@Corey........oh now I seeeeeee :DDDDDD....yes, we call it....Jack di Danari...litteraly translated Jack of money!!! :))))
Thanks for the lyrics...now I have no excuses!!!!! :)))) You are, how we say in Italian, really a in leg man!!!!
@Mike....sure I'll upload the video if someone will do it!!! :))) I'll play at Alto Tasso. It is a little wine bar in one of the most central squares of Bologna...They usually organise really cool jazz concerts but lately also some blues...take a look here....you will find, some pages after, also my picture...I had Dreadlocks before but I had to cut them because of babylon..I'm sure Corey dislike this..It was unfortunately the compromise to find a job, but at the end, at least, I sucedeed..:)))
http://www.altotasso.com/Musica/
I've seen the fb button below....this is great ;))) Check your email if you can!! ;)))
@Corey...thanks....:) Now I'm workin again on catfish blues and Everybody Ought to change because it's very possible that by the end of may I'll play in a club here in Bologna..They're organising a kind of blues festival and the owner was really satisfied the last times I played there..I'll advertise Sonic Junction, off course!!! :DDD....anyway, I'm workin also on this tune and I'd like to play this too in that club but I miss the lyrics...I made some researches on the web but this time really I couldn't find...there are several different versions of this song...the only words I can catch are...Jack of Diamonds is a hard card to play.....plus....what does this jack of diamond means?!?!!?!?!?!?!
I found also this video of you playin preacher blues and I was impressed by your right hand tecnique..Are you goin to teach us also this tune?
@Corey..thanks for the lesson :)....Palm muting and slide control is the most challenging and important thing for me to study when I play slide. I'm not so interested in speak too fast with my guitar. just a very classic question..Whick kind of strings would you reccomend to play slide with an acoustic guitar? I'm using 0.13 D'addario mabye just because it shoud be easier to have a cleaner sound with fatter strings...I found that bronze strings are better, for me off course, rather than posphor bronze that I prefer to use when I play standard...
@Corey....thanks for the advice and the citation of Dexter Gordon...Actually I come from Sardegna ( Sardinia)!! :))I've never thought before about listen more carefully my native music and traspose it into guitar..the most typicall instrument we have here is called Launeddas in this video played by the master Luigi Lai...
I think even Ali farka Toure did the same reproducing the sound of ngoni on the guitar...I'm not sure about it..I remember I've heard this on one of his beatifull interviews!!!
I have to say that when I think about goin back to my roots my first thought immediately go to Africa :))
Thanks again....I will make treasure of your words :))
@Corey...my girlfriend here is saying that you're really a good teacher....she's not referring only to the tecnichal advices ;)
I didn't know he used to play lap slide!!! I was always conviced he played embracing the guitar!!! I've heard his version and I tried but I can't understand how he is using the right hand...it seems also that his hammering a lot with the slide...I've tried, again without success :DDD, to reproduce that flavour but the result was a sound similar to a cat scratching a table!!! :ppp...I've found a very interesting guitar method named "the guitar of blind willie johnson" taught by Tom Feldmann...maybe I could add your lessons to his lesson to get better results...
I'm only worried about a thing Corey...Since I started playin' the guitar I've always tried to reproduce others song using tabs, by ear or video method...I know that this is a part of the process to become a better musician but I'd like to start developing a more personal guitar style...I'm not sayin that I don't want to study others musician anymore because this is presumptuos and would be really deleterious for me..I'd like to take care also to the other part of the story...So when I'm thinkin about creating something I find myself in front of a wall...I'm blocked..
What would you reccomend me to do to overcome this limit?
@Corey....welcome back from Romania but we're still waiting for you here in Italy!!! There's always some good ingera and zighny prepared by my African Queen ready for you and Mike here in Bologna :)))
Here's my last upload....thank you so much for the explanation about palm muting...I've tried to do it your way without success so I showed you the way I do...Do you think it's good enough?
In this video I wanted also to start only with the melody so that was easier to check about any kind of mistakes adding later the bass line...In the second part I play another tune of bwj that I first heard by Eric Bibb...You're gonna need somebody on your bond..I did this not to show myself but just to thank you for this really usefull lesson...First time I've heard that tune I felt that there was something special for me in it and I wanted to learn it...I've tried to play it but at that time was pretty difficoult to get more in touch with it...after studyin keep your lamp it went easier...It's not perfect, there's still a lot of work to do, but I applied the same approach of this lesson....divide melody from bassline, keep more attention with the slide and vibrato...etc..and I get a better result in less time :))
I'm using my made in china Aria resonator guitar...I can't afford a national at the moment :DD..I avoided again thumbpick just to have that lighter touch you were talkin me about a couple of lessons ago!!!
