I first saw him playing this on the Alan Lomax films. He makes it look so easy but you clearly explain the difficulty in playing it. Always glad to see people from around the world appreciate the blues as well. Thanks again for the video.
You are a great teacher and passing on good vibes . Inspiring me to practice more. It's not important to get all notes correct but get the feeling in your brain. Best of luck in the future. Great channel.
First time I saw Lonnie Pitchford (RIP) was the Deep Blues documentary. I learned ‘If Possession Over Judgement Day’ from that clip. RL and Dave Stewart jamming on the porch in the sunshine was very cool too! Great lesson on a classic song. Thanks!
Thank you! Watched your tutorial of R.S. song "The Last Time", great one. This one, finger style, so to say, is great as well! If you could make one of Son House's "Death Letter Blues" would be awesome. One more, the tricky one, Peter, Paul and Mary "This Train", two guitars... Trying to get it right for years, no success! But I'm sure you can take it down right :-) Greetings from Germany
The Guitar Show ruclips.net/video/BLF-f4kUtAw/видео.html. Around nine minutes in.. “Too Bad Jim”. He’s smiling throughout this performance, because he knows something we don’t.
Is this in an alternate tuning? I can do the rhythm but the chord sound is not the same. Also, the camera angle on the left hand is a bit confusing. I would have preferred a perpendicular one. It could be I am just being an idiot or that at the moment I am using an acoustic guitar. I'll have to try with my strat when I get back home.
Great video. I've often watched the original Burnside one, where he is playing what looks like an early Japanese 'student' guitar, possibly a Kent or something similar.He was the real deal !!
thanks for watching agreed he was the real deal! yes it looks like a Guyatone/ Teisco model or like you say a Kent probably all built in the same factory, I really like them they have a real cool tone and charm about them. thanks, R.
Helped a fair bit. I heard RL used what he called "Spanish tuning" (DGDGBD). I don't know. To me he played with a West African / Afrobeat style, so he plays really loose but percussive and using shuffles. Also played junky gear with strings changed once every decade (works for me!). :)
Listening to Lomax's 1978 film of R.L. his tuning is unique in that I'm sure he just tuned by ear. It's an open E tuning but raised up a half step plus a nudge. So if you have a tuner you'll want to tune each note +50 cent over the 0'd note. Starting from the low 6th string you'll have F2 (+50), C3 (+50), F3 (+50), A3 (+50), C4 (+50), F4 (+50). I know it's odd to be so exact with a loose blues tuning but if you want to play to the track that's the tuning. Now add a crap load of feel and looseness with vague phrasing and you'll be on you way :)
Good idea to do these kinds of lessons! I'm a huge blues fan and have spent the last month listening almost exclusively to Jimmy Reed in order to get his shuffle down. In a different video I think you mentioned that you're a schooled musician. I'm not, but have learned a fair share of practical theory involving intervals, chord and scale construction, and harmony. What would you say to musicians or other people that turn their noses up at what they consider "simple" or "primitive" music? It pisses me off when I hear things like this, that's why I am asking
@@TheGuitarShow and another thing thank you guys who live across the pond who plays the Blues and for keeping Southern African American music roots alive without you guys who live across the pond there would not be many Blues guys who have made it in the world of music thanks again
cool lesson. Think RL was tuned a step down on his guitar for this one. seems to play the more in the first fret. The vid with him in that floral shirt in the field. Thanks tho, this really helped.
Only few notes but this sound is impossible with Piano. Guitar really is very percussive instrument string muting and other special tricks like snapping a string. Even simplest comping sounds very different what techniques is used.
Its true - I think each instrument has its repertoire which is hard to recreate on another instrument - you can get close but it will never be quite right
I tink it’s because rl doubles the high e. Tuned the b to e as well. And it gives a unique sound. Pretty much the exact same rhythm tho just sounds like it’s missing the octaves
Good work. But you count wrong. Upside down. The sharp sound comes as downbeat. That is where the whole groove comes from. RLs foot stomps on the offbeat.
Why don't you all lesson people don't do any research?? He is tunning the guitar in a very specific tunning( E A E A C# A). Sometimes in open D. How can you teach when even you don't know? It is not cool. And this is what most of you pseudo teachers do on you tube. Research then teach!
