That was me playing worrying you off my mind by Big Bill broonzy To say, it was from an old YouTube video is a great tool to play along with. It swings along, and it's a nice happy feel. It's not Ragtime, and it's not straight Delta Blues, it's somewhere in between. It's big bill swing. You noticed when I play that all that we keep to a basic structure of a seven, a seven E. There's a lot of scope within the tune to put yourself into it. And big bill plays around with it extensively as we'll see later on.

I'm going to play it again slowly. To give you some idea of what we're going to start off You'll notice that although the thumb is hitting the base mills and then being immediately damped by the palm of the right hand now and again, particularly on a and b seven, Big Bill stumbled a bass. This is what I mean by stumble the bass, he slips his thumb from one bass string to the next and then dumps it gives a nice syncopated effect. Sometimes it doesn't dump and you will find out where and when to them as you listen to the original piece. And you listen to me playing throughout this tuition In the following video, we'll discuss the cause that we're going to use the overall structure of the piece, and then you'll see my right and left hand in closer with the tablature and the chord diagrams.

After this, we're going to take a look at how we're going to sing along to this, which is quite challenging because it's so syncopated. I normally tune my guitar half a step down. So you'll notice that I have the capital on the first fret. This puts my guitar in concert tuning. Please know that when you see the code diagrams in the top right hand corner, that there will be no capital shown. Let's take a look at the code we're going to use in worrying you off my mind by Big Bill broonzy.

First of all, we have a standard e code e seven code We have a B seven chord with a bar across a fourth fret which we can easily turn into B by using the little finger on the seventh fret. And the same goes for a seven with a bar on the second fret. Use little finger turns into a. We also use the standard B seven shape here. Sometimes, this finger will Fred, the first bass string instead. We can move across like this.

But of course we don't alternate the basis in this tune. We have a nice rundown and we'll also start off the song with this inverted D seven shape which is on the fourth fret This pulls down to the same shape on the third fret. Then the foam slips into the seven onto the foam slip a seven. It's worth remembering that bill played with Chicago bands for many years. He plays blues you The swimming style is played with other artists and big bands. And the basis of his style is of course his thumb.

Bear in mind, if you don't dump the foam B's properly you'll get some very strange sounds. Now also, I believe bill just use one finger for his travel work and this moved around quickly. Now if you use more than one finger, you can often lose this swinging style. So be very careful if you decide to use two fingers. Sometimes I do use two fingers, and I'll show you where this happens throughout the tuition. As is often the case I have two variations of this song, one that I play on the street was still finger picks and a plastic thumb pick and one with just my bare fingers which I tend to play in concert when I'm playing with finger picks because they give a nice amplified sound.

I lift my fingers from the sound board and from the beginning of the song I Playing this way. Of course this affects the sound of the bass. Normally, I keep my fingers on the soundboard and good so that I could give a really nice heavy bass sound. You can hear but the bass sound is more accentuated if you can anchor your fingers and if you have difficulty anchoring your finger on the soundboard not to worry. Play it in this way. It's worth taking a look at this thumb slip in more detail because we see it again and again and Ragtime guitar is works which is blind Blake blind boy for big bill doesn't do it a lot, but he does it now and again to great effect as in this song.

On a seven it will slip from the first base to the second in this way take a look That Big Bill normally played with just one One finger on his right hand, as we can see as I play that last section again. But of course, there's more than one way to play and you can use a second finger. In this next clip, I use the second finger and then I start to use one thing though, so you can give yourself a little bit of flexibility. But please note that when you use the second finger, the feeling the sound changes subtly, so we need to be careful It helps to make the song more interesting if we use different turnarounds at different times in the song between the verses in between the instrumental breaks and the verses here are two alternative turnarounds. Once we start to play around or the last break whatever we were playing, and then we move on to B seven and we start to sing on E. Bill with sing a verse saying when you're in trouble damping with a bass you need friends and after trouble and friend, you will put a little piece of trouble work in there to accentuate the end of the line.

In this way, when you're in trouble, you need a friend. So the end of trouble. You need a friend, a friend. These little things are very important to make the sound authentic. When you're in trouble, you need to take it easy. Now take it easy