Joshua Lee. I don't know how many times I watched you and Carson play this song at half speed to get this song down. Now you got a full lesson. Why you gotta do me like this - mad respect, thanks for the tunes brotha
@@zayb2023 Facts. Learning tunes by ear is how all your favourite musicians learned how to be musicians. You can immediately tell if someone has spent enough time developing their ears by their level of musicianship. People that just learn through reading music (whilst a good skill in its own right) just lack that cherry on top with their playing. And if you only learn by doing what other people verbally tell you to do then you really don’t have much hope of being an actual musician.
Hello Josh. My name is Leo. I am a man of 77 years old, and I want to learn how to play this song. I think you are a sympathetic boy, someone who has a lot of patience conveys the material well. I enjoy it a lot. Thank you very much for the effort you make for us. Warm regards from Holland. leo.
I really appreciate Josh’s lessons. I’ve made a few cracks at learning this song but this tutorial really helped me move it along. Now maybe in a couple years it will sound half decent.
I had the pleasure of seeing Doc play at the Belly Up Tavern, a really small venue in the San Diego area a couple of decades ago, along with his son on second guitar. The man's picking style was magical, and I'll never be that good. Its great to see you carrying on the traditional musical styles and bringing them to new generations of players. Thanks!
I have some finger picks laying around (never really used them though), but the first thing I learned in this lesson is that the few times I did try playing with them, I had them on backwards lol. Awesome to see a lesson for this song, your version with Carson has been playing on repeat for me for a while now!
You are a fantastic musician, Josh! I am happy to have seen you live in performance. To me you are the Paul McCartney of our times. Thank you so much for your generosity to share insights of your amazing talent!
I hadn't even looked since requesting this lesson more than a year ago from your "Don't Think Twice" tutorial. THANK YOU SO MUCH! No one does this as well. No one plays better, either, but Toni is right on your heels in my book.
Thanks for this one- after seeing you and Carson play this I searched "Josh Turner Sittin on top of the world tutorial". Lo and behold the gift to be found!!
Kelly, that is excellent lighting and editing. Thank you for washing and combing Josh's hair. Josh, excellent tutorial as always. My appreciation for your skill and talent are those of a person who loves guitar music (Paganini, anyone? ) but has never been able to progress past being a poor strummer. So, I live my first playing dreams vicariously through you. Thanks!
This is a very tall mountain to climb for my feeble finger pickin skills, but I might have to go for it. I've watched the referenced performance a ton of times before this instructional version was posted. Absolutely love it. Hope I get it down before I start to hate it.
Great lesson, thank you. It’s got the right balance between proper explanation of what you’re doing and actual playing. Not too much talking and to the point - great.
YES! YOU ARE A SAINT! I've been jamming to your cover nearly every day since you and Carson released it, but I've procrastinated learning it. It's an absolutely beautiful cover and such a jam. So thankful to be alive in your lifetime so I can rip all your covers and songs🤣
I'm fascinated by the Harmony guitar. I live in Scotland and was in a rock group in the sixties. I remember A Harmony semi acoustic electric model, but I've never seen a flat top acoustic like this one. It sounds great - and I just love the headstock - very retro!
Bro you have no idea about how happy you make me feel with this video is all I've been searching for long time ☺️ 🙏🙏🙏 good Blees you brothers I'm listening this from Amsterdam 😎👌💚☘️🍃🌿🌱 good vibes for y'all
Bro even the way you look at me with your buttoned up shirt and disappointed look is frightening the living hell out of me. How could I ever learn this song and do you justice lmao.
Hi Josh, I learned this from your earlier vid but ai could never get the timing of the opening section where you bend up on the trebles and keep the travis bass running. Not sure why this was as I really struggled with it whereas the rest of the tune was quite doable. So thanks to this brilliant vid I will work on this over the weekend and polish it up. I have told so many music friends about you and your talented friends and the great range of music you all play to am exceptionally high standard....most importantly of all you all look like you are loving your music. Thank you for inspiring this 67 year old have a go lad 😀.
Who remembers John Sebastian playing this on a show probably David Frost? He took a harmonica out of his shirt pocket and ended the song with a FANTASTIC solo!
