Roy Book Binder Teaches a Basic C Rag
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A sample from "Blues by the Book - Fingerpicking Blues Lesson 1" available as an instant download here: leapingbrain.c...
If you're ready to develop your own distinctive blues style, Roy Book Binder has assembled a complete vocabulary of licks and techniques to help you do it. Roy humbly calls this thorough breakdown of the elements of his own fingerstyle blues style "some tricks about playing the guitar," but don't let his laconic delivery fool you. By the time you're finished studying with "Book," you'll have a solid base of skills under your fingertips.Roy's firsthand knowledge of the great Piedmont-style players makes this video a must for anyone who loves traditional blues. Our trademark Homespun split screen makes it easy to learn as Roy demonstrates a wide variety of chords, right- and left-hand patterns and several of his favorite licks. He also teaches endings, runs, slides, open-string techniques, pull-offs, hammer-ons, damping, turnarounds and much more! By the end of this video, you will have mastered Pink Anderson's snapping string technique, Rev. Gary Davis' two-finger style and Roy's arrangements to "Black Dog Blues," "Hesitation Blues" and his own medley of ragtime/blues.
For the DVD version of these titles you can get them at Homespun Tapes:
Blues By The Book - DVD 1
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Blues By The Book - Two-DVD Set
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Love the way he says, “I don’t know then names of most of my chords”, and yet sounds incredibly beautiful. Guess that happens when you play by ear and your heart instead of your eyes and fingers. Totally love your style Roy!
Roy is one of my all-time favorite people! He's as warm and personable as he appears in his instructional vids.
Indeed he is - a cool uncle too (I'm one of his nephews - ALWAYS a good time at family functions, or even when he comes up north to visit.)
He’s from Queens New York “
Being an intermediate blues player I stumbled on a few rag time tutorials. Oh MAN is this fun! I'm not the best finger picker but this may be the ticket to get me going!
Man, I learned so much from this VHS about 15 years ago. If you are a new guitar player, this instruction is for you. It is so good.
Same here! I learned John Henry, Louis Collins, Roy’s C rag, and Southbound… well, I’m still working on perfecting Southbound 20 years later. The Banjo roll part and a funky little part in the bridge section still confound me, but once in a while I manage to almost pull them off. 😏
Me too. Roy is such a great teacher, and player!
I like how Roy talks his intro spiel over his pickin'. Not an easy task!
I always love Roy because he is so humble. "I can't really explain to you what I'm doing with my right hand as far as picking because I don't really know what I'm doing either it just sorta comes to me. So just practice picking and develop your own sound and style instead of trying to sound just like me. I mean who would want to play like me."
So glade I wasn't taking a sip of my coffee I would have spit it all over the computer screen I laughed so hard.
LOVE YOU ROY!!!!!!!
Have loved Roy's music for over 30 years. Have heard him in concert a couple of times. I love the Piedmont blues.
What an amazing teacher! Thank you sir
As a young 20 something I went to see bookbinder at a small venue, and after his performance, I asked him a question about finger picking. He blew me off like a turd. I never forgot that.
I’ve heard similar stories
Makes sense. Especially looking at his teaching style. Honestly, I like it when people ask questions about my playing during a break or after a show, but if I were confronted with a complex question when in performance mentality, I would have a hard time answering. Not only that, you can tell he was one of that generation that learned by ear and feel, without a firm grasp in theory and musical language.
It's not a knock on him or people asking questions, but this is the type of guy that, once his guitar is out of his hands, probably wouldn't be able to describe what he's doing at all.
Roy “ the one” Bookbinder! Thanks buddy!
Well you definitely win first prize for best intro to a guitar lesson!
I love your humble account of making a great sound Thankyou sir Can even hear. Chet Atkins...
I have watched this DVD more times than I could count....it is a lot of fun and has a lot of learning to be gleaned! This is one of my favorite fun DVDs to just copy and play.
