Chords for Blues Acoustic Guitar Lesson: Eric Bibb, Don't let nobody drag your spirit down

That's it.
_ _ [D] _ [A] _ [Em] _ [F#] _ [D] _
[A] _ _ [F#] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [F#] _
[D] _ [A] _ [G] _ [F#] [D] You [A] _ [Em] might [C] slip.
[A] [G] You [D] might slide.
[A] You [Em] might find [F#]
[A] yourself on the wrong side.
Hi, and [C] welcome to Masters of the Delta Blues Guitar
[D] with Kevin Duggan.
Don't you never _ turn your [A] spirit [Em] [F#] down.
[D] _ [A] _ _ [Em] _ [F#] _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [F#] _ [D] _ [A] _
[Em] _ [F#] _ [A] _ _ _ [A#] _ [Em] _ _
[A] That's a _ song by Eric Bibb, who's
an absolutely phenomenal _ contemporary modern day blues guitarist.
And _ _ _ _ he's _ almost like our modern day Robert Johnson,
he seems to me anyways.
But that's my rendition of his song.
And I've just learned it fairly recently,
so that's my excuse for not having it down really good.
But what the song is, and sometimes he plays it,
I was trying to learn it, and sometimes he plays it
down a half _ step.
He tunes his guitar down a half step,
so it was hard for me a little bit to learn.
But all it is is basically an A chord.
_ I'm in a [D] drop D tuning, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ so I have two D's.
Great tuning if you're in a D, _ _ _ playing in D.
So [Gm] then my G is like this, and he uses a G,
and he also uses an E.
So for his E chord, an E chord would be thumbed like this
with a drop D, because the G's up [E] here, which is usually here,
and [D] the E's here, which was usually open.
So he puts his thumb [E] over the top when he does his E chord,
_ [G] _
[D] and then he [A] starts _ [C] _ _
off on the third fret.
[A] _ _ _ _ _
You're getting almost like that John Lee Hooker style.
[C] _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ So it's the C note, _
[Am] then [G] hammering [D] down _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ on [D] the [C] E
and then the A.
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _ Then two.
[C] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ [C] _ [A] _ _
[Em] _ [F#] _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [G] _ [F#] _
[G] Then this bass note, G, [F#] _ _ [C] _ _
back to the C, [E] hammer, _ [D] _
A.
_ [C] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [F#] _ [D] _
[A] _ _ [G] _ [F#] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ [F#] _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ Then he goes into the part where he does the four chord.
And what he does, he does something,
_ if you're familiar with Mississippi Blues, which
was written by _ _ _ Willie Brown, I believe.
_ He's using the same type of a chord setup structure as that.
But I do it like a double bass net.
And before he goes into that, he does a chromatic run.
_ A, open, [B] _ [C] _ _ [C#] _ _ [C] then into it.
_ This is right up here.
You're using, what would be your E note? _ _ _ _ _
And you see, _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[D] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[D] so you have these two.
_ _ If you look up at the end where [C] my fingering is,
_ you have these two [G] fingers, which one, _ _
[Am] one, two.
_ _ [E] Then on the same [G] two strings, which
is your B string and your _ G string, you're sliding back.
So you get in the B and the D. _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ Then just slide that all the way
back, like you were going to do an F [Dm] chord almost.
And you have a C and an A.
_ [C] _ _ _ _
So it would be like, _ _ [C#] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _
[D] _ _ then this [E] little run,
which is starting on an E _ [F] _ [F#m] chromatically,
[E] _ [F] then [F#] _
[D] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _ [Am] _
[Bm] _ [D] _ [A] back into the A. _ _
_ [G] _ [F#] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [F#] _
[D] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [F#] _ _ [C] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C] _
[D] _ [A] _ _ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ [G#] So the next chord he's going to go into
will be the turnaround chord, which
is going to be your E chord.
So like I said before, if you have problems with it,
you could always go like this.
[B] But the reason he's reaching over the top
is because he's bending these strings.
And he's got three fingers to do [E] it with.
_ _ _ _ So with your thumb over the top, _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ then right back down
to the chord you used in the four chord run, which
is a C and an A.
_ _ _ _ But you're also hitting the open D note up [D] top.
You hear it fuller.
[G] Then a [F] little, [F#] _ [A] _ [C] _ _ so you're [D] going _ _ [F] _ [F#] _ [Dm] _ [F#] _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ [D] _ [C] _ _
[A] back to the A.
_ [Em] _ [F#] _ _ [D] _
[A] _ _ [Em] _ [F#] _ [D] _ [A] _ [G] _ [F#] _
[D] _ [A] _ [G] _ [Am] _ [Bm] _ [C] _ [Am] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ [Dm] _ _ [A] _
_ [F#] _ [D] _ [A] _ [Em] _ [F#] _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ _ _
[A] _ [Em] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ [F#] _ [C] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Em] So that's it.
So it's not all that complicated, actually.
But to sing while you're doing that bass run,
when you're doing the turnaround chord here, that's C, E.
And I'm bending it.
I know I'm exaggerating it more than he does.
I don't have it _ perfectly matched to his style of playing.
But I have the chords that he's playing.
And maybe my timing's a little bit off.
But if you look at what I'm doing,
you're not far away from doing what he does.
And again, he's a great _ musician.
_ So thanks.
This is Kevin Duggan at [D] Masters of Delta Blues Guitar.
And this is a contemporary song influenced by the Delta _ _ style.
Thanks. _