00:05Hey everyone, I'm Erin Bradley and I'm here at Guitar World today in New York City and I'm
00:10gonna play Blind Blake's Police Dog Blues. I have an open E tuning and I've got a
00:15kept it up on the sixth fret. Here it is.
00:27All my life I've been a traveling gal. All my life I've been a traveling gal.
00:38Staying alone, got no friends or pals.
00:59I'll hold my trunk down to Tennessee. I'll hold my trunk down to Tennessee.
01:10Hard to tell, but a girl made me.
01:30I met a boy, I couldn't get him on my mind. I met a boy, I couldn't get him on
01:38my mind.
01:40He passed me up saying he didn't like my kind.
02:01I'm scared to bother around his house at night. I'm scared to bother around his house at night.
02:10I'm scared to bother around his house at night. I'm scared to bother around his house at night.
02:42I'm scared to bother around his house at night. I'm scared to bother around his house at night. I'm scared
03:09to bother around his house.
03:22I took a really long time to learn how to do the kind of rest stroke or double thumbing
03:27thing that Blaine Blake does quite often and goes like this and I find that really hard
03:37to get it first yeah it's really fun to play as well and there's a lot of licks in the
03:42song as well and a lot of fills fast fills I find quite challenging first but I got it
03:49finally I suppose I still make mistakes though there's another solo in the song that I find
03:54really fun to play I think it's the second solo in the song and it goes like this
04:15I found that pretty hard to get first as well the start bit is pretty fast getting the harmonics
04:21up really high I found quite hard as well but it sounds really cool once I got it it was
04:28really fun to play once I finally got it down when I did the harmonics I would be on the
04:3212th fret
04:33but because I've got the capo up here on the 6th fret it's up here in 18th and I have
04:40it here
04:40because just to match my voice I don't have a deep voice like a man like the way Blaine Blake
04:48would
04:48have so I had to capo it up here to try and find a place to fit so I could
04:52where I could sing it
04:53I always plant my my ring finger and I always pick with my index and ring or middle finger and
05:01my thumb
05:01so when I'm playing my thumb I have to kind of go on autopilot as well because I've got so
05:06much going
05:06on with in the high strings so I just need to be able to do it without thinking my thumb
05:11is doing
05:12alternating bass and kind of needs to just be able to go on autopilot because there's so much going
05:17on in the high strings so I just need to be able to do that without thinking
05:32and one of the main fundamentals of playing this kind of music country blues and ragtime
05:37and yeah you just need to be able to your thumb really does need to be independent and able to
05:43just go do it it'll do its own things you can think about the melody notes and yeah so that
05:49was my version of Police Dog Blues by Blaine Blake and thanks so much to Guitar World for having me
05:55it's been super fun and if you like what you heard today you can check out my socials it's just
06:02Murrin Bradley and I think it's going to be in the description as well so you can check that out
06:07and I also have an album out and this song is also on the album it's called I Get These
06:12Old Blues
06:13and yeah it's available on all digital platforms and you can also get it on vinyl and CD too
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