Before we leave blind Blake's chump man blues, I'm going to show you just a few of the really complicated licks that he uses in this tin. And you might listen to the original, as I've asked you to do. And here's some of the stuff and think, where's that and the lesson? Well, here it is here. What I've done is showed you a really simple version, so you can start playing the song, if you want to play it. And you can also just develop the basic the alternating bass and some basic stuff with the chords and your first finger.

But if you're feeling adventurous, I'm going to show you some of the more complex licks that he does in the solos that I have tapped out for you, but I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this. I'm just going to kind of explain the gist of this. Some people don't like to practice things that are too hard because they fail. And then they get frustrated. They give up I believe in the opposite. I think You try to do some complicated stuff and it may be hard at first, but you stick with it, stick with it, and then eventually you'll, you'll get it.

So anyway, in the solos, I think it's the first solo and then later in the fourth solo, he does this really cool lick over the g7. So when we have that chord, I just showed you a basic thing with the alternating bass. We're just playing a real simple melody over that. But in the original recording, he does something like this. He plays it so fast and what he's doing there is he's starting with the pinky I would assume from the third fret of the third string, open second string, third fret of the second string, open first string, first fret of the first string Follow the tab on this, and how he's able to play that so fast as he is in more than just his first finger. He's in the second finger.

When I try to play this, I'm not great at it. But what I try to do is use that second finger on the open second string the first time he does it, and then use my first finger the rest of the way through. So we got something like this, he starts it, I think, where he's gonna come down with this thumb on the fifth fret of the fifth string. Something like that, which is really kind of cool. Later, he does another verse where he just does something like this. And that one here, he's still got that g7 position.

And he's just pulling off on the first fret of the first strength base. I haven't figured out yet. I don't know exactly what he's doing with that. pretty complicated. And that's that's what you're hearing. And then and I think it's in a second solo, he does a really cool equi again, comes from the five.

And then when it gets into the g7, he does something like this. And that one, he's got his Pinkie on the third fret of the of the second string and that g7 position. And what I think he's doing is he's muting the strings, the bottom top three strings with his right hand palm, and he's just dragging the pick from the third to the second to the first. And then with his first finger getting the first fret of the third string, so you got something like this. He does it twice. And then he goes back into the, the lick over the D chord.

I've got this tabbed out for you if you want to play around with it and see if you can get the hang of it. But if you can't do it, you can just play this Which is actually one of the licks he does play over that chord. Before we leave one last thing that's really kind of neat toward the end of the song, the last solo, he gets to the five and instead of doing the bass strike over the over the five, he's gonna go back to this and play this chord thing. And what he's doing is this lick that we did before. But he's just playing a little bit of it. And then he's going to come to an E chord.

Check the tab, he's pinching, remember, we can't use the open six string and drop the tuning. So I'm pinching the second string and the fifth string with my left hand making an E seven chord getting the first string and then pitching The second and the fourth string so we got this many goes to an a seven with the same double pinch with the right hand into the D. So one more time I lost my tune in there a little bit but we're at the end of this lesson. So that's it for Chapman blues by blind Blake, listen to the original and take what I've shown you and you can figure out any part of it you want or you can just play it as is. Now let's move in to the key of G our final batch of songs. Five more to go