Now I want to show you two variations that you can employ when you're playing sugar babe by man slips comm one is kind of a solo, you hear it at the beginning of a song of the song and also later when he just takes a break from singing and plays, just plays an instrumental version of the song. And it goes like this. This is the first variation. So the first thing I'm doing over the one instead of just playing so on the treble strings, it's pretty much You let that easter egg or B string just hang. It's kind of hard to do sometimes when you're playing the alternating bass, we started out with that pin. And your instinct is to take that first finger and picks pick somewhere but just let it let it hang out or stay out.

There when we get to the four, we're basically playing the same riff we're playing this. So we got our five for bass and our treble. Just playing that riff on the second and first strings with the a shake. We go back to the one and then we've got maybe the trickiest part of the song and that Little lick. I've watched the film versions of him playing this and I'm not sure if this is exactly how he does it. But what I did is take a B seven shape and I'm going to slide it from the second fret first and second fret to the third and fourth frets.

And as I slide it, I'm going to pinch the fifth string and then the first and second string. And I'm gonna continue my left hand, my right hand bass to the fourth string. So that first slide, then I'm gonna pinch open. Come back down, with the B seventh, as I get the fourth string. That's that's how I play it. I'm not sure that's exactly how it does it what you end up having is kind of an open A string going but if you do it quick Enough, it really doesn't matter what you play there, they'll sound it'll sound right, it'll work.

And then we're going to pinch the open sixth and the first and second string and get back into that. So let me play the variation, what's used as the opening of the song, or at least I've heard him do this on at least one recording. And then he also uses this variation as a solo. So let me play it through one time slowly. You have one variation, and then from there, he's back into the back into the song. Now the second variation is a little more complicated.

And he does this mainly over the E the one and also over the A, which is the four. Let me play it for you one time and then we'll break it down. So what we're changing here is the melody, what we're doing is the same pinch to start out over the one or the E. Then right here, we're gonna go from the third fret of the second string, which is a seven to the second fret. Back to that lick, so it's like this That's what we're playing. I'm using my ring finger there, you could also use the pinky to the ring finger. Whichever way works best for you.

So one more time slowly. Again, then we're going to do the same thing over the A. This time, he probably going to use the pinkie because that's the only finger you really have available here. I'm not sure if this is how Mance Lipscomb did it but if you try to play a different form of that a chord, like maybe leave the you could use your first finger on the third and fourth string, your second finger on the second string. Then use your ring finger or your pinky and your ring finger but that's you could do that. Maybe that's how he does it but I'm using this a court che Just kind of scrunch in my fingers up on the left hand as much as I possibly can to give myself room to do that, so let's play the whole thing over the A.

Then we go back to the wire and then over the five, you can use either of the, of the licks that we've showed you, you can just keep it on the B seven. play that one, or you could go up to you. So let's go through that last variation. One more time. I'll play it through a couple times slowly. So let's go through that last variation.

One more time. I'll play it a couple times around slowly. If you take all three of these variations, what I showed you in the first lecture plus these two to two parts of this lecture here you've got sugar bait. Now there's one more thing he throws in at the end, which is an N tag. And rather than devote a separate lecture to that, let's just learn that real quick and it gets to the end of the song. And this is a simple and tag I'm just playing.

I'm hammering on the first fret of the third string, open second string, second fret of the second string, open, first string and then my e court tricky part is I'm gonna have my alternating bass going when I do it. So let's take it from the five. Try to do it slowly from the five. So we're starting that lick. With that pinch again, open sixth string and the third string with the first finger hammering on at the first fret. Right there, open first.

So that n tag one more time. Let's take it in context. I'll play a whole verse through them. Throw that in. And that's how that's one way that man slips come wrapped up sugar bait. So there is a song in the key of E. It's the only one that we have that's got an alternating bass in the next two that we're going to work on both have a monotonic base