How to Play Rockabilly Rhythm Guitar / "Mystery Train" & "Folsom Prison Blues" Style Travis Picking
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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The Guitar is an Epiphone ES-175 with flatwound strings (hence the rather warm, or perhaps "dull" tone) into a Fender Deluxe Reverb. I then added a bit of 115ms slapback echo, which is the classic Rockabilly setting (that was the echo time generated by the first tape echoes).
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But how does one gain finger/ thumb independence? My fingers only seem to pick on the same beat as the thumb---- and when the fingers pick, the thumb stops--- and vice versa. I just don't get it
You may find our fingerpicking cousre to be just the right medicine - there are a series of etudes for building thumb/finger independence, leading up to a bunch of songs in the style: www.joedocmusic.com/learn-to-play-fingerstyle-learn-fingerstyle-travis-picking-guitar-dvd/
Finger independence exist only in cartoons. What you are watching is a finished work built little by little, laborious and patiently.
i have mastered this pretty much...AFTER 10 YEARS
@@soofitnsexy Very persistent. I gave up long ago
@@hammill444 takes about 3 hours a DAY HONESTLY U WILL GET IT
You're a genius for putting the camera at that angle...
made me fall down...
Mark Di Giuseppe My first thought exactly
Mark Di Giuseppe just
This angle make more sense and it replicates a POV (point of view) position. Cheers!
@@lc2580 Yes, you don't have to flip everything around mentally.
That camera angle is perfect for instructional videos. Haven't seen anyone do that before
teodelfuego
Reverend Muddy & John from Learning Guitar Now, both do it.
Thank you for the excellent lesson and for taking the trouble to use what is obviously the best angle for a guitar instruction video. There aren't very many who do this...a lot of people seem to think their faces are really important.
Haha... no talking heads here. Thanks for writing, - joe
i've been wondering about how to play this for 40 years... (never seriously searched) and ... blammo... here it is... amazing... well explained with lots of nuances (ALL useful) ... i slowed the play rate to half speed at 8 mins 54 seconds to be able to see exactly what your fingers were doing in relation to the bass line... that nailed it for me... now gonna practice it till it's ingrained... love that super funky guitar style... thanks for your time... you never know how useful your work is to people all over the world...
Thanks! So glad you find the lesson helpful! best, joe
Interesting camera angle - I'm so used to looking at other guitars backwards, that this seemed strange to begin with. Odd, because this is actually how a guitarist sees his own guitar! Good lesson!
Was just going to commend him on the same thing. This angle makes so much more sense.
I ve bought the Travis Picking download, and can confirm that its a great investment for anyone interested in this style - its well filmed and clearly explained. A big thank you to Joe!
Thanks Pete - so glad you liked it!
Hi Joe - I ve just bought an es175 copy(hollowbody) i was thinking of changing the pickups as the ones in seem to be budget, would you have any suggestions as to choice to get a rockabilly sound?
P90's would be awesome!
www.joedocmusic.com I've been getting into this sound and am looking forward to trying this lesson out. I've been playing for over 30 years and never tried to play rockabilly. Hope this old dog can learn a new trick! I've got a les paul special with P90's so I hope I can get the sound I want.
+deadguydan Well you ve certainly got the right kit there, i guess its just down to your fingers now. Best of luck
this camera angle: what a find!! all guitar tuts should be like this. thx !
A lot of Johnny Cash songs and other "country" & "blue grass" songs were cross-overs into rockabilly, & Cash was also considered a rockabilly artist by many.
Im a sax player who dabbled himself into guitar playing by self teaching and this perspective your showing here is perfect. I think I can go and learn how to do the things on guitar I couldn't self teach because I couldn't see how you get it out of the guitar. You just enlightened me by showing what simultaneously needs to happen with both hands. Thank You! I will conquer this instrument now in months not years
Great idea, showing the guitar upside down, the way I would see it. Very helpful!
This is one best videos on this topic I've seen yet! I love how you broke the parts down and said what to practice in order to build up to the end result. Most videos are just "play it like this", and then they proceed to show off their skill, leaving the viewer scratching their heads frustrated. Thanks for making this. Wish I'd seen it 2 years ago when you originally posted it. :)
Thanks Johnathan, glad you like it. I try think about "how I would have liked someone to explain it to me", and I'm glad to hear it worked :) Stay tuned for more. best, joe
Man thank you so much for putting the camera this ways , this stuff is already hard to learn you made it easier to understand looking at to your guitar the same angle as we are looking at ours .
Genius indeed .
Australia 🇦🇺
Great job..love camera angle thaty a guitarist would see. I so wish youtube was here when I was learning as a young musician. What a great tool for any one who wants to learn. Thanks
The DVD is great, thanks so much. Finger picking and Travis picking is fairly new to me and I just started on your DVD. If you want to learn finger picking I highly recommend this DVD. I bought the download version and there are tons of lessons.