@Corey...My girlfriend explained me about the Earthday...I didn't know about it...;))))
I've tried today to use only the end of the slide and I feel more comfortable now...One more thing that I'm not sure I've understood but only because it's in English...:))) I've tried to pay more attention about palm muting...I can do that only in the 4th,5th and 6th string..Is this correct? I was also tryin to reduce some noise with my left hand, "muting" the strings with the others 3 fingers... This tune is really difficoult :))
@Corey...here's my attempt with keep your lamp...I started doing the melody, then I ad the bass, after the voice....and the ending is my joyfull "tribute" to BWJ :)))
@Corey....I have a friend down in Sardinia who's a liuther...When I come back there I will ask him some help...anyway, I have another guitar whose action is much more higher than this one so it could be not necesary to work on the nut...Maybe I should just avoid using the capo :))
Unfortunately I don't have friends who work in a machine shop here in Bologna...I've found this slide in a shop in Bologna...The only problem, if this can be defined problems, is that it's Eric Sardinas's slide ^__^..I don't like him very much...He seems to me he's too proud of himself and looks he feels like being the best slide guitar player in the world!!! :DD...I don't like very much in general musicians with this kind of attitude!
I was interested in the slide you were wearing in the homespun video method...If I find it somewhere I'll buy one in the future and I was thinkin about also this one that maybe could be interesting when I play with my resonator guitar...It's keb's bottleneck...He truly has the attitude in making music that I like...
@Corey....Here's my latest attempt with cc pill....I think I'm still having problems with the bass lines but to be honest I haven't practiced a lot during these days!!^__^ I'm singin too in this video..Do you thinks dynamics are better now?
@Corey..I misunderstood your precedent message about the nut.....I have two guitars..In both of them I can't remove the nut because it's attached to guitar neck!!!!...Should I do this operation manually???
I'm looking for a new slide...Which of this two would you recommend to me? One is called Harris Slide...I don't know if it's yours, but it's very similar...
Corey, I haven't thought about the action of the guitar!!!!!...I usually play open and standard tunings with a capo on the 2nd fret..if I avoid using it the action will result higher...I prefer not to put my hands on the trussroad cause I'm not very confident with this kind of things and I'm worried to make letteraly a disaster...:DDD
About Robert Johson, I think you're reffering to Terraplane blues or stones in my passway, isn't it?...:) In my opinion, talkin about this kind of technique, his masterpiece was Crossroad blues but my favourite is Preachin Blues(Up Jumped the Devil)..I still remember the doc of martin scorsese where you and keb were talkin about Robert Johnson and played together Sweet Home Chicago and walkin blues...For me was awesome to see two of my reference points for acoustic blues playin together the song of my first love...anyway, I don't want to be too prolix because if i start talkin about robert Johnson and everything that sorrounds his person I will go off topic but as a believer in God, call me stupid, I believe that he sold his sold to the devil or whatever else because for me is almost impossible to think that a musician in only 8 months could become better than Son House,Charley Patton etc...There are people playin many years the blues without being neither a nickel in their hands, and Robert made it in less than one year!!!...But this is because I believe in angels, demons, God and the Devil...:))
Thanks for your advices...I will buy a new slide....;)))
I'm not ahead of you....we're all students here and we are at the same level...^__^...I've started studyin this tune I think in july 2011 but I haven't put much effort on it just because I concentrated myself on other things...but this just to say that I'm not new with keep your lamp and for this reason is easy to result "ahead"....
I thank you for your advices Mike....I'm making a lot of changes in my way of playin since I started joinin' sonic junction..one is avoid thumbpick and the other is to catch the slide in that alternative way Corey clearly explained in this video...this will be another great switch but I like more the sound of the slide and it seems I can make easily the vibrato :)))
Will you upload some videos with singin too? ;))))
I recorded this yesterday so I didn't have the chance too see the new lesson...anyway I think could be usefull to give a look at it anyway....Actually I'm not new with Keep your lamp. Despite this I'm still having problems with the alternate bass, palm muting and when I play with the acoustic guitar the sound seems to me too noisy...This doesn't happens with the resonator maybe because the strings are larger, but I think is prevalently a matter of touch...and now I'm using 0.13 on my acoustic guitar, so they're not so thin!
