"Boredom is a great friend of guitar players." You got that right!

I really like his easy going style and demeanor he is a good teacher........

I'm more impressed with his ability to speak in one continuous sentence while changing styles, strum patterns, and genres, I would have to play the example, stop, talk about it, then go to another, but he talks plainly while alternate picking some really busy stuff. Like this dude.

This is the single most helpful alternate picking lesson I’ve watched so far. Very accessible and taught without any ego at all. Thanks you so much! Can’t wait to try this.

OMG this sounds cool! And ...“No matter how long I’ve been playing, sometimes I trip over the third string or whatever” That is encouraging! Thank you! 🙏

You simply never ever stop learning guitar when on the journey.

I'm a person with ADD and this video is like an ever flowing river of knowledge that, for some reason, I can perfectly understand and stay focused on. Amazing.

Blues from the Low Lowlands ... This man inspired and educated me back in the 80's when I lived in Detroit . Nobody knows more about the history of the blues .

Nice to see someone else playing their E major chord with the “wrong” fingers like I do. I’ve got construction worker’s hands, not long thin musician’s fingers and it was all I could manage back when I was a beginner. I get sick of people telling me my fingers should be in other positions. It works fine for me just like it does for this gentleman.

He reminds me of my 4th and 5th grade band teacher. Simplifies everything to where everything is understandable and easy to digest quickly. If I could double like this video I would.

Dude just taught me more in 12 min than I’ve learned on any other video these last few months, it finally sounds like I’m really actually playing something 😆💜

I had thumb and finger picks sitting in a drawer. I only tried to use them once before. But I put them on, and took what you taught me this morning and ran with it. Now I can't stop! Thank you very much. I'm using the Piedmont roll with my resonator in open D tuning also. I was stuck in a rut with my tri-cone National and thought I might never be any good with it. Your lesson cracked it all wide open for me in the space of a couple hours. I'm already playing my National way better than I was and I'm stringing new licks together.

I wish I had bumped into this guy when I started learning in 1966. Watch , learn and enjoy 😉 kids. Ps you don’t need the thumb pic btw. You can develop a decent thumb callus in a week or so. Have fun , keep practising 😇

This takes a lot of concentration, to talk about it while you're doing it. Great video!

Rev. Jones discussion of shapes resonates with me because that's how I've always done it but never heard it explained. I tried explaining to a formally trained college music major keyboard player that I couldn't play a song if I was thinking about the notes he just got disgusted and packed up and left practice (we were about finished anyway). I probably didn't explain myself right. I might think about notes when I'm learning a song but for the most part think about patterns and shapes. I only think about shapes and my ears once I have a general idea. Great video. Rev. Jones mentions of shapes is why I bought his trufire lessons.

That man is a teacher! ❤️

I learned much of my blues from John back in the 80's as well and still have all the original handouts he passed out and tapes I made. John had a handout for this lesson and it has all the strings and fingers you would use to pick the different chords used in playing blues. It is pretty easy to figure out as the Rev says, you use the 2 obvious lower strings to do the alternating bass with your thumb and then pick out the melody and/or the proper chord notes with your first finger. As you get more comfortable with the style, you add some syncopation and melody variations to personalize it to your liking and viola it works, like adding some spice to flavor a soup you make from scratch. To learn, just focus on one simple song you hear and know well and play it over and over, the boring part,... then personalize it so it is more interesting and becomes your song and next song will be easier. John, like most the old pickers, only used thumb and index finger and the thumb and index finger style has a distinct style that is very authentic to the old Piedmont blues sounds, sometimes you brush 2 strings at once with the index finger when you want to hear both strings and sometimes you drop the thumb down to help pick out the melody on the first few strings. Most modern pickers use thumb, index and 2nd finger it seems, but I see the Rev Jones here is true to John's teachings and uses only index. John was a wonderful man and passionate about teaching and playing blues. RIP John Cephas and know your legacy and music are both being passed on to others as you so generously did for us.

I like that you said you see things by shape(chords) I relate cause thats how I see ..ty Pastor Jones for sharing your guitar wisdom..

I saw Sir John Jackson from Piedmont/ VA area play that exact version of freight train and singing live and that's the reason I started playing music.