I liked when Roy would, while playing live, play the ending to the Black Dog Blues, and pretended he learned from a skipping record / would repeat the end a few dozen times, always a good laugh. 😂
Sat down with my old Harmony in front of this and started teaching myself the variations. Excellent stuff, thanks!
I remember Homespun Tapes, the real tapes, the print catalog, all that. All the Traums. Woodstock lives on!
Great stuff and I like your teaching style laid back.
I tried playing this. I can do the thumb picking or pinky picking independently but doing them together!!!! This song sounds deceptively simple yet trying to play it has taken me back to the frustrations faced when I picked up the guitar.
Roy sometimes used to play in Tony Moore''s tiny pub, "The Meeting Place in Midleton, Co. Cork. He was in my opinion, the best artist to play there, always funny, instructive and very sociable..................... thanks for the posting.
This is insanely fantastic
I know right!!!!! As soon as my upper lip reaches maturity. So will my right thumb i suppose. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I like this guys style no thrills informative and honest excellent work
really nice after i get through the etta baker dvd im going to order yours i like what you guys are doing because i never felt right with playing covers but with this im right at home i also like that you are a good teacher etta doesnt help much all she does is talk about her daddy
This guy is a great teacher
Very good playing, I enjoyed the the humility. Very instructive.
You speak my language book binder. Thought i was intermediate until i saw this and reevaluated my thought process.
Thanks for the lesson made get back into my guitar 🎸
This is an excerpt from a lesson, not a lesson. It's not ideal for a beginner, but for someone who has some basic fingerpicking and command of chord changes it's very useful in the effort to expand those skills and make more of them.
That is one hell of a helpful video! So many things you can learn from the awesome Roy
Great lesson …and a very beautiful Groucho Marx -style moustache or even Billy Bevan !!
Thanks for this precious post ,
From Deep South of France 🥖🍷🧀,
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Excellent lesson my friend, regards from Spain
Thanks, always find time to learn something new.
wonderful video!! i love the way you snap the strings! thanks Roy!! :)
WONDERFUL GUITAR LESSON.. THANK YOU
Great fun! Real good advice. And I love deadpan humour !
I'd like to play like you Roy.
what a powerful moustache. what a useful video. this must live on.
"not that I didn't wish I did, but I don't." thanks Roy...
I bought his country guitar video tapes a long time ago...and feel very disappointed and thought how could this guy teach anything? However this DVD has changed my mind, he looks very pro. and sounds very experienced and most of all down-to-earth-kind-of-guy. Thanks Roy.
Man, i just love you. i wish you were my uncle or brother. i think you have a therapeutic quality. god bless you.
great song
I see folk are whining about your style..damn their eyes, fules...lovely stuff Roy, keep it up.
jees Roy how could I have missed you!?.. well guess it wasn´t that hard , ....anyway I sure am glad i found you now!
Love the honesty! "I don't play like Mississippi John Hurt. I don't know the names of all the chords." Wow, I sure can relate. I play and most people like it, but I don't get puffed up about it. Very nice lesson here!
Love it.... great teaching style, the conversational instructions and good visuals of the left hand will make this a good resource for me I think. I'm off to the website to see what I can order. Cheers mate, thanks.
Sounds great. ❤ it !!! 👍
I love this guy!!
Thanks Roy!
God! Your intro to this vid w vocals sounds like the tune Alices Restaurant Very nice!
it's 'talking blues'
Certainly agree with above comment; great DVD
Nice video lesson, thank you
The G7 with the D on the second string (third fret) is a classical guitar voicing. It is still called simply G7, D is the 5th, part of the chord.
Amo el Rag.
Hard to find the old RUclips vids. Glad the misguided geeks at Google sent me this one.
awesome lesson thanks so much !
