So hesitation blues, there's really two parts to learn first, what does he do on the verses and depending on the version you're listening to, there can be dozens and dozens of verses. So in my example, I just went through two or three of the verses. Each verse starts out with this riff a minor. And the way I'm playing it is I've got my a minor shape with my left hand. With my thumb, I'm getting the bass which is the open fifth string. Then I'm dragging my first finger from the first string up there, bringing my thumb down so my my motion with my right hands is like this.

Almost a roll with my first finger and my thumb that's Typical Gary Davis type thing. Then I'm going to move to an East seven and do the exact same pattern back to an A. And then right there, we're going to get off the east seven, and just strum it and choke it off before we go into our first single string round. So let me try that one time for you slowly. And then we're gonna do our first single string round. And this is going to take us into a C seventh chord, which we're going to play a little differently.

Instead of the ring finger being on the fifth string, we're going to have it on the third fret of the sixth string. With that bass, now the single string round is an open first string. To three sounds like this. And then we're gonna go to the second first fret of the second string. Then open into a C seven chord. When we get to that C seventh, we're pinching the sixth string and the third string, getting the second string and then the alternating bass.

So let me play that whole first part for you. There is the first part of hesitation blues. From there, he's going to go into the app So what we're playing over the F, again with the alternating bass, six, four is that pattern one more time. That's very similar. Not exactly the same, but you know, same kind of thing that we were playing. When we're doing I'm busy and you can't come in over the app.

So anytime we're in an app. There's lots of different ways to mess around on that second string. And so this song has a little different version. Listen to it again, one more time. Really cool stuff. The key lick here is there.

What I'm doing is I'm using my ring finger on the fourth fret of the second string, and my second finger on the fourth fret of the fourth string. So we've got this. What I'm doing is pinching the fourth and the second string, getting the open first string. This part you probably would probably be best just to look at the tab and see what I'm doing. We're winding up back in our C shape again, so the whole leg and then open third string, third fret of the fourth string second fret takes us back to a seat. So the whole app again.

And then once we get back to our C, we come back to our alternating bass again, we're going to have the the ring finger on the third fret of the sixth string. So let me play everything we have so far. Let's take it from the stop. And now there's about a million different ways that Gary Davis will go from this end of the sea from the C into the G. We're going to do a real simple one and here's what I'm doing. So let me do it in context. that's taken me into a G, open first string, first fret, third fret of the second string, open second string, second fret of the third string.

So let's take it in context from the app. We're gonna do one of these. Another leg over the seat. Let me play the whole thing. The turnaround part is one of the many that Reverend Gary Davis does this one I'm not even sure if I've heard him do this or if I made this up myself, it's hard to keep track of them. But it's just a simple way of doing the turnaround.

So we start from this. So my first part is a C pinched fifth string, second string. Then I'm going to g7 pinching the sixth and the first string and taking my first finger off the first string, so we've got that I'm walking back into the C, second fret third fret on the fifth string. And then just continuing the alternating bass and then going to a G. So watch how we do this. So let's see g7 C, G. Now another turnaround that you could do here is the one we use for East St. Louis Blues. So you could play something like this.

That would work too. And in fact, Reverend Gary Davis uses that quite a bit when he plays the song. So let's take the whole first verse of hesitation. blues before I show you the next verse, goes like this. There you have the first verse