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Love your lessons,Sir!

His TABs are amazingly accurate and his explanations are super clear and concise. A true role model.

Danke!

Danke!

Yah mon!

Thanks for the kind words and sharing your story.

Can you imagine two things less fitting each other than a Gibson Les Paul and punk rock?

Interesting thought. People play jazz on Telecasters and country on Ibanezes, so theoretically a Les Paul could be used in punk rock. isn't that what Mick Jones of the Clash played mostly? Fugazi uses Gibson SGs a lot. I think it is more the attitude and intent than the particular instrument or specific model, but your results may vary. @@greg-warsaw4708

I dunno. T'ain't the axe, but the attitude with which it is played. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJ-CZtlzyazYnIU.html&ab_channel=PMTVUK @@greg-warsaw4708

My pleasure!

You got it!

Danke!

Thanks, mate! Jerry's rocks. In my opinion, he is the absolute best place to learn acoustic guitar songs. He is the cream of the crop.

Cheers.

That is a great idea for a new tutorial!

It’s not a contest

Thanks! Being on KZfaq opens one up to criticism. It is okay. I welcome feedback and don’t mind if someone disagrees. Thanks for the support!

That's a Taylor GS MIni with a top made of cedar and laminate back and sides. I think they are $500 or less.

While mostly true, there are similarities in the alternating bass aspect even if they used different fingers.

@@jeffweinbergerguitar It's entirely true. The likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Gordon Lightfoot didn't learn their finger style guitar from Merle Travis. When I started learning guitar in the mid 60's no-one referred to "Travis-picking" - and certainly most folks in the UK had never heard of Merle Travis. I suspect some TV or radio host in the US coined the phrase as Travis might have been the 1st guy they'd seen playing that way, and probably had no awareness of the fingerpicking style of the Blues players long before Travis. Social media is the ideal place of course to spread misconceptions and misinformation, and the "Travis-picking" phrase will no doubt gather momentum as Guitar tutors propagate it to new learners (who will pick up the Travis batton and pass it on to future generations). I learned the standard method (thumb on bass, 1st on 3rd, 2nd on 2nd and 3rd on 1st) back in the early 70's; it was an established method long before I started playing.

@Lowdenjim Thanks for the accurate history. When I present acoustic guitar fingerpicking or fingerstyle to students, I mention the lute, classical guitar, flamenco, folk music of other countries, Skip James, Charley Patton, Blind Blake, Mississippi John Hurt, Etta Baker, Elizabeth Cotton Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, John Fahey, Nick Drake, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Davey Graham, Eric Schoenberg, Stairway To Heaven, Dust In The Wind, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, The Carter Family, Rev. Gary Davis, Stefan Grossman, Ken Perlman, Joan Baez, Lightfoot, Taylor, Croce, Denver, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Merle Travis, Mark Knopfler, Lindsay Buckingham, John Prine, etc. I present it as a continuum over the course of centuries. To me, alternating bass with the thumb immediately brings to mind Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, John Hurt and Tommy Emmanuel. From there, I branch off into variants of that technique like you mentioned. I use "Travis Picking" as a term to clarify the technique in the students' mind who may not know the history. The minute they hear Nine Pound Hammer and Cannonball Rag, they get it.

@@jeffweinbergerguitar You include some great finger-style players in that list Jeff. Elizabeth Cotten's guitar style in "Freight Train" would probably be referred to as "Travis-picking" which is utter nonsense obviously. Some Travis fans might even go so far as saying that's not "Travis-picking" because she uses 3 fingers and plays the guitar upside down. You take my point about the false notion that Merle Travis invented it? He perfected a limited way of picking by only using 1 finger, which obviously means he couldn't pick 2 or 3 treble strings simultaneously. No way should anyone be recommending playing Travis-style! The sheer volume of videos on here propagating the Travis myth is testimony to the power of social media to peddle false information and screw up the truth.

PS - Imagine the kudos and respect you'd get if you told your students the truth!!

I know! I have a 1958 Gibson that sound way better.