Chords for The Guitar of Rory Block: Blues
Tempo:
87.725 bpm
Chords used:
B
E
D
A
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[B]
Well I said I lost all my money, ain't got nowhere to go.
[E] I lost all my money, [F] ain't got nowhere to [B] go.
[E] Block and I'm back in your [B] living room showing you more country blues and some of my originals this time.
And then we're going to take the E and move it down [G] to match the D.
Very easy.
which is of course at the bottom, that's always confusing.
to a D.
Well I said I lost all my money, ain't got nowhere to go.
[E] I lost all my money, [F] ain't got nowhere to [B] go.
[E] Block and I'm back in your [B] living room showing you more country blues and some of my originals this time.
And then we're going to take the E and move it down [G] to match the D.
Very easy.
which is of course at the bottom, that's always confusing.
to a D.
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E
D
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well I said I lost all my money, ain't got nowhere to go.
_ _ _ _ Lord I said [E] I lost all my money, [F] _ ain't got nowhere to [B] go.
_ _ _ _ Hi this is Rory [E] Block and I'm back in your [B] living room showing you more country blues and some of my originals this time.
And then we're going to take the E and move it down [G] to match the D.
_ [D] _ _
Very easy.
And you might as well go to the high E string now which is of course at the bottom, that's always confusing.
The high E string and bring [Eb] it down also to a D.
[D] _ _ [G] Now this is a very standard full chord in this tuning.
[Gb] You just simply put your, I would put my third finger of the left hand on the, let's see that's the fifth fret of the high E string to make a [B] complete _ _ full open G chord.
We're now up on the fourth fret so we're no longer G of course.
_ _ _ _ You might want to sort of warm up your hand by going, _ _ just starting with a kind of an up and down and putting in a catonal bass like _ _ that to sort of get the attitude.
I'm adding a little bup-a-bup in that bass _ run which you can do if you like.
Taking [Em] this finger of my right hand and striking upwards on whatever string the finger lands [Ab] on like this.
Instead of just going, [B] _ I'm going to go, _ hey I happen to have played it on the G string, that sounds fine.
My first finger of my right hand landed [Abm] on the G string.
[B] Okay, we're going from the fifth fret to the second fret to the open string.
_ _ _ _ All with these little upward strums.
Let's go over reverse that has that little extra part in it.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [B] Okay, instead of repeating, you're going to stick that extra thing [E] in here.
This is going to be your second half.
[F] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ Two hammer-ons.
Again, [Gb] do that to the resolving chord that I showed you before.
[A] _ _
[Em] Okay, up, [E] down, up, up.
That's our format with the right hand [A] for the strumming. _ _
_ [E] Notice on the last three where [A] we've got second finger comes off and comes back on for the last one.
Now on the very last one, [E] whiz this chord [A] off to the left.
Pull it off as you strum that very last strum like so. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ Robert Johnson did this very interesting thing that takes a little bit more effort.
A lot of times I leave it out because I think, well, I can't be bothered.
But it's nice if you take the time to put it in there and a little bit of extra energy required.
So slide up and come down with the bass.
_ _ [N] What I'm doing is, I'm not even actually [F] playing a bass note.
I'm noticing [Em] what I'm doing as [Am] I'm teaching [E] this to you.
I'm just sort of keeping the rhythm [G] with the thumping motion of my right hand on the beat, every [D] beat.
_ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well I said I lost all my money, ain't got nowhere to go.
_ _ _ _ Lord I said [E] I lost all my money, [F] _ ain't got nowhere to [B] go.
_ _ _ _ Hi this is Rory [E] Block and I'm back in your [B] living room showing you more country blues and some of my originals this time.
And then we're going to take the E and move it down [G] to match the D.
_ [D] _ _
Very easy.
And you might as well go to the high E string now which is of course at the bottom, that's always confusing.
The high E string and bring [Eb] it down also to a D.
[D] _ _ [G] Now this is a very standard full chord in this tuning.
[Gb] You just simply put your, I would put my third finger of the left hand on the, let's see that's the fifth fret of the high E string to make a [B] complete _ _ full open G chord.
We're now up on the fourth fret so we're no longer G of course.
_ _ _ _ You might want to sort of warm up your hand by going, _ _ just starting with a kind of an up and down and putting in a catonal bass like _ _ that to sort of get the attitude.
I'm adding a little bup-a-bup in that bass _ run which you can do if you like.
Taking [Em] this finger of my right hand and striking upwards on whatever string the finger lands [Ab] on like this.
Instead of just going, [B] _ I'm going to go, _ hey I happen to have played it on the G string, that sounds fine.
My first finger of my right hand landed [Abm] on the G string.
[B] Okay, we're going from the fifth fret to the second fret to the open string.
_ _ _ _ All with these little upward strums.
Let's go over reverse that has that little extra part in it.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [B] Okay, instead of repeating, you're going to stick that extra thing [E] in here.
This is going to be your second half.
[F] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ Two hammer-ons.
Again, [Gb] do that to the resolving chord that I showed you before.
[A] _ _
[Em] Okay, up, [E] down, up, up.
That's our format with the right hand [A] for the strumming. _ _
_ [E] Notice on the last three where [A] we've got second finger comes off and comes back on for the last one.
Now on the very last one, [E] whiz this chord [A] off to the left.
Pull it off as you strum that very last strum like so. _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ Robert Johnson did this very interesting thing that takes a little bit more effort.
A lot of times I leave it out because I think, well, I can't be bothered.
But it's nice if you take the time to put it in there and a little bit of extra energy required.
So slide up and come down with the bass.
_ _ [N] What I'm doing is, I'm not even actually [F] playing a bass note.
I'm noticing [Em] what I'm doing as [Am] I'm teaching [E] this to you.
I'm just sort of keeping the rhythm [G] with the thumping motion of my right hand on the beat, every [D] beat.
_ _ [A] _
