I'm going to do a river geek upgrade. By far the most fun part of playing blind, Blake's Chapman blues is playing the different solos. And he plays for solo versus and then a couple of them, we play some pretty sophisticated licks. So what I'm going to do is show you two solo verses that are played kind of bare bones real simple. And then as an added bonus, I've included the tab for some of the more complicated licks that he plays in this tent. And if you want to explore those and getting into those you can.

So let's just take a couple simple, simple verses, he has this takeoff lick that he uses with the first solo and then he uses a different version of this three in the second and then also in the fourth solos of the song. So let's take a look at that. So let's let's go through a verse and then I'll kick into the solo. So what I'm doing here is the first part is just like blind Blake plays it on the recording. I'm sliding the fifth fret of the first string and I'm playing this So this leg just like we did in the in the verses. So I'm going the patch of the open six and sliding to the fifth fifth fret where you can just play it right on the fifth fret of the first string.

Check the tab on that and listen to the original recording. And you'll get the hang of it. I'm just using my open six and my open fourth, but you could throw the open fifth in there too. And then we're gone. And then we're going to G seventh chord. Just trying to play the melody.

Now he does something a lot more complicated on that he plays this really fast read something like that. Which is pretty, pretty difficult. I have a hard time playing that. In fact, if you know anything about blind play, he didn't just use his first finger, he uses the second finger and sometimes even a third one in there to be able to play those really fast licks. So what I'm doing here is just giving you something simple to play over that g7. So start here and then we're back into our normal whoops.

And then right here, he does this really cool bass rod. Whatever Doing is sliding from the sixth string second fret to the fourth fret and then getting the open fifth string like that, like the first time he does it, he picks the second fret of the sixth string as he slides and the next couple of times he just slides directly from the second to the fourth fret. So we've got this. We're playing over the a seventh chord, and then from there. So let me play that first solo verse all the way through again, I'll try to play it slowly. simplified version, the only part where I cheated was on the first time over the G seventh.

And I just gave you a simple, simple phrase, you can play over that. And again, if you want to get into the more complicated part, I've included the tab for you as a resource. So you can listen to the original and check it out and see if you can figure it out. So there's the first shell, and then we're going to take a look at one more. For the second solo, I'm going to show you a lick that he plays in the third solo of the original recording. And it's kind of a cool way to kick off the solo and then from that point on, we're going to use the same licks that we did in the in the first one.

So here we go. Got something like this. So what we're doing here is we're going to a D shaped, kind of a D double stop lick over the second position D barre chord, my first finger is on the fifth fret of the first string. My second finger is gonna bend up on the sixth fret of the second string we started out with a pinch between the open six and the banding second string, we got this. So our base the whole time is going six, four. So without the bass, this is what we're playing on the treble strings.

We're going to the D, D seven. And then we're gonna walk into our g7. And everything from that point on will play just like we did in the first cell. So let's do this again. Now watch the bass and check out the tab for the coordination between the thumb and the first finger. So that's, that's what he's doing there.

So so it's like picking bending up, string, or the fifth fret of the first string. is coming back down to the sixth fret of the second string. And then my ring finger is gonna get the seventh fret of the first string. And the last time we do it, we're going to take our finger off the seventh fret to the fifth fret and then go D seventh on the court. So let's play that whole second solo, play the whole thing through with that riff included. sloppy there, but that's the, that's the idea.

Now again, if you want to explore some of the more difficult stuff that blind Blake does on this 10, use my tab and listen to the original recording. And the lyrics, he plays a couple over this g7 chord. And it's mostly the right hand that is difficult. And again, use the tip that he's going to be using more than just the first finger that'll allow you to play it as fast as he does, if that's what you're you're aiming for. It's also kind of a neat variation on when he goes to the five. And he does this in the last verse of the song if you listen to the four solos that he plays, and I tap that out for you as well.

So there we have five songs in the key of D, all we have left is the key of G and let's move into that right now.