JC Denton the joke is: he pretends he didn’t get the initial joke, as if he wanted to outsmart the guy who made the original comment, when in fact he is dumb himself Can’t believe I just had to explain a joke
There's something really eerie about the sound of an old, beat-up acoustic guitar. I think it has something to do with the uncertain history of the guitar you're holding, and the stories it could tell if it could talk. Anyway great video, thank you!
@@patrickjones9278 it's like an old fussy Genie, they won't come alive for just anybody but if the right person comes along then the history of the guitar can shine through
I don't know much about historical facts but in my 3 years of piano and guitar lessons on UA-cam, this has to be among the coolest. I really enjoyed your style of teaching👌
There’s a wonderful compilation album/cd called The Roots of Robert Johnson. It’s all material that Johnson lifts the music from and writes his own lyrics to. One example would be Skip James 22-20 blues is where Johnson changes to be his own 32-20 blues. What’s awesome is his guitar adaptations of piano pieces
Elvis Presley invented the blue note back in the 1600s, when all that was on the radio was church music....and two hundred years later Robert Jhonson and the Devil had a fiddle contest for Roberts soal, and Robert won a golden Fiddle, legend has it....
“The father of the blues” is a title held by W.C. Handy, not Robert Johnson. WC Handy was the first person to write out the blues and is therefore called the father of the blues. That is inscribed on his gravestone
The tritone that we use in the blues is the major 3 and the (Dom) 7th, not the 1 and the #4. We can play those two notes (3 and 7) to imply our Dom7 chords
Outstanding lesson, The only guy who was legit figuring out Robert Johnson songs was John Hiatt in the 80's, everyone else was so off. That guitar is gold.
Bull. Rory Block, Paul Geremia and others you obviously havent heard were doing it since the 60s. Hiatt is a great songwriter and an enthusiastic hack of a guitar player.
simply taught, well done, and thanks a bunch, I've been recently looking at Robert Johnson's style, and these are in standard tuning, great, thanks again!
People got pretty crazy about historical facts and that kinda shit. He was just trying to make an interesting opener to the lesson. Chill out. The licks are awesome.
Talking bullshit as facts may sound cool but is misleading, i think its a good thing someone comes forward with the truth, so people wont make the same mistake.
Yea this is a plague today! Idiots watch ONE Netflix documentary and think they become some kind of authority on the subject... And as you say it was suppose to be a little nice intro to the video not a freaking history lesson. But hey if a moron sees a opportunity to show how dumb they are, then they are usually dumb enough to do it ... A lot of ppl didn't do things first but they still made a big enough of a mark to be considered a "father of or mother of".
Man that was a really great lesson, thanks so much. I would say Robert learned most of his chord structures from his teacher Ike Zimmerman s he taught him how to play in the grave yard at night but there was no one to bother them as the haints listened to them. in the grave yard. Probably where the original story started from them practicing at night for a year there.
Bingo. Other big name artists have learned to play by picking in the graveyard in the middle of the night as well.. Even wrote songs dedicated to buried souls there. No place "quieter" than a graveyard at night and nobody to hear you mess up or sing off key as you learn. Nobody still in this plane anyway. If you listen hard enough the spirits may even give inspiration 😉. I'd say they enjoy the company and music.
Just a solid lesson dude with a great personality... Thanks for that share definitely needed information and you gave me more than I needed... Great lesson as well!
Beluga your right on the money . Not only did R.J. mastered it in standard tuning, but alternate tuning as well in 6 months. And people who played with R.J ,like Johnny Shines, said that he never saw or heard him ever practice. I've been playing and practice for many years, and can't get close to playing like R.J !!!
yes , he practice for the first 6 months but after that he never practice according to many other people as well as he was able to play all different genre of music !!! I'm not saying that i believe in the myth but for someone who plays guitar i find it amazing how talent RJ was in just a short time
notice my name david i think i'm pretty read up on R.J. !!! Yes he practiced for the first 6 months but after that no one ever heard of him practicing again . To master a guitar in 6 months in not only playing the blues he played all genre of music , alternated tuning, one the first to play the shuffle like a piano play would etc. all in 6 months pretty amazing stuff. I not saying that i believe in the myth, just truely amazed.
