Deep River Blues Guitar Lesson Chords - Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson - How To Play Deep River Blues
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0:11 Intro where Doc Watson plays Deep River Blues original
0:36 Jim Bruce performance
1:59 Tuition intro - versions
2:25 Doc Watson Picking technique - Deep River Blues difficulty
2:42 Jim demonstrates Doc Watson one-finger fingerstyle technique
3:18 Tuition with guitar tab, both hands clip 1
3:41 Tuition with guitar tab, both hands clip 2
4:04 Tuition with guitar tab, both hands clip 3
4:26 Tuition with guitar tab, both hands clip 4
4:44 Tuition with guitar tab, both hands clip 5
5:03 Tuition with guitar tab, both hands clip 6
5:23 Tuition with guitar tab, both hands clip 7
5:48 Tuition with guitar tab, both hands clip 5
6:00 Thumb-jumps demonstration
6:50 Doc's finger movement and how to 'fudge' it
8:00 More tuition and variations
Deep River Blues lyrics
Let it rain, let it pour, let it rain a whole lot more
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let the rain drive right on, let the waves sweep along
'Cause I got them deep river blues
My old gal's a good old pal, and she looks like a water fowl
When I get them deep river blues
Ain't no one to cry for me, and the fish all go out on a spree
When I get them deep river blues
Give me back my old boat, I'm gonna sail if she'll float
'Cause I got them deep river blues
I'm goin' back to Muscle Shoals, times are better there I'm told
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let it rain, let it pour, let it rain a whole lot more
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let the rain drive right on, let the waves sweep along
'Cause I got them deep river blues
If my boat sinks with me, I'll go down, don't you see
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Now I'm gonna say goodbye, and if I sink, just let me die
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let it rain, let it pour, let it rain a whole lot more
'Cause I got them deep river blues
Let the rain drive right on, let the waves sweep along
'Cause I got them deep river blues
In this video, I'm going to teach you how to play Deep River Blues. This fingerstyle guitar lesson is great for beginners and intermediate players who are looking for a challenge and want to explore some new techniques. After watching this video, you'll be able to confidently play the Deep River Blues on any guitar!
Deep river blues guitar lesson pdf
Doc Watson's picking style was very different many blues guitar picking styles. Doc Watson put more emphasis on the melody side and extensive use of his thumb, which jumped around a lot like Reverend Gary Davis.
It may have been the fact that he was blind, but he showed a great ability to hear subtle harmonies between his chord changes.
Deep River Blues chords
There are not tricky chords ion Deep River Blues and they are easily memorized. He begins high up the fretboard with a very attractive chord inversion which he slides down one fret before reverting to basic chords.
The chord shapes down by the nut are not difficult but it's the timing that might get you! Some players use more than one finger to get that intricacy but Doc just used one finger for all.
He got that syncopation by jumping across the strings with his thumb, which is not uncommon for the blues, and he has a very strong melodic feel for the entire chord sequence.
The song Deep River Blues by Doc Watson was one of his most popular songs. It starts with a minor third and goes up, up, up in a way that always sounds fresh and surprising even for the most jaded of listeners. I love this song just as much as my old professor, Mike Seeger.
Doc Watson's Song deep river blues is a bit slow, but not meant to be a speedy toe-tapper. The song has a very gentle swing to it and I enjoy listening to the elements that make up this beautiful tune.
Doc Watson was an incredible fingerstyle guitarist and Deep River Blues was his masterpiece. He didn't write it and it had many variants, but nobody else captured the spirit of this tune better than Doc did.
Deep River Blues chords and lyrics
It is hard to think of the version of Deep River Blues that most people know with any other name, but there were several versions before Doc's. The earliest one is by Henry Thomas (see also the South Wind), recorded in 1930. Doc may have learned it from one of his family members or heard it on radio or seen it played in person.
His version is actually more like the original than Thomas' version, which has a different middle eight and an extra verse. There are many versions of Deep river Blues (some named differently), but most people think of Doc's when they hear this song being played somewhere.
