The next chord that we're going to learn is perhaps the most difficult of all the chords that you're going to need to play country blues acoustic guitar, it's the F chord, the dreaded F chord. And when you're playing with an alternating bass and a monotonic bass like we're going to, there's an added twist that makes it even a little tougher. And that twist is you're going to have to use your left hand thumb to make the chord. So the F chord looks like this. And what I'm doing here is wrapping my thumb on the first fret of the sixth string. And including that in the chord.

I could play it like this as a barre chord shape. But to play traditional country blues, you can't do it that way. You'll find out why when we get into some of the song examples. The rest of the chord, I've got my first finger fretting both the first and second constraints at the first fret. I've got my second finger on the second fret of the third string, and my ring finger on the third fret of the fourth string that part's pretty straightforward, then you got to get the thumb and wrap it on that first fret. And doesn't matter whichever part of the thumb However, you can get that thumb on there.

To sound out that bass, you do it. There's no technique that I know of, I just experiment and stretch and try to fiddle around with it till I get it to sound right. The good news is on a lot of songs when you're playing an F. You don't need that bass to sound out perfectly. Even if you just get a little bit of it. It's going to do the job it's going to work. So that is our, our F chord.

Now there is a version of the seventh but really don't use that one a whole lot, in least not in the songs. We're going to learn So we're not going to worry about that right now. If it comes up in those songs, we'll learn it. Now the bass strings for the F chord, for the alternating bass, we're going to use a six four. So we're going from the sixth string, which we have threaded with our thumb to the fourth third fret of the fourth string. And then the monotonic bass is going to be the sixth string, which will again we have threaded with the thumb.

So when we get to some of the songs that we're going to learn in the key of C, we'll see how we use that. That F chord. So that is another chord, we got the C chord and the F chord, which typically go together in a progression. The C is the one chord if the song is in the key of C, and the F would be the forecourt