The blues was around before Robert J. The reason people say he sold his soul is because he went travelling a shit blues guitarist and came back a good one. These days, we call it 'practice' and 'experience'.
one theory is that he was rather successful with the girls and slept around a lot. The whole devil practitioner thing might have been a way of warding off jealous boyfriends and husbands who might fuck Johnson up or maybe just generally it gave him a fuck off I'm scary vibe in that dangerous world, he was quite skinny so he might've needed it. It's the same with the voodoo royalty, Marie Laveaux and Dr John (the first, not the piano player who took that name) I wonder if something similar to that is still possible on some level. Terry P used to call it headology, a witch is a witch because she wears a witch's hat, but a witch's hat is a witch's hat because its worn by a witch. By that, if you smart enough you never need any magic
I like to stay with the positive side of things, there are a thousand different stories and they do not have to be more certain than the others. the important thing is that it has been able to transmit three basic ideas very clearly it really is a very interesting video thank you very much.
"Fast forward about 250 years" and that's about 60 years before the birth of Robert Johnson back when guitars were played by genteel ladies in their parlours. "Mama don't allow no blue notes in this house."
Thanx man I always get something to take away with ur vids it's so cool having this at your finger tips not like the old days, I knw it takes preparation and your time so Thanx for doing it Pls continue. Rock on!
Awesome video! I never heard of Robert Johnson until I watched devil at the crossroads on Netflix. Now I'm obsessed with learning everything about him and practicing his style
Great video my friend. I just have to say that the "blue note" concept can also be that in between sound of bending the minor third up towards the major third. And I also use a bend from the natural sixth towards the flat seventh that sounds pretty tense and blusey to me!
Hold your horses. :) H.C. Hardy plublished St Louis Blues in 1910 or 1911, So with all respect to Mr. Johnson....he didn't invent the Blues, Blues music was pop music since the times of Bessie Smith. but great tutorial, thank you!
Blues got its start by african americans in the deep south of the United States around the end of the 19th century. It was W.C. Handy who took the regional style of blues and turned it into a new blues style in contemporary form as we all know it today therefore he is credited to be the Father of the Blues en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Handy Although Robert was not the father of the blues, his musical style influenced a new generation after him which many may have gotten that impression from him. Robert, however is credited in helping influence later generations and is recognized as the Master of Blues particularly of the Mississippi Delta blues style.
1:51 - "Blue note"can be many things, but typically it refers to lowered third: more so than lowered 5th. This off-the-standard-pitch note is achieved by bending the minor third by a quarter tone, placing it right in between the minor third and major third. In the key of E (as was the key in this video) the blue note is G and a 1/4 or the note between G and G#. This can be viewed as one of telltale signs that many blues licks go back and forth minor and major. Just wanted to offer my two cents in busting the myth that the blue note is lowered 5th! Also two of the most important Robert Johnson techniques are completely missing from here. (1) His right-hand technique where he upstrokes three top strings and (2) his unorthodox beats or structure of intros.
the devils note (tri-tone) was never illegal and is found in many Catholic chants and many of those were commissioned by notable Bishops and even the pastor of Notre Dame Cathedral around the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
The Devils note or Devils Triad, was coined back further in history. Composers like Vaugner wrote very dark sounding classical music with it. Robert Johnson was playing juke houses on the weekends and the men in the bar were partying too hard and were too hung over to make it to Church on Sunday. Their Wives still attended and the Preacher would say "Your husbands been out smoking and drinking all night listening to the devils music., And thats why they aint in Church today!" When in reality they were just too hung over to go to church. Plus Robert spent some time learning from a fellow blues player. They practiced late at night in a Graveyard. Combine that with him vanishing for a period of time to work on his craft and comming back a better player. You get the myth of the crossroads and selling his soul to the devil. Shit! there's a Doc on Netflix that explains it better than I can, I highly recommend it! Keep on Rocking in the Free World!
yes and no, they are the same frequency, but different notes and textures within the scale, and the augmented 4th was never forbidden, the lydian mode was used quite a lot.
