The next chord that we're going to learn is the D chord and a couple variations on the D chord. The D chord looks like this. It sounds like that. What I'm doing with the D chord is I've got my first finger on the second fret of the third string, my second finger on the second fret of the first string, and my ring finger on the third fret of the second string. My fourth string is a D. So if I play it open, you can play that with the chord as well. So that is a D major chord, D major, the alternating bass that you're typically typically going to use With the D major is a five four to open strings you open fifth and the open for the monotonic bass.

With a D chord, you're typically not gonna play any any songs that I can't think of any offhand where you've got a monotonic D chord, and at least what you're playing in standard or regular tuning. So let's just hold off on that. And when we talk about the seventh chord, I'll show you the monotonic bass for that one. So with D major, just think about the alternating bass, which is a five, four. Now let's take a look at the D seventh chord. There are actually a couple different ways that you play this chord when you're doing country blues guitar.

I'm going to show you the most common version of the quarter one of the two most common and then a little bit later when we learn on some specific tunes, I'll show you a slight variation that you hear quite a bit. So the seventh, what we're going to do is just take our D chord and kind of reverse the fingers on it. So now my one finger is on the first fret of the second string, it's my first finger. My second finger is now on the second fret of the third string, where my first finger was before when we did the D chord. And then my ring finger is now on the second fret of the first string. Again, the open D, the fourth string is included.

So that is a D seven, here's a D major D seven. Hopefully, you could hear the difference there. Now with the alternating bass, with the D seventh chord played like this, and the other version that we're going to learn later, you can do the bass in it. A couple different ways the alternating bass One way is to stay Five, four. The other thing you can do is to take that thumb again, and this time, put it on the second fret of the sixth string. And you've got a little bit of a different sound in alternating bass, this time going six for the monotonic bass for the D seventh, typically is going to be the sixth string, which is going to be threaded with the thumb at the second fret.

Very rarely, at least, I can't think of any examples with you play the open fourth string just doesn't have enough bass to it's not low enough to really get that sound that you want. So the songs that we're going to learn there's a couple we're going to start out with in the key of C one by Mance Lipscomb slips comm called LSP where he's playing a monotonic bass throughout and when it gets to the D seven he's doing On the bass with the thumb right there. And that is the more than norm than the exception. So there are two D chord variations, we got the D major, we got the D seven. And then we learned the alternating bass that you can use for each one and also the monotonic bass more more so for the D seven. So now, you have all the chord shapes that you're going to need to play the songs that we're going to learn.

And what you need to do now is practice those chord shapes. And here in the next lecture, I'm going to go through a number of different practice exercises that will help you learn the chords and also start practicing the coordination and with the right hand developing the alternating bass and being able to start picking some treble strings with your right hand first finger and that is the whole ball of wax here that's really the essence of country blues guitar is being able to do that. Those kinds of things with your right hand making the chords with your left hand