Chords for Freddy King Guitar Lesson The Stumble Part 1

_ _ _ _ _ Hi, and welcome to another one of my guitar videos for great electric guitar blues instrumentals. _ _
This lesson takes on one of the epics of electric guitar blues instrumentals.
It's called The Stumble by the great Freddie King.
I had a request to teach this song, and this is one of the greatest instrumentals ever.
It's got so many [E] licks and so many ideas that you can take [Eb] from this and use it.
_ _ _ [E] You can take the whole [D] thing.
It's a fantastic instrumental.
_ _ [E]
To understand The Stumble, the easiest way to do it is [Gbm] to understand that [Eb] there are a
couple different chord patterns that the instrumental _ [N] verses are played over.
If you know those chord patterns, then it makes everything a lot easier.
So basically, what the rhythm guitar is playing while Freddie is doing his [Ab] thing.
So I'm going to start off the song.
[E] It's in the key of E. _ _
_ _ _ [G] And you really don't use too many chords in [Db] the song when you're playing the lead part,
but I'll still show you [Eb] the rhythm chords.
First [Ab] part of the song is really just played over in _ [Gm] a simple one-four-five progression.
_ First _ _ starts out really [Eb] on the A, on the four chord.
So I'm just going to play you the basic rhythm, and then I'll show you the first verse over [A] this. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So, what we've got is an [A] A seventh, _ _ or an A. _ _
Then we go to an [E] E seventh.
_ _ [A] I'm playing this like a C seventh.
Just _ _ [Fm] slide it [E] up.
_ _ A seventh [A] again. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] Just go down or up [Eb] two frets to the B.
[B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] So that's really the whole song.
_ _ [C] Most of the verses are [Gm] played over that chord pattern.
_ _ So let's [Bb] start out the song with the [E] opening verse.
Then I'll show you how the chord pattern fits [G] over it, and we'll go from there.
_ Starts out, we're in the key of E.
I'm just [Gm] going to show you some stuff.
So basically down here on the twelfth fret, [E] _ _ we've got an [N] E chord.
This is our E blues box.
We're going to be playing in this area for most of the song.
Although we will [Dbm] go [Gb] down to that quite a bit.
So the first verse goes like this. _ _ _
What he's doing is sliding down to the eleventh fret of the [A] fourth string. _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
And then he's going to the ninth fret of the third [Em] string to the eleventh fret _ of the third string. _ _ _ _ _
You _ _ could _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ play it like that, but I think he slides up the neck _ _ _ like that.
_ [Ab] You'll hear this lick throughout the song.
Then he goes to the blues box [A] and he _ plays_
_ _ _ _ [N] What we're doing is just bending on the third string at the twelfth to the fourteenth fret.
_ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ I'm not going to walk through [Ab] that and tell you every note he's playing.
You can [A] figure this out. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ Let's play it faster. _
_ _ _ _ _ So that whole first _ _ _ [A] phrase_ _ _
[Db] He's got the chords.
He puts in [N] an A ninth chord here.
_ So my first finger on the eleventh fret of the fourth string.
My second finger [A] _
on the A note at the twelfth fret of the fifth string.
Then my ring finger [Gb] is flattening out, [G] covering the first, second, and third [A] strings at the _ _ twelfth fret. _
[N] _ _ _ [A] _ So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ that's the first part.
_ _ Then _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [N] he's going to throw in an E ninth. _
The way I'm playing that is just your first position, E ninth.
Let me just show you.
Here's the _ _ chord.
I've got my first finger on the eleventh fret of the fifth string.
I've got my second finger on the eleventh fret of the third string.
I've got my ring finger on the twelfth fret of the fourth string.
And I've got my pinky on the twelfth fret of the second [Bm] string.
_ _ [C] And _ then I'm sliding _ _ down.
[Cm] _ [Ab] _
_ _ So I'm taking that whole chord from one fret down to the E ninth position.
I'm [Bb] playing the whole thing.
[A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
When I play [Bb] that chord, I'm really [Ab] focusing on the top three [A] strings.
[Ab] _
_ _ _ [Eb] When you listen to the original recording, I think that's what he's doing.
Then we repeat [Em] the verse. _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ Then, [B] when the song goes to the B, or the five chord, he's going to come up here.
This is a B chord.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [N] So this is just a slide on the third string. _
_ Starting from the fourth string up to _ _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ [E] the seventh fret of the third string.
Then sliding [Bm] down the eleventh fret.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ It's a good little [Bm] motion. _ _
_ Then _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ [B] _ _ _ [G] he wraps it up, going from the ninth to the eighth to the ninth.
[Bb] _ [B] _ _
_ So let me play that whole [Db] thing again.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
[Abm] _ _ _ He hits [Em] that last note. _
Sounds like he's sliding down.
_ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So _ that's the whole first verse, basically.
Let's go [E] over that whole thing again. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ And that brings us