Thanks for this ! I spent a Spring break with my daughter learning Statesboro Blues from your lesson ; also dropped D . It has added greatly to my abilities and enjoyment ! I threw my pick away years ago ; finger picking something daily ! 😊✌️
This is a really, really great lesson and thank you very much for taking the time to produce and upload it. Despite having played fingerstyle guitar for many years and thinking I was pretty good at alternating the bass, I found getting this particular groove really challenging and I suspect it's going to take me a few more weeks of work to get it anywhere near automatic. Really useful!
It's a lot of strings and frets and intervals to call out, and from time to time I need to take a breath and remember just where I was and what I was talking about :-).
Hey Fred - yes, back when the Fishman Blender first came out I had that system installed - it's a Crown mini-mic and a passive Fishman piezo under the bridge. But I'm using an external mic on the guitar for the lessons (a Neumann KM-184, for what it's worth).
Playing live with the mini-mic? Not if I was playing solo. The minute other people were involved, I found myself dialing out more and more of the mic, until I often wound up using just the piezo pickup. Currently I'm trying out a combo of piezo and magnetic pickup, and despite what everyone told me, I find I'm pretty into the magnetic pickup's sound. And no feedback!
Might be a dumb question, but do you play with your nails on your picking hand? They look quite short but you get a very clear "nail like" tone. Thanks in advance.
Not dumb at all. I'm not, but I keep the nails just long enough to support the skin that I *am* picking with. According to my friend Rich, "the secret to good tone is knowing what good tone sounds like." Make of that what you will :-).
Thanks for this ! I spent a Spring break with my daughter learning Statesboro Blues from your lesson ; also dropped D . It has added greatly to my abilities and enjoyment !
I threw my pick away years ago ; finger picking something daily ! 😊✌️
The lessons are great, and the emails introducing them are just as good. Look forward to them both.
Thanks, Carlos!
Really nice work! Thank you for sharing. I couldn’t help but to subscribe. So nice I wish I could’ve liked it twice 😆👍🏼👍🏼
This is a really, really great lesson and thank you very much for taking the time to produce and upload it.
Despite having played fingerstyle guitar for many years and thinking I was pretty good at alternating the bass, I found getting this particular groove really challenging and I suspect it's going to take me a few more weeks of work to get it anywhere near automatic. Really useful!
Thanks David, your teaching and musical ability is inspirational.
Thank you, Richard! Glad you're enjoying the lessons :-)
Again, bloody marvelous.
Thanks Daniel!
exactly
Just wanted to let you know - it's amazing, I'm a slow guitar learner, and it took me 4 days to get to the basics, but I'm so excited!
Aw, that's so cool! So glad to hear it.
Cool story and lesson. I am glad David you also have to stop and think about where the notes are, thanks for sharing that.
It's a lot of strings and frets and intervals to call out, and from time to time I need to take a breath and remember just where I was and what I was talking about :-).
Definitely, I would have had to stop the video just to work the count out. I mean it's great to see you do that on the fly.
Great lesson! For the tabs, what is the name of this lesson shown on the downloads page?
Thanks David. Nice little lesson. I play a lot in drop D. Question: do you have a mike system in your guitar body? Thx.
Hey Fred - yes, back when the Fishman Blender first came out I had that system installed - it's a Crown mini-mic and a passive Fishman piezo under the bridge. But I'm using an external mic on the guitar for the lessons (a Neumann KM-184, for what it's worth).
thx David
Do you have any feedback problems with that arrangement?
Playing live with the mini-mic? Not if I was playing solo. The minute other people were involved, I found myself dialing out more and more of the mic, until I often wound up using just the piezo pickup. Currently I'm trying out a combo of piezo and magnetic pickup, and despite what everyone told me, I find I'm pretty into the magnetic pickup's sound. And no feedback!
Might be a dumb question, but do you play with your nails on your picking hand? They look quite short but you get a very clear "nail like" tone. Thanks in advance.
Not dumb at all. I'm not, but I keep the nails just long enough to support the skin that I *am* picking with. According to my friend Rich, "the secret to good tone is knowing what good tone sounds like." Make of that what you will :-).