It took me a month and a half to understand precisely what it does. now I just have to do it 500 times to be 100% comfortable! I finally see the light 😅
Thanks my man great stuff cheers from Ireland 🇮🇪 Brian !! That’s a cool looking guitar never seen one in Ireland before sounds like a Martin om !! Cool 😎 thanks josh
Hi Josh, watched many of your videos but haven't seen your tutorials before. Really like the style and delivery. Good blend of craft and charisma, and clear and concise information,very good. Thanks
I wish I saw this 50 years ago when I was trying to figure it out from Happy Traum's 1966 book. So that's what Doc was doing with the counterpoint in the slack parts. Nice. I couldn't figure it out. Thanks.
I was hoping for your tutorial of this song! I can't wait to learn it to make a cover for my UA-cam channel! :) Thank you Josh and greetings from Italy! :)
Great lesson Josh! Thank you so much, I got one request: could you please lay out the last solo too that you did in the actual song? Would highly appreciate it!
I was also lucky to look very young through my thirties. Got carded all the time! Not much of a beard. Then ... my body caught up with my age, seemingly instantly. Oh, well ...
been travis picking for a while and thought i could give a go at this one. HELL no. Wont get discouraged though. This is a fantastic song and tutorial. I'll get it one day
Gotta tell you a story....In the early 70's, I was taking a Greyhound bus from Chicago to Minneapolis, Minn to see a girlfriend. Upon boarding, this crusty old guy sat next to me carrying a guitar case. He said he was a blues player. We chatted most of the trip but the most revealing thing he said was that he wrote Sittin' On Top of The World Now, everybody knows that song. His name was Sam Chatmon....a member of the Mississippi Sheiks, which meant nothing to me at my age then.
Hi Josh! Your version of the song is absolutely great. Old Doc is smiling, somewhere up there. I think that your variations in the bridge, kind of banjo rolls, are especially brilliant. Is there any chance that you’ll give a lesson on that part too, in the future?
Thanks alot man. Its tough to find tutorials for these old fingerstyle songs that are absolutely ridiculous to learn. Once u learn this style you can never go back.
I've heard the " great pickers can't teach " crud for fifty years; it's kind of you to do these songs for growing musicians. If you would produce a " side gig " teaching,, man, would you have followers with many requests! There are many beginner+ sites that do a good job. Intermediate and more advancing pickers would be glad to pay for a series like this. You've started a long pro-performer career; folks would be Grateful for you're time to teach. Happy New Years folks...
Now I know why I bought that Preston-Thompson in the middle of the pandemic! …and a new place to use my banjo skills. Could you please play through the complete song at speed, at the beginning of the lesson? Thanks!
My man!!!! Ive always loved this version, and I have a concert to play in two months, I was going through your video trying to learn it, and now you have a lesson!!!!
Very much like Doc Watson played it. Doc also did tutorials for HOMESPUN TAPES where he stated he did tunes like this (and others) with ONLY his thumb and forefinger!! He told Happy Traum "I never did learn that 3-finger style! " The man was a true genius musically.
great lesson !!and a great song i only wish you had covered the solo ( banjo style) in your performance, guess ill have to get down and work it out myself
Nice! Thanks so much for making/posting this! I have always loved the version of this song that you and Carson did and had ambitions of learing to play it. You're the man!
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You're awesome! I was trying to learn this song from your video, and then you upload this tutorial, thank you very much! 😁🎶
There's footage of Doc hisself giving a lesson on that tune here on YT. ProTip: Doc allowed he used light gauge strings during that, something that probably makes it easier than medium gauge. Doc called 'em "wires" sometimes. And this song is what he called "one of them off brand tunins" which is just great way to describe.
Joshua Lee. I don't know how many times I watched you and Carson play this song at half speed to get this song down. Now you got a full lesson. Why you gotta do me like this - mad respect, thanks for the tunes brotha
learning it by ear is always a great achievement. i wouldn’t regret a thing if i was you!
Me too LOL
Same. But will happily go over it again with the tutorial. Cool stuff!
I tried learning it this way on and off for months and and I never got past the first bar. Props to you my friend!
@@zayb2023 Facts. Learning tunes by ear is how all your favourite musicians learned how to be musicians. You can immediately tell if someone has spent enough time developing their ears by their level of musicianship. People that just learn through reading music (whilst a good skill in its own right) just lack that cherry on top with their playing. And if you only learn by doing what other people verbally tell you to do then you really don’t have much hope of being an actual musician.
