Ahhhhhh RL burnside again… you’re the best 🙏

This was fantastic. So well taught. Thank you!

Wonderful riff and love your style of teaching. Format and description of technique was perfect. Thanks!

What great lesson . Thanks

Thank you !!! Love this lesson :)

Great lesson man, love the rhythm aspect. Thanks 🙂

Fantastic lesson! Thanks for the straightforward approach. Subscribed!

Thanks for the lesson. Cool guitar too!

Great lesson love the way u teach it

Thank you this is really helping

You've got an infectious smile mate, watched a few vids & subbed. Really into learning this, thanks!!

RL was a go to for me growing up..!. Great choice

Man this was epic. Totally subbed

Love your vids, teaching style, song choices, tab reference , super nice guy too, thanks , learned loadsa riffs ....

Hey man loving all all the hill country. This style usually gets touched on but never thoroughly delved in to on most blues channels.

Love RL and this is such a fun song to learn. Subbed ✊

Been listening to and trying to play RL and Junior for years, your channel has been a gold mine for figuring out some of the intricacies of theirs I’ve been trying replicate…thanks and keep up the good work! 🙌

Awesome lesson 👍

Fantastic lesson. So clearly explained. I subscribe. Thank you for what you do!!

Thanks bo! Keep it up

Incredible!!! Love it!!

Great Stufff...!! Thanks "FGA"

Thank you!!😊

I got it . I was missing the second D on the second part. This is the first song I have learned. Thanks again

Loving your blues-style and your teaching is clear and concise. Thanks for posting this and your other content. It's been a great find!

great stuff Man, I hear my jumper on the line!

Very nice. Glad you created another lesson

I was hitting the 4th string with my thumb instead of my index finger. I realized this during slow playthrough. I'm used to covering top 3 strings with my thumb, so I'm struggling with that a bit. But I reckon that wouldn't make a big difference. Your lessons are amazing! Thank you!

Merci beaucoup, très bonne leçon

you're the man. thank you so much for taking the time to share with us such a great lesson from one of the greats.

Fabulous my friend... you did a GREAT job showing this off. THANK YOU! Mahalo

Great Lesson! You're bloody good!

Want more riffs like this. Awesome

I love this one. I play it with a quick up/down strum to make it bouncier (rightly or wrongly) - it's also a great tune for trying to throw in different licks using the E penatatonic. Thanks for the great videos your choices and teaching style are great

just found your channel bro. Great stuff here and thanks for all your time and sharing

really appreciate these vids. RL Burnside came up in something I was watching and I was hooked, that and the fact that I have tried and failed at Travis picking many times or Scotty Moore's Mystery Train I love and admire rhythm though I have little myself..

Thanks man! The way u explain how play it is incredibly useful

This was a wonderful lesson. Well taught. I have always loved this sound. As noted, the riff itself is quite simple, but it's exactly as you say -- the percussive rhythm carries the day. Whether I'm playing it or just listening to it, my head, neck, chest, hips, and feet all start slipping into the rhythm. It's irresistable. Burnside and other "simple" organic musicians display a type of genius when they develop stuff like this. Yes, the percussive clicking of the fingernails brighten and amplify the sound compared to the two-finger plucking. I use that "strumming" technique a lot in country and country blues, but those tend not to have the more syncopated bass lines like this hill country blues. Also, I have tended not to dampen and cut off the treble strings yet there are so many songs, like this one, where it helps express the mood and message. The bass syncopation here continually builds quick moments of tension that immediately get a spitbath of resolution before it all happens again. And that tension is amplified with the bend on the first beat. So you have this constant micro-rhythm of tension and release even within the broader tension-and-release of the song writ-large. The rotating hand/top string slap simultaneous with the back of the fingers strum/strike truly is valuable in a lot of other genres. Stephen Stills used it a lot, especially in his acoustic work. Old-time mountain clawhammer five-string banjo uses a similar technique with its top drone string and then the other strings. This lesson was so well-done. Very clear teaching and very respectful to the originator of the technique.

Love it man!

Great

This is good stuff.

Yeahhhhhh more more of these old Blues like the old blues guys and Justin Johnson!!!! You are the teacher I have been waiting for

Your content is incredibly good, awesome work mate ! I've learnt so many song since I've discovered your channel. Keep it steady ! Cheers from France

Thank you, once again

Thank you for the video lesson, first and foremost. I am a very new begginer and just had to learn this rift. I have been practicing it for awhile now. I am having difficulties with the second part . That darn near went over my head . I kind of have it but not exactly. After you hammer on this string ,I get lost. Like I said, I am new . I will keep at it. Again thank you. You are very inspiring

i've been looking for a lesson like this for years now and you really made it! the left hand of this song is pretty simple and i already learned it a long time ago, but the right hand really makes the difference and i never figured it out myself. not that i can already play it now, but at least now i know how it is done and can practice until i get it! thanks a lot! this channel is so precious for hill country style! keep going with this stuff, please!

Thank you so much. Im so grateful i found you here. I gave up trying to play RL a few years back. I just coulnt get it right. The wqy you teach it is awesome. I cant believe you tabed everything out. You included the back hand strum totay RL! Thank You so much for keeping it alive

Boy that freight train lesson was a rough one but I stuck with it and now it's a piece of cake. After about a day I can play this sort of. I'll keep practicing. Thanks again for sharing.

Just what I was looking for. Somebody not just trying to show off playing so fast you can't see what is going on. Keep it up, I like what your doing.

Thk.Great lesson.good teacher.

