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Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons https://jimbruceguitar.com/TexasDeltaLessons.html 75% Off Today! Love in Van tab download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-PexCNaHCi0TUZCWWw4OEVacFE/view?usp=sharing Jim Bruce presents blues guitar lessons across all styles and major artists. Ragtime blues, Delta, Chicago Swing, Bottleneck, Piedmont - from Texas To The Delta Hello again - today we're going to look at a version of love in vain by Robert Johnson. It's based loosely on the original and I've tried to keep many of the licks that Johnson used, although it might lack a little of his intensity which was which was very special. But it does allow us to put ourselves into the music within the basic structure. It's a piece in A and let's take a look at the chords we are going to use. First of all I use a long A in this form, then often I use my little finger to hold the last two strings down. This is a Lightnin Hopkins trick which gives a really nice effect. Then of course for you A7 in this form. We have a basic E chord and it wouldn't be a blues without an E7 chord. We also use a D7 chord - this is the full D7 chord but often we just use this half-chord. We have a diminished chord. Now we use a kind of a D7 shape high up here on the ninth, the eighth and the seventh fret. Really that's about it. The interesting thing that we're doing, a long A chord is of course the trademark Johnson rundown. You'll notice throughout this song that the thumb is striking the bass strings quite heavily and very often damping as soon as it strikes in this way. It's a strange kind of technique because if you do it too hard the strings buzz and they don't make a very nice noise so it's a little bit critical, but it provides this boom boom boom. The nice driving bass beat it gives it a lot of intensity and of course the treble notes with the fingers provide an answer to that bass. It's right out of the Delta, isn't it? Sometimes we want to damp but this will become apparent when we're playing through the song. Sometimes you'll feel that it needs to be damped and sometimes you can let it ring a little bit. The recipe is pretty straightforward, except that on the D7 chord we have a hammer on and a pull off, and a hammer-on and then a pull off again in this way. You'll see this in the tablature later. If you could only manage one hammer on and one pull off for now then do them. And now I'll play the introduction and one verse and the instrumental break to show you what we're aiming for. Here we go with Love in Vain by Robert Johnson ... Went down to the station with my suitcase at my hand Down to the station with my suitcase in my hand I feel so lonesome All my love was in vain. Let's take a look at the tablature now and the detailed tuition for Love in Vain. We'll ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpQTdreiwjQ