Learning Jumper on the Line (RL Burnside) guitar lesson with tabs...
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Guitar lesson tutorial on the Hill Country classic song Jumper on the Line by RL Burnside.
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0:00 Start
0:40 Why its hard
3:35 Some solutions
7:05 How to learn it
16:58 Adding the riffs
I'm just glad people are still loving RL and Junior , 2 of the greatest blues musicians ever imo 👍
Juniors grandson is a Blues guitarist as well. He teaches this style of guitar playing on his channel too, check him out! Cam Kimborough
Thanks for unlocking the mysteries of this foot stomping classic. R.L. is a national treasure.
I always just assumed I’d never be able to play that song until now, thanks
you so much for your time and effort to make it possible for others.
Thanks, Im glad it helped! Thanks for watching and commenting!
This channel is a reference in Hill Country Blues. Probably THE reference.
So very true!
THE reference would be Cam Kimborough´s channel in my opinion. He teaches the style he got from his grandfather and the other legends he grew up with. He´s a fantastic guitar-player and tries to keep the legacy and the teachings alive.
But yeah, this channel is great :-). They should collab. I really wish more people would find Cam, he really deserves appreciation and he has all the storys!
Dude this is such a thoughtful breakdown, not too many would go into such depth about the source of that brighter sound. Thanks a bunch
You got the best Selektion of Song-lessons on UA-cam!
Love your Hill Country Blues liabillity.
Thumbs up for your work!!
Best Wishes from germany
Wow, thanks! Thats nice of you! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I really appreciate your lessons, and especially on this sing since I've been waiting for it.
Wow, thank you. That's an amazing work you've done there both analysis and teaching. Well done!
Inimitable! But worth trying. Another point besides the thumb that's crazy "impossible" is that if you watch RL, he doesn't ever appear to mute the "chuck" stroke with his left hand, but somehow to do so cleanly only with his right. And yet... seems to pull other notes out of the air virtually simultaneously! Anyway you're inspiring me to work on it again. Thanks for inspiring us all. New subscriber.
Thanks for the lesson! Really great job with this video and nice playing!
Yours is by far the best interpretation of this classic. Thanks !
Your hill country posts are the best. Great in depth breakdown
Glad you like them! Thank you!
Excellent deconstruction of a wonderful riff.
Nobody can play like him, the feeling, the rhythm is awesome, you must live his life to play like that.👋 Thank you for this lesson, now i try...
Wow R L was amazing that's some fast fingerpicking and your awesome for breaking down this song this one will take some practice
Your video’s lesson are just awesome !
Thanks! I really appreciate that! Thanks for commenting!
This really great work. You're a legend!
Wow, thanks! Thanks for commenting too!
R.L. Burnside ! Master !! and you the only one to make this tutorial thanks you man !!
Im glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Excellent lesson. Thank you.
Another awesome lesson ❤ cant wait to get home and stuck into it love and respect from Australia
I tried for months too and I keep coming back improving it over time. I've been trying so hard recently, nice to see that you just made a video about this brilliant song. Keep up the great work
Thanks for sharing and watching and commenting!
I spent 5 years trying to convert this song to harp with respect, I hate covers that don't give the proper respect to the technical difficulty of the artist that created it. 5 years but on harp. I recently think I got close, but yeah I'm gonna have a hard look at your vid, and hey thanks for giving the man the respect he deserves. Peace
Verry good job
It sounds exactly the same!!!!
Thank you for giving the lesson for free!!
This is great! Thank you!
Thank you for solving this mystery!!
your channel is a gift to the delta blues
hill country
oh mannn ı was serching all the time this song to learn. Thank you very much
Great lesson.easy to understand...
Hey, I don't think he is using the thumb the way you are describing, he is flicking the index finger off the thumb and hit the stricks with the nail of the index finger. It's so much easier this way. It's almost like striking a piece on the carom board or striking a marble.
Yes I think it’s his index finger what gives it that scratch
Like thumping?
Yes, I’ve figured this out by myself
I saw a video from a live performance and it really did look like he was using his thumb
@@Wulfzz it’s both
this is a great lesson 👍
Very well done. I've messed with this great song for years and I believe he's brushing both his thumb and his index finger on the strings. Also, if you brush the strings with your index finger on the upstroke, you even get some additional rhythm. It's almost like "painting the strings" with down and upstrokes, with some subtle palm muting. That's my take. RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough are two great players of this unique Northern Mississippi blues genre. Sadly, they have both passed.
