Up for the Aerosmith challenge?

My 3-string CBG is on order, and honestly, I haven't even started playing yet, but I'm already thinking about stuff I'd like to learn. I'm an old skool rocker here. There are a number of older Aerosmith tunes that I think would sound cool in the old delta blues style, and I'm not having much luck finding any CBG stuff of Aerosmith online. So these are the tunes that I think could be interpreted rather nicely on a CBG. What do you guys think? I'd love to hear very original CBG versions of this stuff:

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Cause the Blue rat April 25, 2017 at 6:32pm

'Mama kin' and 'Train kept a Rollin'
- Snuffy Smith > Cause the Blue rat April 25, 2017 at 8:22pm
  
  I thought of those too, but I was trying to keep it a bit more tame and honky tonk for CBG. When I want to hear "Train Kept a Rollin'"...I need the wild guitars and drums, LOL.
  - Kalmario > Snuffy Smith April 25, 2017 at 8:35pm
    
    https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/aerosmith/walk_this_way_crd.htm
    
    just had a go on a 3 string tuned Dad. sounds ok.
    
    you will need to learn the notes on the fret board to play it though.
    
    for example on my Dad neck
    
    2nd string notes are:A/Ab/B so you would play open string, hammer on to 1st fret hammer to 2nd fret, and to play the E note hit the first string 2nd fret.
    
    hardest part would be to get the strum pattern right in the verses, regardless what anyone tells you the mark of a good play is always his/her right hand not the left......
    
    good luck bro
    
    Cliff
    - Snuffy Smith > Kalmario April 25, 2017 at 10:07pm
      
      "regardless what anyone tells you the mark of a good play is always his/her right hand not the left..."
      
      Sounds like I'll be in good luck then. My left elbow has been giving me issues lately...my hand is fine though. I'm a drummer and my brain has always seen music in rhythms...hopefully, this will be my asset.
RTZGUITARS April 25, 2017 at 2:22pm

What about Draw The Line?
- Ron "Oily" Sprague > RTZGUITARS April 25, 2017 at 2:54pm
  
  Ha...Dream On...hhehehehe
JL April 25, 2017 at 10:09am

Tuned in GDg you just use one finger across all 3 strings to play the chord, don't worry about key or major or minor or 7th or such.

First thing to learn is this list of the notes

G || A || B | C || D || E | F || G

( | is one fret || is two frets )

then learn it with the 'in-betweeners'

G | G#/Ab | A | A#/Bb | B | C | C#/Db | D | D#/Eb | E | F | F#/Gb | G

then you use this for the low G string to figure out where to bar across all 3 strings for that chord

i.e. bar across the 4th fret for a B chord
Cause the Blue rat April 24, 2017 at 10:28pm

Actually you can learn a song in any key on a CBG. Say the song is in E. Learn it on the 9th fret. Then take the patters and move them down to the open position. You just translated the song to G.
Timothy Hunter April 24, 2017 at 10:23am

http://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/milkcowblueslyricschords...

Milk cow blues seems to be in G , G is all strings open( not touched or fretted) C is all strings fretted at the 5 fret( just behind the fifth fret) and the D7 you can fret all strings at the 7th fret. you will be playing a D "power chord" as you cant easily add the 7th.
- Snuffy Smith > Timothy Hunter April 24, 2017 at 10:16pm
  
  I'm glad Milk Cow Blues is in G...as I will be playing in that tuning while I'm learning.
  
  One of my favorite Aerosmith songs for sure.

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