First first kind of that there is really no introduction to this, he just starts into this instrumental, what I call instrumental verse. And he's gonna be playing in this position, this is a long and he starts out with this leg and this double stop right here. And I've got my I'm using my second and my third finger, my second fingers on the fifth fret of the second string, third finger on the sixth fret of the third string, and I'm sliding into it from below. Now coming back to an A. So let's take a look at the whole app. Now we could use the monotonic bass like I'm doing there, or we can use an alternating bass or you could do a little bit of both or mix it up throughout the song.

Really kind of fun. He does that again. With a little variation, if you listen to the original recording, you know, he kind of does a little smear from the fifth fret back to the to the a seven. Now in the introduction, I went ahead and did this. This is a D, D double stop the same one we used in mockers blues and also in blues come to Texas, and I'm adding a bass with the open fifth and the open fourth, if we're playing a D chord. That's our base.

So as I go into here, I can use those two strings as my base string. So let's do the whole first part. Just doing a four or five, four, like that. And then I'm going here which is a really cool clarify on this if you can, if you listen to the song, he does some different stuff on those on those bass strengths. And right now the easiest way to do it maybe something like that. Start that base before I finish So starting here on the second fret of the third string, open second string, first, second, third, fourth, fifth.

Or we can just get the open first string. Then we go to the third fret of the second string and then slide into the A. That's how I play it. Now, if you listened to blind boy Fuller's version, I think he does something a little different there. But this is an easy way to play this tune. And I honestly have not studied blind boy folders playing as much as I should.

I don't know what he would do there. So I'm playing a simple version. So let's take the whole thing again. We're going into a long a, we're actually gonna play a little bit of this turnaround thing. What I'm doing here is that same Robert Johnson style turn around, but we're playing it differently. We're taking our ring finger from the fifth to the fourth fret of the fourth string with our pinky anchored on the first fret of the fifth string or fifth fret of the first string.

That I'm taking my fingers off, so I still got the a position with my first finger, getting the fourth string and then I'm walking from the fifth to the fourth on the fifth string and then back into the A. So the whole deck goes like this. So after I come here, I'm just picking up, I'm getting the third and fourth strings with my first finger. And then back into that. Long a, I've got a little grace note there on the second string. To complete it, that's a tough lick if you don't want to play that.

If you don't want to do that, you could do it like this. Do something like that. Or you could do this. You could do that. Just play an a seventh chord there until you're ready to play that lick. So again, he's doing this One more time.

He's going to the now he's going to use a lick that he does throughout the and this is one again where I'm not sure I'm playing it exactly like blind boy fuller played it, but it works and what I'm doing here, my first finger is on the second fret of the second string. And I'm using my thumb pick, I can use my first finger but I get a little more on my thumb pick. I don't think I did that when I played it through the first time I think I use my first finger. He's gonna walk on the second string. So when I do that first lick, I'm getting the open first string. So it's one, two Three, open first third fret of the second string back into the A.

Do that turn around again. So that's the opening that first leg. Let's listen to the original recording, try it with your thumb with my first finger. This doesn't sound as good, I don't think so. Try it either way, whatever works, works for you. So let's play that first verse.

This is how he starts out the song and we'll call this the instrumental verse because I'll show you a variation of this hair, and all of that. So let's play it slowly. And that's roughly how he he starts it off.