Ive Always wanted to play this kind of Elvis"s rhythm guitar and just now watching your vídeo I got it. WONDERFUL!!!!!! Thank you very much.
I concur. Great camera angle. SO helpful. Awesome starter lesson for that type of sound
great lesson, great camera angle, thanks, gonna look into that DVD. this lick starts sounding like a train only when you do it just right with the right swing. one of the hard parts of it is getting the hammer-on from G to G# with your index finger to ring out clearly. it's a volume issue i think where the G# tends to be a lot less loud than the G. in brian setzer's solo interpretation of mystery train from the 90s, which is also on youtube, you can see exactly what he's playing the whole time. and hear him yodelling and do variations to the groove.
Sweet...That's the first time I've seen anyone use the upside down camera angle...it definitely makes it much easier to see whats going on. Many years ago I learned "Never Goin Back Again" by Fleetwood Mac and I didn't realize that the picking pattern had a name or that it was used so much in other music. Thanx for the lesson, and great playing.
What I really like about this is you're hybrid picking. Most lessons require using the thumb, which I find limiting when switching between techniques. Do your lessons incorporate this? Also great angle shot, as many have already said.
Thanks, John. Yes, in the video lessons from our site it does focus on pick & fingers as opposed to individual fingerpicks or thumb bass style. Cheers, joe
That is simply the best camera angle for a lesson!!!!
You said little finger instead of pinky... I love you man...
Thanks for the lesson
If that is an ES-175, that is the same guitar I once owned. It's looks just like it. You play it better than I could ever.
Currently I play an acoustic guitar and was wondering what style of electric guitar you would recommend for this sound?
Hey Jim! So much is in the fingers that any guitar can get you there, but there is a certain resonance that semi-hollow or hollowbodied guitars have that fit this style nicely. Telecaster-style guitars with their pickup/bridge combination also provide a great fingerpickin' tone. I was using flatwound strings for this as well, which have a fitting tone, as well. cheers, joe
thank you very much for posting this truly excellent lesson-all the best to you man.
That really was very helpful. I've been playing for 35 years and still have trouble with this style. But, as I said, this instruction really helped. I just need to sit around and get that octave thing down pat until it's intuitive.
Hi Chris,
Finger independence is the hardest part of the style. You may want to give a thumbpick a try - that's not the way I do it, but a lot of people do. Even then, the trick is to practice some etudes that include melody notes on both the down- and up-beats. Our Travis picking video (see link in the info section) is just $12 for the 21/2 hr video download, and covers both practice ditties/etudes and full songs broken down step-by-step. cheers, joe
Hi friend Just bought your Travis Picking down load, played a bit guitar for years but never studied it before, little more time on me hands now, I am solo so I really need to learn good guitar compliment to fill my song out, like you are teaching method here, I love the finger picking style, blues country rockabilly, any direction would be great, cheers Dave,
very good, just something I've been looking for ...thanks
A great intro to learning rockabilly rhythm....thanks,
Yes the angle is the most helpful idea on the net. I can learn and see so much more. Your a great teacher. I will subscribe and buy your DVD because of this innovation.
Great lesson man. didn"t realize what a great rockabilly guitar the ES175 is!
Finally a guitar teacher that gives the best recording angle for the guitar player. Well done. But you should top and tail the lesson with a full frontal, if you know what I mean.
What a good lesson! The man is a Genius, the normal camera angle is a bit like reading with a mirror. This puts it in the natural perspective. Thank you.
Thats THE best angle for camera to show whats going on!
THANKS. notice his pant cuffs? its required for best rockabilly mojo!
Hi, Very instructive video for beginners like myself! Has taught ma a lot. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the lesson Joe, really helped me get a handle on this style of playing.
my first rockabilly song/riffs learned!
Haven't read the comments but I am sure I am not the only one who got dizzy watching this video from a birds eye view. There is a reason every single guitar lesson video is not shot with this extreme angle. One other suggestion. It would be nice to have a section without lots of breaks where you can watch all the moves in a contiguous manner. Other than that, awesome video dude!!!
Brilliant to view the fretboard from this angle
great lesson, very articulate and helpful thanks
Went and bought an ES-175 last week.Great guitar!
buckzx12r have had one for 2 years. Great axe!!
Had mine for nearly 2 years now, not the real thing but great value for a cheap guitar.
Hi Lambert, This video is just another variation of what you can do with this picking style, I don't do Mystery Train on the DVD. The DVD has a variety of practice pieces and etudes, as well as "Cocaine Blues", "Nine Pound Hammer", "Cannonball Rag", and a 12 Bar Blues in Travis style.
That is a brilliant analysis of the anatomy of rock-a-billy from the point of view of the aspiring player. Great explanations!
