Here's a Quick Way to Get Started with Delta Blues | Tuesday Blues 130
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- In this lesson, we'll have a look at a Delta Blues style tune in E that will help you get the basics of the style down. Plus, you'll pick up a few cool licks and a sweet little turnaround.
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i learned this, and ever since i've been wearing sunglasses all the time, even at night, and been saying things like "sho nuff", "big legged woman", and "oh lawd."
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You NEED a funny hat....
dude, that's hilarious!
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This has literally changed my guitar life.
Been practicing this for about 3 weeks now, I can play half of it, and I will play all of it at some point, I don't care if it takes me 6 months or a year ! Great lesson thank you.
Tommy Emannuel even said that the trickiest part is getting your thumb to cooperate. There is a disconnect between your thumb (the muscle) & your brain (the memory). When thumb picking; each new song will present a new challenge for your brain & thumb... or whatever you've been given. The beauty isn't just in the song, but the feeling you get when you finally have the control to do it. It's a dexterity exercise that can take months to master each song or portion of... Even professional guitarists practice for months to rewire there brain to achieve a lick or a few intervals without flaw. Do it laying on your back in the dark. Close your eyes, keep the thumb going & practice the riffs. It's a meditation.
the blues is like magic
it IS magic
There is something miraculous happening here after persevering with this lesson for a few hours... my guitar now appears to be haunted by the ghost of someone who might actually be able to play a little! ;-)
I've only 'mastered' the first few bars, but there's enough there to experiment with and keep me amused for days. I look forward to building on this foundation thanks to your careful tuition. Thank you very much indeed!
+Andrew McP if the ghost leads to to the crossroads, we're all in for a treat! 😁
I'm revisiting this video to (finally!) get round to studying it all the way to the end. It was getting into the groove with the first few bars of this piece which kick-started the dormant blues in my fingers, and that's led me to develop new skills which are helping me tackle pieces which used to be way out of reach.
The 'feel' of the delta blues is /so/ satisfying that it inspires me to practice long after I'd normally give up. The blues needs playing, and a bit of finger-dyslexia isn't going to get in the way!
So the last six months have turned me from someone who enjoyed occasional dabbling to someone who -- with a following wind and no broken nails -- can sound like an actual guitar player. In fact I startle myself sometimes, listening to what's coming out of my guitar; it used to be mainly dust and long-lost plectrums, now it's music.
Where was RUclips 35 years ago when I got my first guitar and learned to be frustrated and embarrassed by my lack of ability?
Thanks for the inspiration, John.
Blues Guitar Institute , Blues Guitar Institute in the traditional end of to make these blues footprint, just does not have brightness like the open G-end. I even tried to use this tuning to play my blues, but I did not get anything, it was very difficult after the chords and the notes are not in the same place as the traditional ending.na finacao . na finacao tradicional da pra fazer essas pegada de blues, só não tem brilho como a finacao em G aberto. Eu mesmo tentei usar essa afinacao pra tocar meus blues , mais não consegui nada, ficou muito difícil depois que os acorde e as notas não estão no mesmo lugar como na finacao tradicional.
Amen brother.
Hey folks, a couple of comments below about this being 13 measures. It is. The first 4 thumps on the low E String are intended to be the count-in but then I took some liberties with the progression and stretched out the E part to a 5th bar making the progression actually 13 bars. Sorry for the confusion, sometimes you just get caught up in the feel of things. :)
Play On!
I just started a few days ago with this lesson. I call it "The 1-30 Blues" for myself. No other lesson on youtube has made me coming back to it so persistently (?) like this one. You're a great instructor with the right tempo. Best regards from Munich, Germany.
That's awesome! Glad it's helping. Cheers!
It's the best explanation of 12 bar blues I have seen. You have done so much with so less. Learned so much more than just a cool blues riff.
Loving playing the Delta blues, thanks to your great instruction, the thumb is finally doing as it is told.
That is the most amazing haunting sound I ever heard! It's the middle of the night right now but I can't wait to start working this out on the guitar.
