Introduction to Robert Johnson blues in the key of A and you heard me play this. That's the first part of it. And I'm doing kind of a simplified version of this. And if you play it the way Robert Johnson played it, he fingers a little differently but I like you know first learning this just to use the basic chord shape, which is that e seven shape that we learned. Here we're in the key of A this is a first position a barre chord. Something you're more likely to play an electric guitar but right here is an a seventh.

So I've got my first finger on the eighth fret of the second string. I've got my ring finger on the ninth fret of the first string and my second finger on the ninth fret of the third string, my first finger is on the eighth fret of the second string. And so to kick off, this is a typical Robert Johnson kind of intro, I'm gonna brush up with my first finger. Then I'm gonna move that shape down. That time I picked it a little bit and then I'm gonna go to my long a cord. And the way I'm doing that is I'm getting my a, I'm picking the second string and then I'm getting the first string.

So the whole first part of that intro. You could thump the bass with that if you wanted to. It's up to you. You could play it without the bass. And then bring the bass in. And then when it gets right here, this is the hard part, got this long a chord.

And what we're going to do is we're going to start here on the fourth string fifth fret with our pinky fret in the fifth fret of the first string. It's 123. Go into the fourth fret of the fourth string with the ring finger and then I'm bringing my second finger I hurt my hand a couple of weeks ago and it's really taken a long time to recover. This is a hand stretcher hand buster. So we got we got the just the regular long a cord and there I've got the fourth string and the first string. So this is a series of pitches as he does this nice little turn around.

We got this And then we're going to go into a D seven. And that's how we start the song this shape. In this Robert Johnson tune, we're going to use it as a turnaround in our last 10. In the QA, we're going to see a different way to play a similar turnaround. Robert Johnson had some different variations he did out of this too, but for now, it's just used the simple turnaround. So anyway, let's play that whole introduction one more time slowly before we move on.

There's the introduction for Robert Johnson blues and the QA