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This is the best, most concise lesson I have seen on Deep River Blues to date. Thank you Jim for sharing.
Hi Jim, here is Roberto from Italy. Thanks a lot, for your ability to explain. I like very much your style
For the last 30 years I marvelled at how Doc could make his solo songs seem like duets. Now you tell me he only used one finger...Thanks for the lesson. I never thought I could play a Doc song. Terrific video.
I never get tired of watching this video lesson. I've learned so much from it and Jim's other lessons over the years. Can't thank him enough for gifting us this lesson. Thanks again, Jim (and again and again!!)
Great lesson!! I love how you don't spend too much time on each section allowing us to just pause and the section we want or just let the video keep playing
Brilliant I love the way you've broken it down into sections so I can figure out how to get the thumb rythm in line with the finger picking rythm and slowly ever so painfully slowly peice it together. thank you this video has been invaluable.
Looked at various versions to learn, and your lesson is spot on. Great job. Great vocals too. I owe you one mate.
Thankyou!!
It's the best way to learn the guitar, and especially to play the arpeggio. Thank you very much Mr Jim.
Very good teacher!
ok jim thanks for your time.you know i never realised that doc watson was blind.he is even more amazing than i thought.i would love to live my life like yours traveling around playing my guitar.it must be great.
Hey, I would like to say thank you for taking your time to post this. This has really helped me a lot. I started learning this 2 years ago and gave up. I found your video and its a inspiration. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing, so let me return the favor, if you don't already know it. I agree, Doc's playing has an elusive quality.The Smithsonian has issued a disc called "The Watson Family", which documents the rich Appalachian tradition, that gave us Doc. In one, video, he says that: "Folks in my church sang without vibrato, yet some of those mountain people had voices like you wouldn't believe," Maybe that elusive feeling embodies a long history. Check out Watson Family:"House Carpenter"
Thanks for this lesson... always loved Doc Watson...and figure playing the guitar without learning a song or two by him....is just an injustice to the man.
Damn!, that´s harder that it looks. Your are a great teacher!.
Wow. That's the most amazing instruction video I've ever seen. I hope I find more. As it happens, I'm making a retirement project of going back to my folk/blues guitar work. First song that emerged was Deep River Blues. This time around there's all this great instruction on the web. I thought I'd found everything. Now I see that I'd missed the fine detail, and you've got every nuance right here. You're a natural teacher, and the camera work is amazing. I'm off to your website to see what other gold is there.
My Goodness there was a lot time studying Docs style , and as Doc would ,,"and a fine job you done son" I Think Doc would be proud
merci Jim, je regarde vos videos depuis très longtemps et vous m'avez vraiment donné envie de jouer
Thanks for this video. I picked up a whole lot, I don't have the patience to get it note for note but its a very helpful tutorial.
The best guitar lesson i have seen so far on youtube. Thank you very much!
I have been wanting to learn this for awhile, but could not find a good tab or how - to video. Your presentation is very well done, and you have analyzed the piece in painstaking detail, which helps for clean, clear playing (if you don't get every note right, it becomes muddy). I played classical guitar for decades, by the way, and if any of them think this is easy, they should try learning to play it as well as you do.Thanks
you make the best guitar tutorial videos. thank you jim.
greetings from Brooklyn!
Hi Jim, thanks for this wonderful lesson, it really helped me to match this fantastic Doc Watson piece. I had some difficulties learning this piece but I am trying everyday to better my approach under your guide. In my opinion yours are the best lessons on UA-cam, I really like your teaching approach. Thanks a lot from Italy!
That was really great and well explained. I’m mainly a guitar player but I also play some 5 string banjo. I learned a banjo version first and now I’ll be working on this. Thank you so much!
After trying for 35 years, it sounds like doc ...... Thank you ....... Got any more?
