Now it's time to start learning some actual songs to play in the country blues style. The way I have this lesson series organized is we're going to go through songs according to the key that they're played in. And we're going to start out with a group of five songs in the key of C. In general, in each category, the songs get a little tougher as you go from the first to the last, not always. And we'll try to mix in songs with alternating bass and also something with monotonic bass. So let's get started in the key of C. The first one will be a song called LSP by Mance Lipscomb. It features a monotonic bass and it's in the key of C. Let me play a few verses for you.
It's pretty much the same each verse and it has a neat little tag on it. And then won't we'll talk about the courts that you're going to use So there is an instrumental sample of man slips comes LSP I am not a singer and I sing a little bit but I usually mess it up and have trouble keeping the guitar going. So I'm just going to show you the guitar parts as I mentioned in the recommended Listening section and the introduction to this whole lesson series, make sure you listen to the original tunes and hear them in context. Anyway, let's take a look at the chords for man slips comes LSP we start out with a C chord, we're going to add something to it, we did not talk about this in the course section, we're going to take our Pinkie and put it on the third fret of the first string.
So this is a C chord with the first string credit at the third fret. So there it is the first chord. From there, we're gonna walk the base. And I'll show you how to do that here in a little bit, to an A, long a back and forth between the long a and along seven. So the chord progression goes C to an A. And then we're going to go to a D seven played with the thumb on the second fret The sixth, we've got a monotonic bass going throughout the song, then we're going to go from a G to a g7.
So these are all chords that you should know. If you don't, then you want to put this thing on pause or go back to the lesson on any chord that you're not completely comfortable with because it'll just get frustrated. Or you can use the song as a way to practice the chords that kind of whatever you feel like doing there. So anyway, we got C to A, a seven, D seven, G, G seven, and then back to C. Now let's take man slips comes out with speed and figured out