Play 32-20 Blues by Robert Johnson. Delta Blues Guitar Lesson!

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Play 32-20 Blues by Robert Johnson. Delta Blues Guitar Lesson!

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This classic blues song by Robert Johnson is 32-20.
We show you how to play it with verse backing, variations and lead guitar / instrumental sections.
If you want to fingerpick the blues then this guitar lesson will get you going.
Played on the 1929 Gibson L-1 guitar. The same guitar RJ is seen with in the 1936 Hooks Brothers portrait.
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@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

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@tomo.3678 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Johnson gave us 29 songs...all are amazing! This is one of my favorites! Very well done, Martyn!! 😎✌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎶🎶☘️🍀

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom!

@Christ-is-King- Ай бұрын

I just subscribed! I really like this lesson!

@TheWashboardResonators Ай бұрын

AWESOME!! 🎼🎯🎼

@thomaswilleborts6771 2 жыл бұрын

This is very interesting lesson,Martyn! Thank you,sir.

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Hopefully it opens a few doors for the fingerpicking blues types!

@johnwashburn3793 8 ай бұрын

Now that I have heard it,this guitar does sound great...and yes, I do watch the entire video. Thanks for the effort.

@TheWashboardResonators 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

@u-kan-laylee6326 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding tutorial! Many thanks you wonderful guitarist!

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Hope it helps!

@petegalloway2466 Жыл бұрын

Five month on from finding this tutorial and I love it even more! Lessons that just keep on giving, the more you learn. Double good plus!

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

There’s a lot here actually, especially with the solo ideas. We did one about expanding blues fingerpicking recently. That will also keep giving you ideas!

@petegalloway2466 Жыл бұрын

@@TheWashboardResonators love it 😊 really helpful and appreciate your time producing these. Looking forward to more Robert Johnson’s 😎👍🏻👍🏻

@donsuccone 11 ай бұрын

I've been learning guitar for 4 years now and I can honestly say that this lesson is the most amazingly in-depth lesson for technique and theory I have come across. I've learned so much in the last 38 minutes. Thank you 👏

@TheWashboardResonators 10 ай бұрын

Awesome. Hope it opens many doors.

@terencestephenmoss2159 11 ай бұрын

Excellent guitar 🎸 lesson 👍 many thanks 😊 most helpful fun and informative 👍 😀

@TheWashboardResonators 11 ай бұрын

🎯🎯🎼

@CoryBoyd-ro4gk 2 ай бұрын

If you have to have a pick guard get a Gibson LG2. The 50s reissue comes with pa great one and has X bracing. The L01 is lader braced

@TheWashboardResonators 2 ай бұрын

Don’t want a pick guard. Also, never liked the LG range. I’m saying I have to be careful to not add more wear to the guitar. It’ll be with me until I die.

@ThePandaProcrastinates Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the Robert Johnson playlist!

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Me too! Few life things to sort first. 🎯

@germanjaime2919 3 ай бұрын

You did a great job at explaining things from robert johnson that i thought were just straight up magic. This really shows how advanced and insanely good guitar player he was for that time.

@TheWashboardResonators 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!! He worked hard on music all his life and especially when he went to stay with Ike Zimmerman in 1930 after Virginia died giving birth to their child. His stuff is all fairly straightforward. Lots of standard tuning stuff lifted from ‘Life Saver Blues’ by Lonnie Johnson and slide stuff lifted from ‘Walking Blues’ by Son House! It’s easy to trace and learn!

@vincentdesiano4861 Ай бұрын

l’m not a guitarist, but l love listening to this kind of music interesting. He seems to be a good teacher, of which l am one. I just don’t teach guitar. I play the trumpet and the piano a bit and sing as well. Very nice lesson. Keep up the good work!

@cliffordgreen8349 Жыл бұрын

Great version- really appreciate the tips for mixing it up!

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Good hood that helps! 🎯

@btv1961 Жыл бұрын

This is an excellent tutorial…very clearly presented….Thanks!

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Hope it opens some doors!

@baronsnobolla6393 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff!!Always one of my RJ favorites. thx

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

🎼❤️🎼

@CrazedFandango Жыл бұрын

I'm going to try this as I've never learned to finger pick. Thanks for posting this.

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Should open up some basic ideas. Look for Travis Picking lessons too!

