Happy Traum Teaches A Must-Know Fingerstyle Blues Lick | Acoustic Guitar Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Roots/blues musician and veteran guitar educator Happy Traum demos a must-know blues lick, showing you how to plug it into the classic 12-bar form. Follow along using the notation at acousticguitar....
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Happy has probably taught more folk musicians than anybody. We all grew up on his music instruction books and eagerly sought to learn how to play. So many guitarists owe him a real debt of gratitude. Thanks, Happy!
I learned to play acoustic repeatedly renting the Homespun Happy Traum VHS tapes from the public library almost 30 years ago, long before the free videos on RUclips. Fond memories! Happy’s still teaching and looking spry🤘
We have a ton of the older Homespun cassette tapes -- everything from Happy's fingerpicking 1 & 2, Flatpicking Country Guitar, Banjo w/Bill Keith, with Happy again. The ear training, w/Matt Glaser has opened up a WORLD to me. God bless my dad for buying all these! They're good as new, forty years later.
Béla Scialoja Yes, certainly, God bless your dad for that investment in a legacy of making music, as well Happy for being such a great teacher!
@@joefeldpausch The tapes are super-valuable to us now, and I was remiss not saying how much Russ Barenberg's tapes, Advanced Flatpicking, and Exploring the Fingerboard, and Dan Crary's goldmine for flatpickers -- wow, right there is an education in guitar, in eighteen tapes! Take care, Joe.
Béla Scialoja I’ll bet you’re going to school on that gold mine. Whew! Keep it up🤘
My first lessons were from his books! 35 years ago!
RIP my good man. Will always treasure these videos of Happy.
I learned how to play guitar using a book from you and your brother and I finally get to thank you so thank you very much Happy.
This is one of the first things I learnt on guitar many years ago....still learning
Like so many others, I learned guitar with the help of Homespun VHS tapes. It is good to see Happy Traum in this recent clip. This is a blues riff we have heard all of our lives; and Happy teaches it to us with ease, and style. One thing is for certain: Happy Traum is HAPPY whenever he is teaching others. What a legacy.
I still consider Happy my guitar teacher after all these years Thank you and keep it up. He really must be one nice guy!
The Blues is so expressive of the human spirit. Thank you so much Happy for the gift of the tutorial!
legend-once a great teacher, always a great teacher!
Man, this is great. I learned fingerpicking by ordering cassette tapes from Homespun Tapes in the late 70's. Happy always sent homemade tab with the tapes and sometimes he or his wife, Jane, would enclose a personal note. I treasured them.
As a young teenager in the seventies i remember my brother learning guitar using Happy's tab books.In my youthful ignorance i thought the books were by a guy named Happy Strum. Almost 45 years later, on this day i learned this Icon of guitar instruction's real last name. But it still makes me happy to hear him strum.
Chris Foster 😂 funny
So glad to meet you, Sir. You've been a constant presence in my life for years. Thank you
Thanks Happy, I still am learning from Homespune tapes I bought in the 80s. You were the first to open many doors for me and I will always be grateful, good health to you and your family.
Seeing Happy Traum’s name in the video title made me head to my bookcase and dig through my old guitar instructional books from the 80’s. Sure enough, there it was, old and yellowed and well used: The Guitarist’s Picture Chords by Happy Traum. It’s good to put a face to the name. Good on you Happy.
This takes me back to watching one of your VHS tapes over and over, learning to syncopate, and feeling so good when I finally got it! Man, I was clumsy...
After years of having Happy Traum music books it's a pleasure to actually see him! Thanks for posting...
Hello, Happy! It is great to see you are yet teaching guitar. I still have a book by you published in 1966 by OAK PUBLICATIONS 'Finger-Picking Styled for GUITAR'. I can't pretend I have mastered it yet, but seeing you on RUclips has kick-started me again. With best wishes, Ted Goodfellow, UK.
I’ve heard your name from years ago and now and again. It’s great to see you on RUclips and giving this wonderful little lesson. Hope to see you on here more often. Greetings and thanks to you from California.
Great to see you Happy - I began my self learning w/ you long ago. So good to see you fingerpickin' some blues...
Happy Traum - your parents must have really loved you - giving you that name. Poetic ,Deep and Joyous - filled with the mystery of the universe and awareness.
That's a beauty of a guitar!
You got that right! Santa Cruz H13
Very nice lesson. Very concise, well organized, and to the point. No extraneous talking.
wow this is a surprise i still have about 700 dollars worth of Homespun tapes and the tab books that go with them.I learned how to fingerpick and how to syncopate from happy.but i haven't seen him in many years i didn't think he was still with us.Grate to see you hap thanks for the lessons.
Me too, learned from a Happy and Artie book way back in the 70’s. Just stumbled upon him now. Hope to see many more lessons Happy!
Great.
I feel like I just had a few beers with a friend and learned something I will carry with me as long as I have fingers. Thank you!
All the history of music this guy knows been thru.. folk rock .... Mr. Tambourine Man.... Greenwich village history.... good guy to learn from.... Thank-you
From a long time user of your videos: nicely done, Happy. Byoooootiful guitar, too.
Hearing of you just today even tho im in my 40s.
But they sound so impressed in the comments that i know it was fun times
Hi Happy great to see you looking so good, met you once at the Springfield folk club in Brighton England , you signed your album Relax your mind for me and the wife , still have it . Best Wishes.
Great Teacher, Thanks.