Roy is my Friend
that was sick
I dig it
Well now. This is what I have been looking for. Thank you Roy. By the way, I play the same A FLAT that you do in this video on my version of "World is waiting on the Sunrise". :)
Part2, And 2-3 weeks later he´s dad gave me this gitar,of cause i´ve been playing for some time and he had notised that. When i took of the top of this gitar,today,i could reed"For Roy Book Binder" and i was thinking"who the h..l is that", cause i was told that this gitar was onse belonging to a Norwegian blus artist wiyh the name of Vidar Busk!
Now i will sit down and listen to this RoyBB for the first time,And i will be back. J. Norway
'strumming makes the fancy part look better'. i'm stealing that hilarious line :)
Bet a top dollar he covers a mean rendition of Alice's Restaurant. Probly a real hoot round Thanksgivin.
He inspired me to buy my first instrument.
Excelente!!! Thanks
Had to like this just for the intro
BADASS TEACHER
thanks!
I wonder if you can still get these tapes. I have original reel to reel homespun tapes. I learned a lot from the Traums
Put in a little boogie woogie, love it :)
was he singing in the beginning?
Great blues ramble intro
@@sethw997
Exactly!
GREAT !!!
It might sound a little hollow (as barre chords tend to do), but you can play an Ab by using a standard barre on the fourth fret. When you're playing finger style like this, pluck a little harder on the low E (or in this case, the G#) for a little more resonance. Since you're going right from a C chord, you can slide your index finger up the low E string and start curling your fingers so by the time you get it up to the fourth fret you can hit the barre. You can do a hinge barre here like he's doing, but playing a hinge barre that close to nut requires finger strength that most novice and even some intermediate players simply don't possess.
Could be a little boogie woogie in that stach if you ask me
That stache!
sounds a lot like Gary Davis, must 've played the albums over n over !
Very nice! I really appreciate it. :-D
Born “ Bookbinder “
Yeah, looks that way doesn't it. That's just Roy!
Roy awesome thank you, a man after my own heart. lol. PW
Sounds like a old Gibson certainly and from the truss cover.
Zak McKracken can play one helluva guitar!
Now THAT is a F'in moustache...
Thats a heck of a good mustache.
Learning without the internet "learn to play it your way" vs "do you have the tab for this?"
Does any one know what kind of guitar this is that he is playing in this video??? Been trying to find out for some time
The chord with the D on the B string is a G, unless you add the F on the E string and then it's a G7. A G6 is when you add the 6th tone in the scale which is an E. So, if you add the E on the D string (with G, B and D) you will have a G6
Ya............right...gotcha
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I'd love to play half as good as you (-:
Who would want to play like you?!!! Are you kidding? I would!!!! (Do you do stand up as well? Because you are funny) Thanks for this tutorial!
Gibson Advanced Jumbo
This one's like Alices restaurant by Arlo Guthrie
Proper biscuit duster
Moustache goals.
We feel your pain, sir...
roy redbone
That "some other g chord" is a G6.
What guitar is this...I know it is an advanced Jumbo copy but it's not a Gibson.
It looks like a Gibson J45 to me
Funny, when I met him back in the eighties he told me that tabulature was cheating and I should learn to play by ear - lol.
I had an advanced jumbo once - but it got stolen....
Today i was disassembeling my newest gitar in my collektion,cause it needed to be lined up and inntoned,of course it needed to be washed properly to. This gitar is an Polycrome 030 from july 1994,and there was a boy in about a year ago whom bougth a moped from me. He did buy it from a friend of mine and i gave him my moped to him when he was at my home to pick it up with hes dad. me my self gave ca.500,-usd.for this bike and my friend did give the same. I was allreddy sick of that bike. ## J
A little comedy to begin ...Reminded me of Arlo Guthrie,. Damn ... Last I saw of him eas so,eone pieted jim and Heorge Clooney in a drro with a lid running around with a droopy diaper and yhey looked stonned. Can you imagine the hits Arlo might get hiving ragtime instruction. Personally, your damn good. For some reason people today find no comedy in the Alices Restaurant song.