I know the variations on Big Bill broonzy monster blues, let's start over the one or the A. And what I played for you is just this. I listen to the original recording, and I hear some different notes in there, but I can't tell exactly what he's doing. And so what I'm gonna, what I've been messing around with is trying these notes, the third fret of the fifth string and the fourth fret. This right here is a kind of a chord that you can play in country blues, blind boy fuller use this court, and we'll see it here in a little bit. And what I'm doing is getting my first finger in the eighth position, and then I'm taking my ring finger to the fourth fret of the fifth string.

So that's an A The reason I bring that up is because when I listen to Big Bill Burns, he's moppet blues, I think I hear this note. And I think he might be playing that lick that way I showed you with the open fifth, but he sounds like he's also doing something on that fourth fret of the fifth string could be just like this. So the same right hand picking approach 123 and then a seventh chord. Something else I think I hear is maybe the third strike and playing something like this. What I'm doing here is out of my a seventh position, I'm thinking my second finger and I'm bending down on the third fret of the fifth string 123 Both of those work, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what he was doing. Again, our objective in this lesson series is just to learn the songs enough where we can play them and you can practice them and use them to develop your skills.

And when he gets over the four in this tune, there's some variations that you can do playing over this deep position. And when you get in here, right here, you can do some single string licks and if you listen to the the introduction of the original mockers blues from the 1930s he does something like this during the introduction. It goes back to the already does this actually Anyway, what we're interested in is right here. So what I'm doing here is I'm sliding into that D double stop. And then right here so I'm doing this walk between the eighth seventh and fifth strings the first time he does it, you play something like that. And then right away he's doing this hammer on and I'm going from the eighth fret.

I'm just picking and hammering on and pulling off with my with my ring finger. So he does it twice. So we got this right here, open first string back into the bay. So anytime in the song you're playing over the four you can work in something like that. I've also heard people play something like this where they're hammering on 567 on the second string and then the fifth fret of the first string. If you listen to the original recording, the only time you really does that is during the introduction.

So anyway, that's kind of a variation that you can you can look for. And over the five there really isn't a variation he plays. As we mentioned before, sometimes it sounds like he's sliding in to that a chord with the open fifth base Then he goes to the g7 and then he does this bass slide back into the A. So if you listen to the original recording and you get the basic, you know the basic rhythm down here for the song, you can try to figure out some of these other things and that's that's basically what he's what he's doing there. Last thing we'll talk about here is the end tag that he plays and I just played it real simple version of it. So when he gets to the end, all I'm doing there is taking my a CT and going back and forth between what is basically an a and an A flat upstroke in with my first finger, just getting the second, third and fourth stray At the end, Big Bill broonzy like to do this on his songs in a KFC where he's going to get the fifth fret of the first string, which is an A.

Just kind of let that hang there at the end. So when you wrap up mockers blues that's one way that you can do it. If you listen to the original recording, he does something a little more complicated. He goes to the E, something like that. But if you work on the the end I just showed you if you want to figure that out, you can't. So there we have mockers blues by Big Bill broonzy in the key of A it's a good simple tune to work on the monatomic base and the QA and I've got three more times for you all Get into those right away.