Don't give up! Go slow. You'll get it. Look up Mike's Music Methods channel. He does an awesome job walking you through tough measures(not to take away from this gentleman's lesson!)
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John Hurt plays more like Kansas City ragtime. They gave him the name Mississippi to sell more records. Though he is from the delta his playing doesn't reflect that.
Hey, thanks for making this! I often advise people who are interested in learning this style to start with this song, and have taught it directly to a few people, but now I can just send them here! Cheers to you sir.
Thank you for this! Been messing with the guitar off and on for the last 20 years and now im finally taking the time to actually learn the theory and technique to truly play. Learning relatively simple delta, mississippi, finger style blues are the fun part that keeps me interested in continuing to practice the less fun bits. Your teaching style is the best ive found on youtube! Thank you for taking the time to share with us!
This is a fantastic lesson, extremely well taught and accurate. This is a good stepping stone if you want to learn "walk that lonesome valley" by Mississippi John Hurt, which is way more difficult in my opinion. Thank you for the great instruction.
Thanks Lee, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
You’re a terrific teacher, Joe. Since I found these videos, it’s helped me immensely in learning these songs. Can’t thank you enough! Please keep them coming.🙏....and any more Mississippi John Hurt tunes would be an absolute bonus 🤞
Really like the way this video shows a focus on movements in left hand fingers .... visually a really good way to learn how to play Spike Driver Blues. Thank you so much.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Tnanks so much, Im chipping away at this one now cuz you, been meaning to for a while. I just browsed your website too. Glad youre out there teaching us. Btw, what model and year is that Martin? 000-28 Eric Clapton it looks like, wonder the yearl...? Sounds great, might to getting a 0000-18 (M body size) Thanks again!!!
Hello. One question, is the tuning of the guitar strings to play Blues the "universal tuning" (E, B, G, D, A, E) or another special one? For example, here in Chile, South America, to play Folklore, sometimes the guitar is tuned in "High Third" (C#, A, F#, D, A, D), so the position of the chords is different from the traditional one. Greetings.
Yeah man thats the most challenging part of this song. It takes quite sometime to get the base going. I would reccomend practicing base note finger picking with other folk tracks to really get an 'educated thumb' so to speak. Also try travis picking that helps a bit as well. Throw several base picking techniques at your fingers and you'll eventually get it.
I urge you to listen to the live performance of Spike Driver Blues that MJH puts down an an old Pete Seeger show.It's on YT. You're very close, and actually your notes are good, but I'm missing that "bouncy" feeling I get from MJH's performance. Give it a listen and watch how his whole body seems to swing. Also, don't hold back on that thumb, so integral to MJH's playing....drive it!!
I kinda agree with you but this is where MJH is unique. The way he is achieving that bouncy rhythm is by hitting & syncopating very strongly the bass strings with his thumb while keeping overall flowless rolling notes. Very hard to do. If you are listening carefully , you would see that even the Great Doc Watson never actually met MJH in that respect.
@@soultylive So I listened to this guy again and I hear him play the sound I hear from MJH in the second part of each verse. The first part is the Doc approach. Listening to the lyric really helps. The "Won'tcha tell'em I'm gone..." requires a Ba Ba-Da-Ba Ba Ba count. I called it bouncy, which it is because the thumb is so, well, bouncy. However I think in musical terms this feeling is described as "swing". MJH is swingy/bouncy right from the start, where Doc is not. Doc is Ba Ba Baaa Baaa Baaa, MJH is Ba-Da-Ba Baaa Baaa Baaa. It's all about the Ba-Da-Ba scattered throughout MJH. For years I played this like Doc but once I SAW MJH and his whole body moving to it I decided that was for me. I put my whole self into it now and it's really helped me with all the MJH tunes I enjoy.
Mississippi John hurt was one of the best. I can’t wrap my head around his playing style. I’ll just sit back and enjoy your playing.
Don't give up! Go slow. You'll get it. Look up Mike's Music Methods channel. He does an awesome job walking you through tough measures(not to take away from this gentleman's lesson!)
Thanks for taking the time to introduce a whole new group of amateur players to delta blues, you did it perfectly.
You are very welcome, I also have a patreon page where I have lots of exclusive material, just in case you are interested here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
John Hurt plays more like Kansas City ragtime. They gave him the name Mississippi to sell more records. Though he is from the delta his playing doesn't reflect that.
John Hurt was from Avalon
You made that very easy for me, thank you!
Hey, thanks for making this! I often advise people who are interested in learning this style to start with this song, and have taught it directly to a few people, but now I can just send them here! Cheers to you sir.
Thank you
Very nicely done
Thank you for this! Been messing with the guitar off and on for the last 20 years and now im finally taking the time to actually learn the theory and technique to truly play. Learning relatively simple delta, mississippi, finger style blues are the fun part that keeps me interested in continuing to practice the less fun bits. Your teaching style is the best ive found on youtube! Thank you for taking the time to share with us!
