Chords for My Babe - Little Walter - Lesson

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_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Db]
Okay, this is a Little Walter song.
Little Walter actually was from Toledo, where [F] I'm
from.
He's a harmonica player.
So we're going to learn some subtleties and how to play along
with a harp.
_ And what the guitar player is doing in the intro, they start kind of on
the verse.
They're doing, _ _ it's in the key of F, _ _ _ and we start out _ barring the first,
second and third string at the first fret.
And we're going to hammer on into an F with
our second finger onto the third string.
_ _ Hit it again, [Db] and then you hit the second and
third string at the [Bb] third fret.
_ [Db] And then you do [Fm] another hammer on, _ [Db] and then hit the, _ as
you're coming into the F, [F] you hit the third fret on the fourth string. _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Db] Again, [Fm] slow.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Db] _ _ [F] _ _ So
[Db] he does that twice in the intro, and then you start the verse.
And the verse [Fm] is three
of these.
[F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ Then you go up to C and repeat the [C] pattern.
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Eb] _
And then you're back to [F] the F.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ And
[Db] then you hit the note that he strikes to stop, is _ _ B [Bb] flat. _ _
_ [Db] And then he sings a little bit,
there ain't no teasing, and then you go back into the [F] verse.
_ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ _ So [Db] that's basically the song.
As they go into the second verse, he's adding on a [F] little trill.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ And do that up at the C.
[C] _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Fm] _ _ [Db] As they come into the lead, the actual harmonica's doing the lead, so the [F] guitar does a walking
rhythm.
So I'll show you that at speed. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Db] So the rhythm _ basically repeats itself _ twice.
So I'll show you the first _ [F] half of it.
_ So we're at F [A] to A, and [F] then we go down to the
C note on the fifth [C] fret, [Db] and do five and six, [D] _ _ [Eb] _ [F] and back to five, _ to the [C] third fret.
And [Db] then we go up to the sixth string, A note.
_ [A] _ _ _
And then [F] the second time through, _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Db] instead
of going to six, he comes down to three on the [F] fourth string, and back [Eb] to six.
[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Db] And then
it takes over on the _ _ _ B flat note to start with.
So we're at B flat on the fifth [Bb] string,
and [F] then _ [Gm] _ _ [Fm] _ _
[Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
back to the sixth string. _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[A] _ [Db] Then the turnaround is [G] three on the [Db] sixth, to five,
six, seven, [A] eight, _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Db] and then you come back to six, five, three.
[Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] So here's the turnaround. _
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [G] _ _ And then start [F] over again.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
_ [A] _ Turnaround.
_ _ _ [F] _
And [Bb] _ _ [A] _ then back to the sixth string.
And then the
third time through.
[Am] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
And that's the whole song.
It's fun to play with a harp and kind of just
fill the rhythm in underneath and add those trills to make it interesting.
So I hope you guys [G] enjoy. _
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [N] _ _ _