Play Alan Jackson Love Songs 
On The Acoustic

In this Alan Jackson song called Had It Not Been You, there is a combination or arpeggio and rhythm playing. You can pause in places and restart at your own pace as you'll see me do in the beginning. As the song moves along there is more rhythm following the root up down up pattern.

In the middle there is a picking break that may be a bit tough to follow as there is no rhythm here. But once you get the song in your head, it's not too difficult.

Chords used here with a capo on the first (which is optional) are the E, B7, A, Dbm, Gbm, Edim chords. And in some places you can substitute the A for an Asus2, which is the open b string.

For this song called I'm Just A Little Bluer Than That I'm play a double downstroke on the rhythm. Normally you'd play a root up down up and repeat. But you'll notice I'm playing a root down down bass up down up. Just a preference.

As with most Alan Jackson love songs, there is a break somewhere in the song and this one is no different.

This song does a key change so starting with a capo on the 3rd, I'm play a D, G, A7, A/Db, Bm, Bm/A, E, and an Em. When the song moves up two frets you'll use the E, along with the A and B7. 

I'm playing this song in the original key of A, but because there is a lot of fiddle playing in this number called Livin' On Love, I'm using a capo on the 2nd fret with a Drop D tuning and playing in the G chord structure.

So this song is quite busy in the first half but can be conquered with a series of hammer-ons and pulls offs as best I can figure out.

I've changed the rhythm in the chorus from the verse which is root up down up bass up down up to a double downstroke. This technique adds a bit of a skip to the chorus by playing root down down root up down up and repeat.

This is one of those classic Alan Jackson love songs that has three chords. The Livin On Love chords are G, C and D. You can also throw in G7 and D7.

When you play this song called Someday you can start with a root up down up bass up down up rhythm pattern and play that all the way through the song.

But as you'll notice in my version, once it gets going, I change the pattern and play a root down up down up bass up down up. By adding the extra downstroke in this one, I find it carries along better.

There is no picking in this song and it requires a C, F, G, Am and Em for chords.

I like these kinda songs that have an old style feel about them and this one called Trying Not To Love You has that.

A very basic root up down up rhythm pattern throughout as the chords change too quick to capture a bass note. It's a bit tricky to pick anything in this one but I do a little near the end of the humming break.

Chords you'll need here are E, D, Db, Gbm, B7, B7/G and a Ddim.