Bert Jansch - The Blacksmith - lesson
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Another lesson by request. This is not a tune I've fully practised myself, so the performance has some rough edges! But should be enough info to allow you to get it together for yourself.
The first section goes through the technical details, with a line by line run-through at 18:38; followed by the improvised coda.
Check the original if you're not too familiar with it:
Album version (with backing): • The Blacksmith (2009 D...
Solo live version (better reference for the lesson): • Blacksmith
Another awesome lesson Jon, thank you.
i learned a lot of jansch tunes from jamie phillips tabs when i started learning the guitar (and i'll always be appreciative of all that work) but he did write out some spectacularly unintuitive fingerings sometimes
i find that bert's music is (usually) easier to play than it might seem at first
Same here. So does anybody actually know who this Jamie Philips is?? He must be a rad player!!
Brilliant lesson Jon. Thanks so much for all your knowledge.
Jon, forgive my curiosity: are you classically trained or self-taught? Do you work out these BJ songs yourself or use tabs etc where available? I have just started to work on a few of your guides and am finding them invaluable. Do you perform at clubs etc?
I'm self-taught in the sense I never had a guitar teacher. I learned notation at school, and then guitar basics from Bert Weedon's classic manual in 1965 (age 16). Then taught myself fingerstyle from records by ear (taping them to slow them down) over the next year or two.
For the last 25 years or so I've used Transcribe! software. For the Bert Transcribed books, I referred to tabs donated from various sources, but always double-checking with the records (there was a lot of consultation to and fro for those). For this piece in particular I relied heavily on Jamie Phillips' tab (one of the Bert Transcribed group) - but of course working from the recording too (and making my own staff notation and tab).
I occasionally play solo at open mics, but mainly I play lead in a folk-rock-blues band - mostly in pubs around SW London. I've played in amateur and semi-pro bands of most kinds for the last 58 years .. and counting ... I've been a guitar teacher part-time for the last 20 years - mainly beginners. The only advanced lessons I do are these online!
Thanks for the reply Jon. Very interesting to read about your route. Amazing how many people (including me) benefited from Bert Weedon’s book.
Thanks again Jon! Any chance of Moonshine version of January Man?
Moonshine isn't too bad, and the TAB is out there, but January Man is one I can't find TAB's for and would love a tuition.
@@DjNikGnashers yeah got a few great Moonshine tabs and there’s the definitive one from the Bert Transcribed book - the Moonshine version of January Man is genius. Jamie Phillips has a January Man tab out there and I use it, but it’s not quite there…..or I’m not quite there
@@stevemccann7719 Yes I learned it from the Bert Transcribed book :-)
my auntie went out with Bert jansch in the sixties
Interesting - who was she?
Great, Jon! I heard a rumour there is going to be a second volume of Bert Transcribed, incuding some of his contributions to Pentangle. I know you were involved in the first volume, so do you have any info on this???
Volume two is complete, and currently with the publishers (Hal Leonard). There are 30 tunes in it, a similar mix as before. No Pentangle tunes as such, but a couple of Bert & John. There is a hold-up at the moment (and has been for some months) because they can't get licensing for one of the songs - the copyright holder is apparently hard to get an answer from (I don't know which one). Please feel free to bother Hal Leonard, to give them an idea of buyers' impatience! I currently have an arrangement with the Bert Jansch Foundation to provide individual transcriptions for anyone who wants one - for tunes which are not in either book - but the cost has to be roughly the price of a whole book, at least, for each one.
@@Jonpriley I will! This is frustrating. I used to be a researcher and wrote a lot of papers, as well as books and editing. Permissions was always a hassle. Outside the academic sector it can be a nightmare, especially with older material and so-called 'copyright orphans'. Good luck.
Shame you didn’t play it through first.
You're assuming I have the skills to do that... 😄 I mean, I could have, but it would probably have needed several takes, or stitching sections together. And I was assuming that anyone interested in learning the tune would know the original well enough, and have that in their head, or be able to reference it any time they needed to. But I could have added a link to the original, so I'll do that now.
that is certainly not simple