Thank you kindly for taking time from you’re life to share with all of us strangers this beautiful sounding style of guitar. My papa was a guitarist his entire life and played till his hands shriveled up and he could play no more, his hand was literally stuck in the shape of a C major chord... he couldn’t move his pinky straight at all. I miss him so much and he is the reason I am so desperately trying to learn guitar. He always wanted us kids to pick up guitar, but we were young and into baseball and never really understood how amazing it would be to posses the skill of being able to play the instrument. I come down to my living room every single morning at 5am after I go pick up a coffee, and I sit and I practice my guitar quietly, and if I’m not playing it I’m spending countless hours searching RU-vid for videos and trying to teach myself.... I now know why my papa was so in love with guitar, I know good music because of him and I’m so thankful. I remember back in my crazy drinking days I’d phone him up anytime I found an awesome oldies song I’d like and I play it over the phone for him and my grandma I’m 30 now and wish I could phone him or better yet go see him and show him what I’ve learned he would have been so happy to see one of us taking is seriously. I love this little bit you are teaching here, I keep listening over and over and over.... the style the sound everything it is simply beautiful. Thank you so much I appreciate you more then you’ll ever know...loads of love sent from Canada, I read in the comments you’re health may not be good. My prayers are with you and I hope you’re playing you’re guitar again. Rest In Peace Paul James Lawson Richard -
Thank you very much for your videos - I am enjoying them very much. I am 1 year into lessons and find your videos a great supplement to my instruction and music theory. Thank you again.
Been looking to pick up blues guitar for a while now and this is the first instructional video I've looked at where the fella that's been teaching is scouse. That may not seem like a lot to anyone else but to me its boss. Is right lad! P.s. is an Epiphone Dot/casino a good starting guitar for starting to learn Electric Blues. I've got a budget of about 400 max atm.
I've been workin on this piece for close to 3 years, I can pay it note 4 note but I know what you mean about the feel, still tryin to get that feel it's commin but ever so slowly. Thank you. Blind boy your the best.
Hey mate...I think you just help me break code on this walking bass bit. Been tryin to get for years...this particular walking bass/chop combo is awesome. I grew up in Mississippi and my grandfather played in the delta during the 1940's and 50's. I have studied blues a little bit, yet never got it down pat and don't know if I ever will. Funny how the Charlie Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters delta sounds live on.
I love your picking style--it's Delta blues, but reminds me of John Martyn, too; good demonstrations, you repeat enough for me to get the feel, and you find the right camera angles; I love the way you pronounce thumb! thanks a lot
@TheTalksick No doubt the guitars were worked to the bone, but the tone from most oldstyle recordings has a lot to do with the gear they recorded with and how it was actually recorded. Remember this is a video using most likely the mic on the digital camera, which is totally different tech from what they had back in the old days.
Hey, deltabluestips guy! Im all new to this guitar thing, so was woundering if you had any video where u just focused on the right hand strumming technechies, i know i could just watch this video and others and try to learn. But anyway, do you have any video of that sort, if so, could u direct me to it. thx in advance! and thanks for what you are doing, u are GOLD! :)
Blind boy. Listen man I love you and that martin, I ve got a baby martin love it, but there is NO way I get even close to that BOOMING. Sound Dam that gutiar sounds AWSOME. Power power power Pure power when I turn up your lessons thru my Bose speakers the sound is unreal.
@TheCrackSpackle And every genre of music you could possibly think of plus 100 more. Everything that was being made 30 years ago is still being played the same or better.
lool love the way ur casually f'ing and blinding xD, it shows you don't care what other think, and as for the Robert Johnson thing, yes, I think people have alot to learn from his style of playing-love the vid bro
I've been working on this piece from(3.30) for 3 years and I can play it pretty much note for note........but I don't sound near as good as Blind Boy ..same d28 Martin same capo on 4th fret...what I've always heard the blues are EASY TO PLAY....BUT HARD TO FEEL....