Brilliant.thanks for sharing bro'.

Esto es genial ... saludos desde Argentina...

Great lesson thanks!

Dude thank you!!! I've been struggling with right-hand patterns hitting a wall on my progression for weeks now as a beginner and you've just helped me get through that damn wall. I feel confident now and LOVE playing that riff. You're now one of my go-to teachers, keep it up man!! subscribed!! ✌

Fantastic lesson! People not familiar with hill country blues have no idea how much is involved in the picking hand technique on this stuff. I have watched many lessons to get this stuff down and overall this is the best one I've seen. A great combination of visuals, tabs, camera angles, and explanation of the picking. Goin' Down South is such a great song as well! Cheers!

Great lesson, you can also shuffle it like in that live clip from the juke joint its arguably cooler. I cant really help but swing the index finger more than I have to. Its one part of RL sound. The other part which is actually trickier is the muting, I still make mistakes there even after years!

This lesson actually made me do more. Pick up my guitar more. As the titel says : "addictive"....😉 Me, as a beginner, this isn't the most easy one. But doable. Showed it to my teach and he's figuring it out, so he can teach me more about this style. But honoustly mate. You do a great job explaining it, in just simple words. Not in difficult words or terminology, just understandable for anyone. And that's great!! Well, i saved your channel, so i can learn more from you. TY for teaching us! But for now i'm sort of silent/busy with this one 😉👍

My man!

5:56 bookmarking. Thank you!

RL Burnside has 🔥 songs

Respect

That is Amazing! I love it. Maybe one day you can try Green River by CCR?

This one got me!

So good.... Thanks a lot😁

That bent note at the 5th fret is what I think of as the African 2rd -- as I understand it, many scales in African music divide the octave into 5 tones, which lands one of them midway between the major 3rd & minor 3rd tones of the 7-tone European octave. In Western music, the 3rd is the tone that determines whether a chord/scale major or minor. By bending slightly, it's possible to land the pitch midway between the major and minor 3rds, effectively playing midway between a major key and a minor key. You hear this ambiguous pitch in a lot of Delta and Hill Country blues tunes.

You really nailed this song.

Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I discovered RLB in the 90s when he collaborated with John Spencer, he became my favourite bluesman. It would be great a tutorial of 'Going Down South' but the 'Boderedmind' album version. 👏👏👏👏

Recently discovered your channel and subscribed. You're a great teacher, and thank you for the work you do. I'm a super novice and wondering what the difference is in simply hitting the g string instead of sliding up to the 5th on the d string?

Great lesson, love this blues style - thanks for digging into this sub-genre, would love some more lessons in this style (maybe in open D)

6:41. yes. can't help but know this feeling

you have such great things so so

Great Lesson -- tough riff. The second way is actually easier for someone used to a pick.

Really like the hill co. blues ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in the hills of w.va

Well taught lesson, thanks man! Trance music and it certainly is addictive, I could play it for hours...or at least I would if only the bloody neighbours would bang on walls in time!

Man if you’re ever in North Mississippi, I live in Potts Camp right next to Holly Springs and Duwayne Burnside is a good friend of mine. I could introduce you to him and probably jam for a while. Maybe even could let you meet Kenny Brown if he’s in town.

Thank you

Cool!

I love this. Smooth… Can you give us tutorials on MISSISSIPPI PHONE BOOTH please !!!

The backstroke opens tons of strumming rhythms! Particularly for hill country and bluesy stuff, e.g., Leadbelly & Fred McDowell super-fast chord scratching, John Lee Hooker boogie, and even some Spider John Koerner! I come back to this lesson when I lose the feel and this always tunes me back up! BTW, could you teach Leadbelly Gallis Pole and some Fred McDowell (e.g., Baby Please Don't Go - leave out the slide part, teach melody and picking)? More great rhythmic playing!!

Cool :)

Спасибо за Ваши уроки.! Это испанский строй гитары?

Suddenly "Follow Me Home" on Dire Straits "Communique" album makes sense to me - only took about 40 years!

Strumming backhand is tricky for me. I was hitting the backs of my pinky and ring finger, soon blisters and abrasion started. Not a big deal if you stop, go back and really look at the technique to correct it. Go slow with turning the key and it will keep improving. I think the groove is great when it almost just plays itself without thinking. 👍👍👍👍👍

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Claptons recent acoustic Going down slow is a similar riff style. Each time I come back to this I learn something. Check out Clapton lockdown videos for going down slow

Great lesson. You say you're using your left hand to stop the B and E strings, but it seems like you're stopping them with your right, for the most part.

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Checke out Poor Bob’s Blues by Robert Pete William. Crazy awesome rhythm

Very good, man! Não entendo nada o que você fala. Mas a música é universal. I love The Blues. Brasil. Thank you!

For the “pop” on strings 1 & 2, you are using ring & middle fingers, yes?

could you do "some day baby"? please!!! lol

nEXT GROOVE IN HILLS COUNTRY BLUES WOULD BE SOME JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL, GREAT SIMPLE GROOVES.

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you should check out Tinariwen

Great lesson! I joined the FGA but was not able to download the tabs. What am I doing wrong? Please advisae

Sounds like the first licks on Steely Dan,s Ricki dont lose that number

Great, on which guitar do you perform this?

I have joined the FGA member, would like to download the tab of this song and your another KZfaq video Sweet Home Chicago, but I couldn't find it in the FGA member page, please help! Thanks!

Missed it somewhere What is the tuning?

The right hand rotation movement is not like you are rotating a key, but a Black Key.