Bo Carter's My Baby Taught by John Miller
Now lets take a look at another G tuning hint of both, this is one entitled My Baby. Let’s work through My Baby now, in the beginning the intro starts with a run and the run begins with pickup notes which are coming in the 4th beat of the measure. So if you want to get yourself oriented in the time, the way the run works is like this. Okay, I’ll do that one more time, and I should say that one of the things that’s really kind of ingenious about all the runs that Bo plays in this tune is that they’re really well crafted in terms of the way they use the hand on the guitar. You can just let your index finger hit the first fret whatever string you’re playing. You’re middle finger gets the 2nd fret and your ring finger get the 3rd fret and they actually set pretty easily this runs despite the fact that they’re pretty darn quick, so I’ll play the whole intro.
So he begins the run, does a D alternation from the 6th string up to the 4th string where there is thumb on the right hand. Now for the next 2 measures, his thumb is just thumbing on the open 5th string which is a G note in this tuning. Now in this run he hits a note that I really love, here, it’s a major 7 note, slide pause 4, now he’s in his verse and he grabs the same chord to begin his coming that he used in arrangement for Need Blues which we just did. So in the first 4 bars of this verse, he’s alternating his bass from the 6th string, so it’s like this. So he goes from the G7 to the C7 all the while alternating this bass from the 6th up to the 4th string. Now he goes to this funny G chord then to D still thumbing on the 6th string, D7 up beat up to G7 which in this tuning involve just fretting the first fret of the 1st string.
Back to C7, back to the odd G and the thumb bass to D7, now he gets into this instrumental extension to the verse which is really great. So what he’s doing here, you can see he’s—in the left hand he is walking down the 4th string chromatically from the 3rd fret to the 2nd fret to the 1st fret to open and as he gets there he adds this kind of emphatic little 3rd fret on the 1st string. In terms of the right hand, he’s coming up in alternating between his thumb on the 4th string, his index on the open 3rd string so let me play that passage once just focusing on the right hand. Again, again, now after having done it 3 times, he goes back into runs which very closely approximate the intro.
Okay, so there is My Baby and one thing I should tell you when you get into this portion of it, you can really snap that 3rd fret of the 1st string; it just provides a neat little kind of rhythmic punctuation there. So now I think we’re ready to do the split screen version of My Baby.
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