Jim - you are amazing. Its about the closest I've heard to Doc's performances AND you do it with one finger! I just can't stop using all three fingers and you definitely lose something by deploying the extra digits. Still working through my Blind Blake DVD and strealing ideas off you for my performances. Keep em coming!
excellent layout of a lesson video, well executed and very understandable, this is the was guitar lesson should be. Nice work.
Outstanding. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this.
Fantastic! I thought it'd be impossible to decode doc's style but you nailed it.
Thanks you Jim. Very good lesson and very useful!
Thank you for the lesson. Very enjoyable.
Thank you very much for this soulful and very respectful lesson, so carefully crafted and presented. Cheers, mate, from the Great White North!!
Beautiful song and a great great job brother. I’ve been trying to get it and still can’t do this. Thank you so much brother for the video
This is great! This video is a huge help, better than guitar tabs online. Nice job thanks! this tune takes a while to learn.
Hey Jim, great lesson, I've been wondering what he was playing, the tabs are straight on point. Thanks a lot. -Max
Real good job Jim. Must have took forever to do this. Thanks. I been pickin for 45 years. It took me forever to learn finger rolls using 3 fingers and the thumb. It's hard to do only one!!! HAHA. Like you say. Incorporate your own style. Good thing about geetar is that you can always learn and practice.
Thanks for doing this. Have a good 2014
Jeff McDermott
Excellent playing/tutorial. thanks
Muchas gracias! Desde Chile aprendiendo esta gran lección.
Great. Best version on UA-cam, very close to Doc's.
Great, great. Thanks. I'm gonna do this. Thanks so much man!
very nice.....This will allow me to clean up an error or two in the way I (mis)play it.
I'm learning a song I thought gonna be impossible for me to ever learn...BIG THANKS!
Thank you so much, great river blues lesson.. Glad to find you
Great lesson man. Thanks
Thanks for the lesson. It was very useful.
Thanks for filling my stocking, Santa Bruce!
Excellent instruction. To the point and well shot. Thanks Jim !
Love your playing !!!!!!!
Thanks, really enjoyed my introduction to this style.
Brilliant Jim ,, thank you...
Thanks Ringo!
great lesson jim thanks
Super video, thanks for sharing !
Wow Jim !!! that is what i have been searching for the right way to play it Doc style . I have a question i noticed he simplifies it while he's singing the verses and then goes back to tricky picking it , do you sell the entire TAB for the song from beginning to end ?? I would like to see on TAB what he's doing all the way thru if possible . Thanks a ton from Texas for giving me a reason to wear out another set of strings keep up the good work . Nice job :)
Thanks a lot.....the video did helps a lot...
Mucha gracias, argentina
You have been most thorough in this video and I thank you for that. Perhaps it is just a bit silly to try and copy every last nuance that any of the greats actually play. Surely getting the flavour is just as important. Very intersting video. Thank you.
great lesson tks
tell us about the bad stuff too it would be interesting to know.i really want to start busking only in a small way im not good enough yet in my own oppinion ive been told im good enough but im just lacking the confidence i can play blues none stop round and round but it gets a bit samey.not sure id get away with that.ive watched alot of busking documentarys and i enjoyed yours the most it was good seeing what goes into your day.meeting people and helping the less fortunate.and the playing aswell
wow that is hard boy.
You've earned a new subscriber! You're a great player and these videos are very professional. Always wanted to play this song. Do you do any John Fahey stuff too?
Sorry didn't see the second part. I take it back. Great lesson overall.
SUPERB and THANKS!!! I liked and subscribed, of course....
Smooth Jim.
Genius ,
Thanks m8
I really love this style. I want to upgrade my acoustic...Do you have any suggestions that are affordable?
Thx. Great !!
(but the sound on the clip was v statick-ey)
Jim I'm a Fan, I've been working on your lessons "From Texas to the Delta" (couldn't keep using your site without supporting) Thank You!~ this is Great, I'm 65 and keep challenging myself, now I'm finger pickin stuff I listen to back in the 70's. Who said an Old Dog can't learn New Tricks???