I learned out of his book Finger Picking Styles for the Guitar...I still have a copy. Still a great book now that RUclips can supply the example tracks. We used to see him at the Kingston Trailways bus station with his leather guitar case. "That's Dylan's guitarist but dont talk to him or he will think you're not cool"
Thanks for the cool lesson Happy!!! I'm a professional player (Jill & Kevin), but can ALWAYS learn new stuff! I am friends with, and play with Adam occasionally. You raised a great son!
So happy to have come across your video. I found your instructional videos on playing guitar so helpful and I fondly remember one that you made on bass runs. You have been an inspiration to me and a great guitar player role model. Thank you so much!!
Nice one Happy this is very cool and peaceful in these fraught times!
Thanks for that blues lick Happy! So useful for spicing up an arrangement. I'm working on adding it to my bag-o-tricks.
Best tutorial I've had in ages! Thanks 😊
Thanks for all the tips, Happy - since about 1975 for me. American Stranger still one of my favorite albums.
Santa coming down from the church steeple was my favorite memory of Woodstock! And Zubin’s tie dye! Thanks for always sharing the music 🎶
Happy ... Thank you so much for this blues lick tutorial. It made me "Happy" learning it.
Love the bluesy sounds. Thanks.
Bravissimo insegnante!
Thank you. I've been wanting to learn that for years.
Excellent lesson,thanks from New Zealand.
Thank you Happy! you presented a very nice 12 bar blue track that will undoubtedly make a great little piece to practice and improvise on, thanks again for sharing
Like sitting with an old friend. Thank you
Thank you Happy - I dig it! Soulful and colorful 12 bar progression! I’m gonna use it for sure and make it a standard goto when I wanna write a new lyric.
Hi there, just found your web site today and I have to say it's do refreshing to see someone taking the time to explain things slowly. Looking forward to seeing lots of you in the future. Thanks so much for a great lesson
Thank you. I still have a few Homespun Tapes cassettes that I cherished learning from!
Great teacher! Thank you Happy.
Hi Happy, I haven't seen you since you played at The Red Lion pub in KIngs Heath, Birmingham England back in the 1980s with Roly Salley.
Thanks so much for this lesson! I’ve always loved “buckets of rain” by Wood Brothers. Sometimes that chord progression loops in my head for hours.( I know...Bob Dylan...bla bla...I like the Wood version better). Often thought about really trying to figure it out. Just the inspiration needed!! Thanks.
Thanks for sharing, Happy! I really got a lot out of that!
Lovely lesson! Much appreciated! 👍😎
I`m beginner guitarist. Your videos can teach me a lot and make my day better
Very nice. Thank you for sharing it with us 😎👍
How cool is that! Thank you for a great lesson!
What a wonderful super simple lesson for a beginner like me! Thanks AGM for reprinting the article and offering this excellent video. Will take me a bunch of rewinds and practice, but I can figure it out.
Happy puts a smile on my face
Yup, Happy makes people Happy!
Homespun VHS tapes! Right on! Best thing that ever happened to me, taught me how to travis pick.
Great lesson, great demonstration of 12-bar blues!
Thanks for this I linked it to some other E links and sounds great. You are so easy to watch. Hope you are keeping well in NY. Greetings from Scotland.
sounds like the Clapton tune. I could change the world. beautiful
What treat. I discovered and learnt from, Ken Mo and Fran Banish from your tuition DVD’s. Thanks.
Very well explained! Thanks.
I hear “Change the World” by Eric Clapton in this. Great lesson!
How is Woodstock these days? We wanted to come to the Luthier’s show but it was cancelled because of the virus. It is a beautiful, charming old American town. We absolutely loved it
That was pretty awesome ! Thanks!
Beautiful. love it. thank you! ❤️💐👍🙏
This is fantabulous. thank you!
That was really helpful. Thanks.
Really nice guitar, by the way.
Great lesson, loved it.
Wow, nice lesson, thank you Mr. Traum! I wish you talk a bit about that spectacular instrument :)
Good lesson easy to understand 🙂
Fantastic! I can have another look at ‘Corrina, Corrina’ by Mr Dylan now.
Or maybe rename it to “Corona, Corona”?
FANTASTIC! THANK YOU SIR!
Excellent teacher!!! It's a skill!!!
Thank you ,slow and easy works for me. ☮️
I learned fingerstyle from Happy's Oak Publications book 55 years ago, but I have not played any of those songs since yesterday.
Just beautiful!
I've been mispronouncing Happy's last name for about 50 years now. I learned from his books years ago and had never heard it pronounce. Oops sorry Happy, thanks for your instruction books which helped me get started on guitar.
Somehow I feel like I'd like Happy Traum whether he had a guitar in his hands or not. ;)
Nice.thanks for sharing.
Great lesson.
Beautiful
Love that pattern! Thanks a lot!
Thank you for this great video.
Excellent!
Great lesson!
You can pick the individual notes in succession with a flat pick also.
Thanks for this and the great books
Very cool, thanks for posting
Nice riff. I’m right next to Woodstock, local lesson!
Wonderful!! Thank you!
Cool grove. Thanks..
Great lesson.. Thanks
Niiiice! That is the easiest and friendliest guitar lesson I have seen in awhile! You are indeed a true gentleman! I have heard this blues progression used in several places, including some movies - usually the character walking a hot summer dirt road. Thanks for the lesson!
Legend! Thanks very much
Happy ....the perfect name for u!
Great Job!
Thank you.
Thank you sir, well done