@philipmowbray8810 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Chanel Martin thanks for keeping this wonderful music alive

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phillip! 🎯

@dagsthedrover927 11 ай бұрын

Thanks… a great tutorial… cheers mate from down under

@TheWashboardResonators 11 ай бұрын

Great! Thanks!

@robsgarage4746 Ай бұрын

Great Lesson TY!

@TheWashboardResonators Ай бұрын

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@GeoffKnoop 9 ай бұрын

Great lesson!!! Thank you!

@TheWashboardResonators 9 ай бұрын

🎼🎯🎼

@thomasd9237 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff 👍👍

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@donpattonjr Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial Martyn! I'm a huge Robert Johnson fan . You have his style down, excellent! 👍🎵🎶 New Subscriber!

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Much appreciated!!

@chrisrose5885 Жыл бұрын

Nice one, Martin. Real musicians into real music. Keep up the good work ! I'll get to see you live somewhere, that's a promise !

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

See you out there. Don’t be late!!!

@chrisrose5885 Жыл бұрын

@@TheWashboardResonators Just a question - don't know if it would be straying from your remit or not - but a great lesson, if you could figure it, would be Keb Mo's version of RJ's Kind-hearted Woman. Thanks again.

@flylippfantom8425 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the lesson

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

🎯🎯🎯

@LP-qi8hs 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson. Thanks a lot.

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Pleasure! Thanks!

@gibby6904 2 жыл бұрын

New subsciber here....great lesson! Love the old Gibby too.....thanks......

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thanks and thanks!!

@robsoncruz1115 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so mucho, I came back in another try to play RJ, one mouth playing before about 5 years don't play nothing. One year ago I hurt my Index finger and it is not good, but I'm improving a lot. Plucking the strings sometimes the finger does not follow the beat but this time I will not give UP, for nothing. My songs: I believe I'll dust my Broom, Terraplane Blues, Rambling on my mind, and for your grace🙏 32-20. I have Just one guitar😭. Thank you again👊🏼

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Glad to help! Good luck!! 🎯

@maxpage1791 8 ай бұрын

Great lesson, thanks so much. Being a Gibson nut I love the guitar as well!

@TheWashboardResonators 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! It’s a super guitar. Had some tasteful restoration since. Our video ‘British blues road trip’ shows it!

@maxpage1791 8 ай бұрын

I’ll check that out now. Sounds right up my street. I spend way too much time on KZfaq watching guitar repair/restoration/ guitar anything vids😂. Thanks again for the great lesson.

@johnbarker4539 2 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🎯🎯🎯

@VitalBigras 7 ай бұрын

Man that was so good 😅👍🏼

@TheWashboardResonators 7 ай бұрын

🎼🎯🎼

@Old-Skull. Жыл бұрын

thanks man, it's pleasant to hear something a little bit different, I mean not the music, but your talk and show. Don't worry about the length at least for me, some days you have time enough some others not, but i think is good to have that choice, it's up to you.

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I had feedback that people liked taking it slow and getting stuff explained fully. Recent videos are much more condensed and overall seem to do better on all metrics so going forward it will be the way.

@paz-tp3fm9em9n 2 жыл бұрын

You are my favorite channel on youtube

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

That’s lovely to know! Thanks!!

@nationalduo4945 2 жыл бұрын

You did a fantastic job with this song….

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again! 🕺🏼

@paulgoodvibes 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, love that style great skills 👌

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

❤️

@macfunkey 6 ай бұрын

I always thought the guitar in the photo booth portrait was a mid-1930s Kalamazoo - more affordable for a not very rich bluesman as well?

@TheWashboardResonators 6 ай бұрын

The 1938 dime store pic is a KG14 Kalamazoo. In 2024 money they were around $370 new. The 1936 Hooks Brothers Portrait (Stripey suit) is a 1929 Gibson L-1. It’s very used and has a split in the body if you zoom in to the pic. It was a $700 ish guitar in 2024 money so I reckon he could have swung his used one, especially considering he had just got a recording session confirmed for somewhere in the $8000 (2024 value) area prior to the pic. I’m massively of the opinion he owned this even if briefly. By this point Bukka White owned his brand new Duolian, Scrapper Blackwell had his own L-0 and Tampa Red his Style 4 Tricone etc. RJ was a relatively successful freelance player with plenty of regular gigs and was a successful street musician. A used pro level guitar was well within his means. The flop houses, crime, jukes and humid weather would have all taken their toll on his instruments and I’d be surprised if he got more than a year out of any guitar.

