Chords for Stefan Grossman teaches a slow blues in C (part 1 of 2)

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[D#] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [C] _ [E] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
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[Gm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
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_ _ Well, that was a slow blues in C, initially based on the playing of Blind Blake.
Now, if you don't know the name of Blind Blake, well, you should stop right now and go down
to your local record shop and get the Yazoo record of Blind Blake's recordings from the
1920s.
One of the great blues and ragtime blues guitar players that ever played.
I started off playing sort of his early morning blues, and then by the second verse, I took
off and I was playing some piano blues from Jelly Roll Morton, some other tunes, little
licks that I [Em] made up and putting them all together into this mishmash of a slow blues in C.
Let's get ourselves in tune to begin with, and then we'll get into this blues mishmash together.
Here's my high E. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Make sure you're in tune with that.
I should be tuned just about to pitch. _ _
[B] Here's my B. _ _ _ _ _
_ How about the third [G] string, a G? _ _ _
_ _ Check guitars. _ _ _
Here's the D, [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] the A, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and the [E] low E. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Let's play a C chord, just a regular first position [C] C chord, but put your pinky on the
third fret of the first string to add to it. _
_ _ _ _ It sounds like we're doing all right.
[G] Now, the chords are just first position chords.
There's nothing difficult at all [C] about that.
A C, [F] an F.
Check out the way I'm playing my F chord with my thumb hooked around on the
first fret of the sixth string.
I'm not doing a bar F chord.
I don't find that at all convenient for playing any type of music, [G] practically.
Then a G. _
Sometimes we'll have a G7.
I may sometimes put my pinky on the third fret of the fourth string for a [C] G7 as well. _
_ _ The first verse, pretty simple. _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ I am trying to stumble the bass a little bit like Brian Blake.
Instead of just playing an alternating [G] bass solid, I'll break [C] up the bass a little bit,
and every once in a while I might go [G] _ to syncopate to give it a little bit [C] more drive.
So, from the beginning, [F] _ into the [G] F, _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Gm] into [C] a C7.
There.
[F] Now we go into the F chord.
You notice that my pinky is helping to carry the melody. _
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_ _ [C] _ C, [G] stumble into the G.
[C] _ _ [A] _ _ [A] _ That's a very [B] typical Brian Blake [C] riff.
I'll do it again for you.
_ [G] _
G7, [C] _ _ _ [D] _ and you have your pinky going from the [A] fourth to the third _ of the second string,
frets that is, into the A7.
_ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ That's something a little bit of [F#m] Grossman in there.
I'm sliding up to this position of a D chord, where I have my index finger on the fifth
fret of the first string, [D] middle finger on the seventh fret of the _ second string. _ _ _
_ That reminds me [E] a little bit of Big Bill Brunsby's [F#] playing. _
[D] _ _ [Am] _ [Em] If you like that, that's also going to be found in Country Blues Guitar, part [D] two of the video. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ And then into the G, _
_ _ [C] _ resolve into the C, [G] end tag.
[C] Now this end tag, by the [Em] way, _ we're going to [G] have a little bit of a bass run.
[B] _ _ [C] _
You can spend [B] hours developing [G] different end tags.
Here's one.
_ [C] _ Here's another one.
_ [F] _
_ [C] _ Here's another one. _ _ _
_ _ _ Take your choice.
[G#] Okay, let's split the screen, though, before we get into the second section, which really
tries to explore some of these ideas.
Let's make sure you have this down pat.
Let's split the screen and try it.
Take a look at your tab music.
What you have there is exactly what I'm playing [Gm] during the split screen.
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _
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_ [D#] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
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