I've tried to use slide as you suggested us to do but it's becoming difficoult for me...It hurts my hand a little but I think it's normal if you are at the beginning...I normally use a bottleneck but If I want to change the tecnique I think I should get a smaller one...
What do you think about not always using slide when making some notes? ...I've tried yesterday , just for fun, to alternate the use of bottleneck...
Corey, I think that someway they were obliged to use thumbpick,too!!.^__^...they didn't have amplifiers and the only way to have a higher volume was to use thumbpick or resonator guitars!!! I like to think that with nowdays technology Robert Johnson maybe would avoid using picks...but probably he would do also something different than roots blues!!! He was an innovator...vero? :))
This isn't the only switch I'm tryin to do...I'd like to play with the hand in front of the hole and only 2 fingers...!!!Now I use thumb, forefinger and ringfinger...I was so fascinated by the technique of your brother View farka tourè when I saw this video for the first time!!!!Is this standard tuning?!?!?!?
I prefer to focus on the bass, too!!! I think it's gettin better and better...My challenge now is dynamics and to avoid playin with thumbpick which is quite difficoult for me bacause I was used to play with it a lot...But I do prefer the sound of bare fingers...Now I'm preparing an exam and if I pass it I will have a job, and this is the priority for me...So I'm not playin so much like before and I will not have much time to upload videos cause it takes me a lot of time..you now, prepare mixer, microphone etc...but I'm still here off course...CC pill will be in my reportoire when I'll start again playin in the clubs....Keep your lamp was already in it...so I'm lucky...and the same for corey's version of Special rider....It's so cool to take lesson directly from Corey that I started coverin as well as Eric Bibb, Keb Mo, Robert Johnson, Skip James etc..
Sonic Junction is really great...I'm advertising it on fb as much as I can...we need more blues mates...
@Corey...could you take a look at this? :)))
@Corey.....grazie, a presto!!! :))
@Corey........oh now I seeeeeee :DDDDDD....yes, we call it....Jack di Danari...litteraly translated Jack of money!!! :))))
Thanks for the lyrics...now I have no excuses!!!!! :)))) You are, how we say in Italian, really a in leg man!!!!
@Mike....sure I'll upload the video if someone will do it!!! :))) I'll play at Alto Tasso. It is a little wine bar in one of the most central squares of Bologna...They usually organise really cool jazz concerts but lately also some blues...take a look here....you will find, some pages after, also my picture...I had Dreadlocks before but I had to cut them because of babylon..I'm sure Corey dislike this..It was unfortunately the compromise to find a job, but at the end, at least, I sucedeed..:)))
http://www.altotasso.com/Musica/
I've seen the fb button below....this is great ;))) Check your email if you can!! ;)))
@Corey...thanks....:) Now I'm workin again on catfish blues and Everybody Ought to change because it's very possible that by the end of may I'll play in a club here in Bologna..They're organising a kind of blues festival and the owner was really satisfied the last times I played there..I'll advertise Sonic Junction, off course!!! :DDD....anyway, I'm workin also on this tune and I'd like to play this too in that club but I miss the lyrics...I made some researches on the web but this time really I couldn't find...there are several different versions of this song...the only words I can catch are...Jack of Diamonds is a hard card to play.....plus....what does this jack of diamond means?!?!!?!?!?!?!
I found also this video of you playin preacher blues and I was impressed by your right hand tecnique..Are you goin to teach us also this tune?
@Corey..thanks for the lesson :)....Palm muting and slide control is the most challenging and important thing for me to study when I play slide. I'm not so interested in speak too fast with my guitar. just a very classic question..Whick kind of strings would you reccomend to play slide with an acoustic guitar? I'm using 0.13 D'addario mabye just because it shoud be easier to have a cleaner sound with fatter strings...I found that bronze strings are better, for me off course, rather than posphor bronze that I prefer to use when I play standard...
@Corey....thanks for the advice and the citation of Dexter Gordon...Actually I come from Sardegna ( Sardinia)!! :))I've never thought before about listen more carefully my native music and traspose it into guitar..the most typicall instrument we have here is called Launeddas in this video played by the master Luigi Lai...
I think even Ali farka Toure did the same reproducing the sound of ngoni on the guitar...I'm not sure about it..I remember I've heard this on one of his beatifull interviews!!!