@petegalloway2466 2 жыл бұрын

Superb pal 👍🏻

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! 🎯

@martinjefferiss2114 Жыл бұрын

Very useful

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

@Sturmhawke Жыл бұрын

A tutorial for Death Letter Blues by Son House would be fantastic! Thanks.

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

I do a basic one in my ‘delta blues’ lesson but it will happen!!

@slappinbillyb309 2 жыл бұрын

Nice L 1

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

It’d a beauty!

@DeGroove 2 жыл бұрын

Hey martyn, great lesson. I love these old blues songs, looking forward to more of these lessons! One remark I would like to make is the A chord around 10"45 you refer to as an "a minor 6" chord. Isn't that an A diminished chord? With an Eb instead of an E in there...? Wonderful work anyways. Thank you. Take care

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Good point! Lots of ways of thinking of that chord in different contexts. A-6 b5 is one. F#dim / A is another. Ab 7 / A too. A dim 7 too! Looking at it again I prefer your analysis!!

@mackenziedog1872 9 ай бұрын

Keith plays the rythm string, calls Charlie his engine who never missed a beat nic)

@TheWashboardResonators 9 ай бұрын

Spoken like a scholar and a gentleman.

@thomlev5217 11 ай бұрын

too cool love your teaching , can you do other Robert johnson songs like "standing rollin man and malted milk"? please?

@TheWashboardResonators 11 ай бұрын

I’ll put it on the list!

@thomlev5217 11 ай бұрын

thanks alot looking forward to it :)you re a great teacher if you do a program on how to learn many songs of R.jOHNSON i would buy it@@TheWashboardResonators

@brianmckinley6177 2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever thought of transposing these for a tenor guitar? Just kidding, great video and very helpful. Look forward to working on this one.

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Literally have no idea how tenors work. Inspired by you I’m on the hunt though. Occasionally I get asked to do gigs on tenor.

@flylippfantom8425 Жыл бұрын

Thumb independence and getting fingers and thumbs in sync has to be learned before even attempting this.

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

You’ll have no choice but to get the independence if learning this!

@franciscoperez8854 Жыл бұрын

I love the sound of your guitar. It sounds very close to the old delta blues records. What's the brand?

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Think I say. This is a 1929 Gibson L-1.

@StephanieSmith-gf4vp 7 ай бұрын

generous!

@TheWashboardResonators 7 ай бұрын

Fully loaded.

@hayakudav7370 Жыл бұрын

Nice video! I would have appreciated some information on your picking though

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

It’s all quite individual. Hopefully you see enough or figure what works for you. So long as you’re making music it’s all beautiful.

@hayakudav7370 Жыл бұрын

@@TheWashboardResonators It works of course! And it’s definitely enough to figure it out. The thing is I just think you are doing a phenomenal job on the picking part. So much better than any other version of the song that I have seen apart from the original. That’s why I think it would have been particularly interesting to dive into that element of your playing. thx for the reply! Keep up the good work 👍

@christophecohin9972 Жыл бұрын

Bravo pour le chant! .....sinon,rien de nouveau !

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

🎼🎯🎼

@michaelkienhofer6394 2 жыл бұрын

Can you comment on the recording speed/pitch of his songs?

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Great question! I’ll do a whole video in time. Essentially all the rumours of that in RJ’s case are nonsense. Elijah Wald is a preeminent RJ scholar and his writings on the subject should be enough to stop that myth. They can be variations in pitch of a a few percent each way from masters because of the mechanical nature of the equipment used for manufacture of 78’s. In a few cases back then records were speeded up for excitement. RJ’s all relate to standard pitch and having his guitar with capo. Looking forward to sharing my evidence on a later YT video.

@WaltKurtz1109 Жыл бұрын

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@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

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@yorkshiredaz7632 Жыл бұрын

very well -played, enjoying all your videos. Please may i challenge you to a tune that i have never worked out how to play? i have also asked many very accomplished guitarists if they can work out how this is played with no succsess. the song is called "hacksaws down south blues" by Richard Harney. are you up for a challenge?? thankyou

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

Don’t know the tune. I’ll check it out. Who knows! I might be able to figure it. Thanks.

