Chords for Country Blues Guitar Lesson - Down The Dirt Road Blues Breakdown - Paul Rishell

_ _ _ _ Alright, we're going to do Down the Dirt Road Blues now by Charlie Patton.
Capo it up one fret, playing in C position. _
_ We're going to start by just basically playing one note as we sing the melody, and we're
going to go up here.
And I'm just playing the one [D#] note, this is like a C sharp.
_ And just play [C#m] it with your index finger of your right hand.
So [G#m] _
_ [C#] that's the _ [D#m] 9th fret, _ [G#m]
to the 7th fret, to the 3rd fret.
And you'll be singing with that. _
[D#] Now comes the first riff, and you're at the 3rd fret E, and you're going to do this riff.
Play the B at the 5th fret, back to the E at the 3rd, [C#] to the G at the 6th.
_ [G#] To the open G.
[F#] Now the D string, 3rd [C#] fret.
Make a C chord, just play the first two strings of a C chord.
You're actually going to play, you're going to pull the open G against the C sharp.
The G sharp against the C sharp here.
[D#] _ _ _ [F#] _
[C#] And then thumb comes back on that root.
And then _ _ just sort of hit that root and strum.
So it's going to sound like this.
You start out the song with a chord.
_ Get your time together. _
[A#m] Play that string with the [C#] nail in your first or second finger, and come back on it.
So you're playing it on the downstroke and an upstroke.
[G#m] _ _
Now you're ready to do the first [Dm] riff.
And use your [D#] fingers on the B and the E string.
_ _ [C#] Then use your thumb on the G.
_ _ [G#] Get the D with your thumb, [C#] and all the bass strings with your thumb.
Later on you're going to bring your thumb up to the B string when we do the riff at the end.
Okay, [D#m] so the first part of the verse, we're just playing a single note [D#] as we sing.
Here's the riff.
_ [C#] Now we're going to go to the 4 chord. _
Keep your C [F#] position and move it up.
_ So now you're at the 4 chord here, and you've got a C chord, [G#] the G is open, and you've got
the E [G] string on the [F#] 9th fret.
_ And you're going to just strum that as [C#] _
_ you sing the second part of the verse.
[F#] I'm going away, _ to a world unknown.
[C#m] Riff again.
[C#] Same riff, just the first time.
_ And that picking and strumming.
_ And now you go to a G.
[G#] I'm worried.
[G#] Now, G to a G7.
So I'm worried.
[G] Go to a half step from the G flat to [G#] the G7.
Stop and sing.
I won't be [E] worried long.
Now you're going to finish off the song with the reason why we want to do this song.
It's a great riff at the end that he came up with.
And it works like this.
You're going to be using the B string to start the riff at the 5th fret.
Play it with your thumb of your right hand.
[F] Use your second or [G] first finger to play the open E right after.
[C#] Now move to the [Em] 2nd fret from the capo.
[C#] And [G] then add the G string 2nd fret.
So [D#] that's B string 4th fret to the open E.
[C#] To the B string 1st fret.
_ [A#] To the G string [D#] 2nd fret.
Now you're playing the B [A#m]
and the G with your thumb.
[C#] _ _ [A#m] _ _ _
Now you're in position.
Take your second finger off and do your [C#] right hand.
Open E, the B at the 1st fret and the G open.
And the same thing again.
And add the root.
3rd fret, A string.
So it's going to go like [A#m] this.
_ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ So from the G. _
[G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
[G#] I'm worried now, but I won't be [C#] worried long. _ _ _ _ _
And he ends the song with [D#] just these 3 little notes.
[D#m] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _