Hi Duke .. thanks for the recommendation! Just picked it up. I think Buzz Me is going to go on my request list. I love the way he punchs the chords in the beginning and in the solo. Wow .. the energy just punches right through on this album.
Hi Jason .. great video! I think your suggestion on how to upload a video and other key tasks like this in a FAQ is a great idea. I will put it on my list.
Clyde Hart's All Stars, featuring scorching vocals by Henry "Rubberlegs" Williams. A true blues "shouter", Henry's real claim to fame was as a dancer of many styles that made his legs look rubber-like due to his dexterity.
A 1945-46 blues combo that featured the likes of Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker.
I'm a lover of those pre-electric, acoustic guitar licks from this era. . .
This combo featured Mike Bryan, known for being Benny Goodman's guitarist during this post WWII era.
Duke, does your new recording have any acoustic parts?
Hello Jason, I will do a few lessons on the styles of Charlie Christion, Tiny Grimes and Oscar Moore. Definately 3 of my favorite guitarists in this vein. Also a decade or so later....Billy Butler, and Wild Bill Jennings also played great melodic bluesy stuff with Bill Doggett, Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff.
While not specific tunes, I would enjoy seeing lessons on the playing of some of the early electric guitar players like Charlie Christian or Tiny Grimes. This thread got me to go back through some of your CDs that I have, Duke, and I had forgotten that you recorded an arrangement of Frankie and Johnny similar to Tiny Grimes'! Awesome! The other songs that caught my eye going through your CDs were You Won't Let Me Go, Gonna Get You Told, and Ain't Nobody's Business.
Man, now I am looking at the liner notes of World Full of Blues and saw that You Won't Let Me Go is a Lonnie Johnson song that I do not have in my Lonnie Johnson collection....
Thanks for the reply. I tried posting last night, but deleted the post because I did not think that the video had loaded right. Tried again tonight, and it turns out that all I needed to do was hit refresh.
Thanks for the quick reply. Aside from my slight issue loading my video, I think the site works really well. One thing that would help me a lot would be an FAQ or primer on how to record a video to post. I was really surprised at both how easy it was to use Photo Booth to record my video and I think it actually sounds pretty good all things considered. I would be interested in hearing how other folks are recording, though.
Hi Jason .. thanks for the message and sorry for the issue. What you experienced is the expected behavior (the yellow box gets replaced by the video when you click save) .. and .mov files up to 200MB should work fine (I use Quicktime to record my videos).
I admit we could make this a much cleaner design (I have put this on our list) .. so any input on how you would expect it to work would be much appreciated .. and we can update in the next couple weeks.
Looking forward to seeing the video and hearing Duke's thoughts on it!
Glad you like the site .. I'm learning a lot too!!
I am trying to post a video to the comments section of How Long Blues Lesson 5. I recorded the video with Photo Both on an iMac, and it is in Quicktime .mov format. When I try to load the video, I get stuck on a message that says Video is converting (updates automatically when complete). If I cancel out and go back to try to upload a video, I see the thumbnail in the Your Media bar, but if I try to insert, I just get a big yellow box in the comment.
I suspect that the video is too large, as it is ~10 MB. Should I try compressing or converting the file, or should I take a whole other approach?
Thanks in advance for the help, and thanks for the awesome website. I am really enjoying the lessons.
Duke, I am looking forward to the Jazz Trio CD being released. When can we expect to see that album for sale? What is the fomat, guitar/bass/drums, or guitar/bass/piano? I am a huge Oscar Moore fan of his work with the Nat King Cole Trio. Would love to hear your take on his comping style which is a unique replacement for the swoosh sound of brushes on the drums. Here's a cool video showing his beautiful guitar and speedy single note playing. http://youtu.be/50efrirBImc
Duke, maybe you could do "I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me" posted by mars5. I'd like to see your take on Rhythm guitar, Timing, as well as chord substitution logic. Along with this when you add singing on top of it, it can sometimes change your choice of chords, rhythm and timing. This is the type of lesson that would personally make me jump to join full time. Oh, and then on top of this, give us your thinking of how you solo over the chord changes. For example, do you learn the melody first..and in a few positions (that's what I do). Then do you visualize the chord changes under your melody. Then after that is under your fingertips, do you then branch out and add your own flair of single note playing using your knowledge of scales/arpeggios for each chord?
Well, my brother played guitar and is 10 years older that me. When I was 6 he was 16 and it was 1954 the birth year of rock and roll it is said. I decideded then I was going to be a guitar player and never changed my mind. Grew up listening to Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Duane Eddy, Link Wray and many more. It was a great time to grow up. Got to see Buddy Holly, Duane Eddy James Burton with Ricky Nelson on TV right at the beginning of R&R. It was very exciting and I was introduced to the blues via the flip sides of Chuck Berry 45 RPM records. Wee Hours and Deep Feelin being the B sides of Maybellene and School Days. I built (with mostly my dad's help) my first electric guitar for a science project in the 8th grade out of two pieces of 3/4 inch marine plywood and a neck from an old Kraftsman acoustic. Got a DeArmond pickup for 20 bucks and I was in a band a week later. The rest, as they say is history........
mars5, I just ran through that chart. Very nice! Thanks again. I'll be working on this one to make it part of my repertoire. I would love to hear and see you play it if you have the ability to slap up a video. The Billie Holiday version you posted seems to be very close to Duke's recording if my memory serves me well. Really great stuff.