Love this 80's cassette lesson vibe, would be lovely to see you teach more often
Or ‘70s vinyl LP lesson vibe. Long live Kicking Mule Records!
My thoughts exactly.
Hello Josh. My name is Leo.
I am a man of 77 years old, and I want to learn how to play this song.
I think you are a sympathetic boy, someone who has a lot of patience
conveys the material well. I enjoy it a lot.
Thank you very much for the effort you make for us.
Warm regards from Holland.
leo.
I really appreciate Josh’s lessons. I’ve made a few cracks at learning this song but this tutorial really helped me move it along. Now maybe in a couple years it will sound half decent.
I had the pleasure of seeing Doc play at the Belly Up Tavern, a really small venue in the San Diego area a couple of decades ago, along with his son on second guitar.
The man's picking style was magical, and I'll never be that good.
Its great to see you carrying on the traditional musical styles and bringing them to new generations of players.
Thanks!
I see a wedding band on Josh's hand now. Congratulations!!!
I have some finger picks laying around (never really used them though), but the first thing I learned in this lesson is that the few times I did try playing with them, I had them on backwards lol. Awesome to see a lesson for this song, your version with Carson has been playing on repeat for me for a while now!
You are a fantastic musician, Josh! I am happy to have seen you live in performance. To me you are the Paul McCartney of our times. Thank you so much for your generosity to share insights of your amazing talent!
Paul McCartney? How?
Thanks a million dude. Unbelievable lesson. Never would have learned it by ear.
I hadn't even looked since requesting this lesson more than a year ago from your "Don't Think Twice" tutorial. THANK YOU SO MUCH! No one does this as well. No one plays better, either, but Toni is right on your heels in my book.
Thanks for this one- after seeing you and Carson play this I searched "Josh Turner Sittin on top of the world tutorial". Lo and behold the gift to be found!!
yeah, i'm smashing my guitar against the wall. Thanks for the tutorial man!
Feels like one of those tutorials from the early 2010’s. There’s some subtle humour in this tutorial for me haha
Informative, hilarious, and free! Shoutout Happy Traum for the recording template. Thanks for the tutorial and laughs. Love from Dayton!
Mate you made my week, or however long it takes me to learn this.
Kelly, that is excellent lighting and editing. Thank you for washing and combing Josh's hair.
Josh, excellent tutorial as always. My appreciation for your skill and talent are those of a person who loves guitar music (Paganini, anyone? ) but has never been able to progress past being a poor strummer. So, I live my first playing dreams vicariously through you. Thanks!
This is a very tall mountain to climb for my feeble finger pickin skills, but I might have to go for it. I've watched the referenced performance a ton of times before this instructional version was posted. Absolutely love it. Hope I get it down before I start to hate it.
Great lesson, thank you. It’s got the right balance between proper explanation of what you’re doing and actual playing. Not too much talking and to the point - great.
YES! YOU ARE A SAINT! I've been jamming to your cover nearly every day since you and Carson released it, but I've procrastinated learning it. It's an absolutely beautiful cover and such a jam. So thankful to be alive in your lifetime so I can rip all your covers and songs🤣
Josh your my type of entertainer in all ways. THE BEST.
I literally just saw the cover yesterday and was trying to find the tutorial. I feel like this is a sign😂
Bucking frilliant, love the tongue in cheek approach !
I always try to comment, you are such profound talent, both you and Carson. Your love for all genres of music impress me more than anything else.
Never heard an old Harmony sound that good!
Really hoped for this tutorial after have seen the Don't think twice it's alright one. Thank you Josh
I'm fascinated by the Harmony guitar. I live in Scotland and was in a rock group in the sixties. I remember A Harmony semi acoustic electric model, but I've never seen a flat top acoustic like this one. It sounds great - and I just love the headstock - very retro!
LOTS OF LOVE MAN 😂 ❤ THANKS FOR THIS!! I hear it everyday before sleep to get better from anxietyyy
YOU’RE THE BEST JOSH.
