Should be even tired are you? Sure you do this all next thing that we're going to learn is by man slips comm it's in the key of E and it features an alternating bass. And this is the only tune that we're going to learn in E with an alternating bass song is called sugar baby. That's one of his most famous, famous tunes. I'll play a little bit of it for you and then we'll we'll figure out what he's doing. There you have man slips gums sugar babe without the singing without the verses from the cabbie and like all these tunes that we're learning here there's just three chords you've got an E got an A, which we're playing a little bit differently here.
If you watch some of the videos of man slips can play in the song It's they don't really do it give you a close up On this finger, so it's hard to tell exactly what he's doing. I've tried different ways of playing this. And for me, the easiest way to play this is to have my a chord like this. And what I'm doing is putting all three fingers on the second fret, getting the second, third and fourth strings, but instead of flattening it out, flattening out my first finger, to be able to do some of the riffs, I got to have my ring finger free to go down and come off the second string. So there is a little different form of the A chord. And I'm pretty sure this is what he's playing or something very close to it.
So that's what I'm going to use there. And then for the for the B seventh, which is our five chord. Same thing with the pinky on the first string this time but not we don't always play that. A lot of times we're going to stay between the fifth and the second strings, but there's the one Lake we do this Where you are going to have that V seven shape and you're going to slide it up, and then bring it back. So for most of the song when he goes to the five, he's just going to play over the B seventh the abbreviated version without the pinkie, but he does use the pink. So you got to play your B seventh both ways, without the pinkie and with the pinky on the second fret of the first string.
Like that. So those are the only chords you need. Let's get started learning how to play this this great 10