Wow! I think you nailed it. 🔥🔥
Thank you 🙌
you are doing a great job! ive been playing this stuff for years this kind of music sounds easy to play until you delve deeper into it. another underrated player is Mississippi fred mc dowel hes an amazing player unfortunately their isn't much of him playing live. be great if you could break his stuff down. keep it up you are doing a great job
RL may have had a callous in his voice 👍
I’m taking a closer look at how I practice after you showed me the build method in more detail a couple weeks ago on one of our Zoom lessons.
Thanks for helping me learn better through looking at timing and techniques better to find my voice.
In my humble opinion it is impossible to copy these amazing men...
its also that electric guitar he’s playing helps get that bump. every version sounds a lil different
This song is great and been trying to learn it. Thanks so much for teaching the way R l played. In the video where he is playing in the field, which I have watched many many times, he is also playing a strat so that will change the same where you are playing a 335 with humbuckers so might sound a little different. Thanks for all the videos you make as you do a great job.
Im glad its helpful for you- Thanks for watching and commenting!
It was a guyatone or teisco 60s Japan guitar, modified
Fo real. Ur a treasure brother. Respect!
Thanks so much! I appreciate it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hi , firstly great channel , I don't think there's many out there covering hill country blues but keep em coming. A player worth looking at regarding technique is Wilko Johnson as he slaps the strings with his finger nails. Thanks bill
Wilco was a beast with that guitar
Thank you so much xx
RL is so inspiring and even trying to replicate gets into your playing somehow in your range. Thank you for unlocking and sharing which keeps this magic alive.
One thing not covered is possibly the masking tape in the first fret... Binding repair? Intentional slight buzz of open strings?😂
🙏🎸🙏
It’s also vintage Japanese pickups ?
Imagine the concept of someone 50 years in the future watching a slow motion video of you playing to try to understand what you’re doing.
It’s crazy man.
Thanks for this great breakdown of this complex riff. What influenced your choice of guitar?
Thank You!
Bro you so good I was looking for someone to explain how to play this🤣❤
Been trying for this one forever. I totally get the frustration lol
Thank you, I've been trying for years to get that scratchy quack.
Glad its helpful! Its pretty hard and it took me a long time to get it sounding close. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@FeedbackGuitarAcademy That and the hammeron has just fixed everything, it actually sounds right.
Every time I think I've got this one, which I'd been trying for several months before this lesson (and even before you featured the tune in an earlier lesson), I'd eventually lose the feeling and couldn't get it back until I revisited your early lesson or another one by Eric Blackmon. I need to internalize what makes the groove drive so with all the subtle changes and strumming. And I think it sounds different from one R.L. recording to another. The truth is this song is deep within R.L. himself and he can do whatever he wants with it. We can try to learn a version but how can we learn to think like R.L. and turn it into a malleable piece for ourselves? Keep practicing, I guess!
Personally, I think the downbeat is with his thumb and the chank is his thumb AND the index fingernail.
Look at how close he holds his index finger to his thumb. They’re both hitting the string or the index finger nail is hitting the string, but it looks like it’s the thumb because the thumb and forefinger are so close.
Yes, he’s wrong look at Blackmons lesson for more correct way
Best Hill Country Channel-Wondering if you could get into some Kenny Brown-If you know RL, then you know him-Album: “Stingray”-Song: “You Don’t Know My Mind”
Respect
Wow thanks! Yea Kenny Brown is great! I did a snake drive slide lesson on his playing once. Ill check out his other stuff too! Thanks for watching and commenting!
RL points his large, long-fingered right hand down the neck, so relaxed.
I am sure someone else has pointed this out, but he was using single coils (cheap ones at that) which are naturally brighter than those hummbuckers you are playing.
Like thumping the off the thumb? I'll try it. That is the unique sound I've always felt from Muddy Waters, R L & others. Thank you!
You bet! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Wow great lesson, tried to playing this all year, now I’m a little better er. Ha. Please think about doing a Lead Belly, Poor Howard lesson, maybe the precursor for Hill Country?
Thanks- good suggestion! Thanks for watching and commenting!
