Now it's time to learn the solo for Big Bill broonzy is key to the highway. Let me take it from the end of the previous verse and I'll play the solo through and then we'll, we'll take it apart. Then it goes back into the next verse and so on. So let's take a look at the solo. The solo, the first part of it really Just follows the verse so we've got this with the bass stumbled again. Now we're gonna go to that a lick that we played over the introduction, which is pretty tricky.

So let's try that again. So that hammer on this is really, really hard but again, you could just play that you could just play a straight a seventh there and make it work but in the solo of the song, he does that. To give a little variety now here's where the song gets different. He goes back to the one and as he plays the E Going to strum those first two open strings. I'm going second string upstroke in both the open first and the open second. Then I'm going to do this call.

I'm going to use my ring finger and put it on the third fret, and I'm gonna pick it and then slide it right away to the second fret. And then pick it after I pulled off. So we got this kind of a Chet Atkins, like lick if he listened to a song Ted Atkins played like St. Louis Blues, he does that lick in the key of D, the same lick. Wonder if you got that from Big Bill. Now we're gonna go briefly to a b seventh chord, and this is where we start doing some fancy stuff. So the whole solos so far, we got the opening.

Just gonna cut that off. What I'm doing is an open first. So it's open, open first string, second, third, fourth frets open check the tab on this little slide with that D seventh shape from the third fret to the fourth fret open, so we got this gotta choke it off with his right hand or just, I guess that's how he does it. And then he's gonna go so we're gonna slide into the D seven shape 1234 and then move that to the second fret, which is actually a D seven. Now I'm gonna hammer onto the first fret of the third string, open, first string, third string, first string. So the whole thing from the B.

He's gonna do this real cool walking bass thing and I don't think I played it right when I played it through, he does something like this. I think I played this. So what he's gonna do is get the open sixth string, and then right away, hammer on three, four, like that to the second fret of the fifth string, so I'm getting the third and fourth fret of the sixth string, like that. And then going back and forth 4242 on the fifth string And then the second fret of the fourth string. It actually did that so the whole leg that's the the end lick of the cell. So one more time slowly again.

There we go. So let me try to play the solo for key to the highway all the way through one time. Slowly Then he gets in to the rest of the song, which is basically just playing the verse. So there we have the solo for Big Bill parentheses key to the highway, which is really a lot of fun to play. And again, you can simplify this. If that lets you travel, you can just play make up something else that you can play it, it's a little simpler until you can get it down.

The end tag for Big Bill broonzy is key to the highway when he wraps the whole thing up. It's really simple. It's based on the lick that we've used throughout the tune. So let's wrap it up. He gets to the end of the song. Let me just play the whole verse and then play it in context for you before we figure it out.

Not sure if that's exactly right and the timing I'm having trouble thinking right here, but all he does, he gets to the five and he gets the, the one and he's gonna do that slide, I'm using my second finger, second four on the sixth string. And then using my first finger, I could just flat that, or I can use a different finger to get the second fret of the fourth string and then an equal to wrap it up. So in context, we've got And that is it. So there you have a key to the highway by Big Bill broonzy. Now you've got five key tunes and the KFC, you've got five in the key of E. And if you work with those tunes and try to learn the different verses and the different parts This will help you develop your hand strength, your coordination with your right hand, and all sorts of things.

Plus you'll start playing these songs and especially if you're a singer, you can start having a lot of fun with these. Now we've still got three keys to go key of A key of D, and the key of G and we'll get to that here in just a bit.