@@nospillblood I use to tune like RL using that documentary when he is showing that Eurythmicx dude how he does it. I literally tune my guitar in the same time with him. You will have an epiphany with guitar tuned like that. Everything will make sense. And I never ever use tabs. They are sterile and always wrong. Watch as much live footage as possible and use your ears. Watch their hands. It must sound like the song. Hendrix is the hardest of all. No tabs will ever show Hendrix playing wright. For Hendrix watch this channels( Greg Hendrix covers) or (millstap). The only wright ones ever. I hope this will help you. Cheers!
Nope. Nope. Nope. Mechanically regurgitating the played notes so absolutely devoid of rhythm does not =...well, anything. Fair attempt but nothing of this hits or lands on the ears right; the way it ought.
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Thank you!! One my favourite tunes and artists e v e r !!
Pleasure I will revisit this tune next month
Superb! I love R.L. and Junior Kimbrough.
Incredible
splat is a great description, big thank you for this
This is really good. Even the tone of the guitar sounds super close to the original.
I first saw him playing this on the Alan Lomax films. He makes it look so easy but you clearly explain the difficulty in playing it. Always glad to see people from around the world appreciate the blues as well. Thanks again for the video.
Thanks Charlie
This brought a smile to my face!
Infectious groove, nice one. R.L certainly makes it look easy!
I’ll be having a go at this. Thanks for uploading 🎸👍
Pleasure John
You've nailed it ! , best lesson Ive come across yet for RL , Subbed
Thanks so much - really glad you enjoyed it!
You are a great teacher and passing on good vibes . Inspiring me to practice more. It's not important to get all notes correct but get the feeling in your brain. Best of luck in the future. Great channel.
That documentary is called deep blues, not, the living Blues. Just so if somebody tries to look for it.
Thanks
Thank you I was looking for 30m and nothing was showing up,thanks
First time I saw Lonnie Pitchford (RIP) was the Deep Blues documentary. I learned ‘If Possession Over Judgement Day’ from that clip.
RL and Dave Stewart jamming on the porch in the sunshine was very cool too!
Great lesson on a classic song. Thanks!
subbed! I have been trying to get this rift down for a while. Your instruction has helped me come a long way. Cheers!
Many thanks indeed 🙏🙏
So glad this is on RUclips didn’t think it would be hope I can pick this one up.. nice tele btw
Pleasure - the tele has had an upgrade! See the new video I'm uploading today!
Just great, thank you for this
Thanks you so much !! You are amazing, it sounds difficult first but when you catch it, it is just amazing ! Good day !
My pleasure and thanks for checking out the lesson!
This is brilliant!
Thank you ! Great pedagogy !!! Good spirit
Thanks!
Finally a real tutorial on See My Jumper On The Line .... Thank you
My pleasure!
Good tutorial - thanks, Ramon!
Man this is a great lesson, thanks so much.
Pleasure, thanks
This is so helpful, thanks!
Man this great. You've really capture his sound and style of R.L Burnside. Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure
Great lesson! Thank you ever so much
My pleasure
Great instruction thanks.keep rocking.cheers
Pleasure thanks
...super gemacht Dankeschön
My pleasure
Ideas: The entire back catalogue of Mr Bunside😏😇🤗 not asking too much.... Great stuff.
Ok Ill do it!
Excellen tutorial..thanks from italy!!
pleasure - I hope to play in Italy next year!
Thank you very much. Cool
pleasure is all mine
Great job thank you!,,
Pleasure
It’s still missing something.. theres an extra beat in there somewhere
Fight Week! Podcast yeah it’s missing a splat on the B
yeah he adds a D sometimes after that E on the 4th, perhaps that's it. or as SKITT said.
Yep it's not quite it..sounds a bit too country. A good approx tho. Just not quite.
A quart of moonshine maybe?
His strumming pattern is wrong as is the tuning.
Thank you!!!!
Whoa this is fun
So good
pleasure
Thank you! Watched your tutorial of R.S. song "The Last Time", great one. This one, finger style, so to say, is great as well! If you could make one of Son House's "Death Letter Blues" would be awesome. One more, the tricky one, Peter, Paul and Mary "This Train", two guitars... Trying to get it right for years, no success! But I'm sure you can take it down right :-) Greetings from Germany
Thanks for watching bro and I hope to play again in Germany soon! I love it there
I'll forever be grateful to you
My pleasure
If you watch the 1984 show where R.L. is in an auditorium, he’s clearly picking notes with his left hand while strumming with the right.
