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Rick estrin
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Fattening Frogs for Snakes Final Solo Verse and Ending
Yeah, I’d check out Cotton behind Muddy, behind Spann, behind Johnny Young - In a simpler way than LW, he was always able to add cool sounding stuff that wasn’t obtrusive, yet...
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Bill blatner
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Fattening Frogs for Snakes Final Solo Verse and Ending
Thanks. I guess listen, as always, is the first principal, err on the side of playing less. There's plenty to work on as a singer and soloist. And lots to do besides playing a...
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Rick estrin
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Fattening Frogs for Snakes Final Solo Verse and Ending
Good question. To me, Little Walter was the ultimate as an accompanist, in addition to being the greatest soloist in harmonica history. The setting he was normally working in...
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Bill blatner
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Fattening Frogs for Snakes Final Solo Verse and Ending
Hi Rick,
I was wondering if you could advise me on improving my accompaniment playing. I'm the singer in our group so I don't have to worry about stepping on my own voice. I'm...
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Mike widman
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Whiskey Before Breakfast Basic Version
Chris,
Despite how stiff my technique looks I've been working towards loosening things up. I'm getting similar feedback from MD and others with which I've worked. As for your...
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James macklin
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Pickup in Live From Here shows
Awesome, thanks Chris! I looked into the Grace Felix. Between that and the Neumann you use for the gigs with Julian you clearly go for nothin' but the top of the line! I have a K&K...
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Bill blatner
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Moan A Chrome Seventh and Eighth Chorus Breakdown
I agree with Robert! I don't know how you measure demand but I hope you'll do more with the chromatic. There's tons of great material on the site for diatonic so it would be great...
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Robert fox
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Moan A Chrome Seventh and Eighth Chorus Breakdown
Thanks for the great chromatic primer, Dennis - looking forward to more in the future (octaves, major key, etc)!
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Bill blatner
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Moan A Chrome Seventh and Eighth Chorus Breakdown
Hey Dennis,
In one of the posts before this series actually started you posted a cut from a George Harmonica Smith record, "Harmonica Ace". I got the CD this week and was...
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Dennis gruenling
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Moan A Chrome Seventh and Eighth Chorus Breakdown
Hi,
Dennis Gruenling here to work through the final two sections of “Moan-A-Chrome”. This is the home stretch, and I’m sure by now you are getting the hang of these patterns and...
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Duke robillard
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Texas Jump Blues Riffing Chorus
Hello Friends,
This week we are starting with some of the chord fragment riffing parts and working our way through most of them. These riffs are cool and quite easy and give the...
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Corey harris
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Tom Rushen Blues Singing and Endings
In this lesson, we examine effective ways to sing the song and how to approach singing. Remember that being faithful to the vocal line and being disciplined about when you do and...
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Bill blatner
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Moan A Chrome Sixth Chorus Breakdown
Dennis,
Another question. Are there other positions used on the chromatic commonly to play blue's? Any good examples you can think of to listen to?
Thanks. I'm getting a lot out...
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Bill blatner
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Moan A Chrome Sixth Chorus Breakdown
Dennis,
A bit of a scoop up on the 6-draw?
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Chris eldridge
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Mississippi Valley Dotting i’s and Crossing t’s on Rhythm Guitar
Hello All,
This week’s lesson is mostly a continuation of last weeks lesson on counting this delightfully crooked tune. We’ll learn the B section as well as a couple of simple,...
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Chris eldridge
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Black as coal here but while I'm thinking about it, because I always forget to mention that I'd love to see a lesson someday with your arrangement for Angeline the Baker ... upper...
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Kip marchetti
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The Hops of Guldenberg
Black as coal here but while I'm thinking about it, because I always forget to mention that I'd love to see a lesson someday with your arrangement for Angeline the Baker ... upper...
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Chris eldridge
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Any Old Time A Peek Toward Swing Guitar
Welcome, Craig!
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Craig morrison
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Any Old Time A Peek Toward Swing Guitar
nice go to www.roundtownsound.com to hear my work
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Chris eldridge
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Pickup in Live From Here shows
Thanks James! The pickup is a LR Baggs Lyric and I'm blending it with a Joe Mills mic via a Grace Felix preamp. The Grace is really great and aside from the guitar maybe the best...
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Chris eldridge
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Presbyterian Guitar Learning The Tune
Really beautiful playing here! You have a very lyrical sense of how to play the guitar and it's lovely. There isn't a ton of "fingerpicking" of this beautiful variety. The closest...
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Chris eldridge
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Whiskey Before Breakfast Basic Version
Hi Mike,
First of all, cool musical ideas throughout! Bravo on that front.
Re technique, your whole mechanism looks pretty stiff to me, and it seems to get stiffer as the tune...
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Chris eldridge
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Chris eldridge
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Rygar C Section and Bridge
Hi Torgeir,
I made a video response below.
Cheers!
Chris
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Chris eldridge
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Rygar A Traditional Approach to a Nontraditional Tune
Thanks kip!
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Chris eldridge
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Old Grimes B Section Melody
Hey Greg, this new version sounds a lot more free to me even if you sounded a bit more comfortable with the old version (which makes sense!). To me it's an improvement and I'd...
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Kip marchetti
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Beautiful song! Are there any more songs in bluegrass fingerpicking you can reccomend, or is not that common with fingerpicking in bluegrass guitar tradition?
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Torgeir jorem
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Presbyterian Guitar Learning The Tune
Beautiful song! Are there any more songs in bluegrass fingerpicking you can reccomend, or is not that common with fingerpicking in bluegrass guitar tradition?
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James carnaza
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Request
Hi Jerry, I'm working on la cucaracha, any possiblity of adding it ?
Thanks again
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Rick estrin
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Nine Below Zero Performance
That’s the spirit! Have fun with it too!
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