THANX ❤
You're welcome 😊 Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great video! I would love to see a video breaking down R.L’s playing on the video “Honky Tonk” on UA-cam, where he plays goin down south and jumper hanging on the line live with a whole different groove going on, it’s awesome. I’ve tried to figure out what he’s playing on goin down south and just can’t get it right
Thanks- Thats a cool video. Ill see what I can do. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Omg man please make a video on how to play the entrance part of the song
Best SMJHOTL on YT !
Crazy difficult. Been trying for years. I saw a 12 year old kid on UA-cam nail it. Made me want to quit guitar.
But there is some cool history in music created by RL ‘s style of playing. It’s really difficult to play a normal drum beat to that style, so a unique drum beat was formed trying to play along with RL. Turns out that beat is amazing and may even have some voodoo qualities to it.
Merci.
You know how I get that sound with my thumb???
I lost a thumbnail and ever since it has grown back, my thumbnail is much more thicker. No joke.
Great video thanks for sharing.
Great video, it looks like he has some kind of mute below the first fret that might be causing the bright scratchy sound, just food for thought
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Am i mistaken or is that a piece of metal stuck on the first fret of RLs guitar that could be adding to the bright metalic sound?
Hi!
I watch Juniors grandsons channel a lot. Cam Kimborough here on youtube, he teaches this style of guitar too. He actually talks about his fingers in many videos when he teaches riffs and makes the audience weary that it might be difficult to play it like him or don´t sound like when he plays because he has massive calluses on his thumb and index finger from playing this style for all his life. It´s not like when guitarplayers talk about getting calluses on the fingertips on the left hand, not at all. His thumb is all hardened up.
I actually think you see that in R.L´s video too, if you look at his thumb. It looks almost deformed and big. Like his thumbnail is thick and his skin is very dry and hard.
His fingers look pretty identical to how they look in "R. L. Burnside with Johnny Woods" DVD and there he clearly cuts his nails super short and the skin rounds his thumbnail, so he's not playing with the side of the nail, so calluses is probably all it is.
The thumb sound could also be because he’s playing an old cheap 60s guitar with brighter pickups. The amp could also have something to do with it. Those old guitars in general are a lot more twangy and it’s easier to get that kind of sound.
Wow
It could be a thumbnail as some people have a nail grows around their thumb, so they don’t need longer nails. I would run with the thumb pick. A light Herco style pick with a light gauge would get you there.
Down stroke thumb upstroke finger
Hey I was just curious what the riff is RL plays at the very beginning before he even starts the song
I guess a better question might be what scale is he playing
@@OneBeerLeftjust the regular pentatonic in E
thank you! @@failstreet99
In b4 this goes viral in guitar players home pages, and this is at 100k views, and you get 30k subs.
Can you show me the original tabs for this song, please.
He looks like he has a mean callous on the side of his thumb, and that would give it harder brighter sound like from a plectrum. Edit: I made this comment before you had came to the same conclusion in the video, lol.
Is it standard tuning??
is it in standard tuning?
Im playing it in Standard tuning in this lesson. Burnside plays in in standard tuning too, but sometimes hes tuned up to F standard (like in the clips in this video) and sometimes hes tuned down to Eb standard. They didnt have digital tuners back then so he just tuned by ear and sometimes it was a bit higher or lower but its still in standard tuning. Thanks for watching!
I have been trying to get this technique down for years, I always thought it sounded like his finger was doing the “chick” but i now play it like I believe R.L does it, with his thumb, with a bit more aggression. Same goes for “Black Mattie”.
Peace Elrich
Can you please confirm the tuning? Is it open G?
Standard tuning you can tune down
I’m pretty sure he’s tuned up in the video. Put a capo on the first fret or tune up a half step and it should sound like him.
44 pistol? Can't quite get it
You may be interested in this alternative version from a 1974 Mississippi house party: ua-cam.com/video/6PwUIDr6FPQ/v-deo.html Completely different vibe.
He has a huge callus on his thumb.
Is this standard tuning???
Yep standard tuning
All those old cats played the cheap Teisco-esque models with goldfoil pickups that people drool over nowadays.
He's upstroke index finger? Isn't he?
Yea upstroke on the index finger. But you could do it in different ways. Try out the different options. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Pretty sure the key is in F
He drove a tractor his whole life and did farmwork. He developed calluses on his hands doing hard work. He also played a lot of guitar. Another youtuber tried to teach how to play RL's version of Poor Black Maddie and after at least 9 in depth videos he was still not able to reproduce the sound. You can fake it but you can't make it.
