Sturgill Simpson Rhythm Guitar Lesson - Bluegrass Strumming Technique
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2016
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I picked up more useful tips from this video than I have in all others combined. Incredible.
Awesome! That makes me so happy to hear!
Best guitar tutor on youtube. Despite your incredible musicality you express concepts in a way that people learning guitar can pick up on without over simplifying. Also you don't do 10min intro speaches for every video like most people do! Keep it up man!
Thanks so much, man! I try to keep things concise, creative, intuitive, and musical - I'm so glad you dig my style!
You are a great teacher! Thank you for providing us with videos! I can see this channel blowing up and becoming one of the best if you really care about this sort of thing... $$$ Seriously... I love that you actually have a thorough feeling for the guitar yet have such great technical knowledge while also giving us the information in a multi-leveled approach! GREAT JOB! :)
Thanks so much! You get me! You really get me!
I'm a rocker primarily, but went ahead and got myself a music degree so I could fully understand the music I love. Now, I can share that info with all my like minded guitar friends around the world!
One of, if not the best guitar tuition channels on youtube.
Great playing, interesting and useful lesson choices and a really clear teaching method .. .
Rock on Eric and thanks !!!
Thanks Jez! The response to my channel has been so overwhelmingly positive! It's so great to find that there are so many people who like the music I like, and want to hear me try to explain it :-)
deservedly so Eric .......... maybe you could do a lesson on how i can stop pulling a stupid ass face while i'm playing ;-)))
Very helpful it was the clarification of the boom chuca
Excellent!
Yeah - this groove shows up everywhere! Any tracks that have some DNA in old timey stuff more likely than not have elements of this.
Thank you so much, Eric! Just what I was looking for. It's the hammer-ons that are the secret sauce to the boom chuck. Great stuff
Awesome! yeah, boom -chucka-hammer-chuck is the formula for badassitude!
Wow, this just made my Monday! Your vids are always good, always learn something new and it's easy to pick up what you're trying to teach. The more and more I pay attention to Sturgill's playing, especially from Sunday Valley, the more I want to learn Bluegrass. Gotta get good at strumming on my acoustic now haha, keep em coming man
Yeah buddy! Carter-style bluegrass strumming really opens up some doors! It's really cool the way the melody is in the bass with the walking and whatnot. Fun stuff!
Outstanding video. Thank you!
It's my pleasure SIR!
Very cool. I like Sturgill. I love the slow version of his song “Oh Sarah”.
Oh yeah that one's killer!
Thanks for doing this video, it actually helped a lot.
Excellent! I'm so glad it was useful to you! It's really fun to play once ya get it goin'!
Thanks brother
You are a real gentleman
Thanks so much!
I strive to always be a classy, straight-shooter kind of a guy :-)
I'm glad my lesson helped you out!
one of the best I've seen, gets to the point!
Thanks!
I LOVE Sturgill's stuff - really looking forward to what he does next!
This helped so much, thank you!
Yay!
That's what i love to hear!
Thanks Mate!...FANTASTIC!
Yeah buddy! I'm happy to help!
Your like the Bob Ross of guitar lessons. I love it!
His "Time After All" in the morgue has some of the best picking I've ever heard. Would love a breakdown on what the heck is happening there lol
Ah yes that's some fine Carter-style pickin' in that one!
Fantastic lesson, thank you so much. Sturgill's rendition of Time After All on his Tiny Desk appearance is really inspiring, and basically what I would like to learn. Looks so much fun. This broke it down for me nicely.
Yeah! The boom chukka boom chuck!
You can do so much with it - Sturgill is certainly an expert at it.
@@EricHaugenGuitar I watched your video and practiced it over and over a bit. Was able to learn the firsts part of Time After All from the aforementioned video. Literally just a C chord with a few flourishes and carter strumming. I'm not nearly as fluid with it as Sturgill but your video demystified it all for me!
You and I share the same left hand mannerisms, I use my index finger little just for c, d and e stuff and occasional hammer on but my other 3 are wide open doing things and right hand makes the noises.
Great minds think alike!
I want this dude to teach me. He breaks shit way down. Awesome
I'm happy to help Bobby!
It's been a while since I did some Sturgill lessons - I gotta get back on that!
love it. boom chucka boom-twinkly notes- (these are technical terms)
Memorable right!
I always try to avoid using music-school jargon if possible :-)
Good lesson.
Thanks!
Great video!
Thanks Craig!
very helpful
I'm happy to hear it, Rich!
I can't wait to hear what Sturgill does next - he's such a unique artist!
Hi Eric. I've been on a "back to basics" kick recently, tired of my sound getting sloppy when I speed up. I'm trying to figure out wrist & hand positions, pick holding technique, etc. The goal is to play cleaner and faster rhythm with base lines, melody bits, and crosspicking. Just watching your fingers/hand/wrist/arm helps... thanks!
