Happy has probably taught more folk musicians than anybody. We all grew up on his music instruction books and eagerly sought to learn how to play. So many guitarists owe him a real debt of gratitude. Thanks, Happy!
I learned to play acoustic repeatedly renting the Homespun Happy Traum VHS tapes from the public library almost 30 years ago, long before the free videos on UA-cam. Fond memories! Happy’s still teaching and looking spry🤘
We have a ton of the older Homespun cassette tapes -- everything from Happy's fingerpicking 1 & 2, Flatpicking Country Guitar, Banjo w/Bill Keith, with Happy again. The ear training, w/Matt Glaser has opened up a WORLD to me. God bless my dad for buying all these! They're good as new, forty years later.
@@joefeldpausch The tapes are super-valuable to us now, and I was remiss not saying how much Russ Barenberg's tapes, Advanced Flatpicking, and Exploring the Fingerboard, and Dan Crary's goldmine for flatpickers -- wow, right there is an education in guitar, in eighteen tapes! Take care, Joe.
Like so many others, I learned guitar with the help of Homespun VHS tapes. It is good to see Happy Traum in this recent clip. This is a blues riff we have heard all of our lives; and Happy teaches it to us with ease, and style. One thing is for certain: Happy Traum is HAPPY whenever he is teaching others. What a legacy.
As a young teenager in the seventies i remember my brother learning guitar using Happy's tab books.In my youthful ignorance i thought the books were by a guy named Happy Strum. Almost 45 years later, on this day i learned this Icon of guitar instruction's real last name. But it still makes me happy to hear him strum.
Seeing Happy Traum’s name in the video title made me head to my bookcase and dig through my old guitar instructional books from the 80’s. Sure enough, there it was, old and yellowed and well used: The Guitarist’s Picture Chords by Happy Traum. It’s good to put a face to the name. Good on you Happy.
Man, this is great. I learned fingerpicking by ordering cassette tapes from Homespun Tapes in the late 70's. Happy always sent homemade tab with the tapes and sometimes he or his wife, Jane, would enclose a personal note. I treasured them.
Hello, Happy! It is great to see you are yet teaching guitar. I still have a book by you published in 1966 by OAK PUBLICATIONS 'Finger-Picking Styled for GUITAR'. I can't pretend I have mastered it yet, but seeing you on UA-cam has kick-started me again. With best wishes, Ted Goodfellow, UK.
Thanks Happy, I still am learning from Homespune tapes I bought in the 80s. You were the first to open many doors for me and I will always be grateful, good health to you and your family.
Hi Happy great to see you looking so good, met you once at the Springfield folk club in Brighton England , you signed your album Relax your mind for me and the wife , still have it . Best Wishes.
This takes me back to watching one of your VHS tapes over and over, learning to syncopate, and feeling so good when I finally got it! Man, I was clumsy...
I’ve heard your name from years ago and now and again. It’s great to see you on UA-cam and giving this wonderful little lesson. Hope to see you on here more often. Greetings and thanks to you from California.
wow this is a surprise i still have about 700 dollars worth of Homespun tapes and the tab books that go with them.I learned how to fingerpick and how to syncopate from happy.but i haven't seen him in many years i didn't think he was still with us.Grate to see you hap thanks for the lessons.
Happy Traum - your parents must have really loved you - giving you that name. Poetic ,Deep and Joyous - filled with the mystery of the universe and awareness.
I learned out of his book Finger Picking Styles for the Guitar...I still have a copy. Still a great book now that UA-cam can supply the example tracks. We used to see him at the Kingston Trailways bus station with his leather guitar case. "That's Dylan's guitarist but dont talk to him or he will think you're not cool"
Thanks for the cool lesson Happy!!! I'm a professional player (Jill & Kevin), but can ALWAYS learn new stuff! I am friends with, and play with Adam occasionally. You raised a great son!
All the history of music this guy knows been thru.. folk rock .... Mr. Tambourine Man.... Greenwich village history.... good guy to learn from.... Thank-you
Hi there, just found your web site today and I have to say it's do refreshing to see someone taking the time to explain things slowly. Looking forward to seeing lots of you in the future. Thanks so much for a great lesson
So happy to have come across your video. I found your instructional videos on playing guitar so helpful and I fondly remember one that you made on bass runs. You have been an inspiration to me and a great guitar player role model. Thank you so much!!
