Great lesson, as always, David! Thank you! For those of us who have to work through every section 40 or 50 times, here are the time codes: 5:10 Bass Walkthrough 7:59 Melody Phrases 9:18 Melody Phrases Recap 9:39 Basic Turnaround 11:06 Putting bass and melody together (basic) 11:58. Adding chords 13:00 Improvisation ideas
Sitting on top of the world: Mississippi Sheiks, Howlin Wolf; Come on in My Kitchen: Robert Johnson; You Got To Move: Gospel; It Hurts Me Too: Elmore James; Key To The Highway
It's nearly 2 am here in England and I'm watching the cat in the hat! Gosh David I'm totally hooked by your wonderful lessons! I've been playing for 51 years and feel like I've wasted so much time.... But not now! Thanks for your inspiration!!
Excellent tutorial David, I love the blues,from an Irishman living in Ozzie land and a novice blues guitarist, very laid back easy to listen to tutorial.
Love your channel brother. Just wanted to throw this out there cause you mentioned a family of tunes, this progression in the piano world is almost exclusively known as the New Orleans progression. Tipitina, junkers blues, there’s like a hundred of them.
Wow, yes, of course!! I was thinking primarily about the melody being the connection between all the ones I mentioned, but I love the New Orleans piano stuff and did not even think to make that connection in terms of those being built on similar eight-bar chord progressions as well. Thanks for the reminder!
Great job on these tutorials David. Love what you’re bringing to the table here for fingerstyle blues instruction. I used to follow you a little on “wholenote” back in the day. So glad I re-found you here! Thanks 🙏
David, you are a gifted teacher. This lesson offers something for every learner from newbie to advanced. I am a classical guitarist (nylon string, classical repertoire) who has always loved blues, ragtime, and jazz. You have opened a new musical world for me. Thank you.
I think I have an 8 Bar Blues lesson book you authored. Used to talk to Larry decades ago when he ran the used record part of the bookstore on South Street in Philadelphia. Regards to both of you.
Great lesson David! I have a questions regarding your TrueFire fingerstyle blues videos. In what order would you advise that I purchase those videos as someone that wants to learn from beginner level, proceeding to intermediate and then to advanced? Thanks
Hey Dav, I’ve been playing alternate thumb Travis pickin for years but still can’t get the single base note going with a melody. ( play Freight train very well) Any suggestions to get the single base fulcrum going?
Just found your channel ... excellent playing and lesson, one I'm going to spend some time on. Your playing looks so effortless which I know it's not ... out of curiosity are you playing 11's or 12's?
Thanks Malcolm! They're 12's. But the 00-18 is a short-scale guitar, which makes the 12's feel springier (to me anyway) than they would on a dreadnought or other long-scale instrument.
@@FretboardConfidential Hi David, thanks for the response. The scale length aspect had slipped my mind but that would sure help with the first and second position bends with the index finger. I'll need to spend some time digging through your channel ... I love your playing, great touch .. not a style I get to hear much anymore.
Fantastic David. Thank you so much. I have been playing some easy guitar chords for over 65 years and this tutorial really halped me cure my bordom. God Bless.
I can't help but notice that ALL the blues players that wear hats are self obsessed vainglorious dorks. They very often play good music, but it's the vanity that pisses me off, and I can't take them seriously however good they play.
Well, let's take this apart. Dork? Clearly, if I'm devoting this kind of time to a musical form that hasn't been commercially significant in nearly a hundred years. Self-absorbed? Again,that's a given if I think enough of my opinions to routinely publish them on UA-cam. As for vanity and hats - I can't speak for all the other hat-wearing blues musicians out there, but in my case, I wear a hat *because* I'm vain.
My initial reaction to this comment was to make some disparaging comment, but if someone wearing a hat is impacting your ability to enjoy music, you might have some form of personality disorder like OCPD. This stuff can be managed, often without the use of medication. I would look into it. Again, I'm not being mean. If something minor is impacting your ability to enjoy something and it can be easily fixed, you should do it.
And I can’t take seriously vainglorious self-indulgent trollers who have nothing of substance to say. The vanity of such comments really pisses me off. Just go elsewhere if you are so bothered. David is least vain net teacher I’ve run across. More importantly, he’s also the best.
Great lesson, as always, David! Thank you! For those of us who have to work through every section 40 or 50 times, here are the time codes:
5:10 Bass Walkthrough
7:59 Melody Phrases
9:18 Melody Phrases Recap
9:39 Basic Turnaround
11:06 Putting bass and melody together (basic)
11:58. Adding chords
13:00 Improvisation ideas
Thank you!
Sitting on top of the world: Mississippi Sheiks, Howlin Wolf; Come on in My Kitchen: Robert Johnson; You Got To Move: Gospel; It Hurts Me Too: Elmore James; Key To The Highway
So i dont forget
St. James infirmary, house of the rising sun, motherless child, nobodies fault but mine,
Awesome the clean tone and execution of blues guitar. Great lesson David!!! 🎸
It's nearly 2 am here in England and I'm watching the cat in the hat! Gosh David I'm totally hooked by your wonderful lessons! I've been playing for 51 years and feel like I've wasted so much time.... But not now! Thanks for your inspiration!!
Thank you, Mark!
like your vibe and your sound!! from one teacher to another :)
Excellent tutorial David,
I love the blues,from an Irishman living in Ozzie land and a novice blues guitarist, very laid back easy to listen to tutorial.