I nailed the turn around and then my wife left me.
Funniest comment ever )))
Scott Orlyck bro play it backwards and she’ll come back
You might as well go to the crossroads.............
Lol
I understand you so much...
My wife goes crazy everytime I try to learn a song
that dirty guitar makes the video even better
It sounds like crap, like dead strings on a plywood box... But yeah tbh that's the early blues sound
Older strings have a nice sound, looks tickier, fatter, than new strings. Our hand gains an oil layer on the points of our fingers, but it worths
Went and bought that guitar cause it looked old. Hell, Muddy Watters invented electricity!
yep
@@lptomtom Well, crap has never sound that good xd
I like this guy. Enthusiasm evoking and "instrumental" educating.
Robert Johnson tuned his guitar to B.A.D.A.S.S
Joke's on you, S is not a note.
@@KieraQ0323 I believe this is r/woosh worthy.
JC Denton I think you were the one who missed his joke
@@AdanLucass There's no real joke there. Just a factual comment that ruins the ACTUAL joke.
JC Denton the joke is: he pretends he didn’t get the initial joke, as if he wanted to outsmart the guy who made the original comment, when in fact he is dumb himself
Can’t believe I just had to explain a joke
There's something really eerie about the sound of an old, beat-up acoustic guitar. I think it has something to do with the uncertain history of the guitar you're holding, and the stories it could tell if it could talk. Anyway great video, thank you!
The guitar can actually talk... depending on who plays it.
@@patrickjones9278 it's like an old fussy Genie, they won't come alive for just anybody but if the right person comes along then the history of the guitar can shine through
you guys are high on something I wanna know what it is :-)
I don't know much about historical facts but in my 3 years of piano and guitar lessons on UA-cam, this has to be among the coolest. I really enjoyed your style of teaching👌
Thanks to you and all the guys doing the R.J. stuff. Love the sound of the old cheap guitars, got an old Stella and I love it .
there was a Craigslist "want to trade" ad near me for Robert Johnson's soul a while back
Well done. As a bass player that toured with the late Dick Dale, and a "student" of Jaco...Awesome presentation.
Dude, my ears are still ringing from the shows I saw with you and Dick Dale. Respect to you!
I’ve learnt more from that 8,5min video than from 4 part tutorial elsewhere, thank you so much
There’s a wonderful compilation album/cd called The Roots of Robert Johnson. It’s all material that Johnson lifts the music from and writes his own lyrics to.
One example would be Skip James 22-20 blues is where Johnson changes to be his own 32-20 blues. What’s awesome is his guitar adaptations of piano pieces
Exactly.. many of them did that... and Skip had some lines from blues artists before him... wasn't uncommon or frowned upon then.
That tone is pure OG blues..
Yes, rocking chair and everything...tumbleweed...Robert noodling his tunes👍
Very cool. The little history lesson makes this little practical clip unique! Congrats.
Robert is Not considered the father of the blues, he is considered the KING of the Delta blues.
Correct
King of Delta blues, Father of the Blues, Grandfather of Rock, and The Man the Crossroads. He's got many names.
Right, that would be Charley Patton.
Correct ❤
Why is it charlie patton is so often left out?
Looks my first guitar, a 50’s Stella Harmony. Loved that little thing. Sounds like it too.
Thank you for remembering Robert and for trying to teach people… makes me have hope for the future!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Old southern tale. Made good conversation piece but no soul selling of soul. God rules the talent given to him.
Elvis Presley invented the blue note back in the 1600s, when all that was on the radio was church music....and two hundred years later Robert Jhonson and the Devil had a fiddle contest for Roberts soal, and Robert won a golden Fiddle, legend has it....
