Take Out Some Insurance Jimmy Reed Lesson

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I'm continuing with my 'back to basics' repetoire theme. Here's a song that everyone ought to know if you play blues. It's been covered by so many folks, including Tony SHERIDAN and the Savage Beatles-- I mis-spoke in the video and called him Tony Flanagan! This is a good one to learn to get a handle on different blues forms. It has a 4 bar intro, then two 16 bar verses and an 8 bar bridge. If these forms are new to you then I think you'll find this lesson helpful. Learning how to lead a band through a song like this well will help you figure out other tunes with different forms on the fly, at blues jams or on gigs. The basic Jimmy Reed guitar patterns and interplay are all here and the better you can master them, the more groove you will bring to this style of music.

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Great lesson Johnny and perfectly fitting for me, my band started covering this song recently so will definitely put this to use!

Echzachtly

Great lesson, as always. There is a point of confusion with this song though, (as there is in most of the J.R. recordings) that I thought I'd share. It makes all the sense in the world to play the bridge changes like this; two bars of 4 (A), two bars of one (E), two bars of 4 (A) and stop (some guys hit a 5 (B), chord on the stop because of the melody Jimmy sings). It makes musical sense and 90% of the bands in the bars over the years play it that way, (with the rest either a 5 chord or a one chord). We've all done it. But, what I hear (and maybe I'm just wacked from years of beatin' myself and my ears to death), but I'm hearing three bars of the 4 chord at the top of the bridge, one bar of the one, then two bars of the 4 chord and an E note (trilled?) for the rest/stop. I don't mean to hijack your lesson, I'm just puttin' in my 1/2 a cent. Most likely Jimmy meant two bars of 4, but just spaced out and hung on it for an extra measure. Dose it matter? Not really, it's just there if you want it. I dig your lessons Johnny, I've been going back over the old standards recently because over the years they get messed with and we forget how we learned them (or tried to learn them) way back when. Your lessons are very helpful for us older cats tryin' to get back to the roots, besides the cats startin' out. Thanks. PS. There's another way to play that little two note fill chord. 3rd string 11th fret with 2nd string 10th fret, then 3rd string 9th with 2nd string 9th fret. Kind of like playing part of an F# minor to an E major. I can't tell if it's what was played but I always liked it for that. Try it out and see if you like it. Thanks again. Peace.

randyrich