I have to say that when I think about goin back to my roots my first thought immediately go to Africa :))
Thanks again....I will make treasure of your words :))
@Corey...my girlfriend here is saying that you're really a good teacher....she's not referring only to the tecnichal advices ;)
I didn't know he used to play lap slide!!! I was always conviced he played embracing the guitar!!! I've heard his version and I tried but I can't understand how he is using the right hand...it seems also that his hammering a lot with the slide...I've tried, again without success :DDD, to reproduce that flavour but the result was a sound similar to a cat scratching a table!!! :ppp...I've found a very interesting guitar method named "the guitar of blind willie johnson" taught by Tom Feldmann...maybe I could add your lessons to his lesson to get better results...
I'm only worried about a thing Corey...Since I started playin' the guitar I've always tried to reproduce others song using tabs, by ear or video method...I know that this is a part of the process to become a better musician but I'd like to start developing a more personal guitar style...I'm not sayin that I don't want to study others musician anymore because this is presumptuos and would be really deleterious for me..I'd like to take care also to the other part of the story...So when I'm thinkin about creating something I find myself in front of a wall...I'm blocked..
What would you reccomend me to do to overcome this limit?
@Corey....welcome back from Romania but we're still waiting for you here in Italy!!! There's always some good ingera and zighny prepared by my African Queen ready for you and Mike here in Bologna :)))
Here's my last upload....thank you so much for the explanation about palm muting...I've tried to do it your way without success so I showed you the way I do...Do you think it's good enough?
In this video I wanted also to start only with the melody so that was easier to check about any kind of mistakes adding later the bass line...In the second part I play another tune of bwj that I first heard by Eric Bibb...You're gonna need somebody on your bond..I did this not to show myself but just to thank you for this really usefull lesson...First time I've heard that tune I felt that there was something special for me in it and I wanted to learn it...I've tried to play it but at that time was pretty difficoult to get more in touch with it...after studyin keep your lamp it went easier...It's not perfect, there's still a lot of work to do, but I applied the same approach of this lesson....divide melody from bassline, keep more attention with the slide and vibrato...etc..and I get a better result in less time :))
I'm using my made in china Aria resonator guitar...I can't afford a national at the moment :DD..I avoided again thumbpick just to have that lighter touch you were talkin me about a couple of lessons ago!!!
@Mike.....Di niente Mike, figurati!!!! :))) It's a pleasure to share the same passion!!! :)))
@Corey...My girlfriend explained me about the Earthday...I didn't know about it...;))))
I've tried today to use only the end of the slide and I feel more comfortable now...One more thing that I'm not sure I've understood but only because it's in English...:))) I've tried to pay more attention about palm muting...I can do that only in the 4th,5th and 6th string..Is this correct? I was also tryin to reduce some noise with my left hand, "muting" the strings with the others 3 fingers... This tune is really difficoult :))
@Corey...here's my attempt with keep your lamp...I started doing the melody, then I ad the bass, after the voice....and the ending is my joyfull "tribute" to BWJ :)))
Happy Birthday! :))
@Corey....I have a friend down in Sardinia who's a liuther...When I come back there I will ask him some help...anyway, I have another guitar whose action is much more higher than this one so it could be not necesary to work on the nut...Maybe I should just avoid using the capo :))
Unfortunately I don't have friends who work in a machine shop here in Bologna...I've found this slide in a shop in Bologna...The only problem, if this can be defined problems, is that it's Eric Sardinas's slide ^__^..I don't like him very much...He seems to me he's too proud of himself and looks he feels like being the best slide guitar player in the world!!! :DD...I don't like very much in general musicians with this kind of attitude!
http://www.jimdunlop.com/product/eric-sardinas-preachin-pipe
I was interested in the slide you were wearing in the homespun video method...If I find it somewhere I'll buy one in the future and I was thinkin about also this one that maybe could be interesting when I play with my resonator guitar...It's keb's bottleneck...He truly has the attitude in making music that I like...
http://www.jimdunlop.com/product/keb-mo-signature-slide
I've upload a new video on the latest cc pill blues lesson...If you have some time, could you give a look at it? :))
@Mike....This is great!!!! :)) Now your sound is so much full!!!!:)))))
@Corey....Here's my latest attempt with cc pill....I think I'm still having problems with the bass lines but to be honest I haven't practiced a lot during these days!!^__^ I'm singin too in this video..Do you thinks dynamics are better now?
@Corey..I misunderstood your precedent message about the nut.....I have two guitars..In both of them I can't remove the nut because it's attached to guitar neck!!!!...Should I do this operation manually???