Love your work, John. Thank you for the amazing stuff you give us. This guitar stuff is all sooo difficult until it falls into place like magic! Such a good feeling when your guitar starts playing amazing stuff. High five and thank you from all of us.
66 yrs old you & few others have just taught this ol timer so much in the past 3wks i can't believe what i am hearing. Just may be the only way I'll get down to the delta.
Thank You so much for teaching this. I Love The Delta Blues and have been wanting to learn in this style for a long time. You are a really good teacher and the video was clear and easy to understand. Thanks again.
beautiful , no bullshit no thrills,the essence of real music
This is.a really good lesson on the steady delta riff sound: I wish this was available 50 years ago; I would have been enjoying this for a lifetime:: thanks
The most beautiful music style at the world!
Agreed!
I've really enjoyed learning this. I don't think it could sound more magic with so few notes.
I was having difficulty counting for quite some time until I realized that the example is a 13-bar blues. The first four bars are stretched into five. I've cut out a couple of bass beats to bring it back to a more conventional song structure. If playing it unaccompanied, or without a song, the extra notes may as well stay there as it gives it even more open space, which is one of the appealing features of this.
Thanks John, this is really a great arrangement and lesson.
Thanks! Played "folk" guitar in college, Bob Dylan etc. Getting back into it, that is quite a cool sound!
67 years old...quit guitar in my 20s and plum forgot everything...retired and got an acoustic a few months ago and just been fooling around with no direction...this is what I want to learn.
Hey that's my story exactly. I love this music also and am working on learning pentatonic scales etc. Great lesson..... more at my speed, not to say it is easy....
Me to, put down the guitar for many years.
You can do it.
Much appreciated. I've played guitar for 45 years...however, I always learn something new. I got a lot out of this lesson...the few added notes, snap on the D string, half-sharpened G and the icing bits on the turnaround. For you young folks out there, it's the 'approach' more so than getting every note correct...especially in the Blues. Slow down and concentrate on rhythm. Its ok to be a bit sloppy on the chords. The precision will come.
I AM WRITING MY OWN TAB AS YOU PLAY ----thankyou for showing me at a wonderful solo!
After pursuing many a guitar video I feel that I have found a home! This is so exciting and relatively easy to learn. You explain things so well.
Awesome! Thank you!
Took me a couple of afrernoons to relly get it down good. Have always played flat pick electric, and this was very nice to learn. Thanks so much
Now --this is what I have waited years for --you are a masterful teacher --NOW I am beginning to understand how to solo over the E blues---thankyou so much ----cant afford premium membership --(pensioner )but I can now learn from your patient style quite easily --thankyou !!
Fantastic. Probably the best Blues video class I have seen,,,,,Thank you.
Nice lesson, thanks for that !
Great lesson! Thank you very much. I dig the groove here.
Thankz .....And today I Just signed up for your classes today after learning this great teaching
Thank you. You are a very talented instructor.
Exactly what I wanted. 25 years of metal and the only attention that I paid to this style of guitar was memories of the movie "Crossroads" out of the blue today I just thought why the hell don't I know how to play like that? Just with that I'll be off to the races and put the slide back on, great lesson!
Very bad ass. I'm learning this one.
thank you tou you for the demo that allow me to do improvisation
Thanks my friend!!! I love this style. Thank you very much.
Really nice delta blues" tune"- in E----thankyou !
The happiness when u finally made it, i feel like rhythm god now
Thanks for this lesson. Delta blues is my project...I got work ahead! I just stayed at the simple 12 bar blues in E...so...
Thank you, this helped a lot
Nice, I found my weekly lesson
So helpful! thank you
I can't wait to learn this! Thanks for teaching us!
My pleasure!
Eric Blackmon brought me here. With E7-A7-E7. The Holy Grail of Blues notes
That was exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks to you sir
Glad it helped
Awesome.
Great lesson man thanks :)
Best channel I´ve found for learning how to play the blues. Congratulations, keep it up, greetings and best wishes from México.
Gracias, Mauricio!