🤣
Sounds legit. I approve. 👍
He wasn’t around in the 1600s soo that makes no sense
more accurate than what this idiot is spouting in the Vid
this has to be the funniest comment i've read on pootube
“The father of the blues” is a title held by W.C. Handy, not Robert Johnson. WC Handy was the first person to write out the blues and is therefore called the father of the blues. That is inscribed on his gravestone
Some people also say Charley Patton!
Yeah should have put a delta in front of the blues
@@ZJMusic1990 EXACTLY! That's what I was thinking.
Great video and l love Robert Johnson those licks a the foundation of the blues, beautiful.
I love that tone, man... So natural and woody
The tritone that we use in the blues is the major 3 and the (Dom) 7th, not the 1 and the #4. We can play those two notes (3 and 7) to imply our Dom7 chords
I’m glad I found this lesson. Great lesson
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Love that ol’ honky-tonk parlor geetah…
Super cool man! Finally I got some of the Johnson' style in an easy way. Thanks brother.
That turnaround is like the most iconic thing ever :) Thanks.
This is brilliant..
Always wanted to get into Blues..
This will help ease the process.. Cheers..
Thank you so much for your video I'm very excited to try this out on my guitar
Charlie L We're excited for you to learn it!
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Char
Awesome series, awesome teacher. Keep up the good work!
Excellent Lesson
rather a chilling discovery for me, my paradise lost, since a chorus of scars now plucks out of my guitars...
Stella’s sound so swampy, love it 💙✌🏼🏴
Outstanding lesson, The only guy who was legit figuring out Robert Johnson songs was John Hiatt in the 80's, everyone else was so off. That guitar is gold.
Bull. Rory Block, Paul Geremia and others you obviously havent heard were doing it since the 60s. Hiatt is a great songwriter and an enthusiastic hack of a guitar player.
simply taught, well done, and thanks a bunch, I've been recently looking at Robert Johnson's style, and these are in standard tuning, great, thanks again!
People got pretty crazy about historical facts and that kinda shit. He was just trying to make an interesting opener to the lesson. Chill out. The licks are awesome.
Talking bullshit as facts may sound cool but is misleading, i think its a good thing someone comes forward with the truth, so people wont make the same mistake.
Yea this is a plague today! Idiots watch ONE Netflix documentary and think they become some kind of authority on the subject...
And as you say it was suppose to be a little nice intro to the video not a freaking history lesson.
But hey if a moron sees a opportunity to show how dumb they are, then they are usually dumb enough to do it ...
A lot of ppl didn't do things first but they still made a big enough of a mark to be considered a "father of or mother of".
Man that was a really great lesson, thanks so much. I would say Robert learned most of his chord structures from his teacher Ike Zimmerman s he taught him how to play in the grave yard at night but there was no one to bother them as the haints listened to them. in the grave yard. Probably where the original story started from them practicing at night for a year there.
Bingo. Other big name artists have learned to play by picking in the graveyard in the middle of the night as well.. Even wrote songs dedicated to buried souls there. No place "quieter" than a graveyard at night and nobody to hear you mess up or sing off key as you learn. Nobody still in this plane anyway. If you listen hard enough the spirits may even give inspiration 😉. I'd say they enjoy the company and music.
I live next door to a graveyard on hwy 61 so the spirits are always close.
Just a solid lesson dude with a great personality... Thanks for that share definitely needed information and you gave me more than I needed... Great lesson as well!
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3. 6:00
Thank you so much!:)
Beluga your right on the money . Not only did R.J. mastered it in standard tuning, but alternate tuning as well in 6 months. And people who played with R.J ,like Johnny Shines, said that he never saw or heard him ever practice. I've been playing and practice for many years, and can't get close to playing like R.J !!!