Whoa, that opening just went right through me. Magnificent!!
such good stuff - thank you - i can't play like you but i sometimes get a little bit i can manage to add to my meager rep
Wery Hood miusik
Well done. Good teaching style and terrific playing. You really broke it down for a newbie like me. Thanks.
Merci for this.
So great. Thank you
Very kewl
Love your channel brother. Just wanted to throw this out there cause you mentioned a family of tunes, this progression in the piano world is almost exclusively known as the New Orleans progression. Tipitina, junkers blues, there’s like a hundred of them.
Wow, yes, of course!! I was thinking primarily about the melody being the connection between all the ones I mentioned, but I love the New Orleans piano stuff and did not even think to make that connection in terms of those being built on similar eight-bar chord progressions as well. Thanks for the reminder!
cool lesson！thank you！
Great newsletter today, by the way. Always enjoy your writing!
Great job on these tutorials David. Love what you’re bringing to the table here for fingerstyle blues instruction. I used to follow you a little on “wholenote” back in the day. So glad I re-found you here! Thanks 🙏
Hello there, I play fingerstyle with my left hand pinky. Is that completely wrong? Because a lot of fingerstyle people don't use pinky.
David, thanks for another GREAT lesson.
quite excellent - you make exquisite sounds with economical yet intricate articulations and movements - inspirational . cheers
Fantastic lesson. Is there a tab for your introductory 3 rounds?
David, you are a gifted teacher. This lesson offers something for every learner from newbie to advanced. I am a classical guitarist (nylon string, classical repertoire) who has always loved blues, ragtime, and jazz. You have opened a new musical world for me. Thank you.
Again same comment, I would like tobhave the tabs for this lesson
Excellent excellent excellent.
I think I have an 8 Bar Blues lesson book you authored. Used to talk to Larry decades ago when he ran the used record part of the bookstore on South Street in Philadelphia. Regards to both of you.
Great lesson David! I have a questions regarding your TrueFire fingerstyle blues videos. In what order would you advise that I purchase those videos as someone that wants to learn from beginner level, proceeding to intermediate and then to advanced?
Thanks
Wtenks
I love your style and approach to teaching! Now subscriber, I am late to the party but I am happy to be here now.
Beautiful David. You're a genius.
*Excellent* lesson. Thank you!
Wonderful playing. Tips cap..
Hey Dav,
I’ve been playing alternate thumb Travis pickin for years but still can’t get the single base note going with a melody. ( play Freight train very well)
Any suggestions to get the single base fulcrum going?
Dull-drum base
Excellent! Thank you...
I’m pumped finding your channel
Great lesson with lots of very important pieces of knowledge. Thank you!
Is it me or the second time through is 9 bars? Still 😎
Sounds like Pledging My Time
Hi David! Cheers to you and your lessons! ç:-)
I love that guitar. Damn !
Fantastic lesson. Subscribed.
David, which tab is for this lesson, please?
E-E-A-A-E-B7-E-turnaround to B7
Thank you David. Excellent. Running out of superlatives tbh 😂
Some of the progression reminds me of “Pledging my time” by Dylan
Those turn arounds are magic!!!
Fantastic. Thank you!
Just found your channel ... excellent playing and lesson, one I'm going to spend some time on. Your playing looks so effortless which I know it's not ... out of curiosity are you playing 11's or 12's?
Thanks Malcolm! They're 12's. But the 00-18 is a short-scale guitar, which makes the 12's feel springier (to me anyway) than they would on a dreadnought or other long-scale instrument.
@@FretboardConfidential Hi David, thanks for the response. The scale length aspect had slipped my mind but that would sure help with the first and second position bends with the index finger. I'll need to spend some time digging through your channel ... I love your playing, great touch .. not a style I get to hear much anymore.
Great lesson. Thanks
I like that
Beautifully done 😊
Very nicely done..
Thank you
Beautiful.
Fantastic. Thanks
GRACIAS POR TUS APORTES
👍🏻👍🏻
hi friend……how many guitars do you have?😀😀👍👍
I think I can answer on behalf of most guitar players: Too many, but not enough..
@@ta4music459 spot on 😂
Beautiful guitar. Gorgeous playing. So scuffed :) Thank you.
Fantastic David. Thank you so much. I have been playing some easy guitar chords for over 65 years and this tutorial really halped me cure my bordom. God Bless.
Very inspiring. Thanks for the video.
I can't help but notice that ALL the blues players that wear hats are self obsessed vainglorious dorks. They very often play good music, but it's the vanity that pisses me off, and I can't take them seriously however good they play.
Well, let's take this apart. Dork? Clearly, if I'm devoting this kind of time to a musical form that hasn't been commercially significant in nearly a hundred years. Self-absorbed? Again,that's a given if I think enough of my opinions to routinely publish them on UA-cam. As for vanity and hats - I can't speak for all the other hat-wearing blues musicians out there, but in my case, I wear a hat *because* I'm vain.
I think David's work is amazing and generous.
I tend to play a better blues when wearing a hat. I advise you get one.
My initial reaction to this comment was to make some disparaging comment, but if someone wearing a hat is impacting your ability to enjoy music, you might have some form of personality disorder like OCPD. This stuff can be managed, often without the use of medication. I would look into it.
Again, I'm not being mean. If something minor is impacting your ability to enjoy something and it can be easily fixed, you should do it.
And I can’t take seriously vainglorious self-indulgent trollers who have nothing of substance to say. The vanity of such comments really pisses me off. Just go elsewhere if you are so bothered. David is least vain net teacher I’ve run across. More importantly, he’s also the best.
Lovely playing
But the sound from that old Martin...
Wow...