Country Heroes" by Hank Williams the III on the guitar. Hank Williams the 3rd is the son of Hank Williams Jr and the grandson of Hank Williams, who is my all time favorite country musician and my "country hero" who is yours? Another interesting fact about Hank the 3rd is that he is also the drummer in a heavy metal band! In terms of voice and look he actually looks and sounds like his grand father even more than Jr does! This song comes of the 2006 album "Straight to Hell" and it doesn't get the credit it deserves for starting a revival in outlaw country and pushing back against all the radio friendly bro country that was going on at the same time. With that said Hank clearly doesn't care as he has kept a low profile and isn't the type of musician that needs or wants the spotlight and the fame.

Lets talk about some of the theory, for a 3 chord song there are a lot of interesting things happening. This song has just three chords that play around the same chord progression, i-bIII-IV-i, for the entire song. That IV chord is interesting because it is D major instead o D minor. In the key of A minor there is an F note, so when the scale is harmonized the iv chord ends up being a D minor chord, but when the scale has an F# instead that chord becomes a D chord, and that is where we get A Dorian from, a lovely minor scale with nice country polish on top. All of the melancholy power of the minor scale but the 6th interval also gives it a nice country polish to it. The Dorian mode is a ton of fun to play, solo over and compose with and if you don't know it you should really get to know it.

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The intro solo is basic phrasing that involves triplet runs on the 4th beat.