Chords for Country Blues Guitar Lessons - Dirt Road Blues - Paul Rishell - Down the Dirt 2

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_ _ 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.
_ _ [C#m]
And I'm just playing the one [F#m] note, _ just like a C sharp.
[D#] _ _ _ And just play it with your [C#m] index finger of your right [F#] hand.
So [G#m] _ _ _ _ [C#] that's the _ _ _ [D#m] ninth fret, _ _ [G#m] _
_ to the seventh fret, to the third fret.
_ _ [D#] And you'll be singing with that. _
_ [G#m] _ _ _ [E] Now comes the first riff, _ and [D#] you're at the third fret E, _ and you're going to do this riff.
Play the B at the fifth fret, _ _ back to the E at the third, _ _ _ [C#]
to the G at the [D#] sixth.
_ _ [C#] _ _
[G#] To the open G.
_ [F#] _ _
Now the D string, third fret.
[C#] _ _ 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, or
the G sharp against the C sharp here.
_ [D#] So it's, _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ and then thumb comes back on that root, [G#] and then _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ 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. _ _ _ _ _
Play [A#m] that string with the _ _ nail on your first or second finger, _ _ and come back on it.
So you're playing it in the downstroke and an upstroke.
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _
Now you're ready to [C#] do the first riff. _
And use your [D#] fingers _ _ on the B and the E string. _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ Then use your [C#m] thumb on the G.
_ _ _ [F#] _ [C#] _ _ Get the [F#] D with your thumb, [C#] _ _ and all the bass strings with your thumb.
_ [G#] Later on you're [D] going to bring your thumb up to the B string when we do _ the riff at the end.
Okay, so _ _ [C#] the first part of the verse, we're just playing a single note [F#] as we [D#] sing.
Here's the riff.
[A#] _ _ _ [C#] _
Now we're going to go to the four chord.
_ _ Keep your C position [F#] and move it up. _ _ _
So you get, now you're at the four chord here, and you got a C chord, [D#] the G is open, and
you got the E string [G] _ [F#] on the ninth fret.
_ _ _ And you're going to just strum that _ as [E] _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ you sing the second part of the verse.
I'm [F#] going away, _ _ _ _ _ to [E] an _ unknown [C#m] _
riff again.
_ [F#] Same [C#] riff, as we should the first time.
_ _ _ And that picking and strumming. _ _ _
And now you go to a G.
[G] [G#] I'm worried.
Now, G to a G7.
So I'm worried.
You [G] go to a half step [D#] from the G flat to the [G#] G, _ _ G to 7. _
Stop and sing.
I won't [E] be 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 fifth fret.
_ Play it with your thumb of your right hand.
[D] _ _ Use your second or first finger to play the open E [E] right after that.
[C#] _
_ Now move to the _ _ [Em] second fret, first fret from the capo, _ _ [C#] _
_ _ and then add [G] the G string, second fret.
[D#] So that's B string, fourth fret to the open E, _ [C#] _ to the B string, first fret, [E] _ _ [C#] _ _ [A#]
to the G string,
second [D#] fret.
[F] Now you're playing the B [A#m] _ and the G with your [D#] thumb.
_ [C#] _ _ _ [A#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Now you're in position.
Take your [C#] second finger off and do your right hand. _ _
_ Open E, the B at the first fret, and the G open.
_ _ And the same thing again. _
And add the root.
Third fret, E, A string.
So it's going to go [D#] like this.
_ [A#m] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ So from the G.
_ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [D#] _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [A#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And he ends the song [D] with just these three little [D#] notes. _
_ [F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
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