Ari Eisinger Teaches Black Horse Blues Part 3/3

Ari Eisinger Teaches Black Horse Blues Part 3/3 Well, I mentioned before that not only is Blind Lemon an incredible player but he’s also one of the corkiest players and his work is really a good example of that towards the end that really just to me at least doesn’t make sense rhythmically but it's got some really great stuff in it. And I tabbed it out exactly or as close to exactly as he did it as I could and here’s how it goes. [Demonstration] So, if that isn’t corky, I don’t know what it is. Here’s how he’s doing it. You got this little two fingered position on the two top strings. You might say this is a little bit of a G7th and you're strumming down and up on it. And you’re really just strumming down on it. If you come up, you can brush both of them or just hit the top string if you prefer. [Demonstration] And up one fret and then another fret. [Demonstration] So now, you're in a C chord and then you go to this little piece of a D shape but one fret behind where you really are aiming, where the one is at the fifth fret, it will be an F but you put it up on the fourth fret so you can go up to the fifth fret with it. [Demonstration] And you add the seventh fret of the first string but putting your pinky or your ring finger down and take it back off, then you go back and you play simply the first string at the third fret. So far you have— [Demonstration] Once you go, you’re going back into a G chord, play the base note, play the treble note strum. [Demonstration] And then a very characteristic Lemon run but it kind of cut short in some weird way and it's on the first string you have third fret, fifth fret then go to the second string fourth fret and then the first string open, first string, third fret, and then there’s really Lemonesk lick where you get in a nice little dissonant arrangement. You get the fourth fret of the second string, just slightly bent to sharpen it just a little bit and just right on the hills of it as you strum, you get the open first string, so it's— [Demonstration] And where as normally you might think you would go or nothing in the sort in this really peculiar break, it’s— [Demonstration] And don’t ask me why, I'm just teaching it as I heard it on the record. So, you’re here and then you’re descending in the treble. Again this time instead of strumming, you're just playing one note but it's the same down, up pattern on your right hand. [Demonstration] And again this pattern comes into play, a dissonant pair of notes and then you go into a C chord, C, A, C and the base then one of he’s usual base licks. And let's again slow this down for you and we’ll go to the split screen for that. [Demonstration]