Bonjour est Bonsoir a toutes et a tous :
Tout d'abord. Sachez-que moi même..joue un peut de tout ( Guitare ) :
alors juste un Grand Merci. D'avoir crée..cette vidéo musicale...sincèrement : ( Aime-Bien ) :)
Limba franceza nu mai este o limba de circulatie internationala.
true!
Could you please explain Deep River Blues using 3 finger style instead of Doc's 2. Thanks
Thanks!
absolutely wonderful could i ask for some help in my instruction. I'm trained to read information biased on muscle movement. Any way i could get you to show me your left hands shapes without the guitar. I know i may be asking a lot but it would help accelerate my personal process
Very hard song to master but worth it if you can do it.
Hey Jim, I don't feel comfortable criticizing your arrangement, let alone Doc Watson's, so I'll just mention a minor change that works for me. Section 2, first bar, last note. You show it as an open 4th string. I know a D should fit in an E7, but I just find this note a clunker. And the more I hear it, the worse it gets. I prefer to play 3rd string, 1st fret (G#). It's the same note used in Section 6, first bar: 4th string 6th fret (G#).
Anyhow, it works for me. You pickers out there can decide for yourselves.
HOLY SHI. !!!!!!!
good pickin
hi jim i wonder if you could help me ive watched your vids and you seem like a very nice guy.my problem is im playing im a king bee in the style of robert lighthouse.open d tuning with capo on third fret do you know which harmonica key goes with this would it be Bb.there is a vid of robert playing im a king bee on youtube.thanks for your help cool blues by the way.im trying to learn your doc watson deep river blues as well.great lessons.thanks
Your playing is exquisite, and the instructions that are here are great. I just wish it were a start to finish note for note thing because it seems there is a lot left out. Still the best I've found on this song, but I have to admit it is frustrating putting the pieces together in order, especially when some of them seem to be missing. Ah, well - at least I'm not having to do it from a record like you did way back when.
Hi man, where is the difference between the two versions you show in this video?
Error in the tab section 8. No A note is played it is an E. Please tell me if im wrong.
Great lesson. Just wish you could have slowed it down a bit.
Hey Jim, I noticed you aren't using any palm mute.I believe Doc used it a lot. Comments?
Thanks so much for this one buddy, you are English right? I'm from Yorkshire and your accent sounds very familiar to me but I can't pinpoint it
Wow such a long time to keep your accent, I'm from hull we regularly go shopping in Sheffield
Hey Jim, is it possible to have this lesson in .pdf ?
Jim I have listened to this video until i hear it in my sleep ! but i just cant seem to get the rhythum down. it just doesnt " sound" right.......
the challenge seems to be that there are six notes and it sounds like there are 5 when you play it? what in the world am i doing wrong?
Sound a bit like Chris Smithers or should it be that Chris sounds like Doc Watson :-)
P.S. thanks for keeping it real :)
Anyone know what kind of guitar he's playing here? I see it's a fender, was curious what kind
At some point, Doc started using different lyrics for the refrain line "Let the waves drive right on, let the waves just sweep along." He sings "Let the River Rise and Fall, let the waves ???" I can't quite make out that little bit. Can anybody help?I never liked the original words, and Doc's seem much better..
I thought I heard him say "Let that old river rise and fall, let the big waves make a wall" when i watched him do it on a lesson dvd he made
Thanks Skippy.
I probably couldn't hear it because the expression "waves make a wall" sounds odd to my Canadian ear. Is that something they say where Doc comes from?
Not sure really....I think it's more a wording/rhyming thing for the song perhaps. I'm Canadian too, hehe.
Ok, are you Fretkiller?
Darn, I thought I'd solved the mystery, you sing and play very similar - and it was a compliment, I'm a big fan of his. Your playing and singing are stellar.
You rip
Slow down some. You're supposed to have the blues.