A Little Bit of Blues
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:27 pmA Jerry Reed tune from many, many years ago. Great blues tune. Richard Smith showed me how to play it, and so I dedicate this to him. Richard: sorry that there are parts I didn't get right. Please don't make me stand in the corner 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR6Gz8V-YXI
Clearly I am playing the tune in D, and some of you may be thinking "But Chet played it in C." Actually, Chet played it in D with a tuning of one full tone below standard (that is E run down to D, A run down to G, D run down to C, and so on).
I make mistakes in it but fortunately get most of them out of the way early on, so hopefully they are not much of a distraction. And, I am not sure I do everything the way Richard showed me ... hopefully I get close most of the time.
Jerry wrote this to be performed along with an upright bass and rhythm, and not as a solo piece. So, to make it suitable for solo, Richard converted part of it to a thumbstyle implementation and also does a double bass lick on the A string in the D chord at the 4th through 7th frets.
I found this to be a difficult tune to play, and I probably should have practiced it for another week, but you all know how impatient I am.
Thanks for listening.
By the way, for those who want to learn this, I believe Craig Dobbins has a tab of it, if memory serves me right. Or you can also contact Richard for a Skype lesson, as I did. Or you can slow my YouTube down ... it's best to learn from Craig or Richard though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR6Gz8V-YXI
Clearly I am playing the tune in D, and some of you may be thinking "But Chet played it in C." Actually, Chet played it in D with a tuning of one full tone below standard (that is E run down to D, A run down to G, D run down to C, and so on).
I make mistakes in it but fortunately get most of them out of the way early on, so hopefully they are not much of a distraction. And, I am not sure I do everything the way Richard showed me ... hopefully I get close most of the time.
Jerry wrote this to be performed along with an upright bass and rhythm, and not as a solo piece. So, to make it suitable for solo, Richard converted part of it to a thumbstyle implementation and also does a double bass lick on the A string in the D chord at the 4th through 7th frets.
I found this to be a difficult tune to play, and I probably should have practiced it for another week, but you all know how impatient I am.
Thanks for listening.
By the way, for those who want to learn this, I believe Craig Dobbins has a tab of it, if memory serves me right. Or you can also contact Richard for a Skype lesson, as I did. Or you can slow my YouTube down ... it's best to learn from Craig or Richard though.