When he gets ready to sing, he's gonna play something a lot more complicated. I'm going to try to play it simple for you a simple version that I use. And if you listen to my blind boy Fuller, blind lemon, Jefferson, Reverend Gary Davis and others with a style of guitar, it always amazes me that these guys can sing while they played some of these guitar riffs. I can't, I can barely do one, let alone do both. It's hard enough for me to talk to you here. So I do this lesson and try to play something.

So anyway, I'll show you kind of a simple version. So it gets through with the introduction and we'll take it from the five What's a mystery to me is that first very first thing he does. When he gets ready to sing he does a little bass thing and what I play just to make it simple as I stumble like from six to four, six to five open then I stay on the on the open fifth string or you could do something like this and do another stumble. You can mix it up, listen to how he does it, right Before he gets ready to sing each verse, so for your sake, I think I played it like this the first time. Then right here, he's gonna play one of these single string rounds. And the way I'm doing is I'm keeping a seven shape.

And I'm starting on the fifth fret of the first string to the third fret, first third fret of the second string sliding into that a shape, and I started from an A flat first fret and I pick the second string and slide to the second fret and then get the third string. So watch this. Let's try that slowly. That first part got another stumble So this time we're going check the tab on that. And that's the way I'm playing it, which is I think kind of a simplified version, they play something like this. What I'm doing there is really just keeping my first finger on the second fret.

And I'm using my thumb and my first finger and I'm picking back and forth between the fourth string and the third string. Like that. Then I'm moving my first finger to the first fret of the fourth string, open third fret of the fifth string open. So we've got that. I think he might pinch the fourth string or the fifth string and the third string That's hard for it's hard for me. Any goes quickly too long a two and a seven.

So let's play that first part again slowly. We're gonna go over the D timing on that I slide into that D. I'm just picking five more. And then this is part of the song. I'm just gonna go single strings. I'm not gonna play it out of this a long a position. So I'm going three, five on the first string, the second string slide like that, so the whole thing again.

Now we're going just to what we played before. So if you listen to blind boy folders lead by woman alone when he plays over that over the vocals, that's where the guitar playing is really amazing. And what I have done to compensate for not being able to figure out everything is I just play a simple version. And again, the whole point of this is not for me to teach you in this lesson series. A Exactly how to play these tunes but to give you something that you can use to practice the skills and this song, I like it because it's got some different stuff in the key of A, the single string runs a lot of different things to show you the possibilities in this key. Let's play that verse, the vocal thing I call the vocal verse one more time slowly and then we'll move on to some variations.