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I have been known to invite musicians who play something I want to learn over to my house for coffee to help me understand what they are doing. I'm up front about it and even offer to pay them. I also video what they are doing using my iPhone, so I have a way to recall the things they show me. So far nobody has actually made me pay anything, and I've recorded some really good stuff to learn from, and made friends with some great players. |
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If you can play your basic open chords then you're ready.
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Problem with Robert Johnson is not only was he very good, but he was a highly idiosyncratic player. Very intense and introspective. No one else sounded much like him (with the possible exception of Son House, who taught him a few things). I don't know if one can really learn much from Robert Johnson, other than how to play like Robert Johnson! But then I suppose you can say the same for a lot of those early players, is that they all had quite individual styles - at least the most popular ones did (I mean popular now, not then). Pre-WWII blues certainly rarely sounded as generic and homogenous as most modern blues does. But mere mention of Son House persuades me to post this again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY (guitar: open G tuning, DGDGBD.) and dammit Skip James too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0 (guitar: standard tuning down a whole step (DGCFAD), E shapes for key of D.) and Missippi John Hurt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gytJemzNTM (guitar: standard tuning UP a half-step: G shapes for key of Ab (just put capo on 1 . Notice how economical he is with his chord shapes, basically just moving the G shape up and down!) We're so lucky to actually have film of three of the earliest blues guitarists, albeit towards the end of their careers (and lives). Again, I'm sure you're right. I was remembering one or two tracks very selectively. My bad!
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I gues I better get learning them then.
Change my screen name to Muddy Nut
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If you're just starting to explore, put your guitar in open G or open D and explore the sounds you find there, esp with a slide. Can't do nothing wrong in open tunings.
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Wow, Larry, it is great to hear that you still do this! It gives me some hope! I guess I think someone like you who has played professionally and taught all this time would be beyond this!
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This is how I learn a style ...I am a Texan 55 years old so I grew up playing the blues, country swing and jazz. I learned from the streets, Austin to new Orleans .. I still often jam with street musicians( I think busking is the foundation of what music really is in so many ways ) .. To learn afro/Cuban I went to Miami where there is a large Cuban community. I went to Jamaica to jam on reggae...there are lessons and all that is great but to really understand a idiom throwing your self in the culture is awesome. especially when it comes to folk type music. you just can not replace that kind of education with any teacher or college.. I still think its a great idea to go to college for music do not get me wrong.
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I did the same thing by traveling all through Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia to study with a number of old time players. Here's some stuff about that along with a picture of me and Eugene Powell who hailed from Greenville MS. http://www.littletobywalker.com/lear...-masters1.html
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