The introduction for Groundhog Day blues is a typical, what's called a 541. And he's going to start out the 10 with a B seventh chord. And I lead in by getting the fifth string with my thumb. So while I'm playing the monotonic bass, I can use my pinky bending up slightly on the third fret of the second string. So the whole thing goes like this. Pretty straightforward.
And then when he goes to the four, he's going to do this little base they stumble is what I call it. And what I'm doing is getting the open six and then the open fifth right away. And that leads me into my a seventh chord. So the whole beginning from the B seven goes to the seventh right there. Now you can play a little single string round that goes like this without the bass and what I'm doing within the chord structure is playing this. So I'm just keeping the bass going.
So the song is over the four. So I'm tapping on the open fifth string. When I get right about here, I'm going to shift my bass to the sixth string because I'm back over the one or the E. So watch me play it slowly. So the introduction, then that lick right there, we're going to hear throughout the tin. And what I'm doing is I'm using this East seventh shape, which you'll hear a lot in the key of E. In fact, we'll use it and just about every song we're going to play here. And what I'm doing is I've got my, you can play with your first and second finger second, and third, I'm going to use my second and third for now.
And I've got my second finger on the second fret of the second string, my ring finger on the third fret of the third string, and I'm picking the third string and I'm sliding to the fourth fret, like that. And then once they get there, I'm picking up with my second finger now on the third fret of the second string and my ring finger on the fourth fret of the third string. So the whole lick goes like this. And I'm dumping the bass along with this open six more time. That's another common country blues lick. Then I'm going to come to the second fret of the third string to the first fret to the second fret of the fourth string.
So we've got this. Actually, I think it's easier to do it with your first and second fingers, especially starting out so we got 1231231 like that. Just keep the bass going. With the thumb on the open six string now this part right here listen carefully if you listen to the original recording Groundhog Day blues by little son Jackson. A lot of times when you're playing that riff and he like lightning Hopkins does, we're going to get to his tunes here in a little bit, he'll play something like this. hammer on to the first fret of the third string.
But if you listen carefully to Groundhog Day, blues didn't go do that he goes right from the third. Like that as opposed to this. So we got this for the whole leg. So the whole interest so far And then right here, he's gonna get open first and second strings. He's keeping them bass going, he's keeping the shape with his left hand and we got this. So I'm getting the open string.
Then I'm hammering on with my first finger out of the E chord shape onto the first fret of the third strike. So we got this. So let's do the whole introduction for Groundhog Day blues. There we go. Now we're ready for the first verse of the song.