Hopefully you've got the main verse down the common verse for Mississippi john hurt St. No tellin. Now I'm going to show you a little variation, which you can also toss in there. And if you listen carefully to the original 1928 recording, you'll hear him do this. When I play this as an instrumental, I like to use this as the solo and actually work it in a couple times throughout the song. So the difference comes at the end of a verse. So let's take it from the G or actually let's go from the app toward the end of the verse and I'll show you the variation.

Let me play the whole thing for you and then we'll break it down. So right there, instead of doing this the chord slide we're starting this this variation off with a walking bass into the C chord. So I'm starting from the sixth string, third fret, open fifth second fret third fret. Now we're going to continue with the alternating bass as though we're playing a C chord, a five, four. So we got this. And that's the only difference really over the C. So instead of playing this stead of doing that, we're doing this Actually, we're not doing that instead of doing that we're coming to the end of a verse.

Here we go. Then over the F chord, we're gonna play this the first time around is just like we played it before and then you'll, you'll see the variation. So all I'm doing here I've got this pinch. Then my first finger and my thumb are going to alternate. So I'm pinching the sixth string and the second string out of the F shape. My first finger, it's gonna get the third string, right is my thumb comes down on the fourth string for the alternating bass, so that little lick like that.

It's like a roller Have your thong and when we get into some Gary Davis stuff you'll you'll see this thumb roll. So that first leg then we're gonna pitch again sixth string and second string. But now we're putting our pinky down on the third fret of the second string and then taking it off right away. So we got this. Again, check the tab on this on this little lick here, and then we're back to our C and then we go back to our E And we can either do another one of those or we could mix it back up. And go back to that if you listen to the original recording again, you'll hear how he uses both those the main, the main various seven, the variation.

One Last Lick that we'll learn here, which is kind of fun and Mississippi john hertz ain't no talent is how he ends it. And he's got this neat little antenna. So let me play the last verse of the song. I'll play that in context, and then I'll show you what he's doing here. So let's take it from the F of the last verse. So what I'm doing is ending on a patch, a C chord, C major fifth string, second string.

We've done that before, that I'm using my ring finger and my second finger and I'm sliding to the fifth fret. I've got my ring finger on the second string, I've got my second finger on the fourth string. So we're going to slide and just pinch the thumb and the first finger and we're just going to move that shape down 543 and then we're going to go back to our C. Pitch again, that's strike, second strike. So we've got that is a common position that we'll use again here in a little bit. When we learn on hesitation blues in the key of C, kind of a neat little turnaround, any tuning you play in the key of C, you can wrap it up with that letter. Then he's gonna throw this gonna get the open third string, move my second finger to the second fret.

Pick it again open like this, we got that he's gonna strong the C major chord to wrap it up. I think actually that little instead of picking it might be a hammer on or pull off rather. So I'm going to pick the third string, hammer on my second finger and then pull it off with the pic like that. So let's do the whole thing. Listen to how he does it and mess around with it. But those are the positions there.

So there you have ain't no tellin by Mississippi john hurt. What I would recommend doing is just break the song down and learn it one chord at a time. And once you get the hang of what he's doing over each chord, the C, the F, the G, the E, and then slowly start to put it all together. So you could start out with that intro and then moving into the F chord. And then work in the C. Just put it together until you feel comfortable with each part. If you listen to the original, you will hear slight variations throughout the song.

Just real subtle things that I didn't show you here, but you can hear them and figure them out once you get the basics of the song down. So that is our third song in the key of C. We've got two more to go.