Chords for How to Play "Crosscut Saw" - Blues Guitar Lesson

_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ [Ab] _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _
[B] _ [C] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Cross-Cut [B] Saw, Albert King.
Hi, I'm Red and I'm here today to help you take a look at
the song Cross-Cut Saw.
_ [F] It's a rumba, _ but very often found in _ _ blues jams, any place
where you're going to hear the blues, you're very likely to hear the song.
_ _ We're in the
key of C, and it's a 1-4-5 pattern, so we have a C-F and a G.
_ We can use a variety of
chords.
We can use major chords, seventh chords, sixth chords, ninth chords. _
There's just
_ a load of options. _
_ I'm going to demonstrate a few of those options, _ and I'm going to _ basically
roll through the track one time.
I'm going to play some rhythm, then I'm going to roll
through it a second time, play some lead, then I'm going to stop and talk about what
I've done.
So here we go.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [Cm] _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Am] _ [Gm] _ _ [A] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ _
[Bm] _ [Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ [Cm] _ _ _ [D] _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _
_ [G] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [E] _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay, so in the rhythm, I was trying to mix it up so I could give [C] you some ideas of different
things.
I started off with a C7, and I was arpeggiating it.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] You could do this all the
way through the song, _ or you could start strumming.
You have a lot of different options, like
I said.
You could also use a ninth chord _ [A] with [Eb] _ _
the sliding six.
It gives it a real sweet
sound.
_ [B] _
_ _ [F] For the four, [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ [Cm] _ _ you could use a ninth chord with sliding six.
Same [F] for the five.
_ Another option is you could use a seventh chord.
And here's a real cool move that you can do with
a seventh chord.
[G] _ _ _ Five chord. _
_ Watch what I do here now.
_ _ Let's get you a little better view.
Okay,
I'm just playing a G7 chord right now.
_ And what I'm going to do is I'm going to leave this finger
right where it's at, but I'm going to move these two fingers up one fret. _ _
Five [C] chord, _ four chord.
I'm just playing three notes right now.
[Ab] I'm playing the second, third, and fourth string,
but I made a four [G] or a five-four move _
[C] right _ there.
_ _ [G] _
[F] _ _ [G] Just [C] _ _ turns into a seventh chord.
_ [Ab] [G] So what we've got
is a _ [C] G7, _ _ _ _ and then we've got an F7.
_ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] Just a different voicing of it.
Cool move. _
_ As far as the lead stuff
goes, _ major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, passing tones.
In a _ _ rumba, I find that the ones I prefer
the most are the guys like Albert King _ and definitely Gatemouth Brown.
I mean, these guys
put a lot of humor into their solo, _ and I think that's important.
Anson Funderburg, Freddie King,
you know, a lot of the Texas guys do that.
They put that humor in there.
But I think that's,
it's an important component.
You can _ just try to emote that humor somehow, or you can find a lick
that emotes it.
So if you're playing major pentatonic licks, you know, the B.B. King [D] Bach, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ you're connecting it to the minor pentatonic.
_ _ [B] _ [Gb] _ [Cm] _ _ _
See, I added that sixth in there _ _ [Ab] as a passing tone.
[B] _ _ [D] _ _ _
There's your six.
[Ebm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
If you want to add humor and you're looking for a lick, here is a humor lick,
the chicken lick.
_ I'm right here at the 11th fret on the second string _ and the 13th fret on the
first string.
_ [Gm] And I'm going to try to get a little bit of a bright _ picking thing going on here _ _ with
_ _ _ right hand muting happening on my [Gb] thumb. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ That little bend up, and that gives it a chicken sound.
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ The [E] _ [G] old chicken lick.
So there's some stuff to help you spice up your rumba,
your version of _ _ _ Albert King's