Mike....

Dell laptop,,internet Explorer, windows 7,   "BING" for browser did not work.     I ditched Bing and swithched to MozillaFirefox all works fine.

hope this helps,

Geeetar Dave

OK -- glad it's working for you.

Can you let me know what browser was giving you the issue --- we would like to know and track it down.  Thanks.

Mike!!

Good trouble shooting.......I switched to Mozilla and all is well.  DUH!!

thanks, Dave

Corey,

Looking forward to seeing you & the band at N.O. Jazzfest this year! 

Thursday, April 28 

Hi Dave -- Thanks for the message and sorry for the issue.  We haven't been able to reproduce it on our end.  Can you let me know:

1. what type of computer you are using

2. what browser you are using (Chrome, Safari, Firefox ... )

Thanks.

Would you consider doing Hesitation Blues?

I won't be signing up until I can download the mp3 backing tracks.

Hi Sonic Junction,

see above dated Jan 6,    same problem even on Corey's lessons.    Loop times in color orange but won't start.

All lessons prior to these still work fine,  and did all year.

Dave

again Vinny thanks for the precious informations!! and by the way I'm still working on poor black mattie...I'm getting closer..I'll send you a video on your email when I'm ready...:)

I was watching this video about Hill Country Bluesmen, and I recalled this conversation.  I think it's easy to sometimes think more about our limitations or mistakes than our assets. At 11:00 mark, there is a segment here about Cedell Davis, who was a victim in his life of Typhoid, Polio, and later in a sort of panic stampede in a juke joint was severely injured being trampled and wound up in a wheel chair.  He had to reteach himself the guitar, after the polio.  He really could only use his hands like fists. And while right handed,he had to turn the gutar over and play left handed.  He  could not even hold a slide  and resorted to a butter knife. He could not use the knife coming up underneath the neck so he went over the top.  Tuning was probably the hardest thing as he had little use of his fingers.  And he was frequently out of tune. But he had to devise his own open tuning anyway.  His words are, you have to use what you have with imagination.  The whole video is inspiring, as these guys, when the video was made, were playing for no money; just love of the music.  That's at the 11:00 (eleven) minute mark.  

Thanks guys! I appreciate the compliments.

I just saw this wonderful video that someone made to look like Bettie Page was dancing (completely "G" rated, I assure you!) to Slim Harpo doing "My Baby, She's Got It." I found it inspiring. ;-)

Ronnie Earl - either Blues Guitar or Wolf Dance

Nice uke playing Kurtis.. Duke

Sweet --- I like the chords and groove.

By the way, Davell, one of my favorite tunes to play and sing on piano is "Hey Little Girl" by Professor Longhair. I think that one would make a great lesson. Professor Longhair's unique style of playing always reminds me of Guitar Slim, how he'd sometimes emphasize the major third where other blues guys would play the flat third, and occasionally even the major 7th. Yet sounds so great and even bluesy when they do it! ;-) But of course it's the rhythm that is so key to Hey Little Girl, keeping that synchopated thing doing and singing against it, that's what makes it so fun to play. Sorry, I start talking about music and I get excited. :-) Thanks, and I would love to see some Professor Longhair from you at some point! Oh -- and a lesson in Aretha Franklin style playing. I was so knocked out (just like everybody else) to watch that video of her at the Lincoln Center. Hearing *that* piano and *that* voice -- what power!! OK, I'm doing it again. Stop, Bruce, Stop.

Requests in brief: Professor Longhair, Aretha Franklin

Bruce

Thanks, Davell !!  I'm glad my rustiness doesn't show much -- I feel like I'm playing piano with oven mitts on. :-) I stopped gigging on piano about 10 years ago and have really been bad about keeping up with it since then. You might also hear some clicking because I've grown out nails on my right hand for guitar, which does mess with my timing a little too. There's a few places where I'm rushing a little. You know, I absolutely love bad puns and can't help myself. I just thought of this joke:

"Was Jimmy Rushing?"  Ok, it's not great, but it's free. :-)

I would be absolutely delighted and grateful to hear any comments, and I'm looking forward to your future lessons as well! Thanks again for the kind words. Bruce

Hi Bruce!

really good version of a great classic! Rusty onn piano...well...you accompany yourself very well. Your voice and playing is full of feeling and compassion.

If you'd like to give it another shot later on let me know. I've got some helpful tips for your piano playing, so let's be in touch.

Davell

Thanks for generous comments and useful suggestion, Rick.  I'll listen harder for that half-step bend on the three draw.  I'm having a blast!

Real good job on this, Harvey! You're nailing the full bend on the 3rd hole draw and you have the recurring tag phrase at the end of each verse down! The only advice I'd offer right now would be, try to listen for the half-step bends on the 3rd hole. Sometimes you're substituting the pure, unbent 3 draw in spots where the note needs to be bent a half step to give you that more bluesy, flat 3rd. Overall though, you're doing great!

 SonnyBoy's Groove, at last. Pshew!

Mike,

The new chord diagrams (and tab / standard notation) look great....BUT :)....the video looping times are shown in orange but they don't startup??   Is this in work also??

thanks,Dave,St.Louis

Hi Doug,

Here's a link to a lesson showing how we plan on capturing chord diagrams (and tab / standard notation) moving forward:

http://www.sonicjunction.com/lessons/trouble-in-mind-jazzy-blues-swing-style-rhythm

It would be great to hear your thoughts.

Mike