Of all the pickers who try to teach this stuff I think this is the best.
That is a beautiful guitar that you’re playing what is the model number of it I believe it’s an epiphone
Epihone made a 375 "Limited Reissue" way back when! Beautiful guitar and really hard to find now. I put flatwounds on it for this video... that's the ticket :0) cheers- joe
"ES-375", that is.
Thank you!
Really, really good video. For me I had to break everything down into "beats" just like you were teaching. On any given beat I had to assess what Bass note and Melody I was playing at that moment. But like you taught I first locked that Bass note rhythm into my head repetitively.
Is the improvised part at the end covered more in-depth in the downloadable lesson? I’d like to get into that level of detail. Fantastic playing.
This is really excellent. I've been playing for a long time and am just getting into Travis picking. and having a hard time with it. This lesson makes sense of a lot of things that I've struggled with. I will be buying the d/l of your DVD.
Excellent POV! Both hands at the same time.
Cool playing. Thanks from Asia.
Yes - the Epi ES-175 custom shop reissue.
Real good lesson, may I ask you what kind off strings you are using? Skinny Top Heavy Bottom (52, 42,30) or Normal (46, 36, 26)
As melhores aulas sobre Scotty Moore and Elvis que assisto, obrigado por compartilhar conhecimento, sabedoria,
que os Deuses do Rock'n te abençoe e que viva sempre para ensinar os que precisam. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
Ainda, com estilo diferenciado e próprio.
That outro is so cool!.. great lesson, thanks for that.
darn authentic sounding! nice guitar, good angle, good concise lesson thanks!
Thanks man - glad you dig!
Great, many thanks for putting that out so we all can dig in and have a go. Love the sound your getting.
Great Lesson !!
You are an excellent teacher.
Thanks for helping out other guitar players.
Thank you!
Hey. Super cool lesson! Really useful!
But i just wondered how you get the sound. Are you using a pedal or something to get that reverb-ish effect? In that case wich one?
Cause i really like the sound!
Best regards from Denmark :)
Hi Mikkel - thanks! Glad you dig it. The reverb is from the amp (Fender 65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue) and I also have a short slap echo on the sound - try about 115ms. with just a couple repeats. That should get you there! best, joe
www.joedocmusic.com Thank you very much! I think it was the slap echo i was looking for.
And cool guitar by the way!
This needs a comment .... some unique chord stylings going on here ... much much appreciated !!!!!! picquer de'lux !
Great lesson. Subscribed. Congratulations from Spain!
What a creative instructional plan. I'm interested.
Excellent lesson,I like the "players perspective" Idea,works great!
your a great teacher and good player
What guitar is that you’re playin’ Joe.
Looks like it might be an Epiphone but I don’t know the model type.
That's the Epiphone ES-175 Ltd Custom Shop Reissue
Fantastic lesson! thank you so much, i think it's difficult the tecnic, but you make easy....
See the info box - I've posted a new video with a solo in this style!
great camera angle. i wish everyone would do this. smart man.
Geez, that sounds so SICK!!!!!!
This is really great when playing in E. Is there any cool rockabilly rhythm trick for playing in other keys? I usually sing best in the key of C and would love to do something cool with the rhythm guitar when in C.
Business Casual Check out the link to our Fingerstyle DVD in the info box - that goes much more in depth.
Steve Matt great video have brought the download thanks
Although it's been been 6 years since this video was made I still decided to Subscribe to JoeDocMusic
see you there Thank you
Hi ! I would like to order the DVD, I´d love to start learning the 50´s style, rockabilly, Elvis...that sort of stuff. But: what do you think I need, I have a friend who has an upright bass so we are going to be playing together, maybe with a drum machine at first - - but anyway I have a yellow Ibanez Jet King guitar - - I´d love to have Gretsch 5420 but where to get the money....what guitar do I need, what pedal, what kind of amp? What would you suggest to me & my bassist friend´s 50´s band :) ?
+Antti Jaakola Hi Antti, Honestly you can start with any guitar you have - just aim for a warm tone, rather than too snappy & bright. Let the fingers do the snappin' ;-) A small tube amp is a great place to start, and an analog delay pedal is preferable (the repeats tend to lose some of the treble, much in the way old tape echo did). You can pick up the DVD on joedocmusic.com - and drop a line if you have questions any time! best, joe
Excellent lesson!
you are smart,, the camera angle is ingenious, really helps.. said the right hander
Liked ,shared ,subscribed ,and hit the bell! Thanks for what you do.
What Beatles song does this sound like? It is at the end of a song, or in one of the breaks that George does
Kai Johnson There are a few where George pulled out the fingerpicking type licks - I'm thinking maybe "What goes on in your mind"...? Have to check :)
joe
This is great stuff! Excellent angle of the guitar!! I wish you continued success in your music and life!!
muy buena manera de enseñar!!! te felicito un gran maestro..asi se puede ver bien donde poner los dedos en el diapason.......