Thank you glad you enjoyed the lessons and thanks for taking the time to comment all the best
This is a fantastic lesson, extremely well taught and accurate. This is a good stepping stone if you want to learn "walk that lonesome valley" by Mississippi John Hurt, which is way more difficult in my opinion. Thank you for the great instruction.
Thanks Lee, for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
Easily the best lesson for this song, thanks very much for that !
Very good lessons. I am musically challenged and these lessons are informative and easy to follow. Thanks
Thanks glad it helped
Great lesson thank you!!
Thank for the tutorial! I like how you zoom in on your hands and what they are each playing while you explain things
Glad you liked it!
You’re a terrific teacher, Joe. Since I found these videos, it’s helped me immensely in learning these songs. Can’t thank you enough! Please keep them coming.🙏....and any more Mississippi John Hurt tunes would be an absolute bonus 🤞
Hi Dan, You might wanna check out my patreon page here, I have lots of exclusive blues there www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
@@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons Thank Joe, that’s brilliant! I’ll do just that.
Really like the way this video shows a focus on movements in left hand fingers .... visually a really good way to learn how to play Spike Driver Blues. Thank you so much.
You’re very welcome thank you for taking the time to comment
This song is a monster to master
Great lesson! Love it!!
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thanks for lesson.
My pleasure!
Excellent explained
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed the video. just in case you are interested i have a patreon page where i have lots of exclusive content. here is link www.patreon.com/joesguitarlessons
@@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons Thanks for sharing your patreon.
The video helped me to finally be able to play this song.
Well done that’s excellent. You can do anything I can do it’s just practice 👍
Tnanks so much, Im chipping away at this one now cuz you, been meaning to for a while. I just browsed your website too. Glad youre out there teaching us. Btw, what model and year is that Martin? 000-28 Eric Clapton it looks like, wonder the yearl...? Sounds great, might to getting a 0000-18 (M body size)
Thanks again!!!
Bout 2005 00028EC 👍
Would you recommend the ec 000-28 ? Are you happy with it Joe?
Hello. One question, is the tuning of the guitar strings to play Blues the "universal tuning" (E, B, G, D, A, E) or another special one? For example, here in Chile, South America, to play Folklore, sometimes the guitar is tuned in "High Third" (C#, A, F#, D, A, D), so the position of the chords is different from the traditional one. Greetings.
Hey Cristian, yes it standard/universal tuning E B G D A E 👍
@@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons thank you.
You playing in Eb or standard ?
Yeah its in Eflat
Anyone else find it really hard to keep the base in rhythm while picking that last line? Can't keep the flow.
Yeah man thats the most challenging part of this song. It takes quite sometime to get the base going. I would reccomend practicing base note finger picking with other folk tracks to really get an 'educated thumb' so to speak. Also try travis picking that helps a bit as well. Throw several base picking techniques at your fingers and you'll eventually get it.
I always found to keep the base line in any song difficult while your playing another rhythm,
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You gotta show em the double hammer on the right hand
Did you say this in open G?
Standard
Is that a 00-28 you are playing?
I'd love to find out myself. Maybe a 00028? Lovely guitar played so sweetly...
Is it travis picking tecniche?
I’d love this if I could see the picking hand. I’m a visual learner ahahahah that’s why I come to UA-cam.
The end of the video shows the picking hand! It's helpful to bounce back and forth. :)
I urge you to listen to the live performance of Spike Driver Blues that MJH puts down an an old Pete Seeger show.It's on YT. You're very close, and actually your notes are good, but I'm missing that "bouncy" feeling I get from MJH's performance. Give it a listen and watch how his whole body seems to swing. Also, don't hold back on that thumb, so integral to MJH's playing....drive it!!
I kinda agree with you but this is where MJH is unique. The way he is achieving that bouncy rhythm is by hitting & syncopating very strongly the bass strings with his thumb while keeping overall flowless rolling notes. Very hard to do. If you are listening carefully , you would see that even the Great Doc Watson never actually met MJH in that respect.
@@soultylive So I listened to this guy again and I hear him play the sound I hear from MJH in the second part of each verse. The first part is the Doc approach. Listening to the lyric really helps. The "Won'tcha tell'em I'm gone..." requires a Ba Ba-Da-Ba Ba Ba count. I called it bouncy, which it is because the thumb is so, well, bouncy. However I think in musical terms this feeling is described as "swing". MJH is swingy/bouncy right from the start, where Doc is not. Doc is Ba Ba Baaa Baaa Baaa, MJH is Ba-Da-Ba Baaa Baaa Baaa. It's all about the Ba-Da-Ba scattered throughout MJH. For years I played this like Doc but once I SAW MJH and his whole body moving to it I decided that was for me. I put my whole self into it now and it's really helped me with all the MJH tunes I enjoy.
it would sound more like John Hurt, if your guitar was out of tune, lol