I spent a fantastic summer afternoon in one of his Masterclasses…beer was drunk, music played, technique taught and life lessons passed on I miss him!

Oh, I didn’t know. So sad. 😢

@@uschimyers Yeah I just found now myself! I am saddened AND bummed!

Didn't know Woody Man was gone. I enjoyed a class with him in the Wirral, UK. A patient teacher and lovely man. He was a great artist and I love his own compositions too. Also saw him in concert and double bill with Bob Brozman on London South Bank.

Especially for ragtime. You've got to have that driving rhythm.

Amen

+TenThumbs Productions Except blind blake was blind...so he didn't watch anything :o amazing tho right

If Joe said it, it must be true!

Many left handed greats would say watch they're left hand it really depends on you're hand

Uhhhhh...Blake was east coast...Piedmont style....

@@pelumaad331 Now aren't u the clever little blues scholar

@@ledaswan5990 ....lol..my black history...but don't tell DeSantis...

Agree. My teacher was trying to get into my head that good melodies fall inside your chords so there are not a lot of left hand pyrotechnics. This video is a good example of that.

Dude it's almost impossible for me to play it... its crazy. Also difficult is Hey hey by Big Bill Broonzy and anything by Buddy Moss

andrew wheeler I worked on dropped thumb by just changing chords and dropping my thumb over and over and over, until it came naturally. Then work on going from the fifth UP to the sixth string. Then, take those skills back to the song. Much easier.

How about what's that smells like fish by blind boy fuller?

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Different musician. The Bahamian musician Blake Alphonso Higgs, who went by "Blind Blake" and performed from the 30s through the 60s, is a different guy from the Piedmont Blues musician Blind Blake being considered in this video. This Blind Blake recorded in the late 20s and early 30s, and was dead by 1934.

Arthur "Blind" Blake was born in Jacksonville, Florida, (some sources claim Newport News, VA) and he died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, late in 1934, aged around 37 or 38. He is buried in Glendale, Wisconsin.

Anthony Monaghan he does make it look easy.

+Olivia Crockett I think you're referring to Joseph Spence... amazing player.

+R Lutes His name was Blind Blake and mainly played Island music in the 60's when I was in Nassau, Ba

Blind Blake died around 1933.

Daniel Mathisen This Blind Blake lived in Nassau in 1961 when I lived there and mainly played island songs such as Fly Away.

Nobody knows. Big Bill Broonzy saw him live but didn't report on his technique. And ultimately it is irrelevant as long as you are playing the right notes and sound great.

I think he HAD to be using the 1st, 2nd and 3rd fingers of his right hand on the 3rd, 2nd and 1st strings. Just listen to the first fewseconds of Southern Rag. That part isn't hard to play but you HAVE to do it as described above and with your thumb on the bass strings. I saw the film 'Harlem Street Singer: the Rev Gary Davis Story' (Music Supervisor: Woody Mann) a few years ago and was amazed to see that Davis only used two fingers of his right hand! Seems like such a waste to me! Good luck with trying Blind Blake pieces using just two fingers!

Such a nice J-185!!

...and south Georgia...and Virginia....and Milwaukee....apparently

+Olivia Crockett Joseph Spence

sorry I am getting confused Black Dog and Police Dog !!!!

who gives a fuck....lets see you do better ya fuckin troll. I bet youre life is perfect.

bluelagoon10023 just trying to help others trying to learn this song. keep hatin bro.

Where did you get the tab from?

TenThumbs Productions hey bud, click the link in the description, then click "Click Here to Order RIGHT NOW as a Direct Download". it's $25 for the tutorial videos and pdf tab for the songs black dog blues, diddie wa diddie, chump man blues, police dog blues, that'll never happen no more and lastly blind arthur's breakdown.

Thanks Dean! Got my weekend planned it looks like.

its a hummingbird

TRAINIAC19 It's a J-185, from '52 I believe.

bilarion Yup Actually Both Ragtime Elements and Blues Elements

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He plays a D7 at 2.00 minutes. I don't mean to sound pedantic, but...I don't know the original tune. I guess it's more about interpretation and making something your own rather than slavishly copying a tune.

Brother, I'm not interested in an argument, anyone who's into Blind Blake/ragtime guitar/Woody Mann is alright by me. 'But', should you listen to the original tune, which I would recommend, you will note the various differences between this and Blake's. I know Woody plays a D7, Blake doesn't, that's what I meant. However if you are teaching a song, I would suggest slavishly teaching it. I'm not interested in a teacher's interpretation of something. I've met Woody at a workshop, he's cool, I was asking if maybe somebody knew of another Blake recording of this tune that he was basing this version on. When I get round to posting my own faithful instructional vid of the Blake original, you will be the first to know! Listen to Blind Boy Fuller, 'Meat shakin' woman' for more good stuff

peanutpeanut123 I will look up the original Blind Blake version, and the Blind Boy Fuller tune. Cheers.

(a little late reply, so it is directed to anyone reading:) I wondered the same thing about some teachers' videos (including this one), but I had to realize that some teachings are straying quite far regarding actual notes, but that most of the teachers, like Woody Mann here, has mastered the particular style, and succeeds in teaching that. But not the Black Dog Blues recording. He puts in elements from Blake's 'Early Morning Blues', and some other tune I can't remember the title of, so you won't find the recording, you will find several. Later in the video he teaches 'Blind Arthur's Breakdown', but to me that bears more resemblance to Mann's '10th Street Scratch' , which brings in ideas from e.g. Wabash Rag, West Coast Blues, the actual tune et. c. Just regarding Blind Blake, I would recommend Ari Eisinger's great double-DVD, because he is more into both this style, and the teaching of the actual recording. More so than any other I have encountered, even though a youtube guitarist here and there does great videos on tunes I otherwise can't find. Eisinger's tablature is great too, it feels very complete when playing from it, even though like most, he points out that he didn't put as much in the tab as he actually demonstrate in the video. (that is the case with most video tabs, and large tab-collection books, but that is another subject almost) Another tip: Stefan Grossman authored a great old tune book with only Blind Blake tunes, some of the tabs are not complete, but I got out much from it. As a side note: To me I think the above more 'general' 'method/teaching idea', succeeds in getting at least me, to want to study this even more, and from other sources, even though it has made me quite irritated on some occasions. Especially when I really wanted to know - how did this master guitarist come up with 'this' - only to find that just that 'measure' wasn't in the lesson! Not to mention the many tablatures I have, that managed to miss so much details. That also (finally) got me working more with the slow-downer, but I sometimes wish they would have put that info there from the start. (hope this helps, best regards...)

It's like Bob Brozman said in an instructional video. He a Robert Johnson or Son House tune. He said something to the effect of. I'm not gonna play the song as Johnston/House did on July 8th 1936(date of the original recording) I'm gonna capture the feeling of the song. Bob argued that these old guitar guys would change their songs all the time so it's not important to get the song 100% to the recording. Plus at the beginning of this video Woody says everybody has their version of a Blind Blake tune. I suppose this is Woody's. I guess he just liked the D7 so he can get back to G so he added it to his version.

+PONTY PRIDD Most likely late 80's early 90's. Guitar tuition videos got big around 1990 :-)

Go to guitarvideos.com & order the dvd or download the digital version.

1:02 he explains tuning.....

@@OthO67 not really

If you say you can play this by ear you're probably lying...