The verses in Big Bill parentheses mocker blues, the simplest way to play this is, is what I played for you and the introduction. But when I listen to the original recording, I think he's doing some other things over the one that are really hard to hear and I can't make them out for sure. So let's first learn what I think is the easiest way to play this and then I'll show you some ideas I have on the variations. So anyway, over the wire, once he gets to three with the introduction, we got this and that's what he's playing over the one so it's holding a seventh shape. And really thumping on that open fifth string, getting a little bit of the fourth string too. cycle 123 like this.

And that's a simple way you can play that song. If you're singing this, then you're singing. And then you're coming in with that. The way I hear it on the recording is he's holding an a seventh chord and then picking the second string, first string. And then bowstrings upstroke. So a second string, first string, second string, second string, that something like that.

Let me play it in contact. Like that. And that's all he's doing again, When he goes over the four, he's gonna play something like this. I think this is gonna be easier to play if you do it with your first and second finger. What that does, it allows your second finger to play this riff right here. So what I'm doing is sliding in with my second finger on the sixth fret of the second string to the seventh.

Then my first finger is gonna come on the fifth fret of the first string. And I can't really hear on the recording what he's playing, I think he's just sliding into that. While the stump in the open fifth string, even though he's playing over the D, he's still thumping the open fifth string to play something like that. Right here, he's gonna take his ring finger and get this the eighth fret of the first string. And then take that ring finger to the seventh fret of the first and that's what he's playing. So again, slowly something like that you can get more single strain you can double up whatever you want to do that.

Then he's gonna go back to the A. So let's play everything we got so far from the one I've tried to play slowly. For the for the verses for most of the verses he's gonna play. So I just dumped in the open six string picking back and forth between the second and the first string doubling them up a little bit. So we got the D seventh chord turnaround that he plays is and is a an A. He Savin back to the A.

And that's really all this he's playing in the in the simple, simple version of this. So let's go through that again from the beginning and I'll play it all the way through Let's start from the one. Again when I do this slide here on the D. I've been practicing this using an electric guitar and it's easy to play it like this with your third finger but on the acoustic, I think it's a lot easier to do it this way because you can get that note on this on the first string. So that's the way I would try to learn that like that