Hey, hey, okay tell shuffle. There are two or three examples of this on the web, and some of them a little bit fast. But the one that I've shown on the beginning of this video is around about the same speed. At least the guitar is in concert pitch. Now I play this with a cap on the first fret, because I tune the guitar down half a step, which is my habit. It's not too difficult to get your fingers around the technical aspects of big bills playing.

But the most difficult part by far is making the song swing. It's almost uncanny how his thumb sweeps across the strings. A little bit delayed is not quite on the beat, and it produces a wonderful attractive sound. And this is hard to do. Before we look at the chord structure and the lesson structure and move on to the detail of the teaching, I just like to say that if there's ever a choice between making the swing the sounds, adding some technical difficulty, then lead to technical difficulty and make the song swing because the swing with big bills music is everything. Let's take a look at the colors are going to use a big bill brooms is Hey, hey, all guitars shuffle.

We're going to use peace. Seven with a bar on the fourth fret which we can easily turn to be by putting the little finger on the eighth fret there. We use a seven with the bottom of the second fret which we can easily turn is eight with a little finger again. We use an ordinary E chord. We have some hybrid chords when we start, like this one will sometimes slide that up. Sometimes Big Bill uses the last string to make this call.

As they move up the fretboard we find this code this code is turns into this code back again to the High Court. But he said he said oh sorry. They said he When we start to look at the tablature, and you'll see my right and left hand in closer. You'll see from the tablets that sometimes for example, if I'm playing a, I may show the open a chord, a string on the next string, which is fretted on the second fret, and I'll show them hit together. But of course, is Big Bill Hicks with his thumb. He adapts easily with the palm of his hand in this way.

Take a look at this and close up If you take a closer look at Bill's thumb in the YouTube videos, you'll see something unusual. Most of them we play this song, we hit one bass with our thumb, and we don't be that far. But in fact, Big Bill didn't do that. He strung across the bass strings with his thumb, he hit two or three at the same time. It's a difficult technique to master but it gives that swing music As is often the case, I have two versions of this song. One version I play on the street as my steel finger picks on a plastic thumping.

And the other version is fairly accurate to what Bill Big Bill was actually doing. The big difference is in the high part and then the part on the a seven chord when he starts to move this little finger down here, which is quite a stretch and quite difficult to do. On the seven chord, the street version sounds like this. Big Bill played he played this. So he used his little finger to stretch right down to the fifth fret. This is quite hard to do, particularly when you're playing in a big Bill's pace.

And certainly for the street. I just choose a simple one. I give examples of both these in the tablature both the street version and the original version. The other big difference is when we start to move up the chord and the higher frets bleed slowly, Big Bill like this. Many people play this version, which I also use for the street. Move up to the High Court again.

Let go and move to this court. play this way again. Slowly goes like this. You'll see my left hand in this way, I'll be playing quite slowly and the tablature will appear underneath my hand. The clip will be marked and numbered as introduction clip one or two etc. So you can find it easily when you're looking back through the video.

When you see my left hand forming the chord shapes, the tablature will appear below as for the right hand like this, and the chord shape will appear in either the left or the right hand top corner. But bear in mind that not every movement of my left hand will be shown on the chord shapes. These are just to indicate the basic chord pattern you should be making Big Bill as an alternative for the start section here, sometimes he hits the string with his finger and brings it off Of course you can vary the timing on this top section as well. You can play you could play this big doses both Notice when he moves down From the beat down to the A, also a sort of the treble notes before he hits the bass note on the a CT helps music swing along, listening for it.

I love the turnaround, his finger would move backwards and forwards. The treble strings are the high strings in this way. Think Big Bill broonzy use just one finger to make a special sound. But of course it is possible to use a second finger now and again to make it easier for us. In the following clip, I use two fingers Hay and you can play it in some kind of speed. Maybe you'd like to sing along with him.

Of course this brings its own peculiar problems we have to have some strategy for singing along with this syncopated music. Normally, I use a standard e seven chord. Now again, I'd hit the fifth string, my finger last