Third song that we're going to learn in the QB is called Mojo hand by lightning Hopkins. And let me play just a little bit of it here for you. And this one doesn't have a monotonic bass or an alternating bass instead, it's got this shuffle rhythm and there's a lot of chord playing chord strumming involved. There's one part where he does play a little monotonic bass but not too much. So this is a little bit different than what we've been learning so far. But it's a fun tool to play and it will help you get started learning a lot of the cool things you can do in the key of E. So here is Mojo hand by lightning Hopkins without the singing.
I'm just gonna play it as an instrumental That's a little bit of Sam Hopkins lightnin Hopkins is Mojo hand. And this is our first introduction to the shuffle rhythm. And we're in the key of E. Now if you watch the video I watch there's a video from the 1960s where lightnin Hopkins was filmed performing a lot of his songs, including this one. And the tuning either I think he's tuned to F, he's got a his his guitar tune. So when he's playing and he he's actually playing an F and you can take a cable and put it on the first fret and be able to play along with the recording if you want to do that. I've also got another lightnin Hopkins CD where he is playing in the key of E. And lightnin Hopkins just like john Lee Hooker and electric blues recorded hundreds and hundreds of sides.
And so when you say a certain you say a certain song like Mojo Han, there might be a dozen different versions of him playing this recorded. Live. I'm gonna base my lesson off two versions of his song. One is the video that you could see the film of him from the 60s. And you can find that on YouTube. And the other is from an album or a CD called lightning.
And just Li ght ni n apostrophe, and it's got a bluish cover. That's the one I have. And that's why I learned some of the lyrics of the song. So let's talk about the courts. The courts are pretty simple got an E, first position at which we're going to use a lot. We've also got an A seventh.
And just like most every tune in the key of E, we're going to use a B seventh. And as far as the chord structure goes, that's it. There's no other chords involved. All the little licks and things that we're going to be playing are played over those chords. So let's get started learning Mojo hand