Yeah! Open position strums and runs are always great to work on!
I recommend revisiting so Neil Young stuff too - he's deceivingly good at this type of thing :-)
@@EricHaugenGuitar: Agree 100%. Just 3 weeks ago I started work on After the Goldrush, Dead Man Theme, Powderfinger and Southern Pacific... love Neil Young's music.
Boom chuck a boom. Got it!!!
Nice! It's all about the boom chuck a boom :-)
Y’all just taught us how to make a million dollars in the country music industry. Thanks!
Hooray! I'm happy to help!
Hot tubs and limousines for everyone!
That part where you said it’s too complicated..THATS what I want to learn, those licks and flourishes
Ooooh good idea!
I gotta put together a lesson on those runs - stay tuned :-D
We are freakily in synch with some of the out of the ordinary guitars in our collections. I have an early 60s Goya S-16 that looks and sounds a lot like yours (it may be a bit bigger, I'm not sure), a G&L ASAT Classic (mine is transparent blond), and a Guild OM-140 Sunburst. I've never seen anyone use a Goya like ours in a video before. Nice, quirky little guitar with a lot of personality. Mine is a lot more beat up than yours, but still plays and sounds fine. I got mine in the 70s, when I started lessons with a new higher-level guitar teacher. One of his other students was giving up guitar and wanted to sell her guitars so he recommended to my parents that we buy them: the Goya S-16 and a 1964 Gibson ES-175, both for $300. Best deal of my life, and I still have both guitars.
Yeah!
My luthier friends laugh at my Goya, but it has such a unique personality!
I can’t believe the deal you got on that es175!!!!
@@EricHaugenGuitar Yeah, the ES-175 is probably worth $5000 or so. I brought my Goya to a luthier and he refused to work on it! It just keeps going though.
ya i dig that dude george jones/haggard thing goin on his lead players cool too
Totally! His lead guy, Laur Joemets is a really tasteful badass!
Love it, thanks for spending some time with Sturgill! For anyone who wants to see some close up of Sturgill strumming like this, check out the NPR tiny desk concert he did - his "Turtles All the Way Down" performance really steers into this heavily (unlike the album version of that song). ruclips.net/video/w5cMqD0WqYE/видео.html
I love that song - what a great clip! Thanks for sharing :-)
man can you do some of the new Sturgill tracks!!!!
Yeah I gotta do that!
I love the ZZ Top feel of the latest 😎
@@EricHaugenGuitar just seeing this. The might ZZ Top is exactly who I thought of when I heard Sound and Fury
Thank you for this video Eric. I'm just getting into bluegrass rhythm so found it very helpful, especially the bit @6:09 when you emphasise that "it all starts out slowly". I start out slow for like 10 seconds, think I'm good and then try rushing it up to speed, which of course falls apart pretty quickly. Would you recommend a metronome here? I've just started using one and like that it helps me commit to keeping the strumming clean at a super slow tempo (I'm currently at 65 bpm) but don't know if it will help with accuracy. Also, is it correct to use 1/8th notes for the boom-chicka boom-chicka pattern?
Yeah you got the right idea Monica!
All us guitar players start practicing slow and then speed up until it falls apart - it's something about human nature I think!
Try setting the metronome a little faster, at like 80bpm. Sometimes setting the metronome too slow actually makes it harder to groove with it.
Also, I find it helpful to imagine the metronome is a person in the room with a woodblock. Who is super-happy to just hang out with you and keep it together. I actually imagine Tom Petty's drummer, Steve Ferrone.
Thanks for replying! I will try it at a faster tempo, I did find it kind of hard to stay awake at 65bpm after a while lol It sounds more swingy than country at that tempo. Tom Petty is a hero of mine so I love that idea haha from now on my metronome is Steve Ferrone. I'm also practising Needle and the Damage Done so found the Neil Young Carter-style workout video helpful as well. Your channel is awesome, I've subscribed!
Great lesson
great lesson! I like Sturgill's cross picking style he incorporates into his strumming.....do you have any idea? alternate picking style? down down up, etc. thanks!! cheers
Thanks Chris!
From what I've observed, it looks like Sturg is more of a down up down up guy, but it's hard to see :-)
Eric Haugen thanks Eric!!!
Perfect example of your "boom chukka" sound is Colter Wall's Summer Wages. Almost exactly like your slowed down g chord haha
Dude I didn't know him and now I love him! So real!
Thabks for the vids. Do you have a more beginner friendly series? Or did my ADD get the best of me?
Hrmmm I don’t usually post beginner things because so many people have done such a good job already but maybe I should!
I so agree with Walt Hampton. Can you please teach all the other 200.000 guitar teachers ou there. haha sooo awesome!