Good day, I look forward to watch your next video. It is always good to watch you teach us about the real thing you are the best inspiration guy fill with inspiration. Thank again.
Thank you so much for that comment, I really appreciate it. So glad to know that these lessons are helping. Play On!
Very awesome!
Oh, delta blues, I can listen it for hours...
Thanks for the lesson! I'm new to the genre and this was a lot of fun.
Glad you liked the lesson, it's certainly a fun style of blues to get into. Good luck with it!
Love those Delta blues. Thanks for the vid, now it's time to practice, practice.
jay legirons and training, training, training, and more training.. this bass beat is hard to sync with the melody, no?
Good lesson bro'
Thank you so much, brilliant but very difficult
Just got a Taylor mini mahogany I put down my electric guitar... now I just want to learn the roots Blues I finger pick mostly now trying to learn the thumb pick, it's difficult, these lessons are fantastic I've subscribed, I'm going to watch everything I can, you're great thank you
Haha me too but the walnut one
The basic problem is that many of us who have been playing for years have developed some poor habits that are very hard to reverse or unlearn. Thanks for the tutorial and constant encouragement.
I revel in my bad habits...I call it my style. Honed over the last 45 years.
Tom Aaron : Amen to that brother!
Agent X20 definitely agree. Unlearning is far harder than learning initially.
I was refused to bend, tap & slide, i called it "my style", Duane Allman opened my eyes to use slide, im doing some tap tne bending is pending to add to my play, finger picking looks very hard to me, i have some time trying it. Forever begginner.
One bad habit to correct in everything is consistency (wink) A judge asked of a psychologist who saw my daughter for a year while detained to reveal what he learned and the judge was shocked at his answer Your honor, Al! I can tell you is she is consistently inconsistent.
I can't play but just love hearing you play.i hope I learn it when my brain gets the hang of it.as of now I am still in the swamp collecting cotton.
After being my daughter 48 years, baby girl now wants one of my guitars to learn to play. I think I might try starting her here. It's not as tricky as a "Pony Blues".....Nice.
GRAZIEEE MILLE
Super!
Could you show us how to play the slide guitar part of Junior Wells Give me one reason cover? Thanks for all you do!
Very nice intro to this style. Thanks! I’ve been wanting to try something different. What are the next steps after mastering this?
u have got a new subscriber here :)
Muito bom... é uma pena que aqui no brasil o pessoal não apreciam muito o blues mais eu amo e sempre amarei o blues kkkkkk abraços amigo
Its 1 in the morning, ive never actualy tried to play the guitar, i play piano, 1 hour of practice using this video and i can improv with this, thank you so much
That's amazing progress! Great work and thanks for the comment
So damn close, I get tripped up on the B7 transition and triplet, I’ve got everything else down but can’t get that part clean lol.
Great
Thanks, great lessons. Being the beginner that I am I was wondering with the slow tempo recap you are doing at 6:00 min mark and forwards. Do you count this as 1, 2, 3, 4, 1,2,3,4? Are the "licks" supposed to start always on 1? Hope you understood. Best regards from Finland.
John, I just had this show up in my recommended. I think this would have been better for me to start out with as it’s not as lick intensified. Maybe I will start here and work my way up to the other video we have been communicating on. I promise I won’t let you down dude. I’m going to work at this everyday. Everywhere I go even without the guitar my thumb is always going, even in the car on my steering wheel. I’m thumping it along. I gotta get this down. I’m super pumped to someday show you a video of me once I can fully do this. I know it takes patience and willingness and I’m more then ready to give that all I got. Thanks a million
This is a great entry lesson to the delta / dead bass thumbpicking style of acoustic blues. I helps to separate the thumb from the fingers but without a lot of fancy fretwork to get in the way. Take it nice and slow and I think it will be a great starting point. I also have a couple of "fingerpicking exercises" video on my channel that I think you'll get alot from. Here's one: ruclips.net/video/DuPgSagCKds/видео.html
Richard you sound super pumped to get this. Good luck man.