Bro you have no idea about how happy you make me feel with this video is all I've been searching for long time ☺️ 🙏🙏🙏 good Blees you brothers I'm listening this from Amsterdam 😎👌💚☘️🍃🌿🌱 good vibes for y'all
Thanks man, I always wanted a lesson from THE Josh Turner. Love all your songs
Bro even the way you look at me with your buttoned up shirt and disappointed look is frightening the living hell out of me. How could I ever learn this song and do you justice lmao.
Hi Josh, I learned this from your earlier vid but ai could never get the timing of the opening section where you bend up on the trebles and keep the travis bass running. Not sure why this was as I really struggled with it whereas the rest of the tune was quite doable. So thanks to this brilliant vid I will work on this over the weekend and polish it up.
I have told so many music friends about you and your talented friends and the great range of music you all play to am exceptionally high standard....most importantly of all you all look like you are loving your music. Thank you for inspiring this 67 year old have a go lad 😀.
Who remembers John Sebastian playing this on a show probably David Frost? He took a harmonica out of his shirt pocket and ended the song with a FANTASTIC solo!
I had to learn this by ear + watching your cover really close, but now i see i got some things wrong, thanks man
It took me a month and a half to understand precisely what it does. now I just have to do it 500 times to be 100% comfortable! I finally see the light 😅
I had to figure this out before on my own, and now there’s this!? Very cool
I'm still learning after a month practising Josh. A great lesson in guitar playing
Josh never ceases to amaze me!!!
Thanks for taking time out to make this video. I am an intermediate player and this video is perfect for me. Thanks again Josh.
Thanks my man great stuff cheers from Ireland 🇮🇪 Brian !! That’s a cool looking guitar never seen one in Ireland before sounds like a Martin om !! Cool 😎 thanks josh
nifty guitar .... who makes it... nice work josh ... i would love to be at that level... such joy thanks for sharing your skill
OK, right out of the gate - I know exactly what he's talking about at the beginning here. I could totally play this if I felt like it.
Just saw you perform this live last night in NY. What an amazing experience.
I have dreamed of this video ! You made it ...and so, you make my day! Many thanks Josh, greetings from France
Hi Josh, watched many of your videos but haven't seen your tutorials before. Really like the style and delivery. Good blend of craft and charisma, and clear and concise information,very good. Thanks
I wish I saw this 50 years ago when I was trying to figure it out from Happy Traum's 1966 book. So that's what Doc was doing with the counterpoint in the slack parts. Nice. I couldn't figure it out. Thanks.
Love Josh's style and the old Harmony guitar he uses that sounds wonderful.
I was hoping for your tutorial of this song! I can't wait to learn it to make a cover for my UA-cam channel! :) Thank you Josh and greetings from Italy! :)
Anyone else want to see way more instructional videos like this from Josh?
man, that greetings is epic ;-) thank you taking time to do these tutorials, love to you and all around you
Thank you for everything Josh.
Great lesson Josh! Thank you so much, I got one request: could you please lay out the last solo too that you did in the actual song? Would highly appreciate it!
Ooh my, thank you and god bless your fingers.
Wow thanks dude, I was mystified by where to start with this song now I can muddle through, so much fun, thanks
This is actual footage of Josh's fourth grade class photoshoot. 😂
I was also lucky to look very young through my thirties. Got carded all the time! Not much of a beard. Then ... my body caught up with my age, seemingly instantly. Oh, well ...
I was thinking along similar lines.
That same Harmony was my 1st guitar !!!!! Love seen you playing it. Wish I still had it. Your great. Love your work and Nice lesson. Thanks.
Fantastic, been watching you and Carson in various combinations for quite a few years...keep it up❤️
been travis picking for a while and thought i could give a go at this one. HELL no. Wont get discouraged though. This is a fantastic song and tutorial. I'll get it one day
Gotta tell you a story....In the early 70's, I was taking a Greyhound bus from Chicago to Minneapolis, Minn to see a girlfriend. Upon boarding, this crusty old guy sat next to me carrying a guitar case. He said he was a blues player. We chatted most of the trip but the most revealing thing he said was that he wrote Sittin' On Top of The World Now, everybody knows that song. His name was Sam Chatmon....a member of the Mississippi Sheiks, which meant nothing to me at my age then.
Sam Chatmon the half brother of Charlie Patton. Both blues legends.
Hi Josh! Your version of the song is absolutely great. Old Doc is smiling, somewhere up there. I think that your variations in the bridge, kind of banjo rolls, are especially brilliant. Is there any chance that you’ll give a lesson on that part too, in the future?
