Seven minutes of solid tuition, clearly explained and demonstrated. Your lessons are great David. Thank you. You are a good teacher and thanks for sharing.
Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. I always loved the sound of this old bluesy/jazzy rhythm and never pinned down how to find it. The best musical tricks are always simple and mind blowing at the same time and it's always a great joy to discover them. Also your attitude is welcoming and easy to follow, keep it up!
I learned something new from this video. The rocking from the l to the V chord. I've never listened to that real early style much, with the fingerpicking, but I have used the F# a lot in my own acoustic blues in E tunes. Good lesson man!
David thankyou so much for your lessons i have been playing Acoustic guitar for a few years now and just getting into fingerstyle blues and I find your lessons really inspiring cheers Bob
Amazing to me how two simple chords become complicated once you use the bass note syncopation.....it's like juggling.....BTW, you're an excellent teacher as well as guitar player...thank you for making videos.
Aha! At last I can hear what it was that made Josh White's blues sound a little different - I'm sure he used that F#7 - B7 change a few times. Thank you David.
Thanks, David. Good piece. Funnily enough, I've inadvertently been playing some element of this as a result of doing some Flamenco lessons years ago. In a 12 bar blues in E, I often take the B7 shape and slide it up one, in true flamenco style (take an E and move it up one fret, then another two, then back down again and you have a classic flamenco sound). When I compared your fingering just now, this, of course, turns out to be more or less (with a shift of the low E) to be the same as your 5th of B. Probably haven't put that well, but I always thought it sounded great. "Nobody else does that!" I thought… ;-) NB. In over 30 years playing I've only just started learning the rudiments of theory and how chords hang together etc.
Great stuff... thank you. I'm sure it's not the case... but your frets appear to leaning back... especially at the head-stock end of the neck... Sounds great though :)
i went to your website to look for the tabs to this.. i really just want to know what that f# chord is. but it doesn't look like its on your website. i googled f# guitar chord and a million different ones come up that don't look like this one. it looks really simple but i feel like finding the simplest blues chords have taken me so long to find
You can find tab for this lesson in a PDF called "Fifteen Grooves," a download which includes tabbed examples from (surprise!) fourteen other lessons here on the channel as well. Here's the link to get it (which does, full disclosure, request an email address to get access): www.fretboardconfidential.com/signup If you're talking about the chord I think you are, it's second fret on the sixth string, second fret on the fourth string, third fret on the third string, or root-b7-3 :-)
Seven minutes of solid tuition, clearly explained and demonstrated. Your lessons are great David. Thank you. You are a good teacher and thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Clifford! Glad you're enjoying them.
agreed!!!
Love you style. Love your channel. Time to invest in one of your instructional series
Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. I always loved the sound of this old bluesy/jazzy rhythm and never pinned down how to find it. The best musical tricks are always simple and mind blowing at the same time and it's always a great joy to discover them. Also your attitude is welcoming and easy to follow, keep it up!
"The best musical tricks are always simple and mind blowing at the same time..." So true! Glad you found this one helpful.
What a brilliant series of lessons!
Love knowing the theory behind what you do. It helps tremendously.
Glad to hear it! I try not to geek out too much on the explanations but I think it really helps too.
Fabulous piece in this month's Premier Guitar, David - many thanks. Very nice lines. Marvelous. D
Aw, thanks Daniel! Glad you enjoyed it. I just started doing those and it's been really fun.
This makes sense and adds flavor & authenticity to the music. Especially if you trying to learn classics
Thanks a lot ! I love the sound of these progressions.
Nice David - Thank you.
Brilliant as usual helping a lot
Thank you Bob! Glad to hear it.
brilliant
Your helping a lot of people! Thanks
I learned something new from this video. The rocking from the l to the V chord. I've never listened to that real early style much, with the fingerpicking, but I have used the F# a lot in my own acoustic blues in E tunes. Good lesson man!
this is fuuuuucking cool thank you
David thankyou so much for your lessons i have been playing Acoustic guitar for a few years now and just getting into fingerstyle blues and I find your lessons really inspiring cheers Bob
Thanks Bob! Glad to hear it!
oh, now I get it - adding V's
I dig your stuff. Cool style.
Thanks man
Amazing to me how two simple chords become complicated once you use the bass note syncopation.....it's like juggling.....BTW, you're an excellent teacher as well as guitar player...thank you for making videos.
Aha! At last I can hear what it was that made Josh White's blues sound a little different - I'm sure he used that F#7 - B7 change a few times. Thank you David.
Thanks, David. Good piece. Funnily enough, I've inadvertently been playing some element of this as a result of doing some Flamenco lessons years ago. In a 12 bar blues in E, I often take the B7 shape and slide it up one, in true flamenco style (take an E and move it up one fret, then another two, then back down again and you have a classic flamenco sound). When I compared your fingering just now, this, of course, turns out to be more or less (with a shift of the low E) to be the same as your 5th of B. Probably haven't put that well, but I always thought it sounded great. "Nobody else does that!" I thought… ;-) NB. In over 30 years playing I've only just started learning the rudiments of theory and how chords hang together etc.
Great lesson. Clear explanation of the chord substitution and nice relaxed presentation style. I'm now a subscriber! Cheers.
Thanks, and welcome!
Does this also work in minor keys?
Great stuff... thank you. I'm sure it's not the case... but your frets appear to leaning back... especially at the head-stock end of the neck... Sounds great though :)
I think it's an optical illusion - something to do with the angle I'm holding the guitar at to avoid the frets reflecting too much into the camera :-)
¿ Where did C# minor fit .. off the 5 " A " in E ? ...
i went to your website to look for the tabs to this.. i really just want to know what that f# chord is. but it doesn't look like its on your website. i googled f# guitar chord and a million different ones come up that don't look like this one. it looks really simple but i feel like finding the simplest blues chords have taken me so long to find
You can find tab for this lesson in a PDF called "Fifteen Grooves," a download which includes tabbed examples from (surprise!) fourteen other lessons here on the channel as well. Here's the link to get it (which does, full disclosure, request an email address to get access): www.fretboardconfidential.com/signup
If you're talking about the chord I think you are, it's second fret on the sixth string, second fret on the fourth string, third fret on the third string, or root-b7-3 :-)
Would you call that sort of a “ragtime” feel or what?
Never played a B7th with the low E....Imagine?
Thanks for sharing.....do I get a side of fries and a shake with that........