Thanks pretty cool could never understand what Robert Belfour was doing. I am still Trying to get better on open G and A. Thanks again !!

Thanks! Love this song.

can you give us advice on hill stomp by Belfour? thanks for this one

Tom Feldman has a good video on his channel 2023. Worth it.

Thanks for sharing. Wolfman is a legend in N. MS and true bluesman. Love the video -- As I'm sure you've found out, his style is very, very hard to nail down without a pickup. Alot of his notes will come from hammering on and off with just the left hand. any live Hill Stomp videos are great examples. Thanks for sharing!

Hello, First thanks for all your beautiful lessons. I think Belfour plays it in open G at least that's the way I play it and it is quite easy in this tuning. There are videos where you can see him play this song and from the way his fingers move that can only be in open G.

Have you checked out Junior Kimbrough & R.L. Burnside ? Great & more well known exponent's of "Hill Country blues" most seem to use either open G, F or D R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie

Thanks! Very helpful. Just starting to dig into Robert Belfour´s stuff myself. :-)

Thanks a lot,!

GREAT LESSON!... I too am getting into Wolfman's playing style. Yeah I'm sure he uses heavy strings tuned real slack. I think this helps to articulate all the hammer ons and pull offs more easily. As far as I can work out all his stuff is either in Standard or "Open G" but like I say REAL SLACK. I use the same strings as you but I substitute a 22p for the G string, this helps with that bend you were talking about and gives me a twang there. I've never tried "My Baby's gone" but I intend to thrash it out with your great video. I did start to mess around with "Poor Boy" another of his slack standard tuning numbers but I put my own spin on it while trying to inject a bit of R.L. Burnside Poor Boy (a work in progress) ~ R.L. Burnside meets Robert Belfour - I really must revisit it to finish it off (this recording was just a notebook idea that I've not looked at since, I might have forgotten it if I hadn't taped it). If you're only just dicovering this style you gotta seek out all R.L. Burnside's solo material, the first recordings album is a great place to start. Here's a track from it R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie. The second track on that Belfour album you showed is his take in "Poor Black Mattie" and another album which is well worth tracking down is a compilation called "The Spirit Lives on"... It's Belfour's first recordings (there's a great version of "Black Mattie" on there). Belfour's "Black Mattie" is basically the same frame and licks as his instrumental "Hill Stomp" Robert Belfour - Hill Stomp ("Open G" tuned way down somewhere close to "E" in this performance) and this is a number I do play. I worked out a crib sheet to help me get the sequencing of all the licks when I was first putting it all together... It worked pretty well for me so I uploaded it on the off chance others might find it useful too LESSON - How to play "Hill Stomp" by Robert Belfour ~ Complete sequence breakdown (phrase by phrase)

Excellent lesson. You mentioned John Lee Hooker. There are so few lessons on his early acoustic work, e.g. Hobo Blues. Hope that you or one of the other great blues teachers try him one day. In any case, thanks a million for your work.

You need to check out My Baby's Gone by Stick McGhee. It's on a great album "Classic Appalachian Blues" by the Smithsonian. The song is completely different. Like Picasso and Monet, both are so different you really can't compare them to each other, but both are delicious! This album Classic Appalachian Blues may change my life!

Old school Blues Guitar..... "Oh, I never heard about this guy".....lol

and they tune guitars to fit there voice

also i play the song by the artist then i play it then i break it down and also its tuned just like blind willie mctell

but nice jobs and a tuner those guys don't use tuners nothing but there ears

i played with him bro always play a song first then break it down too much talking i teach fuller bronzy robert johnson just too name a few

I don't think you talked enough. Please... Less guitar and more talking

R u open for feedback? Way to long talking, after 6 min u start playing tones, but where is the song? Try open tuning like open g but 2 steps or so down!