I can feel myself breathe better on every note. It likes opens your lungs man . amazing.

Sometimes you come across a lesson and the teacher is able to make things just click, and you can see something you weren't able to before, this was one of those lessons. Thank you for sharing.

Was looking for a guitar lesson on Piedmont by destroy boys but instead I found something much better! Very helpful technique lesson!

John Fahey was a big fan of the Piedmont roll. So much of his music would drop in and out of it along with travis picking and straight flat picking. The way you broke this down completely opened up Fahey's music to me in ONE LESSON! Thank you so much. I've been in a rut for a while with my right hand picking...

thank u kind Sir for showing us this!! took about a week of non-stop alternate thumbing B4 it finally started happening for me... was starting to think it never would... but now its easy!? only drawback? i hardly ever use my flat-pick anymore cuz this is funner (is that even a word?) glad i stuck with it. if anybody is having trouble... i bet a dollar if u jst turn off TV for a week (like i did!) u'll get it. i'am convinced guitar ability is directly proportional to how much TV we watch :)

i would go to church with this fellow any day of the week. lead on, brother!

Crazy seeing something I’ve done for years being taught. I was unable to play the lead parts of Chet Atkins style and settled into this pattern. Really cool!

I love that country picking!

I can read and write music, but it is easier to think of the music in a pattern. Great video.

I wish such clear and descriptive lessons were available to me when I was first learning as a teenager, I would be so good by now.

I've only been playing guitar for a short time and finger picking is something I've been intimidated by until I watched this. Thank you!

Robertaaaaaa where areeeeee you Such a criminally underrated artist

8:45 The Reverend plays freight train🥰

Simple but sounds so complex in sound thanks for great tips

I was born and raised in the Appalachia mountains of Tennessee- my earliest memories include- freight train blues- deep river blues - john Henry- and other songs using this roll technique- when i was a child i just thought these songs were "white" mountain music- when i got old enough to start looking into different music styles i found some of the earliest recordings were by black artists - these rolls produce very similar results and have the same use as a lot of bluegrass banjo picking - and we add this style/sound to irish sounding music to give it that mountain sound/feel - among other techniques- i often wonder how what is considered to be "black" bluesy - delta/ lowland music came to the mountains where still today the black population is virtually non-existent- and as far as I know always has been- mysteries to be looked into i guess- anyway nice picking

'boredom is a great friend to guitar players' powerful. I thought I just didnt have what it takes cause I felt like I was playing the same kind of on a jam track in e minor. Just started a week ago and got my first guitar. Now I know I'm on the right track!!!

the very best lesson on utube thanks so much

You really spoke to me... Im a shape learner myself... patterns too... Never thought I could do this type of stuff but Im going to give it a whirl.

this is one of the best lessons i have seen yet thank you sir and this helped me out a lot.

I subscribed the moment you said "boredom is a great friend of guitar players."

Bluest man I've ever seen

i never learned guitar, but for few months i was discovering what i am searching for . Blues... yes thats what i was searching . super nice video to LEARN

Finally, the REAL piedmont style! Yay, thank you!

Great video.. plain instructions, clear. Good quality. God Is Good ❤️

1 great player 2 great teacher 3 great spirit man thanks rev hope you do more of these your the best teacher out there God bless you sir

Very clear and easy to follow instruction. And you have such a relaxed 😎 teaching style. Thanks!!!

I am enjoying his course on TrueFire Streaming service. The advantage is that he provides a series of lessons with full blues tunes with tabs. He is a great teacher.

This is pretty much my style, or what I learned listening to John Hurt. I've been feeling out this for a while. Thanks.

Très agréable et merci

I'm not as guitar player yet but plan on learning a stringed instrument. You're teaching method, including close-up images really help. Thank you!

So kind to take real time to share this - thank you

LOVE your approach and style. I try and try to get my students to approach rhythm and the board like this. Very cool man, thank you 🤘

This guy is amazing I’m learning so much more in this playlist than I have in the last 5 years

Thanks for the lesson my friend. Been playing for some time now and you helped me out here. Your a pleasant teacher and I'm going to be following

What a lovely fellah ! Great lesson, thanks. I think around 8:30 he says “playing the bass line, while implying the melody” , maybe I am hearing him wrong (?) but I really like the idea of “implying” the melody. That’s kinda what I’ve been doing for years !