I have never played guitar in my life. Always wanted to. A while back I went down to part time work in order to care for my elderly mom who is on hospice. Lots of down time. So I bought a little Yamaha acoustic and hope to match your drive to practice and figure it out. Always loved the blues and this lesson is exactly the sound I'm aiming for. I'm working on basic chords of course. But soon I'm gonna get this! Good luck again! Did I mention my fingers hurt like heck? Lol
Good luck to you, Gregory!
Gregory Webster Gregory, thank you for sharing your story with me. I just went to you’re page and subscribed to you’re channel. Hope to someday see you finger picking this style. I noticed you got into the freight train with Tony... that was a good lesson, I can now finger pick the entire song :) but like you this is the style I like it’s just so down right smooth and gritty at the same time I love it. I’ve got some videos on my channel of me playing but be warned I’m still in the beginning stages. I know basic chords and just started doing scales :) wishing you all the best on you’re journey and hope you share some videos as well on you’re channel, I like doing that because it builds my confidence. Sorry to hear about you’re mom, I to care for my father. He has cirrhosis of the liver and is in the late stages. I’ve only just turned 30 so this has been very hard for me to do and playing guitar has been an amazing escape for me. God bless you Gregory, you got this man don’t ever give up keep practicing until you can’t get it wrong :) cheers
Huh, the internet can actually be a positive place sometimes? Cheers gentlemen.
Thanks for the lesson. I like watching and listening. Sometimes it seems tab is a false crutch. Learn to keep that base steady by only playing a very few of the upper notes, then gradually add them in. Like a previous comment, I am a bit confused with the 13 measures.
Same here.....13 or 14 measures........very confusing........it should be 12 bar blues
I had hard time with maintaining the rythm on the lower E using my thumb. What should I do?
Good morning, greetings from Peru, I am learning blues empirically and I would like to ask you if it wouldn't be a bother if you could give us the tablature for this course, it's great, thank you very much and good day
Oh man this sounds sooo cool!!! Thanks for sharing this. Is there a way to find the tabs somewhere?
Thanks! This one is available in my membership. I've got a 100 pack of lesson tabs that I give away if you head to bluesguitarinstitute.com you can grab them
what kind of guitar are you playing it has such a great tone? And the lesson is absolutely wonderful.
+william swain this one is a Larrivee OM-09. Love it, it's my go to
How many fingers are you plucking with ? 3?
Great video, but I feel like you could’ve explain the turn around a little bit better. I ended up just making my own, which I guess is kind of cool.
very nice lesson :) ... but this style sounds actually more like texas blues instead of delta sound?...nevertheless, this is what i'm looking for right now, i find this texas blues picking in standard tuning much more difficult than a sliding vestapol or open g style because of the straight bass rhythm and the floating melody like mance lipscomb or juke boy bonner reached in their later careers, in front of very slow playing like you said but also in fast boogie styles when you wanna make chord changes sound very smooth and let one chord slide into another
Trying to keep the base going independently of the other strings is so frustrating! Not sure I'm ever gonna get it 😟
How you can keep your thumb keep the beat going and the other finger playing the solo thing?
Its amazing.....
It takes a good bit of dedicated practice on basic pluck and pinch exercises and learning tunes in this style. We break it down a good bit on this channel.
Got a link? You've got quite a lot of material to sift through, my friend. :)
I'm aggravated with myself because I am reasonably proficient with clawpicking patterns where my middle and pointer fingers drone a string above 6, but getting the same effect with my thumb feels very different. Though maybe part of my problem is the patterns I am practicing don't have any spaces where I play the drone twice without another string in between, and I haven't tried picking two strings at once.
I'm having trouble with that too,do you have a lesson on how to get the thumb pluck flowing whilst picking?
Well, after three weeks of daily practice I'm decent at it. This was one of the most uncomfortable things to practice, mentally: it feels really dreadful and unproductive until it (very slowly) starts to click.
good for you !!! I found that if my thumb follow the beat from my stomping feet, it easier, however it still get confuse sometimes....
