When I listen, listen, people will say, you know, I believe tomorrow. The first is for Groundhog Day blues are really pretty, pretty simple. And what he's gonna do is while he's singing the first part of the of the verse over the one, he's gonna get this shape going right here. Just kind of hold that 123123123 while he's stomping on the base, he's not sliding, it just sounds in the recording, like he's just staying right on that shape. And what I've got is my first finger on the seventh fret of the first string and my second finger on the eighth fret of the second string. So we got this something like that.
If you listen to the Recording doesn't really change the rhythm as he gets ready to go into the next chord, but you could do that to make make it easier to know when to go. The verses that he's saying he's not keeping the same exact same time each time through, he just kind of changes when he wants to change, which is one of the characteristics of country blues. Guys don't always stick to the approved musical structure. But anyway, it's gonna play that. Then when he goes to the floor, we're going to do that little bass stumble again. And now the simplified version of the song, we're just gonna play it a seventh chord.
And instead of doing the bass stumble, the second time we're going to slide in to the a seventh chord from one fret below. So we got This now we'll go back to the to the E and then right here we've got the B setup. And that's all there is to the vs. Now, there he plays some single string runs there over the open over the a seventh position and also over the the B seven. And we're going to learn those in a separate lesson coming up. So if you wanted to play this song and sing it right off the bat without, you know, playing the fancy stuff, you could just play it by playing the chords. So the a seven, the seventh, and then the E. Now the second verse, he does something similar, but not actually Exactly the same and what he does is he starts out and then right away, he's gonna move that shape 123 frets down until he's ready to change and then and again, if you could do that little bass stumble but he does this slide in the a seventh chord from the a flat seven to the a seven only goes to the five we got the B seven.
If you want to get a little bass in there, you can just take your hands off, get the open fifth string and then put that shape right down on top of it again. That's really all there is as far as the basic verses for Groundhog Day blues. Let's play one all the way through slowly before we we get into the single string runs and the solo. So here we go. So let's just start from the one on the verse So that's kind of the bare bones way of playing the verses in Groundhog Day blues. Now I'm going to show you some ways that you can spice it up a little bit, add some singles string rounds and then we'll get into the solo and then the end tag to wrap up the song