Ha! Thanks so much Man!
the 1 and 5 notes are bass notes
Great lesson. Can I ask what thickness of a pick you use? Also, do you have a video on doing the up strum? No ever talks about it and they just assume you’d know. Is it more in the wrist? Do you angle the pick a certain way? Thanks!!
I use a 1mm pick and yeah the upstrum is tricky!
There is indeed a slight turn to the wrist so that you don't get tangled in the strings - you can slow the vid down in your youtube player to 3/4 speed and you might be able to see it :-)
@@EricHaugenGuitar thank you. I’ll give it a try. I love the Sturgill picking. It really spices up the standard chords.
Even if your a metal player (like me) you should make g chords (god knows why youd have to lol) the way he does. When making chords, if you can, try and free up your index finger.
Much respect for the metal players, Zachary! ✊
I love classic metal - Metallica, Judas Priest, and of course SABBATH (the greatest).
Eric Haugen Black Sabbath is the reason I play guitar! Billy Strings led me here though. Bluegrass is killer.
Do medicine springs!!
Oooh good idea!
mother MAYBELL carter invented the "STYLE" thumb bass line roll. SHE INVENTED IT! PERIOD, from it, APPALACHIAN FLAT PICKING WAS BORN!!!!
Indeed! Praise be to Mama Carter!
Can you do a tutorial on Life of SIn please????
Good idea! I have this lesson up already ruclips.net/video/3-QP4Ry4Ufc/видео.html, but I should do a discussion clip as well.
Eric , do you have a pay-pal account or some other ? would like to contribute a small amount for the work you do will continue.
Aww shucks thanks Jim!
I have a paypal.me account at: www.paypal.me/ebhaugen - if you're feeling generous :-)
Is it just me or is every guitar hard to get a standard D chord shape sounding in tune? Like every guitar I come across it says if the intonation just doesn't seem to want to work with that shape
It's as if* ps I love your videos and hope you keep doing them. Your channel will inevitably grow with these very easy to follow lessons. You are a fantastic teacher.
+jdome jd Dude tell me about it! So many a recording session have been ruined by that issue. You get the c chord in tune, and then your d is out. You get that in tune, and then your E is out. Sometimes I have to just play power chords and overdub something interesting after I retune!
+jdome jd Thanks man!
reminds me of neil young tell me why?
Totally!
Both Neil and Sturgill have a roots in classic country and bluegrass - you can definitely hear this pattern in Neil's stuff too. Songs like "Alabama," and "Heart of Gold" are two good examples :-)
what gauge strings you use
Light! Extra Light! Partially for ease of playing, partially because that old guitar is falling apart.
I think on this one I have :
www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EXP15--daddario-exp15-coated-phosphor-bronze-extra-light-acoustic-strings
@@EricHaugenGuitar you think string gauge size makes drastic difference in tone?
not drastic, but yeah the thinner the strings the thinner the sound - which is not always a bad thing. Guitar players tend to get a little macho about how heavy their strings are. I tend to stay light to medium - no sense workin' too hard for my notes!
So I notice sort of a softness in the strumming. Is this achieved by merely not digging in to the string as much? Or is there a certain angle of the pick or wrist technique?
Excellent observation, Brad!
I think both things are going on: a light and graceful touch, as well as playing around with different pick angles until you find the one that works for you.
Thanks! Long time player. Always loved bluegrass, but now it's time to learn to play it. What you demonstrate here is great. The Isaacs' version of Daniel Prayed will be my first project.
I know this post is old but I can't find any bluegrass pickers that use that fingering of a G chord.
Great but the song is in A and modulates to E
Ah the ancient chines song Tu-ning.
Ha... the boom chicka boom.
Yeah!
Whatever works to remember the rhythm! :-)
Yeee Hawww !!! God I luv it !!!! God Bless the Geeeetar !!!! Makes us Feel Good!!!! Lol,,, 😁✌🕇💕
Indeed!
Folksy strumming like this is so useful!
It really breaks the chord up into clearly discernible chunklets.
@@EricHaugenGuitar Good for the soul Eric !!! That free feeling we all love !!!
TY Brother !!!! Great Stuff,,, 😁✌🇺🇸💪
Boom chukka?????
You must like all the same music as me
Great minds think alike!
....and so do we (´ ∀ ` *)
Could you do a lesson on how to play Marc Ribot's slide guitar to Tom Waits track "Jesus Gonna be here thoon", that would be really amusing cos I'm pretty sure it's one note?
Okay boomer. :D great video btw
ha!
That's the first "Ok Boomer" comment I've received - cracks me up :-)
BOOM CHUCKA
Jesus Loves You
You’re a good guitar player. Please stay on one song. The ADHD thing is a little hard to follow.