Chords for I'll Play the Blues for You Lesson with Stovepipe

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_ [Gb] _ [Bm] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [G] _ [D] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [E] _ [B] [G] Hey, it's Stillpipe, how you doing?
Hey, I wanted to show you guys an Albert King tune called I'll Play the Blues for You.
Albert King reminds me of my Uncle John.
He [E] sounds just like him, [G] or sounded just like him.
[Em] I saw him live a couple of times.
Can't tanker this dude, _ for sure.
_ [G] _ _
Good guy and has some good tunes, cool tunes.
This one we play as a rumba.
[Em] It's in G.
[G] _
We play it as a minor blues.
I play G [Em] minor, which is basically hold down those two strings [G] and then barre at your third fret. _ _ _ _ _
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[Em] Get your rumba going there.
_ Rumba rhythm, [B] I'll play through it one [A] time and I'll explain [Gm] to you what I'm doing. _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Em] _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ When you're down and out, [Cm] _ I'm feeling [G] you hurt. _
_ _ _ Come on [Cm] _ over, _ _ just [G] come. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] And all your loneliness, [Em] _
[Dm] _ _ I'll try [Cm] to _ soothe.
_ I'll [G] play the blues for you. _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ G _ minor, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] C minor.
_ _ _ _ [A] Just like an A minor shape here, just slide it down [Dm] to C.
_ [Cm] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ What [A]
I'm doing is I'm [Eb] going through a 12 bar progression.
The only change is [D] instead of going to the five, [C] then the four, _ _ [G] coolly _ he'll go to [Bb] the
three, _ which is B flat, [G] then [Dm] the five, _ then the [Cm] four.
_ Some people will do that twice.
We just generally do it one [C] time.
_ Then we go [G] back to one.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ Sort of that cha-cha rhythm, or I call it a rumba.
Let's play through this.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ Now we're going to go to the three.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Em] _ [Dm] _ _ _
[Am] _ [Cm] _ _ Stop.
_ Three, [G] four.
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ Two, three, four.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Em] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ Three, [G] four.
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[G] _ _ _ _ Two, three, four.
Right?
It's a cha-cha rhythm, _ [Em] but I solo G pentatonic minor, _ the Albert King box.
If you don't know the Albert King box, go to my beginning blues, the five part.
[G] Just pick up _ _ _ the [Cm] first lesson there, second lesson, [Gm] _ _ and I'll show [G] you how to get through
the Albert King box and how to find it, and it's movable along with your blues scale.
Basically as you're rolling on, _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ I'm like, yeah, I'm playing. _
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_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ [C] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Just [Em] sort of going off rhythmically, [Dm] staying right in that blues box.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Dm] _ _ [Cm] _ [Dbm] _ _ _ [C] _
[Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ So _ _ any of that stuff works.
And what I'm doing is just, I [Dm] love that walk up [Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [Gm] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ that I do rhythmically. _
_ _ [C] _ [G] Then I'll find the four, either here _ [C] or at the four here, or I'll [E] bend this up.
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_ _ _ _ Then I'll outline the five, whether it's _ _ _ like [C] that.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Albert King, I'll play the [C] blues for you.
Super cool, super fun song.
_ People will dance like crazy to this song.
_ [Cm] _ And I enjoy playing it, I really do.
We take our time with this song because everybody wants a piece of it.
Because you're playing [G] along, man, you're just like, man, I just _ gotta_ _
_ [Em] I gotta bend the shit out of that string.
[G] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Ab] _ [A] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [Am] _
[Eb] It's fun because you can really dig in. _ _
Albert King, I'll play the blues for you.
Nockney Sally's been playing this song a long time.
I've been playing it a long time.
_ It's a lot of fun.
Some variations [Em] of it out there.
I played it with the Memphis Blues Masters at New Year's, and _ one of the other guitar
_ players was playing the two turnaround _ version.
The bass player was playing the [Ab] one turnaround version.
They kept looking at each other, and I [A] just kept saying, hey man, whatever you do to the
head, I'm coming [G] back in vocally.
So _ we got around, and I was like, okay, head, here we go.
Boom, back in.
_ So we had fun with it, had a good time, and it's an awfully fun song.
So have fun with it.
Still 5, out.
Thanks, guys. _ _ _ _ _ _