1. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
Very Traditional Blues song in an old style. Will do as a blues and give you an indication of chord melody and then go beyond blues. Start of a chord melody and Chet Atkins Styles – F. Markovich

2. Start with the chords Do them in 1st position.
Get the exact voicings down. Voicing is the order of notes and how they work together. For example, a major or minor chord has 3 different notes. A C major is C, E and G notes. The order of notes is a voicing: you could have C, E, G, or E, C, G or C, G, E etc. While all of those would be C chords they would sound a little different from each other due to the order of the notes from high to low.

3. Get these down before moving on.

7. Now the whole thing

8. Now play the chord and melody
Play the chords as ½ notes with the melody on as the highest pitch.
This is like playing an outline of the song!
Talk it slow and do one part at a time.

11. Put page 1 to memory. Page 2 starts the same but the last couple of measures are different.

13. See the minor differences. Mainly the last measure!

14. Memorize this Next we will add in alternating bass.
This will get you close to a Chet Atkins Style Arrangement.
The key is holding the chords and doing an alternating bass (well most of the time).
The bass will almost always start on the root of the chord! The next note will be the 5th or the 3rd degree of the chord.
Remember to hold the chord down as you play the tune.
Melody is with the index or middle finger.

15. Start on the C Chord get the move from C to E7. Note the bass movement

19. See if you can add to this
Start by syncopating some of the notes. I will give you examples.
If you are advanced, try to take this and move it up the neck.
Take it slowly as it isn’t easy.
Realize that once you are done you will have a full piece that you can play for others that they will recognize.
Now tell a story about the piece. This is a tradition!