All that's true but this teacher is not faking, he is deepening our understanding and giving respect to amazing artists too boot. I imagine that these artists would only be impressed by such a great teacher who helps spread their work with love and respect. Even if I don't get there, this all makes me appreciate the original more and more. What a service!
Thanks for the education.
Looks to me like he tucks his pointer behind his thumb and is using that fingernail behind the thumb like a pick.
Many years i ask myself why that guitar is white between 0 1st fret
I think it’s some kind of mute that’s causing the bright scratchy sound not his fingers
Love your channel. But I disagree that the sound you're looking for is in the right hand. It is in the muting with the left hand.
He’s flicking his index finger
I'm trying to make calloses on my thumbnail.
I think these kind of guitarists can't have long nails because they work hard with their hands in their daily life.
I have the same problem but not at the same level, of course... Their life were harder.
Keep it up and you'll get there! Staying consistent is the best way to develop callouses. Thanks for sharing
This is not country. This is Blues. Mississippi Blues.
why don't you think the index finger is doing the scratch? that's what people who play the style will tell you
Kidds you gotta do your own thing come on i mean if you want to master copying people YOU WILL NEVER SOUND LIKE THEM. I get taking this amazing music but we got to move forward. Im at a loss for this new generationg and all the focus on technique. THERES NO GOOD SONGS !!! Guys come on move ithe future take what you love and make your own legendary NEW THING. Im lost with this obssessive guitar playing. If Pink Floyd hadnt of taking from Pink and Floyd the blues musicians and tried to copy we wouldve never had those amazing albums or David Gilmour. Iron Maidern HAD SONGSSSS. Get back to grooving and moving into the future and quit worrying about techniques and make cool songs! I cant play like David Gilmour or have Angus Youngs amazing pgrasing and rhythm and i mmoved on to where my talents are. Those guy and these old bluesman were the equivelent to world class sprinters and 1 i billions. Even if you think you sound like the legends you probably dont and technique isnt nwhy. Steve Lukather said theres no good songs anymore but all these technically gifted players. Its like the song Its Just Begun by Jimmy Castor. No matter how hard i try that groove is unmatched by me and millions of people. I can take what i love about it and put it into what my natural tendencies are. Theres a lack of song writing and creativity these days but no lack of technique. You gotta at some point do your own thing. I do notice a lot of emphasis with younger players and technical ability but you can practice for 10000s of years and you will still do what you were born to do and not be able to do legends from days gone by. Elton John is a song writer not a shredder or technician for instance just like Barry Manilow. We each have what we were born to do and you have to focus on finding that,.Its like a athlete that wants to be Michael Jrodan so they work and work but they were born to be Dennis Rodman and get rebounds. Do it your way though folks. Steely Dan and Donald found what they do best and it was writing then hiring talented people to do what they couldnt do. Steely Dan wouldve hired this guy to pl;ay a tracj and not tried to master something they werent created to do. Donald Fagan knew he was a good pianist but he was a band leader and song writer first and ego and being a shredder wasnt part of it.
tried to fix my mistakes and typos but it wouldnt let me. You get the idea. Steve Lukather said theres all these amazing musicians and you can play kid but you gotta shift to doing your own thing and song writting, Take what you can from the blues masters but you will never nail their thing not ever in a million years will a band play Its Just Begun like Jimmy Cators band did. NOT GONNA HAPPEN. tHE POCKET THE FEEL IS WHERE YOU SHOULD BE FOCUSED. Play the way your naturally inclined to play and write and amazing song. Covers never works and it never sounds as good as the originals. CCR took covers but they played those with their natural style and it was amazing. You cant always get what you want and you cant be famous musicians of old. Its weird because the 80s had all these forward thinking musicians that were passionate about moving into the future and here we are 40 years later and were copying legneds thinking what that we can bring that abck or make it better??? whats the point of all this???
@@failstreet99 Steve Luikather the legend said It not me. I heard a cool song by a band named track tribe. I have to admit theres nothing that i cant wait to go buy. You can say Ghost is cool and i liked them for a hot minute. THE ROMANCE DIDNT LAST, It is what it is i guess.
Ruining the song for me
You need practice.
He’s using his index finger and thumb it’s easy to see