Little son Jackson's Groundhog Day blues is a great solo in there and you don't hear solos play too often in acoustic blues, but this is a cool and I didn't play it in the introduction. So let me play it all the way through for you on time and then we'll break it down and figure out what's being played and how Kind of cool and what he's doing it took me a while to figure this out. But he's playing this first read. And it's almost like an electric guitar thing where he's bending you never hear like country blues guys you hardly ever hear double string bands, but he said that's what he's doing. And the whole time over the one he's gonna keep the the sixth string thumping. And here's what I'm playing without the bass.
And I've got this shape. Remember this shape that we've played already, I'm just moving it down, or up two frets from the seventh and the eighth frets to the ninth and the 10th. And right here, I'm gonna band up please An open string there. Or you could be doing this coming down to the ninth fret of the third string, I think it's easier to play the open string. So let's start from the end of the previous verse. And then right here just a quick 1234 the whole first lip now he's gonna play this this really cool single string thing over the four which is the A, but if you want to understand this, he's playing over this shape of an egg.
Which is a first position barre chord. And right in here is an F shaped a chord. And the easiest way to figure this out and be able to play it is break it down the bass is just your fifth string being thumped throughout like we've done throughout the song. And then over that he's playing on the on the treble strings, and he's playing this. So what that is, is all over the a seventh shape, and I'm sliding in on the third string from the fifth fret to the sixth fret. And then my first finger is going to be on the fifth fret of the second string, first fret and then we've got 765 on the first string to the eighth fret of the second string.
Eighth fret of the second string, fifth fret sixth fret of the first and then to the fifth fret of the second string. The eighth fret of the second string, sweep the whole thing so far. And then we'll wrap it up in front of the first string, eighth fret of the second string, fifth fret of the second string, sliding, sliding it down. So let's play that whole thing slowly without the bass Pretty cool. So let's play the whole solo that we have so far. Now we're gonna go back over the one again and what he does here is plays this I'll do it without the bass.
So what I'm doing is an open first trying to lead into it, bending up on the third fret of the first string, releasing open first bending up on the third fret of the second string and then bending up on the third fret of the third string getting the open second string And then sliding, I'm using my second finger here to the second fret of the third string and getting that lick again. So that whole leg so let's play the whole solo again, what we've got so far. point we just play what we've played before. And then we go to the V seven. and here we can add any one of the single string rounds. We'll just use the simplest one.
Back to our Again, make sure you listen to the original recording and I'm kind of just showing you what he's playing. If you want to play it like he did, you got to listen to the recording. So let's go through the solo one more time slowly. Little son Jackson's Groundhog Day blues.