Read about Robert Johnson's teacher, Ike Zimmerman! They practiced at night in a cemetery near Zimmerman's home.
yes , he practice for the first 6 months but after that he never practice according to many other people as well as he was able to play all different genre of music !!! I'm not saying that i believe in the myth but for someone who plays guitar i find it amazing how talent RJ was in just a short time
notice my name david i think i'm pretty read up on R.J. !!! Yes he practiced for the first 6 months but after that no one ever heard of him practicing again . To master a guitar in 6 months in not only playing the blues he played all genre of music , alternated tuning, one the first to play the shuffle like a piano play would etc.
all in 6 months pretty amazing stuff. I not saying that i believe in the myth, just truely amazed.
Fantastic so interesting and great playing thnx
Kickass lesson. Learned alot thanks!
Great sounding guitar for exactly that style of music.
The blues was around before Robert J. The reason people say he sold his soul is because he went travelling a shit blues guitarist and came back a good one. These days, we call it 'practice' and 'experience'.
wesmatron they say he sold his soul because he left as a shit guitarist and in 6 months time had mastered it and perfected his own style.
What was Robert Johnson doing during those months? He was under the tutelage of Ike Zimmerman.
one theory is that he was rather successful with the girls and slept around a lot. The whole devil practitioner thing might have been a way of warding off jealous boyfriends and husbands who might fuck Johnson up
or maybe just generally it gave him a fuck off I'm scary vibe in that dangerous world, he was quite skinny so he might've needed it. It's the same with the voodoo royalty, Marie Laveaux and Dr John (the first, not the piano player who took that name)
I wonder if something similar to that is still possible on some level. Terry P used to call it headology, a witch is a witch because she wears a witch's hat, but a witch's hat is a witch's hat because its worn by a witch. By that, if you smart enough you never need any magic
Nobody ever saw him pratice and is became the best in 6 months. But you're right the key is pratice and experience
But do remember when he died someone said that he was barking like a dog and crawling on the floor like a dog before his death
Great video! Very fun licks to play!
You are a wonderful teacher!! Thank you!!
I like to stay with the positive side of things, there are a thousand different stories and they do not have to be more certain than the others. the important thing is that it has been able to transmit three basic ideas very clearly it really is a very interesting video thank you very much.
Yo that theory lesson was awesome and eerie
Interesting video with some good licks
Good! More of this please!
thank you, can't thank you enough, greetings from Tanzania
Robert Johnson is the greatest of all times.
I have been looking at many tuto and this one is a dawn good one. Thanks for willimg to share it with us.
Great lesson is there a place to get TAB for this?
I Like It - Very good - Thanks and greetings from Germany
I like this instructor.
Thanks for the tutorial and the history. Very cool. The sound of your ax is very similar to my Recording King Dirty Thirties parlor!
much appreciated - I like your energy
I always thought that if any decent old guitar could talk it probably would say, I was never played, thank you for dusting me off.
"Fast forward about 250 years" and that's about 60 years before the birth of Robert Johnson back when guitars were played by genteel ladies in their parlours. "Mama don't allow no blue notes in this house."
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Great playing and great lesson. Thanks my guy
Thanx man I always get something to take away with ur vids it's so cool having this at your finger tips not like the old days, I knw it takes preparation and your time so Thanx for doing it Pls continue. Rock on!
Lovin' my old Stella more and more.
Wow you helped me out a bunch. Thanks
Awesome video! I never heard of Robert Johnson until I watched devil at the crossroads on Netflix. Now I'm obsessed with learning everything about him and practicing his style
Man, you make it interesting and informative. Great stuff.
Wonderfull lesson, sounds also great on a Strat.
I actually got to meet Honey Boy Edwards, and he told of his time playing the jukes with Robert Johnson
This is where it all coalesced and a new art form was synthesized.
Nice lesson!
Thanks very much for putting this up!
great video, really entertaining and original
Wonderful video. Thank you very much!
