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June 21st, 2010 | 
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Many people have been nagging me to do a lesson on Bad Blues, a slow bluesinstrumental I recorded in the past. So here it is.
It’s based on the playing of Baby Tate, a wonderful Carolina bluesman, and Lightinin’ Hopkins, the texas blues giant.
Here’s the original version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f-YL02pumY
It’s a typical “monotonic bass” or “dead thumb” blues instrumental with a bonanza of licks and interesting ideas you can use.
So here’s the complete song first, after that I teach the introduction.
I’m in standard tuning and playing in the key of E
Four more lessons, each lesson teaching a verse, will follow.
Here is the link to my previous version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06nOZES084
It’s slightly faster than the version I teach
TABLATURE
I tabbed this song out (intro and all the verses) so if you don’t want to listen to my boring explanations
check out my playlist TABLATURE or go straight to
http://www.daddystovepipe.com
Duration : 0:5:28
Posted in acoustic blues guitar | 
Tags: Acoustic, baby, bass, blues, country, daddystovepipe, Dead, fingerpicking, guitar, guitarlesson, hopkins, lesson, lightning, monotonic, prewar, tab, tablature, tate, thumb | 
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Jimmy Page is the third essential British blues guitarist, following in the footsteps of Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, to have emerged from the seminal blues/rock/proto-metal aggregation known as the Yardbirds. After the original Yardbirds fell apart, Jimmy gigged with a band he called the New Yardbirds, who soon changed their name to Led Zeppelin.
Like Clapton and Beck, Page was deeply influenced by the American blues guitar masters B.B. king, Albert King, Buddy Guy and Otis Rush, but Jimmy spun these influences into a style much less polished and much more raw; in the early days, what he lacked in technical brilliance he more than made up for in spirit and intensity (by Zeppelin III, however, Page’s facility rivaled that of Clapton and Beck). Like his compatriots, he favors minor pentatonic and blues scales when soloing, which is the case with this excerpt played in his style. The riffs here are primarily based on E minor pentatonic (E G A B D) and the E Blues scale (E G A Bb B D).
Duration : 0:6:41
View tabs @ http://www.freeguitarvideos.com/bass/blues/blues-basics.html
Learn how to play a few simple blues bass lines of a jam track from the Let’s Jam for Bass by Watch & Learn
Duration : 0:7:39
Let’s have some fun
The first version I heard of this song was by Roy Bookbinder. He recorded it on his first lp in 1971.
The song goes back to the minstrel area and was recorded by black and white singers like Luke Jordan and Doc Watson.
The Traveling Man is a trickster hero with superhuman powers, a characteristic which he shares with trickster figures like Brother Bill or High John the Conqueror. Unlike Br’er Rabbit, the Traveling Man does not engineer the circumstances in which he plays his trick; instead he finds himself in situations from which he escapes by magic or his wits.
I’m playing a L-00 copy made by John Gréven.
C-position capo I
FREE TABLATURE
go to
http://www.daddystovepipe.com
Duration : 0:3:8
Posted in acoustic blues guitar |
Tags: Acoustic, blues, bookbinder, daddystovepipe, doc, fingerpicking, fingerstyle, free, guitar, jordan, luke, Roy, tab, tablature, watson |
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http://www.dolphinstreet.com – A short blues lick lesson, which I call Squeeze It – Tab and Guitar Pro files for this are on my website.
Duration : 0:4:10
