Now it's time to move in to the key of A. And the first song that we're going to work with is a pretty simple tune by Mississippi john hurt called coffee, blues. And coffee blues uses an alternating bass. And I'll go ahead and play a little bit of it for you and then we'll figure out what's going on. Coffee blues by Mississippi john hurt And that is coffee blues by Mississippi john hurt, he sings the song and the guitar that he plays behind his vocal is pretty much the same all the way through the song. There's a few little variations here and there very subtle.

But what I played there is pretty much kind of a, you know, very close to what he's playing. courts were in the key of A now. So we're going to be talking a, d and e courts, but we're going to see a couple different forms especially of the of the the D chord. So let's start out with coffee blues. We've got a long a We're going to be going back and forth between the long a and the ASAP. We've done this before, our base is our open fifth string, and our fourth string which is part of the A chord fret of the second fret.

So there's our first chord for coffee blues. Our four chord for the first time we're going to work with a D chord. This is a D major. And this is one form of the D that will see in the key of A, there's another form that we'll use as well. So check out the D chord. The alternating bass is going to be the five and the four both open.

And then our five chord for coffee. This is going to be an E You may hear but we're also going to work in and he said so in the QA we've got long Ay, ay seven. That's our one chord. Our four is a D, D major. And our five is an E, and there's one lick where we toss a little bit of a seven. So now let's take a look at how Mississippi john hurt plays coffee blues.