I'm going to take the shot man blues by blind Blake, if you listen to the original recording, he sings and then after each verse, he's gonna throw in an instrumental verse or a solo. And I think there's four total instrumental solos and five total verses. I'm going to show you just a real basic accompaniment that you can use if you're singing this yourself or playing behind someone else. There's a brief introduction but on the original recording, it's almost impossible to hear what's going on. So I started off like this. I'll start off on the g7 chord.
So what I'm doing there is is picking over the g7 Putting my first finger on the first fret of the first string. And then back to my D. Playing this lick over the D chord, I'm starting from the third fret of the second string, open first string to the first fret of the first string, and then sliding the second fret back to the third fret of the second string, open and then the second fret of the third string and my D chord. So let me play that whole introduction for you. That lick there, rather than I try to break it down and explain it to you, I think you should just understand what's going on and then use my tap and try to just break it down in one phrase at a time, then try to play it because I think if I try to explain this one to you, it's gonna be tough.
So, what I like to do with licks like this is figure out what the treble is then get the bass and then put them all all together. So that's what I'll have you do with this one. Now when he starts out the verse, you know, again, he can't tell exactly what he's playing. So I just like to play a simple accompaniment and I'll show you what I play all the way through the the sung verse So that's, that's what's going on. So I'm starting just over the D. And then I'm moving to a g7 back to my D. So again, right away, then in the D. I'm doing this walk from the third fret of the second string, the second fret to the seventh chord. Check the tab on this one.
Again, this is another one of those licks. If I try to explain it, I'll probably just confuse you. So we got this And that's by far the hardest part of this 10. Then he just goes over the g7. What I'm doing there is trying to play what he's saying in the song. Picking between the third fret of the second string and I'm using the open first string and then my first finger on the first fret.
Back to my D, and then right away just holding that D chord, and then when it gets to the five we're gonna play over the a seven then back to the G Again, I go to the g7 I've got the alternating bass go that's a simple version that you can play if you're singing blind, Blake's Chapman blues or if you're playing it as an instrumental, so again, this is the little riff over the D. That can get a little tricky, just have to mess with it until you can get the timing and the bass if you listen to the bass when you're playing in the open D blind Blake, not doesn't just do a six for bass every now and then you can throw in a five for something like that. And, you know, again, you could just play it straight six, four and it would work but see if you can mess around with getting that open fifth string in there too.
So let me play that whole basic verse of blind Blake's chop man blues. So let me play the first verse actually the verse for blind Blake's chop man blues all the way through. I'll start with the introduction. So there you have something that you can play behind the singing or if you want to play it as instrumental you You can play that as the as the instrumental verse mimicking what, what the vocal is doing here. Next we'll take a look at a couple of the solos.