God, that Harmony sounds great!
Spent a month on this and just beginning to get a handle on it. Thanks for the wonderful lesson. Making me a better player.
Thanks alot man. Its tough to find tutorials for these old fingerstyle songs that are absolutely ridiculous to learn. Once u learn this style you can never go back.
This was very educational AND entertaining, fantastic tutorial. Thank you so much !
I’m so happy you did this. I’ve been trying to find the way you play it for a little bit
Hi, thank you for this very good tutorial.
So I can now play this song for my self and I´m very happy about this.
NObbi
Thank you for this tutorial, Josh
I got it! all I have to do is retune my guitar and then get some finger picks. and then learn the song. OK no problem. good teaching ty.
Great video, and a super talent that has studied and really cared for Americana music !
Josh, thank you for your teaching efforts.....outstanding!!!
I've heard the " great pickers can't teach " crud for fifty years; it's kind of you to do these songs for growing musicians. If you would produce a " side gig " teaching,, man, would you have followers with many requests! There are many beginner+ sites that do a good job. Intermediate and more advancing pickers would be glad to pay for a series like this. You've started a long pro-performer career; folks would be Grateful for you're time to teach. Happy New Years folks...
You are always a Great inspiration for all web LOVE guitar playing, specially fingerpicking. You are my music Idol nowadays, behind P.Simon
Fantastic show in DC tonight. Thank you.
Now I know why I bought that Preston-Thompson in the middle of the pandemic! …and a new place to use my banjo skills. Could you please play through the complete song at speed, at the beginning of the lesson? Thanks!
My man!!!! Ive always loved this version, and I have a concert to play in two months, I was going through your video trying to learn it, and now you have a lesson!!!!
We all needed this lesson thank you Josh much appreciated
Very much like Doc Watson played it. Doc also did tutorials for HOMESPUN TAPES where he stated he did tunes like this (and others) with ONLY his thumb and forefinger!! He told Happy Traum "I never did learn that 3-finger style! " The man was a true genius musically.
More like this! Cheers and so loved video with narrative and both fret board and string strikes together!
now i know exactly why i can’t play it
Cant play it… yet! Best of luck to all trying to learn this awesome song.
😂
Lmao me too
It's one of my all time favorite songs. It was nice to get some clarity on why I can't play it.😁
Start with some slower fingerpicking stuff, trust me I was like that too. Make learning guitar as fun as you can and you'll get there eventually
Thanks Josh - that Harmony guitar sounds awesome. I've got a '63.
Awesome video, Josh!
More of this please!!! Love the tutorial style vids as it really helps grow as a player.
oh my god I just spit out my drink laughing when that intro came 😂
Thanks, no one did as good a job on this tutorial yet.
Wow, thanks for sussing this out, always wondered about some of those runs.
Really good Josh Lee guitar playing
great lesson !!and a great song i only wish you had covered the solo ( banjo style) in your performance, guess ill have to get down and work it out myself
Nice! Thanks so much for making/posting this! I have always loved the version of this song that you and Carson did and had ambitions of learing to play it. You're the man!
You're awesome! I was trying to learn this song from your video, and then you upload this tutorial, thank you very much! 😁🎶
Thank you!!! Ive been looking for a lesson on this one for years
Essential blues lesson. Thanks so much
Thankgod what I’ve been wishing for ! Thankyou !
Kelly at 0:06 "Smile Josh, Smile !". Many thanks for the time you passed to give us this video guitar lesson :)
I love your version of this song, you and Carson did great on the performance. Thank you for the tutorial!
love the vibe. Nobody else does it like you man
you are doing god's work josh
Thank you. Wish you would do a Deep River Blues tutorial. Been trying to learn that for years.
There's footage of Doc hisself giving a lesson on that tune here on YT. ProTip: Doc allowed he used light gauge strings during that, something that probably makes it easier than medium gauge. Doc called 'em "wires" sometimes. And this song is what he called "one of them off brand tunins" which is just great way to describe.
Simple genious👏 Pure pleasure to watch and listen!
Tutorial yang mengagumkan, saya sangat menghargai kamu josh.
If I was a Highlander I could live 700 years and acomplish this.