What an amazing teacher

You are a great teacher, Rev Jones. I love the blues and the techniques you share. I like the work of some of the greats, especially Mississippi John Hurt's, "Since I laid my burden down." For some reason, I can't seem to get the rhythm down for blues styles roles, and I stay with no more than 12 chords played on the third fret, strumming or fingerpicking, depending on the song. I only play hymns and Christian music, and I would love to add some blues roles to certain traditional hymns. Anyway, I am 75 years old, and still learning.

Thank You Rev. Robert Jones your lessons are so helpful !

Could listen to this guy speak aaaaaall day long.

Don’t know what else this channel posts, but I susbcribed one minute into this video.

Wow. This is informative, smooth and inspiring. Thanks!!

Thank you Rev. Robert, This morning I finally got it.

I’m glad I found this. Excellent teacher

Clear, calm, wonderful.

Been picking for quite some time n , honestly, you just made me understand what im doing !!! Thank you sir,

The portion of the Piedmont region in the southern United States, is closely associated with the Piedmont blues, a style of blues music that originated there in the late 19th century. The most Piedmont blues musicians came from Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. During the Great Migration, African Americans migrated to the Piedmont. With the Appalachian Mountains to the west, those who might otherwise have spread into rural areas stayed in cities and were thus exposed to a broader mixture of music than those in, for example, the rural Mississippi delta. Thus, Piedmont blues was influenced by many types of music such as ragtime, country, and popular songs-styles that had comparatively less influence on blues music in other regions.

"Boredom is a great friend of guitar player" ❤ Great line! True is: boredom is the best friend of all artist! If you want creativity drive, youre have to meet your friend Boredom! Learn that in a book of psychology! Great video! When he say ... Im a chord guys! So happy to know that i was a chord guy too! Learn about blue and myself! Great video tabarnak!

I really love watching and listening to him😊

Great lesson. Nothing better than an inspiring teacher. Thanks for sharing.

great thank you!! greetings from germany, here the blues is far far away.

Thank you for sharing this!!! I guess I’m a chord person. Loved your explanation!! It’s simple to visualize.

What a great lesson! A weird combo of difficult yet simple somehow. Great with different chord E voicings. Thank you!

Amazing! Learned so much, Thx!😃

That’s why you learn new songs and keep on learning because the guitar is, in reality, a complex instrument and can be played many different ways and tunings

Had to subscribe, the lesson was great and very understandable.

God Bless you my Brother!

GREAT LESSON.

Thank you greatly for your wonderful explanation

So easy to listen to a man who can do

A VERY absorbable lesson. Thank you

Brilliant demo. Thanks.

That was a great lesson and a technique that I think would work well for me. Thanks much! I'm gonna try and get that down.

A great explanation on some tricky picking. A chord guy-shape guy so simple but great perspective. Thanks Doc

A great guitar teacher is difficult to find

I really needed this. Thank you for the great, well demonstrated lesson.

He has such a pleasant voice I'd almost rather listen to it than to guitar music.

Great Video Lesson !!! Got all the "Truefire Rev Robert Jones" lessons, so far. Just need more time to practice. Excellent Instruction coupled with History lessons !!

Got me very excited with this one! I'm still mastering my first fingerstyle pattern, but I feel very motivated to one day get to where I can use this piedmont roll in lots of tunes. Great lesson!

Thank you,,this was a great tutorial for me..

Thank you for passing on knowledge. This style of playing is beautiful

Thank you 🤗

This was fantastic! Thank you so much for this, I will be practicing it for sure.

Lovely teacher.

Great lesson! Thank you.

I love this guy!!

Well done Reverand, great job of explaining and demonstrating this technique

By the way i love the Visual Arts as lines or shapes and working from the chords outwards analogies you made at the end.

Thanks for this. This is the music of my region but I've always found this picking style hard to figure out. The same with the Carter Scratch which is very similar from what I can tell.

This is pretty soothing. He could just pick and read the phone book and I'm pretty sure it would improve your day and help you sleep.

Thanks you for the lesson

I love your channel by the way. Lots of good stuff. I gotta figure out how to play an a chord with one finger like that.. looks so much simpler.