Top lesson. Love love the camera angle. You've made me feel I could give this style a go. Thanks heaps.
Is a thumb pick a better way plus using the fingers over using a regular pick.
I see some people use a thumb pick which some are made to use for strumming too.
This is entirely a matter of personal taste. I use a standard pick simply because I never knew about thumb picks as a kid... just got used to the pick and 3 fingers thing. I also like to switch between flatpicking for single note lines, and like the wider "standard" pick. But all in all, this style of guitar has far less "standards" or "rules" than classical style, so try some things out and see what's comfortable for you :) best, joe
Genial!!! Tremenda!!! El angulo de la camara. Tremendo video, todos los tutoriales deberia ser asi. Felicidades el dueño del canal, es un genio!!! Gracias!!!
Very good and I will learn the Travis style and use it thank you.
Denis Bruyere
Love the guitar
great guitar skills
good lesson really well explained ...now to learn it !
Hi there I really enjoyed that I always wanted to knock how that was done
Thanks for breaking that down
Thanks David 🇦🇺
Nice!
Just wondering why you chose not to add the A to the alternating bass line??
I'm almost certain Scotty did that...
Thanks Peter! Over the a chord I do alternate the bass as low A to the E note (second fret of D string). It may just look like it continues on E, but I do switch :) cheers joe
Great lesson! Very helpful. Thanks for the upload
will farrelles got talent I love this dude...he gets me all in to his work...
I like this point of view, it's a great idea
Great lesson. I am used to alternating bass with some folk fingerstyle stuff I play. I am finding it hard to use the pick to play the bass notes when I add melody in. What is the best way to practice?
Thanks
1. Use a metronome.
2. At first, set it to a ridiculously slow pace.
3. Work on accuracy. If you make a mistake, start over and do it even slower.
4. If you can not achieve decent accuracy at a slow pace, break down the pattern into its component parts and practice one part at a time. In your case, practice only the thumb at first. Apply 1, 2 and 3 here too.
5. Once your accuracy with thumb is decent, attempt to look away from the guitar and to say stuff, maybe even have a conversation, while the thumb is going. To achieve this, you will have to make the thumb's pattern automatic. Once it is automatic, adding on the rest will be much easier.
6. Repeat 4 and 5 with the melody. Make sure your fingering is exactly like it will be when you are also picking with the thumb. If you can talk freely while playing the melody, it should not be a problem to combine the thumb and melody pattern anymore.
Mea Dish
Thanks Mea - great tips!
Thanks so much. I admire that you give your spare time to help others.
Chris
Wonderful, great picking! Camera angle very good idea.
Hello, to an absolute beginner would you advise a normal pick or a thumb pick?
I suggest you try both and then decide which feels comfortable and natural to you. There are great players that play with either, and some who use fingers only. Have fun! best, joe
JoeDocMusic Thank you very much for your reply....I am going to download your lessons.
Thanks a lot for share your talent..
very good lesson,thank you
Just what I needed. Thanks.
Certainly a viable alternative, but this video focuses on using a flatpick, since a lot of players who use one would like to integrate the "Travis picking" style into their playing while keeping the pick for single note lines. I posted a solo that would fit over this style rhythm here: IyUXFIF6fd0 (search that or just use the link in the info section) Thanks for the comment - all in all choose whatever style works for you and practice it in context to get it flowing!
can you give me some tips how to make the sound of the bass strings that short? i can make them sound them alike but it requires me to palm mute the strings (really uncomfortable because i sometimes mute higher strings) or not to press strings that hard (i play it normally and then i mute it with left hand) both ways are annoying and i see that you're not using any! O.o can you tell me how to achieve that with some electronics? or maybe you do use some playing technique to get this? please, do reply :) (or anyone that knows what it's about, ill appreciate every advice)
Hi Brian - glad to help if I can. I do palm mute the bass strings, albeit not very heavily. What helps with the tone here is a set of .13's in flatwound. Flatwound strings do have a "thumpier" kind of tone. But even playing in this style on a Strat with .09's is entirely possible by just muting the bass strings with the palm and letting the higher strings ring. best regards, joe
wow, i have to say i didn't expect a reply that quick! :) thanks for the advice, now i know what i need to practise on a little bit... i think i'll try out these strings you mentioned, i'm really new to this rockabilly style and travis picking but i'm already in love with it :D i don't find my PRS perfect for this kind of playing but it has to be enough, maybe in future ill get myself a telecaster or something ;) i'll work on the style, thanks a lot again :)
BrianDMS No problem! Best tip is to work on the technique first, consider strings later. Most of it's in the hand ;-) best, joe
great tutorial, what guitar are you using?
Thanks! The guitar is an Epiphone ES-175