Thank you Happy - I dig it! Soulful and colorful 12 bar progression! I’m gonna use it for sure and make it a standard goto when I wanna write a new lyric.
Thank you Happy! you presented a very nice 12 bar blue track that will undoubtedly make a great little piece to practice and improvise on, thanks again for sharing
What a wonderful super simple lesson for a beginner like me! Thanks AGM for reprinting the article and offering this excellent video. Will take me a bunch of rewinds and practice, but I can figure it out.
How is Woodstock these days? We wanted to come to the Luthier’s show but it was cancelled because of the virus. It is a beautiful, charming old American town. We absolutely loved it
Thanks so much for this lesson! I’ve always loved “buckets of rain” by Wood Brothers. Sometimes that chord progression loops in my head for hours.( I know...Bob Dylan...bla bla...I like the Wood version better). Often thought about really trying to figure it out. Just the inspiration needed!! Thanks.
Thanks for this I linked it to some other E links and sounds great. You are so easy to watch. Hope you are keeping well in NY. Greetings from Scotland.
Niiiice! That is the easiest and friendliest guitar lesson I have seen in awhile! You are indeed a true gentleman! I have heard this blues progression used in several places, including some movies - usually the character walking a hot summer dirt road. Thanks for the lesson!
That Clapton thing is much easier than I always imagined it to be, and"Happy Dream" is a great name! It's a bit frustrating that you don't show each example in real-time before going into detail, though. There's nothing to latch onto until at the very end of each example, at which point we have to go back and watch the whole example again, because only now do we understand what you're going for
@HerfinnurArnafjall: I've been trying to get the title of that Eric Clapton song for lessons. I agree with you. This Happy blues progession sounds like half that lesson! Second Happy personality I have heard of.First was the late Happy Hare. Thanks Happy!
Happy has probably taught more folk musicians than anybody. We all grew up on his music instruction books and eagerly sought to learn how to play. So many guitarists owe him a real debt of gratitude. Thanks, Happy!
I learned to play acoustic repeatedly renting the Homespun Happy Traum VHS tapes from the public library almost 30 years ago, long before the free videos on UA-cam. Fond memories! Happy’s still teaching and looking spry🤘
We have a ton of the older Homespun cassette tapes -- everything from Happy's fingerpicking 1 & 2, Flatpicking Country Guitar, Banjo w/Bill Keith, with Happy again. The ear training, w/Matt Glaser has opened up a WORLD to me. God bless my dad for buying all these! They're good as new, forty years later.
Béla Scialoja Yes, certainly, God bless your dad for that investment in a legacy of making music, as well Happy for being such a great teacher!
@@joefeldpausch The tapes are super-valuable to us now, and I was remiss not saying how much Russ Barenberg's tapes, Advanced Flatpicking, and Exploring the Fingerboard, and Dan Crary's goldmine for flatpickers -- wow, right there is an education in guitar, in eighteen tapes! Take care, Joe.
Béla Scialoja I’ll bet you’re going to school on that gold mine. Whew! Keep it up🤘
My first lessons were from his books! 35 years ago!
This is one of the first things I learnt on guitar many years ago....still learning
I learned how to play guitar using a book from you and your brother and I finally get to thank you so thank you very much Happy.
Like so many others, I learned guitar with the help of Homespun VHS tapes. It is good to see Happy Traum in this recent clip. This is a blues riff we have heard all of our lives; and Happy teaches it to us with ease, and style. One thing is for certain: Happy Traum is HAPPY whenever he is teaching others. What a legacy.
As a young teenager in the seventies i remember my brother learning guitar using Happy's tab books.In my youthful ignorance i thought the books were by a guy named Happy Strum. Almost 45 years later, on this day i learned this Icon of guitar instruction's real last name. But it still makes me happy to hear him strum.
Chris Foster 😂 funny
Seeing Happy Traum’s name in the video title made me head to my bookcase and dig through my old guitar instructional books from the 80’s. Sure enough, there it was, old and yellowed and well used: The Guitarist’s Picture Chords by Happy Traum. It’s good to put a face to the name. Good on you Happy.
RIP my good man. Will always treasure these videos of Happy.
Man, this is great. I learned fingerpicking by ordering cassette tapes from Homespun Tapes in the late 70's. Happy always sent homemade tab with the tapes and sometimes he or his wife, Jane, would enclose a personal note. I treasured them.