Great video my friend. I just have to say that the "blue note" concept can also be that in between sound of bending the minor third up towards the major third. And I also use a bend from the natural sixth towards the flat seventh that sounds pretty tense and blusey to me!
flat fifths and flat 3rds are both considered "blue" notes
Great lesson man, thanks for sharing 🎵😎
Hold your horses. :) H.C. Hardy plublished St Louis Blues in 1910 or 1911, So with all respect to Mr. Johnson....he didn't invent the Blues, Blues music was pop music since the times of Bessie Smith. but great tutorial, thank you!
johnson was truly the greatest guitar player to have lived
What?! You should listen to some more music, junior
No he Qwasnt
Thanks for this,much appreciated
Blues got its start by african americans in the deep south of the United States around the end of the 19th century. It was W.C. Handy who took the regional style of blues and turned it into a new blues style in contemporary form as we all know it today therefore he is credited to be the Father of the Blues en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Handy
Although Robert was not the father of the blues, his musical style influenced a new generation after him which many may have gotten that impression from him. Robert, however is credited in helping influence later generations and is recognized as the Master of Blues particularly of the Mississippi Delta blues style.
1:51 - "Blue note"can be many things, but typically it refers to lowered third: more so than lowered 5th. This off-the-standard-pitch note is achieved by bending the minor third by a quarter tone, placing it right in between the minor third and major third. In the key of E (as was the key in this video) the blue note is G and a 1/4 or the note between G and G#. This can be viewed as one of telltale signs that many blues licks go back and forth minor and major. Just wanted to offer my two cents in busting the myth that the blue note is lowered 5th!
Also two of the most important Robert Johnson techniques are completely missing from here. (1) His right-hand technique where he upstrokes three top strings and (2) his unorthodox beats or structure of intros.
It's any flatted note really. The 3rd 5th and 7th usually. But to me it's mostly the 5th.
the devils note (tri-tone) was never illegal and is found in many Catholic chants and many of those were commissioned by notable Bishops and even the pastor of Notre Dame Cathedral around the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Awesome!!!!!!!!! More Please!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like my Harmony Stella...Great vibe!
Excellent instructor .... thanks!
What a great video! Thank you!
Great video ......so informative!
The Devils note or Devils Triad, was coined back further in history. Composers like Vaugner wrote very dark sounding classical music with it.
Robert Johnson was playing juke houses on the weekends and the men in the bar were partying too hard and were too hung over to make it to Church on Sunday.
Their Wives still attended and the Preacher would say "Your husbands been out smoking and drinking all night listening to the devils music., And thats why they aint in Church today!"
When in reality they were just too hung over to go to church.
Plus Robert spent some time learning from a fellow blues player. They practiced late at night in a Graveyard.
Combine that with him vanishing for a period of time to work on his craft and comming back a better player. You get the myth of the crossroads and selling his soul to the devil.
Shit! there's a Doc on Netflix that explains it better than I can, I highly recommend it!
Keep on Rocking in the Free World!
Great lesson! Thanks
Good vid man. Thanks
Never knew about the devils note very cool !
The things is how did RJ know about that devil note n incoperate it to the blue note
wrong history lesson, the diminished 5th was the devil note, the augmented 4th was actually ok to use.
+lautaro russo Those intervals are enharmonic equivalents.
yes and no, they are the same frequency, but different notes and textures within the scale, and the augmented 4th was never forbidden, the lydian mode was used quite a lot.
Aug 4th or take the fifth. I think its interesting the lore and myth. Read more here. mentalfloss.com/article/77321/brief-history-devils-tritone
You and Andy need to record an album .really.
Reverb look at Reverbusing those big words. Still not knowing why those two intervals are different. How cute.
Those strings were last changed by Willie Brown.
Excellent, thanks for the lesson!
Thanks for the lesson good work!*
Nice video!!
its a stella looks about 62 to 64 so yhey were owned by harmony then and that was a favorite of robert johnsons the were easy to travel
What was the lick he played at 1:50
Isn't the augmented 4th just a natural minor fifth?
what tuning are u playing in?! I need to knoww pleaseee
great stuff...