I'm looking for a new slide...Which of this two would you recommend to me? One is called Harris Slide...I don't know if it's yours, but it's very similar...
http://www.thomann.de/it/dunlop_231_harris_slide_medium.htm
I'm more oriented on this slide, but I'm fascinated also by this one...
http://www.thomann.de/it/dunlop_227_brass_slide.htm
Corey, I haven't thought about the action of the guitar!!!!!...I usually play open and standard tunings with a capo on the 2nd fret..if I avoid using it the action will result higher...I prefer not to put my hands on the trussroad cause I'm not very confident with this kind of things and I'm worried to make letteraly a disaster...:DDD
About Robert Johson, I think you're reffering to Terraplane blues or stones in my passway, isn't it?...:) In my opinion, talkin about this kind of technique, his masterpiece was Crossroad blues but my favourite is Preachin Blues(Up Jumped the Devil)..I still remember the doc of martin scorsese where you and keb were talkin about Robert Johnson and played together Sweet Home Chicago and walkin blues...For me was awesome to see two of my reference points for acoustic blues playin together the song of my first love...anyway, I don't want to be too prolix because if i start talkin about robert Johnson and everything that sorrounds his person I will go off topic but as a believer in God, call me stupid, I believe that he sold his sold to the devil or whatever else because for me is almost impossible to think that a musician in only 8 months could become better than Son House,Charley Patton etc...There are people playin many years the blues without being neither a nickel in their hands, and Robert made it in less than one year!!!...But this is because I believe in angels, demons, God and the Devil...:))
Thanks for your advices...I will buy a new slide....;)))
Hy Mike,
I'm not ahead of you....we're all students here and we are at the same level...^__^...I've started studyin this tune I think in july 2011 but I haven't put much effort on it just because I concentrated myself on other things...but this just to say that I'm not new with keep your lamp and for this reason is easy to result "ahead"....
I thank you for your advices Mike....I'm making a lot of changes in my way of playin since I started joinin' sonic junction..one is avoid thumbpick and the other is to catch the slide in that alternative way Corey clearly explained in this video...this will be another great switch but I like more the sound of the slide and it seems I can make easily the vibrato :)))
Will you upload some videos with singin too? ;))))
Hy Corey,
I recorded this yesterday so I didn't have the chance too see the new lesson...anyway I think could be usefull to give a look at it anyway....Actually I'm not new with Keep your lamp. Despite this I'm still having problems with the alternate bass, palm muting and when I play with the acoustic guitar the sound seems to me too noisy...This doesn't happens with the resonator maybe because the strings are larger, but I think is prevalently a matter of touch...and now I'm using 0.13 on my acoustic guitar, so they're not so thin!
I've tried to use slide as you suggested us to do but it's becoming difficoult for me...It hurts my hand a little but I think it's normal if you are at the beginning...I normally use a bottleneck but If I want to change the tecnique I think I should get a smaller one...
What do you think about not always using slide when making some notes? ...I've tried yesterday , just for fun, to alternate the use of bottleneck...
Corey, I think that someway they were obliged to use thumbpick,too!!.^__^...they didn't have amplifiers and the only way to have a higher volume was to use thumbpick or resonator guitars!!! I like to think that with nowdays technology Robert Johnson maybe would avoid using picks...but probably he would do also something different than roots blues!!! He was an innovator...vero? :))
This isn't the only switch I'm tryin to do...I'd like to play with the hand in front of the hole and only 2 fingers...!!!Now I use thumb, forefinger and ringfinger...I was so fascinated by the technique of your brother View farka tourè when I saw this video for the first time!!!!Is this standard tuning?!?!?!?
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Ciao Mike,
I prefer to focus on the bass, too!!! I think it's gettin better and better...My challenge now is dynamics and to avoid playin with thumbpick which is quite difficoult for me bacause I was used to play with it a lot...But I do prefer the sound of bare fingers...Now I'm preparing an exam and if I pass it I will have a job, and this is the priority for me...So I'm not playin so much like before and I will not have much time to upload videos cause it takes me a lot of time..you now, prepare mixer, microphone etc...but I'm still here off course...CC pill will be in my reportoire when I'll start again playin in the clubs....Keep your lamp was already in it...so I'm lucky...and the same for corey's version of Special rider....It's so cool to take lesson directly from Corey that I started coverin as well as Eric Bibb, Keb Mo, Robert Johnson, Skip James etc..
Sonic Junction is really great...I'm advertising it on fb as much as I can...we need more blues mates...
by the way....we have a new teacher now!!!! :DDDD