Hello, Happy! It is great to see you are yet teaching guitar. I still have a book by you published in 1966 by OAK PUBLICATIONS 'Finger-Picking Styled for GUITAR'. I can't pretend I have mastered it yet, but seeing you on UA-cam has kick-started me again. With best wishes, Ted Goodfellow, UK.
The Blues is so expressive of the human spirit. Thank you so much Happy for the gift of the tutorial!
Thanks Happy, I still am learning from Homespune tapes I bought in the 80s. You were the first to open many doors for me and I will always be grateful, good health to you and your family.
Bravissimo insegnante!
Hi Happy great to see you looking so good, met you once at the Springfield folk club in Brighton England , you signed your album Relax your mind for me and the wife , still have it . Best Wishes.
So glad to meet you, Sir. You've been a constant presence in my life for years. Thank you
This takes me back to watching one of your VHS tapes over and over, learning to syncopate, and feeling so good when I finally got it! Man, I was clumsy...
I’ve heard your name from years ago and now and again. It’s great to see you on UA-cam and giving this wonderful little lesson. Hope to see you on here more often. Greetings and thanks to you from California.
Great Teacher, Thanks.
wow this is a surprise i still have about 700 dollars worth of Homespun tapes and the tab books that go with them.I learned how to fingerpick and how to syncopate from happy.but i haven't seen him in many years i didn't think he was still with us.Grate to see you hap thanks for the lessons.
Me too, learned from a Happy and Artie book way back in the 70’s. Just stumbled upon him now. Hope to see many more lessons Happy!
Great.
Great to see you Happy - I began my self learning w/ you long ago. So good to see you fingerpickin' some blues...
I still consider Happy my guitar teacher after all these years Thank you and keep it up. He really must be one nice guy!
After years of having Happy Traum music books it's a pleasure to actually see him! Thanks for posting...
Very nice lesson. Very concise, well organized, and to the point. No extraneous talking.
Happy Traum - your parents must have really loved you - giving you that name. Poetic ,Deep and Joyous - filled with the mystery of the universe and awareness.
I learned out of his book Finger Picking Styles for the Guitar...I still have a copy. Still a great book now that UA-cam can supply the example tracks. We used to see him at the Kingston Trailways bus station with his leather guitar case. "That's Dylan's guitarist but dont talk to him or he will think you're not cool"
That's a beauty of a guitar!
You got that right! Santa Cruz H13
legend-once a great teacher, always a great teacher!
Thanks for the cool lesson Happy!!! I'm a professional player (Jill & Kevin), but can ALWAYS learn new stuff! I am friends with, and play with Adam occasionally. You raised a great son!
All the history of music this guy knows been thru.. folk rock .... Mr. Tambourine Man.... Greenwich village history.... good guy to learn from.... Thank-you
Thanks for all the tips, Happy - since about 1975 for me. American Stranger still one of my favorite albums.
I feel like I just had a few beers with a friend and learned something I will carry with me as long as I have fingers. Thank you!
Hi there, just found your web site today and I have to say it's do refreshing to see someone taking the time to explain things slowly. Looking forward to seeing lots of you in the future. Thanks so much for a great lesson
Thanks for that blues lick Happy! So useful for spicing up an arrangement. I'm working on adding it to my bag-o-tricks.
Hi Happy, I haven't seen you since you played at The Red Lion pub in KIngs Heath, Birmingham England back in the 1980s with Roly Salley.
Thank you. I still have a few Homespun Tapes cassettes that I cherished learning from!
So happy to have come across your video. I found your instructional videos on playing guitar so helpful and I fondly remember one that you made on bass runs. You have been an inspiration to me and a great guitar player role model. Thank you so much!!
Nice one Happy this is very cool and peaceful in these fraught times!
Thank you Happy - I dig it! Soulful and colorful 12 bar progression! I’m gonna use it for sure and make it a standard goto when I wanna write a new lyric.
Thank you Happy! you presented a very nice 12 bar blue track that will undoubtedly make a great little piece to practice and improvise on, thanks again for sharing
Santa coming down from the church steeple was my favorite memory of Woodstock! And Zubin’s tie dye! Thanks for always sharing the music 🎶
From a long time user of your videos: nicely done, Happy. Byoooootiful guitar, too.
