You’ll Work Down to Me Someday, Part 1: Chords and Accompaniment

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Become a complete blues player through these lessons in country blues fingerpicking, blues lead guitar, and bottleneck slide, with great technique lessons and blues songs from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and more.

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In this lesson you’ll learn a fingerstyle arrangement of the folk-blues classic “Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor” inspired by the playing of Mississippi John Hurt. Orville plays the song through and then explains the guitar part phrase by phrase. He also explains how you can alter the lengths of some of the chords, depending on how you hear the song, something that John Hurt and other great blues singers and guitarists did all the time.

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You’ll Work Down to Me Someday

You’ll Work Down to Me Someday, Part 1: Chords and Accompaniment

You’ll Work Down to Me Someday, Part 2: Solos

You’ll Work Down to Me Someday, Part 1: Chords and Accompaniment

The song “You’ll Work Down to Me Someday” was recorded by Memphis bluesman John Henry Barbee in the late 1920s. It’s played fingerstyle in dropped-D tuning. Orville plays and sings it through and then shows you the chords he uses in dropped D. You’ll also learn how he plays the accompaniment to “You’ll Work Down to Me Someday,” which includes some nice call-and response-licks, and Orville talks about keeping your accompaniment simple while you’re singing and saving the licks for the “response”: the spaces in between the vocal lines.

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