@SergeCeyral Жыл бұрын

Very, very, well done: by far, the best lesson on that subtile piece. However, I'm still not convinced by that guitar. I know that, being so old, it must cost a kidney (and the major part of a liver), But like most acoustic Gibsons, compressed and supercharged in the medium range, it lacks much of treble and dynamic. Maybe am I biased by my Martin culture (or maybe, am I turning definitively deaf), but I don't hear a better sound from that L1 than from my $100 little Stella... Doctor, please, is my case serious ?

@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

It’s an incredible guitar. The guy that sold Mark Knopfler his famous National Resonator just did some work on it. He’s one of the UK’s best guitar builders. Steve Phillips. He said it was an incredible instrument. It’s not the loudest but it’s rich and complex in real life. Go back about 10 videos and you’ll see a ‘British Blues Road-trip’ video talking about the work and meeting Steve. They’re weird guitar’s because they’re made lightly and need to be dialled in for the best sound. In the flesh it’s great (I think). Worth every penny - which because I traded other stuff I got cheap means it didn’t cost the market value of about £6k. I love having the same guitar that Robert Johnson played for I reckon a few months. One man’s junk is another’s treasure. I have a 1942 Harmony Stella I paid £200 for I think it’s also great in a different way!

@SergeCeyral Жыл бұрын

@@TheWashboardResonators Thx so much for your extensive answer. Never said that Gibson was a piece of junk... I think YT is largely responsible for the disappointing sound quality we hear: I expected more magnitude and richness, but what can we have with a deep compression and narrow bandwidth...

@MGWAIKIDOJITSU 6 ай бұрын

Great lesson but yo7 do get side tracked by various other licks that you perform …

@TheWashboardResonators 6 ай бұрын

We’re sharing wide ranging concepts and ideas.

@johnbarker4539 2 жыл бұрын

Is there anything similar to that L1 or a replica type that you'd recommend?

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing quite like these except the real thing!

@johnbarker4539 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheWashboardResonators Thats what I figured ha

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@TheWashboardResonators Жыл бұрын

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@CoryBoyd-ro4gk 2 ай бұрын

No pick guard on that model. Never had one and would ruin its unfucked with antique value

@TheWashboardResonators 2 ай бұрын

I know. Not got once saying I want one. Since this video it had a a tasteful restoration looks in better condition and is still fully original.

@georgelange5272 5 ай бұрын

Tabs would be helpful

@TheWashboardResonators 5 ай бұрын

I’m literally showing you where to put your fingers. It’s like tab but better.

@berndf7437 23 күн бұрын

Gute lesson aber du redest zu viel😉

@TheWashboardResonators 22 күн бұрын

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@anton1949 8 ай бұрын

32-20 is a rifle cartridge.

@TheWashboardResonators 8 ай бұрын

Bore size.

@anton1949 8 ай бұрын

32 is the bore size, 20 is the weight in graines of gun powder.@@TheWashboardResonators

@keithjones4702 2 жыл бұрын

off topic question. Where do you get your clothes from, please?

@TheWashboardResonators 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Keith. All over!! We’re both into bespoke tailored suits for stage as well as ethical small batch British / European made stuff in the vintage style. In this video the shirt came from a charity shop / goodwill. The trousers are 1930s replica ones from a British brand called Revival Vintage. We both have lots of their shirts. Favourite brands you can google or Instagram are; Thomas Farthing, Stanley Biggs, McNair Shirts, Revival, Some Like It Holy, Loake etc. The bible for us that we both subscribe to for doing vintage style but creating our own look and mixing ready made with bespoke items is a periodical called ‘Chap Magazine.’ The movement this magazine promotes is called ‘slow fashion’. The idea being you only buy little clothing but when you do it’s recycled / vintage or new but - high quality that you can repair and wear for decades if looked after. Good for the environment and good for skilled Artisans in the west rather than child wage slaves in the east. 🎯🎯🎯

@keithjones4702 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheWashboardResonators awesome reply. Thank you. I’ve heard of briggs but not the other brands, so I’ll take a closer look. Didn’t know about chap magazine though. Thanks