Chords for How to Play "Stormy Monday" - Blues Guitar Lesson - Bar Room Blues Songs

[Gm] _ _ _ [D] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ [G] _ _ [G] _ _
Call it Stormy Monday, [Abm] a great old blues song.
Hi, I'm Red and I'm here to help you take a look at Stormy Monday.
We'll look at both lead and rhythm.
I'm going to run through the track one time and play some rhythm stuff and then I'll roll
through once and play some lead stuff.
Then I'll stop and talk about what I did.
We're in the key of G. _
What's very cool about this song is it follows a standard 1-4-5 blues pattern, but it incorporates
a chord change that spices it up and makes you think a little bit when you're soloing.
For that matter, when you're playing rhythm too.
Here we go.
I'm going to zoom the camera in so you get a little better look at my fretboard.
_ _ _ _ _ There we go.
_ And Stormy Monday.
I'm going to start with a G9 chord.
_ [G] _ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ [E] _
C9 [B] back to a G9.
I'm doing the sliding [C] 6th.
_ [B] _ [Am] _ [Gm] Sliding 6th on the C as well.
[Gm] _
_ _ _ [G] G7, [Am] A minor 7, [Bm]
B minor [Bb] 7, [D] Bb7, [Am] D9, _ [G]
D [Gb] sharp 9, D9 [G] back to a G9.
_ [E] C, [G]
G, [D] and then D [E] augmented.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _
[E] _ _ [Gm] _ [Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [D] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ [C] _ [D] _
[Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Gb] _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ [G] Alright, _ _ _ _ _ now a quick run down of what I was doing there.
Over the G chord, _ I'm playing either a G9 or a G7.
Over the G9, I can do the sliding [C] 6th.
[Bb] And _ with the G7, [G] I can do this little hammer, or I guess a finger roll with a minor 3rd hammered.
Basically, on [C] the G7, _ that's a C major triad on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th [Bb] string.
Then, G minor triad, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th string.
And then hammer to the major 3rd on the 3rd string.
[B] [G] That move sounds like this.
[C] _ [B] _ [Em] [Cm] Notice I was hybrid picking.
I'm using the pick and a few fingers.
It goes back to the C9.
You can do [Am] sliding 6th there.
[Gm] _ _
_ _ Then on the walk [G] up, _ we've got a [Am] G, [Em] then an A minor.
I'm using an A minor 7, and I'm doing a little hammer on the 3rd string.
[Am] _ _ B minor, [Bm] same hammer, _ [Bb] _ a Bb7, [D] then a D9, [Am] _
[Eb] _ [Ab] [Gb] D sharp 9, [G] D9 _ back to the G.
[C] C, [G] G, [D] and then a D augmented.
I'm going to show you that move.
This is a very cool blues move.
Basically, I'm arpeggiating the D augmented, and then I'm adding the E note on the 2nd
string at the 5th fret, and the G note on the 1st string at the 3rd fret.
Here's that move.
I'm going to play it slowly for you so you can pick it up.
_ _ [Gb] _ [Eb] _ _
Here's what it sounds like at full [D] tempo.
[E] _ [B] _ [Gm] As far as the lead goes, I'm playing G minor pentatonic, G major pentatonic, and I'm mixing them together.
I'm trying to follow the change over the minor chords.
I'm playing right up in here. _
_ That's the B.B. King box.
I can also play those same notes right over here.
[Gm] _
_ Then I'm also playing G minor pentatonic, [Bb] _ _
[Ebm] _ extending that on the _ 1st and [Gm] 2nd string.
_ That allows me to connect, it kind of connects me right between the minor and major pentatonic.
_ [C] _ [Gm] _ [Dm] _ [C] Okay, the last thing I'm going to give you is that little lick I used in the minor pentatonic
there, _ _ _ slowed down.
_ _ [Bb] _ [F] One [C] more time at speed.
_ Alright, I hope that helps give you some insight to the song, and