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You NEED a funny hat....

dude, that's hilarious!

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it IS magic

+Andrew McP if the ghost leads to to the crossroads, we're all in for a treat! 😁

I'm revisiting this video to (finally!) get round to studying it all the way to the end. It was getting into the groove with the first few bars of this piece which kick-started the dormant blues in my fingers, and that's led me to develop new skills which are helping me tackle pieces which used to be way out of reach. The 'feel' of the delta blues is /so/ satisfying that it inspires me to practice long after I'd normally give up. The blues needs playing, and a bit of finger-dyslexia isn't going to get in the way! So the last six months have turned me from someone who enjoyed occasional dabbling to someone who -- with a following wind and no broken nails -- can sound like an actual guitar player. In fact I startle myself sometimes, listening to what's coming out of my guitar; it used to be mainly dust and long-lost plectrums, now it's music. Where was KZfaq 35 years ago when I got my first guitar and learned to be frustrated and embarrassed by my lack of ability? Thanks for the inspiration, John.

Blues Guitar Institute , Blues Guitar Institute in the traditional end of to make these blues footprint, just does not have brightness like the open G-end. I even tried to use this tuning to play my blues, but I did not get anything, it was very difficult after the chords and the notes are not in the same place as the traditional ending.na finacao . na finacao tradicional da pra fazer essas pegada de blues, só não tem brilho como a finacao em G aberto. Eu mesmo tentei usar essa afinacao pra tocar meus blues , mais não consegui nada, ficou muito difícil depois que os acorde e as notas não estão no mesmo lugar como na finacao tradicional.

Amen brother.

That's awesome! Glad it's helping. Cheers!

Agreed!

Hey that's my story exactly. I love this music also and am working on learning pentatonic scales etc. Great lesson..... more at my speed, not to say it is easy....

Me to, put down the guitar for many years.

You can do it.

Awesome! Thank you!

My pleasure!

Glad it helped

I revel in my bad habits...I call it my style. Honed over the last 45 years.

Tom Aaron : Amen to that brother!

Agent X20 definitely agree. Unlearning is far harder than learning initially.

I was refused to bend, tap & slide, i called it "my style", Duane Allman opened my eyes to use slide, im doing some tap tne bending is pending to add to my play, finger picking looks very hard to me, i have some time trying it. Forever begginner.

One bad habit to correct in everything is consistency (wink) A judge asked of a psychologist who saw my daughter for a year while detained to reveal what he learned and the judge was shocked at his answer Your honor, Al! I can tell you is she is consistently inconsistent.

Glad you liked the lesson, it's certainly a fun style of blues to get into. Good luck with it!

Gracias, Mauricio!

Thank you so much for that comment, I really appreciate it. So glad to know that these lessons are helping. Play On!

jay legirons and training, training, training, and more training.. this bass beat is hard to sync with the melody, no?

Haha me too but the walnut one

That's amazing progress! Great work and thanks for the comment

This is a great entry lesson to the delta / dead bass thumbpicking style of acoustic blues. I helps to separate the thumb from the fingers but without a lot of fancy fretwork to get in the way. Take it nice and slow and I think it will be a great starting point. I also have a couple of "fingerpicking exercises" video on my channel that I think you'll get alot from. Here's one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etuAmraSzKmvlKc.html

Richard you sound super pumped to get this. Good luck man. I have never played guitar in my life. Always wanted to. A while back I went down to part time work in order to care for my elderly mom who is on hospice. Lots of down time. So I bought a little Yamaha acoustic and hope to match your drive to practice and figure it out. Always loved the blues and this lesson is exactly the sound I'm aiming for. I'm working on basic chords of course. But soon I'm gonna get this! Good luck again! Did I mention my fingers hurt like heck? Lol

Good luck to you, Gregory!

Gregory Webster Gregory, thank you for sharing your story with me. I just went to you’re page and subscribed to you’re channel. Hope to someday see you finger picking this style. I noticed you got into the freight train with Tony... that was a good lesson, I can now finger pick the entire song :) but like you this is the style I like it’s just so down right smooth and gritty at the same time I love it. I’ve got some videos on my channel of me playing but be warned I’m still in the beginning stages. I know basic chords and just started doing scales :) wishing you all the best on you’re journey and hope you share some videos as well on you’re channel, I like doing that because it builds my confidence. Sorry to hear about you’re mom, I to care for my father. He has cirrhosis of the liver and is in the late stages. I’ve only just turned 30 so this has been very hard for me to do and playing guitar has been an amazing escape for me. God bless you Gregory, you got this man don’t ever give up keep practicing until you can’t get it wrong :) cheers

Huh, the internet can actually be a positive place sometimes? Cheers gentlemen.

Same here.....13 or 14 measures........very confusing........it should be 12 bar blues

Thanks! This one is available in my membership. I've got a 100 pack of lesson tabs that I give away if you head to bluesguitarinstitute.com you can grab them

+william swain this one is a Larrivee OM-09. Love it, it's my go to

It takes a good bit of dedicated practice on basic pluck and pinch exercises and learning tunes in this style. We break it down a good bit on this channel.

Got a link? You've got quite a lot of material to sift through, my friend. :) I'm aggravated with myself because I am reasonably proficient with clawpicking patterns where my middle and pointer fingers drone a string above 6, but getting the same effect with my thumb feels very different. Though maybe part of my problem is the patterns I am practicing don't have any spaces where I play the drone twice without another string in between, and I haven't tried picking two strings at once.

I'm having trouble with that too,do you have a lesson on how to get the thumb pluck flowing whilst picking?

Well, after three weeks of daily practice I'm decent at it. This was one of the most uncomfortable things to practice, mentally: it feels really dreadful and unproductive until it (very slowly) starts to click.

good for you !!! I found that if my thumb follow the beat from my stomping feet, it easier, however it still get confuse sometimes....

Hi Bejamin! Thanks for the comment, I'm using a Larrivee OM-09 and it's a great shape and size for acoustic blues.

Benjamin Laurent ... Yeah... You may not like it's price tag..

I figured as much ^^

strings?

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Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated!

+Peter Thepanda yeah, I hear you...got it sorted out now. Thanks for watching!!

I would have to recommend a martin my friend

This one is my OM-09

Hey Paul, I provide tabs for all my Tuesday Blues lessons for my members at bluesguitarinstitute.com

No it's in E standard

Hey thanks for the comment, check out the rest of the channel. There are videos geared for different levels. Appreciate the feedback, sir!

Blues Guitar Institute very much appreciate your reply and what you're doing. The world needs educators.

Go to the three dots at the upper right of the screen. Click and the playback speed can be adjusted. 3/4 or even 1/2 speed. Still sounds ok.

Hey and thanks for the comment. The lessons on my compositions come with tabs. That's 99% of the lessons on the site. Only a few copyrighted songs don't include the tab but this lesson definitely includes tab!

​@@BluesGuitarInstituteThank you. I'm going to check into it. I'd really like to play this. It's smooth. Thanks!

7 minutes in and I know its standard tuning 100%

Pluck the string from one de the box.put your thumb behind the low e string.You will get the twang.i hope so hahahahah