The second verse of lightnin Hopkins and he's Boogie in the key of the features of a shuffle bass thing it's not quite a boogie woogie. It's more of a almost like a rock and roll type shuffle, and he's playing it in the same position where we play the shuffle, lick and Mojo hand, remember this. And what we're doing this time is just changing the way we're picking it. Let me play the second verse through and then we'll break it down. So we'll take it from the end of the first verse. And that's the second verse and we'll be going into the solo after that.
So the first part, this is kind of tricky and what the way I play it, I have no idea how he played it originally is I'm just going to go to the thumb pick. And I'm going to take my first finger and touch it, like squeeze the thumb on the first finger together. So I've got all my strength in my right hand, controlling the thumb pick. And what I'm doing is just doing the same fingering with the left hand that we did in Mojo hand, I might have my first finger on the second fret of the fifth string, open sixth string, I'm just going back and forth with my first finger and my ring finger between the second fret and the fourth fret of the fifth string. So we've got this. So if we were playing in G, we had like a rock and roll rhythm, something like this.
It's that same idea but we're just doing an E. And just like he does in Mojo hands. He's just gonna use this right first finger and do those upstrokes to add a little, little quarter F in between those bogie lines. So we got this. When he goes over the A, the force is going to move that first finger over and play the same thing. Back to the E. Good to be right there. It's gonna take us into our solo.
So the second verse is, you know, it looks really simple but getting getting that to sound the way lightning placed on his recording is not so easy. One thing I do is I use my right hand palm and set it gently on the sixth and the fifth string. Not too much. We don't want total muted tone. We don't want it totally muted. Not like that.
Well let it ring out a little bit. Please, that's the way I hear it on the recording. So let's play the second verse of Eddie's Boogie all the way through. I'll try to play it slowly. There you have first number two