Happy ... Thank you so much for this blues lick tutorial. It made me "Happy" learning it.
Love the bluesy sounds. Thanks.
Excellent lesson,thanks from New Zealand.
Hearing of you just today even tho im in my 40s.
But they sound so impressed in the comments that i know it was fun times
What a wonderful super simple lesson for a beginner like me! Thanks AGM for reprinting the article and offering this excellent video. Will take me a bunch of rewinds and practice, but I can figure it out.
How is Woodstock these days? We wanted to come to the Luthier’s show but it was cancelled because of the virus. It is a beautiful, charming old American town. We absolutely loved it
Thanks so much for this lesson! I’ve always loved “buckets of rain” by Wood Brothers. Sometimes that chord progression loops in my head for hours.( I know...Bob Dylan...bla bla...I like the Wood version better). Often thought about really trying to figure it out. Just the inspiration needed!! Thanks.
Great teacher! Thank you Happy.
Thank you. I've been wanting to learn that for years.
I`m beginner guitarist. Your videos can teach me a lot and make my day better
Thanks for sharing, Happy! I really got a lot out of that!
Thanks for this I linked it to some other E links and sounds great. You are so easy to watch. Hope you are keeping well in NY. Greetings from Scotland.
Fantastic! I can have another look at ‘Corrina, Corrina’ by Mr Dylan now.
Or maybe rename it to “Corona, Corona”?
Happy puts a smile on my face
Yup, Happy makes people Happy!
Great lesson, great demonstration of 12-bar blues!
What treat. I discovered and learnt from, Ken Mo and Fran Banish from your tuition DVD’s. Thanks.
I learned fingerstyle from Happy's Oak Publications book 55 years ago, but I have not played any of those songs since yesterday.
Best tutorial I've had in ages! Thanks 😊
How cool is that! Thank you for a great lesson!
Homespun VHS tapes! Right on! Best thing that ever happened to me, taught me how to travis pick.
sounds like the Clapton tune. I could change the world. beautiful
Like sitting with an old friend. Thank you
I hear “Change the World” by Eric Clapton in this. Great lesson!
You can pick the individual notes in succession with a flat pick also.
Lovely lesson! Much appreciated! 👍😎
Very well explained! Thanks.
Very nice. Thank you for sharing it with us 😎👍
Good lesson easy to understand 🙂
Nice.thanks for sharing.
That was pretty awesome ! Thanks!
Great lesson, loved it.
Great lesson.
This is fantabulous. thank you!
Excellent!
Wow, nice lesson, thank you Mr. Traum! I wish you talk a bit about that spectacular instrument :)
Niiiice! That is the easiest and friendliest guitar lesson I have seen in awhile! You are indeed a true gentleman! I have heard this blues progression used in several places, including some movies - usually the character walking a hot summer dirt road. Thanks for the lesson!
That was really helpful. Thanks.
Really nice guitar, by the way.
Excellent teacher!!! It's a skill!!!
Cool grove. Thanks..
FANTASTIC! THANK YOU SIR!
Great lesson!
Nice riff. I’m right next to Woodstock, local lesson!
Love that pattern! Thanks a lot!
Great lesson.. Thanks
Thank you for this great video.
Wonderful!! Thank you!
Somehow I feel like I'd like Happy Traum whether he had a guitar in his hands or not. ;)
Just beautiful!
Very cool, thanks for posting
Thank you ,slow and easy works for me. ☮️
Great Job!
Thanks for this and the great books
Reminds me of riff from the song Change the World in the movie Phenomenon. Eric Clapton performed it I believe. Fun lesson, thank you!!
Happy ....the perfect name for u!
Beautiful. love it. thank you! ❤️💐👍🙏
That Clapton thing is much easier than I always imagined it to be, and"Happy Dream" is a great name! It's a bit frustrating that you don't show each example in real-time before going into detail, though. There's nothing to latch onto until at the very end of each example, at which point we have to go back and watch the whole example again, because only now do we understand what you're going for
@HerfinnurArnafjall:
I've been trying to get the title of that Eric Clapton song for lessons.
I agree with you.
This Happy blues progession sounds like half that lesson!
Second Happy personality I have heard of.First was the late Happy Hare.
Thanks Happy!
Thank you.
Thank you sir, well done
Wow Happy we’re getting old. I remember your and your brother playing together 50 years ago.