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I wrote a standard 12 bar blues song called, How Did It Feel, Mister Johnson, about talking to Robert Johnson if you could today. I love Delta Blues and this video is priceless. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much!! If music were presented like this, then we would have much more quality musicians in our society. This is the type of music that should be educated in every "high school" all over the world to have less people get frustrated with their lifes. Thank you very much chief. Cheers from Indonesia.
Ha! Just saw that. Many thanks Keith!! It’s a bloody long video. Was meant to be 20 mins and I was shocked when it edited down to double. Hope it helps many people!!
A very enjoyable video. It´s true that so many song lines seem to do the rounds (eg: my baby is six feet tall, she sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall). Your presentation style is really easy to watch. Cheers!
Thanks! The floating verses are such an important part of the tradition. Being aware of them is important. Choosing to use them or not is one line in the sand any blues writer can stand either side of. Personally I find writing lines that sound a bit like floating lines is a good place to be. Centres the song in the olden days but retains freshness. 🎯
@@TheWashboardResonators Indeed! I love the line ´the sun´s gonna shine on my back door someday´, it´s so sad but hopeful. I´d like to work it into a song like Keb Mo and Taj Mahal do sometimes :)
This video has been very helpful, thanks! Especially for learning to play guitar and sing at the same time, just having different stuff to say keeps it fresh
Good stuff sir. Now you can show how you use your different National and flat top guitars to add "colour" to parts of songs, and compliment each other. Advice and etiquette for resonator/flat top acoustic jams. Really enjoying the downloads.
Thanks for the kind words!! Advice and etiquette is easy. Been to loads of jams over the years and resonators are way too loud. You realise when someone else plays your resonator and you sit in front of it. However loud you want to be cut it down another 25% again and it’s probably right! When you need the power for a solo or when you’re leading a tune then gosh, it’s nice to have the power on tap.
There are loads of forms but as an introduction it’s good to share the main one. 8 bar blues forms with changing verses but a refrain on the last line are good. Pistol Slapper by Blind Boy Fuller being particularly good!
All work. All have different sounds. Most people try all of them and choose their favourite after experimenting. Personally we’re fans of the heavy lead crystal glass ones.
Can you do a chorus with a twelve bar blues song or is it usually verse verse bridge verse. In this form does it need to have a refrain line at the end of each verse
You can do anything lyrically of course. It helps to write the very standard form (AAB (refrain)). This way once you understand that you can know the rules to break them. So, taking the idea of applying a chorus to the blues; You can still sing a given melody over the form with changing lyrics and treat them as verses. You can then have a given melody over the entire firm that repeats and think of it as a chorus. It’s one way of breaking out of the usual expectations and the usual AAB lyric across the entire form.
Fantastic video! I am just now learning how to sing while playing guitar. (And I'm still learning guitar 😅) Anyways, I don't read music or know music theory but I do write song lyrics. I'm having trouble coming up with guitar rhythms for the songs I've already written. It seems like the only way I'm able to play guitar and sing is to play a rhythm on my guitar and then make lyrics from them, not play the songs I've already written... 😔 Do I need to learn music theory to understand how to make guitar rythems that match the rythem of my lyrics?
Thanks for the kind words! To get the independence of both things it helps to be very confident with both. You need to have the parts deep down in your muscle memory. I’d learn guitar parts for a few classic songs. Say; Sweet Home Chicago, Boom Boom Boom and any Mississippi John Hurt tune. Between them you’ll gain mastery over the rhythmical playing. I would separately learn the melodies correctly too. Then put them together. You can also play the guitar parts and just sing the chord note over before adding the melody when comfortable. This will teach the independence so that writing songs comes easy. 🎯
@@TheWashboardResonators Thank you so much for the really informative response man! I am going to do a exactly as you said and learn those songs as well and some other old blues songs with rhythm and once I get the guitar rhythms down I'll try again. Again, thank you!
Here let me help you: Chords: I took a fright train from here to New Orleans. Chords: I thought I'd see my babe there. Chords: But now, I know somethings in life just ain't fare! Chords: 'Cause I'm still sittin' here down in New Orleans - I'm so far from home!
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