How you do it with youre Thumb-my Brain really explodet-but the Blues is so beautiful !✌☻☮
This is actually kinda hard like scratching your head and rubbing your stomach.i thought I was a pretty good guitar player till I tried this . I guess it's time to practice.
what's the metronome time ? thanks
Nice lesson, thanks for that !
May I ask the model of your guitar ? I like its size.
Hi Bejamin! Thanks for the comment, I'm using a Larrivee OM-09 and it's a great shape and size for acoustic blues.
Benjamin Laurent ... Yeah... You may not like it's price tag..
I figured as much ^^
strings?
I use thumb pick on everything
Can you recommend a acoustic guitar that really excels in the “Blusey” sound? Just curious..... Thank you!
I would have to recommend a martin my friend
Great Video! Just wish the buzz in the backround wasnt there. I think your amp is ungrounded mate
+Peter Thepanda yeah, I hear you...got it sorted out now. Thanks for watching!!
Which model Larrivee are you using ?
This one is my OM-09
Good lesson, my only complaint, and it’s an issue in a lot of your videos, is that you don’t usually explain your timing. If you could just dumb down a little for us who have bad rhythm it would really help. 1 & 2 &a 3&.... As for those that think it’s too fast, if you press the 3 vertical dots in the corner of the video you can slow the video right down. Thanks for the lesson!
Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated!
really having trouble with playing both the e string and the melody at the same time. i feel like I'm trying to write a short story with my left foot while juggling chainsaws. where do i thump? where do i pluck?🤯
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So is delta blues just parallel major voicings over minor harmony? I literally know nothing about music theory. It's like word soup sometimes, just so happens I got a song in my head that be constantly playing. So if anyone can tell me the theory, well I'd be much appreciated if you catch my meaning. Lol so it's just parralel keys? Instead of playing just a major chord, you play either the parallel key, so A minor, or cmajor?
More like 13-bar blues. Staying in E for 5 bars instead of 4 in the beginning messes it up. I wish you had corrected it before uploading. Great lesson nonetheless, thank you.
Edit: I just sew your comment explaining this issue. Pinning that comment would've been nice. Anyway. I'll check your other videos. If they're like this one, I'll subscribe for sure.
You're looking like a more masculine version of Sheldon Cooper, but nice blues man!
you lost me when you went to the A. Do you sell a Delta Blues tab chart?
Hey Paul, I provide tabs for all my Tuesday Blues lessons for my members at bluesguitarinstitute.com
Very sam hopkins
This lesson is in open g ?
No it's in E standard
I'm a beginner and there's tons of lessons that require subscriptions. I wish lessons could be bought without a subscription because i would like to just purchase this one lesson here.
I'm toying with the idea of becoming a member. Do your lessons come with the tabs?
Hey and thanks for the comment. The lessons on my compositions come with tabs. That's 99% of the lessons on the site. Only a few copyrighted songs don't include the tab but this lesson definitely includes tab!
@@BluesGuitarInstituteThank you. I'm going to check into it. I'd really like to play this. It's smooth. Thanks!
Im still having a hard time with getting that twang out of my strings. when I pull the string it just doesn't match the sound. im 6 minutes in but cant figure out the bend and that high pitched pluck on the G string. is this standard tuning or open E?
7 minutes in and I know its standard tuning 100%
Pluck the string from one de the box.put your thumb behind the low e string.You will get the twang.i hope so hahahahah
That was brilliant.Could swear I saw an alligator walk past when I heard it.
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Would be nice if you had some close ups and slowed down a little. Your intro was nice and short though. You could also explain to beginners how you mute a bass note.
Hey thanks for the comment, check out the rest of the channel. There are videos geared for different levels. Appreciate the feedback, sir!
Blues Guitar Institute very much appreciate your reply and what you're doing. The world needs educators.
Go to the three dots at the upper right of the screen. Click and the playback speed can be adjusted. 3/4 or even 1/2 speed. Still sounds ok.
is this in standard tuning?
+Rodney Campbell yes sir it is
thanks for getting back to, me only really challenging thing is keeping the bass while I do the licks I keep pausing then playing the bass