The hardest part of can hate blues is this lick that you play over the D chord. And it takes a lot of practice, you're going to have to use your pinky, which a lot of people don't like to do, but you have to be able to play this. And the first licks, you're playing over a D chord, so you're going to hold the D chord, the first finger is going to be your anchor, it's going to stay there pretty much throughout. And you're going to start the song off with this little bass lick. And what I'm doing is I use my thumb peg, and I'm going from the third to the fourth frets on the fourth fourth string to an open fifth string. And then very quickly, as that fifth string is ringing out, I'm moving my fingers back to my T shirt.

So I've got them. Then in the T shirt, I'm going to get the third string at the fourth fret open. And then I'm going to pick up with my first finger and get first, second and third string. So we've got this. And then we're just going to lift up the pinkie as we get the third string, put it back down with that little strong with the first finger. So the whole lick, let's try it slowly.

That's it right there. We don't throw that extra, extra liquid. So one more time. We repeat it. Right there. We add that that extra strong.

Let's try that again. This is something probably have to work at. Then right here. We're going to do this really neat little bass riff. And what I'm doing again is that first finger staying put on the second fret of the third string. I'm using my thumb on the fourth string, Three, Four of a hammer on boom.

And then with my first finger, I'm stroking up getting the third string. Like that. So let's play that whole lick over the D And then he kind of chokes that up like that. Now we move to the g7 with another walk in. So it's very similar to what we did in bigger blue. There's just the the pace is different the timing the tempo is different and the accents are different.

One thing you may have noticed when I was was demonstrating it for you is you can vary this lick a little bit by doing this. So instead of taking my first finger off, I'm gonna keep it there for two beats Then we go back to the D. So let's play everything we've got so far. We'll start out the song and we'll play all the way up until we get back on the one again. So let's let's try to do it slowly. I'll try to do it slowly. One thing I didn't I don't think I explained clearly is the transition between the G seven back to the D. This is the way I do it.

I'm not sure if this is exactly how Tommy Johnson does it, but I play this. So I'm getting the old Pin six. And then a quick upstroke on the second and third strings with my left hand and the D shape that gets me the time to get back into that lick. So we've got this kind of quick clip like that. And then we're gonna go to our a seven. Walk into the g7 just like we did before open Stax.

Get the D, open J. There you have the main part of can hate blues. Now as he's saying The verses you'll see there's another part that he plays and this is a little more complicated. So let's play that that basic chord sequence all the way through one more time. Can he blues from the beginning. There you have the first half of the vs for candy blues.