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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Moon's gonna download it.
00:07 Sun's about to shine.
00:09 Sun's about to hot shine.
00:11 Hi, I'm Rory Block, and I'm going to be teaching you
00:17 country blues today.
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00:32 OK, there's so many different interesting elements there.
00:35 We have hammer-ons, plenty of hammer-ons.
00:38 We have bent notes.
00:39 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:42 And some of the hammer-ons have a very special effect
00:50 in that some of them are played when you're not actually
00:53 plucking the string first.
00:54 And that sometimes takes a little bit of practice
00:56 at first, like--
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00:59 All I'm doing here is playing the G string,
01:02 and I'm hitting the D string.
01:03 So we have--
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01:06 In other words, I'm not plucking the D string
01:08 where I'm hammering on at all.
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01:12 In walking blues, there's a lot of bent notes.
01:14 And in particular, at the top of each verse, you have this.
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01:20 And this is fun, too, because it brings in yet another element
01:25 where you dampen the strings with your right hand.
01:27 You can dampen either with your left hand or your right hand.
01:31 In this particular-- at this particular point,
01:32 we're going to dampen with the right hand.
01:35 Take the third finger and bend the third fret of the A string.
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01:38 And then go for the open D string immediately after that.
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01:42 And then flatten the palm onto the strings, right down here,
01:45 right at the base of the strings.
01:46 You're going to go--
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01:49 Just like that.
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02:02 [Music]