How to Play Statesboro Blues with Ernie Hawkins Part 3/3
He returns and sings along, one thing he does add that I forgot to mention, for instance on the second verse when he says “daddy left me reckless” he’s just playing the chords. He’s just playing one chord but he’s getting this third note in. He’s getting a very distinctive sound and he gets that third note in by putting his little finger on the 4th fret of the 4th string. So its just one of the little variations that he uses, on the long verse about the big 80 left Savannah, he does the same thing, he sings the whole verse over this chord and he gets kind of a train rhythm. So he’s getting this kind of train rhythm going.
And then for a second time in the song, he goes back up, the 2nd time through he usually is just moving back and forth from the one to the 7th talking of it. And then he moves into the ending and this amazingly effective little thing that he does, he goes up to the what he was using as a five chord. He goes up to this minor 7th and for the first time in the whole song he goes to an A chord and it just lets you know that he’s ending the song. It’s a perfect little move and he goes from the 7th, 2nd fret and he uses the 5th fret I believe of the 2nd string. Now you’ll notice when I sing this song, I added a little bit of a longer run to it. What I did was I took a run from another song and I’m going to show you this one because it’s just a beautiful one. It goes like this.
So the run sounds like this goes from the 1st string, 1st open, 1st fret, 2nd fret, 2nd string 3rd fret, 2nd string open, A note which would normally be an A note, 2nd fret of the 3rd string. And then he repeats that 2nd fret of the 5th string that run sounds like this and then he ends it on the 7th. So that’s all the tricks and all the moves that he goes through on the Great Statesboro Blues, we’re going to go to the split screen now and slow it down as much as I can so that you can see how this song is done.
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