I don't understand your reply. Anyway, I was just giving you a compliment. Fretkillr was a great guitarist, harmonica player and singer on RU-vid. He too never showed his face. RU-vid removed him. Someone has uploaded his videos again. Check them out. I will finally take my time to start learning the fine technique you are playing here.
@TGBoleyn Interesting you should say welsh as scouse (liverpool) accent is actually a combination of welsh, irish and plhegm/catarrh from industrial era pollution.
@InnoViaBassest What makes you think oasis or U2 is a good band? U2 is totaly relying on distortion and effects panels from his guitarrist and oasis is one of those things that comes from nirvana, R.E.M, which is not bad but is not old .... or at least has a soul.
Lonnie Johnson recorded in the 20´s ! If all you know is SRV, Muddy and R.J. it´s a pity. There were hundreds of good guys.Check out Big Bill Broonzy! Or Roots of Robert Johnson on Yazoo records? From that record you can hear what R Johnson borrowed or some of it. It´s almost unpossible to create something new. Robert had a good ear, it was easy for him to learn a new song. And about categories. I think R Johnson didn´t think he was blues musician. Or race music artist. Just a musician.
@Macbeth391 The brits have a good history with the blues, alot of blues men enjoyed success here that eluded them in their native country. less racism for a start
@greensp4rk I'm talking about the 50's 60's dude, the institutional racism of the day was far more severe in America, "Jim Crow" laws etc today maybe different for yourself but you have to agree about my point about Bluesmen from the states enjoying success and civilities that weren't afforded to them in their home country.
The "delta" in Delta blues refers to the Yazoo River.....not the Mississippi. Check out John Fahey's biography of Charlie Patton. Nice playing ...it reminded me more of old Texas styles...Mance Lipscomb....
Another view on this is that the Yazoo river delta is part of the Mississippi delta. The Mississippi delta stretches from southern TN through AR and all through Mississippi. The Mississippi river to the West and the much smaller (tributary) of the Yazoo to the east. Charlie Patton is just one possible root of the blues and clearly there were a lot of other blues men throughout the greater Mississippi delta
Charley Patton was the most significant of the songsters from the Yazoo-Sunflower river area to be recorded and he is recognized as such. Patton's significance is attested to by the many Mississippi musicians who call him their first inspiration and teacher....from Howlin' Wolf to Pops Staples.... He probably didn't think of himself as a blues singer and his gospel and dance tunes display his range. The blues as a genre were being formalized by the female theater singers of the time and the idea of being strictly a blues singer seems to have arisen after WWII...in Chicago.
No doubt about it Charlie was a major contributor - But we all know that most of the early years history is either obscured and/or mythologized. My point was really about what "The Delta" was. So the best answer to that is both views are reasonable
Small labels released many good blues recording before the war. And the names which are famous nowadays like R.J or Blind Blake, are famous because of the big company, like Sony owns their rights. You know the names what buziness has picked up for you. and they made many mistakes, they are not music lovers, they love money. So there are many world´s greatest unknown guitarists waitin for their all singles to be released again.
@johnnyXsniper Haha, thats why I comment, you always find someone in the correct direction, well I didn't wanted to blame them, because there are a lot of cute fans around and also my english is not that good, but yeah, you got the point, I'm trying to reach the old power, the old soul, not because of stupid hipster fashion (I hate them), but trying to achieve good music where I can express myself trough the instrument, what better than blues!
It's the correct way of saying it. It's from the Italian "capotasto", and the capo part means 'head'. Like a Caporegime in the Mafia is shortened to Capo. Funny how you yanks, who bastardised the language, always think everyone else pronounces shit wrong.
Robert Johnson wasn´t Top 10 guitarist in his decade. Where are his guitar solos??He was ok , but thats it. Listen to Lonnie Johnson or Blind Blake. If Clapton and Richards don´t know or hear other better cats, that´s their problem.
@TGBoleyn Interesting you should say welsh as scouse (liverpool) accent is actually a combination of welsh, irish and plhegm/catarrh from industrial era pollution.