Thanks Matt Ill revisit this tune soon!
The Guitar Show ruclips.net/video/BLF-f4kUtAw/видео.html. Around nine minutes in.. “Too Bad Jim”. He’s smiling throughout this performance, because he knows something we don’t.
I live in Tupelo Mississippi and have been around blues all of my life, but these tunings used by hill country blues artist is hard to figure out.
So cool - I wish one day to visit your state.
Nice work man
thankyou!
ONE A KIND RYTHYM
If you gonna play it right , you gotta be able to hear it first.
Good work, thank you. Very helpful. Lets here some Mississippi Fred McDowell now; his tune of John Henry or Shake em on Down.
Great suggestions Andy thanks!
merci pour ce tuto de mon blues man préféré, RL-Burnside ! Très bien joué monsieur.
Mon plasir
Is this in an alternate tuning? I can do the rhythm but the chord sound is not the same. Also, the camera angle on the left hand is a bit confusing. I would have preferred a perpendicular one. It could be I am just being an idiot or that at the moment I am using an acoustic guitar. I'll have to try with my strat when I get back home.
It’s leone from last year when I was in year 6. Good tutorial
Diamond Iron Man thanks Leone! Keep on playing that guitar!
Does he use the flesh of the thumb or the nail of the thumb? Isn't there any kind of palm muting?
anyone know any info on the documentary he was talking about?
ruclips.net/video/tZqOEppwprY/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/jSRdQgidCHY/видео.htmlis another one that is really good and turned me onto R.L.
Please do some Lighnin Hopkins! Been on a blues binge. This is great.
Hi Ill do that this week
Hello, what guitar is that ? Thanks for the tutorial
@chubbyurma tele thinline
Thanks for the lesson, I guess is not Std tuning played?
Sounds great!!
Thanks Jerry
How do you mute the octaves? With left or right hand?
Good video by the way!
I think it's more left hand but try both, what ever is easiest for you. Thanks for watching Martin
@@TheGuitarShow Okay thank you! 😃👍
Keep up with good videos. Already subbed 🤟
@@martinkryger519 pleasure Martin many thanks
Great video. I've often watched the original Burnside one, where he is playing what looks like
an early Japanese 'student' guitar, possibly a Kent or something similar.He was the real deal !!
thanks for watching agreed he was the real deal! yes it looks like a Guyatone/ Teisco model or like you say a Kent probably all built in the same factory, I really like them they have a real cool tone and charm about them. thanks, R.
Is this tuned down?
Raised in same state very close to his family ...
nice track. but I can't make up what tabs you use... Great track but could someone tell me what tabs he uses?
I didn't use any tabs for this
Thanks for this video! It really helped me! I think it works better if you play the B as a splat too though....
Thanks and thanks for the suggestion!
Helped a fair bit. I heard RL used what he called "Spanish tuning" (DGDGBD). I don't know. To me he played with a West African / Afrobeat style, so he plays really loose but percussive and using shuffles. Also played junky gear with strings changed once every decade (works for me!). :)
Listening to Lomax's 1978 film of R.L. his tuning is unique in that I'm sure he just tuned by ear. It's an open E tuning but raised up a half step plus a nudge. So if you have a tuner you'll want to tune each note +50 cent over the 0'd note. Starting from the low 6th string you'll have F2 (+50), C3 (+50), F3 (+50), A3 (+50), C4 (+50), F4 (+50). I know it's odd to be so exact with a loose blues tuning but if you want to play to the track that's the tuning. Now add a crap load of feel and looseness with vague phrasing and you'll be on you way :)
Good idea to do these kinds of lessons! I'm a huge blues fan and have spent the last month listening almost exclusively to Jimmy Reed in order to get his shuffle down. In a different video I think you mentioned that you're a schooled musician. I'm not, but have learned a fair share of practical theory involving intervals, chord and scale construction, and harmony. What would you say to musicians or other people that turn their noses up at what they consider "simple" or "primitive" music? It pisses me off when I hear things like this, that's why I am asking
Musicians that turn their noses up at so called primitive music should be working a desk job and not be allowed to play music.
