Let's figure out how to play stack elite by Mississippi john hurt. Let's start over the D, the one and I'll just play with he's playing and then we'll, we'll talk about what's going on here. So he starts out with this. What I'm doing here is playing my five for bass. In fact, I start the whole song off by pinching the open fifth. And then pinching getting the first ring and hammering on to the second fret of the first string.

That's the phrase that kicks off the to the what I'm doing here with my left hand, I'm just doing these hammer ons with the second finger of my left hand on the second fret of the first string. So without the the base second time I start with my finger on the second fret of the second string first. Then I take it off, put it back on, so check the tab on this. Let's play that one more time. One more time slowly. Then maybe the one tricky part of the tune is when he makes this quick switch from the D to the G he does something like this.

What I'm going to end up in is a G chord apart. G chord with just my second finger on the second fret of the fifth string and my ring finger on the third fret of the sixth string, that quick lick and do a hammer on on the first fret of the first string. And then right after I do that my thumb is coming down on the open fourth string is I get into the, the G chord. So let me play that for you in context. When it gets over the G, I'm just taking my pinkie and going to the third fret of the second string with the open first string. And I'm going to hammer on with the pinky to the third fret of the second open first string.

So with the base play, Then I'm going back to the D. Just for a moment. And then I'm gonna slide into into a long a like that. And the way I'm getting into that the way I play it is a play kind of a roll with my right hand, I'm going to get the open fifth string with my thumb. I'm going to upstroke with my first finger and get the A chord, second, third and fourth string. And then I'm coming down with my thumb on the fourth string, which is fret of that the second fret is part of my a CT. So I got this little figure and that's a way to get into my long a like this.

I'm gonna get the long a with my pinky at the fifth fret of the first string, coming right back on the fifth string. So I got this I make that move from A to B a seventh while keeping the alternating bass going. Let's play everything we've got so far for stack elite. Before we do the last part, we got this we just come back to our ID. When we do this, we go into it with that pinch on the fifth string and the second string is or the first string is a hammer down to the second fret. Then I'm taking my D D shape my fingers off the frets and getting the basically the open second and third strength and then putting it back back down.

So we got this. And that's really it. There's a few variations in the tune the way he plays it does a few little variations on how many times he hammers on and pulls off and, and things like that. But for the most part, that's what you need to really play the song. And if you want to add some variations, you'll mix things up on the different chords and you're picking you can do that. So anyway, let me play stack aliy all the way through one time slowly And there you have our first song in the key of D. Mississippi john hurts steadily