@@TheGuitarShow Hahaha, I agree completely! It can be frustrating to hear though
yes I sometimes hear it - especially guys learning Jazz - classical musicians are surpisingly more opened minded than a lot of Jazzers @@TheYearThree
I grade you a A+👍
thanks! !
@@TheGuitarShow and another thing thank you guys who live across the pond who plays the Blues and for keeping Southern African American music roots alive without you guys who live across the pond there would not be many Blues guys who have made it in the world of music thanks again
@@TheBluesmanBlue respect brother. ..respect!
@@TheGuitarShow ❤back @you
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close but its not quite there and I can't actually tell you how or why!
Sounded good to me, he just sped it up
Original played with capo on a first fret or Burnside's guitar tuned in a bit different scale.
i can tell you why:
He is not R.L. Burnside :)
cool lesson. Think RL was tuned a step down on his guitar for this one. seems to play the more in the first fret. The vid with him in that floral shirt in the field. Thanks tho, this really helped.
harmonics like on a stratovarious ( violin )
It's interesting to me that so many Brits are great delta blues guitarists.
Thanks Kyle 🙏
Is this delta or hill country? I always saw RL's stuff as hill country.
why the reverb and popping sound? good job though.
And Sanctified Boogie by K M Williams
Occaras thanks!
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Ouch! Sorry mate not even close!
I'm trying
it's missing a lot there's no soul or feeling in you playing
Thanks
RL places a small piece of aluminum foil under the strings of the first fret.
Thanks for this
I noticed that too. Anyone know why he does that?
Standard tuning..??
I want to know that too. A lot of his stuff is in Open A (if I'm remembering correctly).
I think the 3rd and possibly the 2nd strings are tunned different
Not even close.
Only few notes but this sound is impossible with Piano. Guitar really is very percussive instrument string muting and other special tricks like snapping a string. Even simplest comping sounds very different what techniques is used.
Its true - I think each instrument has its repertoire which is hard to recreate on another instrument - you can get close but it will never be quite right
Not quite right 🤔
Thanks for watching! Maybe Ill do an update to this to address a few comments like this that I've had about this lesson -
I tink it’s because rl doubles the high e. Tuned the b to e as well. And it gives a unique sound. Pretty much the exact same rhythm tho just sounds like it’s missing the octaves
Nice. But RL Burnside was famous along time before 20 years ago mate.
bone daddy d yes that's right but I think he got an extra boost from the documentary film on a wider scale
Camera angles don’t help.
Good work. But you count wrong. Upside down. The sharp sound comes as downbeat. That is where the whole groove comes from. RLs foot stomps on the offbeat.
100000uerdinger I always stomp on the down beat ...doesn't matter which beat you count as the one as long as you play the riff right
nice lesson, but sorry is not the right beat, close to yes guess 80%. And the fills are totaly differnt.....
Ill do an update tto this lesson soon
Why don't you all lesson people don't do any research?? He is tunning the guitar in a very specific tunning( E A E A C# A). Sometimes in open D. How can you teach when even you don't know? It is not cool. And this is what most of you pseudo teachers do on you tube. Research then teach!
I agree.. Do you know the correct way to play this tune, or where to get tablature? I'd really like to learn it
@@nospillblood I use to tune like RL using that documentary when he is showing that Eurythmicx dude how he does it. I literally tune my guitar in the same time with him. You will have an epiphany with guitar tuned like that. Everything will make sense. And I never ever use tabs. They are sterile and always wrong. Watch as much live footage as possible and use your ears. Watch their hands. It must sound like the song. Hendrix is the hardest of all. No tabs will ever show Hendrix playing wright. For Hendrix watch this channels( Greg Hendrix covers) or (millstap). The only wright ones ever. I hope this will help you. Cheers!
RL Burnside used standard tuning on See My Jumper Hanging On the Line, as clearly both heard and visible in the Alan Lomax archive video.
Jumper is played in standard. RL also does standard, besides open G/A.
Yeah...he's in the key of A
That doesn’t sound anything like burnside
Wrong tuning mate.
Also your strumming pattern is wrong
nah.. a bit misplaced. sounds like an old country song
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Mechanically regurgitating the played notes so absolutely devoid of rhythm does not =...well, anything.
Fair attempt but nothing of this hits or lands on the ears right; the way it ought.
Sound out of tune
Dude, make your own blues so gs, and style, and stop initiating black American musicians.