Love this lesson ! I was the kind of guitar player who throw out the melody when i played jazz ! Now i'm studying old blues and taking care of the singing and emotion while plyaing a song. So i really take care now about the lyrics and the melody and this lesson really speak to me ! I'm now improvising on the melody with some of you licks and try to do my things ! Thanks a lot Duke :) !
this my first draft for this lesson. It tooks me a long time to choose a key for my voice, that why i'm so late. I sing in the high register and the melody isn't good but i'm workin' on it. Finally it appears that singing loud in higher register is better than in the medium register, it gives more energy ! When i sung in low register the song fell like a ballad...
I had to say that he extra bars are a little disturbing too ;)!
I had no time to had the extra work you taught here but i've tab everything and workin' on it.
At the end i wanted to play a final lick with your A7 voicing but having praticing it in open G just before, i missed the good strings and play that funny end...
I've notice that my choke at the end of the riff (at the 12th) fret is not good. I think for the tempo i rush a little bit but i stay around 105 bpm max...
@Caudio Corey gave me this advice month ago and that was a terrible advice :)! Now i'm always recording the rythm guitar and sing without guitar ! And then both. I try to have the same confort with or without the guitar. Of course it take a long time and there's still for me a big diffrence with or without the guitar but i'm getting it. I think a tune ust be played everyday (all the partsts). For me i'm getting confortable with a tune in 6 months minimum...
I also try to make phonetic approch of the english, i don't trust what is written but what i hear like english singer do when then learn song in french or japonese...
Wow nice lesson ! I didn't had this tune on my mind for a long ! A cool Shuffle groove with a lot of subtility like doing the high e at the end of the riff ! RJ is the master ! I'm studying his singing in Kind Hearted Woman in slow motion and is singing is awesome...
@Peter for open E i use 12-54 and open D (and G) 16-56. Maybe it's too much tension for the 0.26 G strings. Also watch wher the strings breaks ? At the saddle ? Near a special fret ? Changing tuning also use the strings, if you can stay in one tunning it's better. I often change my reso strings it's sound better when they're new :)
i'm back again ! First let me thank you for your kinds words on last lesson and the open mic :) ! I hadn't many time before the next lesson so here's my homework. I'm angry about the tempo wich i always speed up and more again when i start singing but i work on that. I think my vibrato is too short too... i may play slowly. Without the metronome i'm up to 130 and 120 with it.
Hello Corey, i'm in vacation now. i have only my phone for internet.
Thanks for your feedback. My video was a draft i wanted to send before leaving. Now, i'm work ingénieur precisely the melody and the riff of the first run through but i still havn't see the 2 Last vidéo...
Hope you have some vacation between your concert ! And Thanks for all you do for us, I've learn a lot with à Master like you !
Well, i always play the music i learn at half speed to get all details ! In every style of musique ! And I always tab (or wrote) Corey's lesson because there's always tricky variations and if i don't wrote them, i forget them quickly :) Special rider almost gone but i've tabbed the whole parts so i could play it again. For example i worked mississippi blues and saw that the grossman tab wasn't accurate with was Willie Brown played so i've made my own (but didn't sing it). I also try to notate the voice variation but with less accuracy... but i've decided to learn vocals with the same attention as i have always learnd guitar!
But in this case it's a bad example ididn't work it with a lot of accuracy !! Usually i post on the foutrh lesson when i'm ok ;)
The guitar is a Sigma (signature martin : it's like epiphone for Gibson) from 1974 a DM-5 model, cheap but fun to play :)
@Corey I think i've managed to mute the High E strings before playing the B strings with my left hand! You have to have a little gap between the 2 notes ! i use the half speed to hear that on your video ! The sound must be cut a millisecond. You can't play purely legato the two notes. As you can seen it's a big draft !! I haven't caught yet the melody and the lyrics, it's a work in progress version :)
@Alex nice to see you again on SJ ! You're a big motivation for me my friend :) ! As you see i play slide on a folk, my Dobro is already in vacation ! it waits for me in Bretany !
@Peter Nice Sound !! I have to change my cone too soon !
@ David I have also the fred mcdowell lyrics but Corey (as many bluesmen) takes lyberty with the lyrics. So usually i make a mix beetween is version and the original. But in this case forget it i sing wrong lyrics cause it takes me too much concentration to play both. I first start to learn both singing and playing then i separate them when i can play the whole song in a sort of big draft. I think your way is better ;) ! But i prefer work the details after...
@Alex this concert was in Paris last year ! i know very well this jazz club "the Sunset". I miss this concert and the ast of Moh last month :( Our doaughter is getting older, hope i could do more concert this year !!
@Corey great song ! i'm a fan of Fred Mcdowell he got awesome groove !! Sometime he doesn't play the first beat and the song still groove ! When i do that, it makes just a gap for me :(
By the way how do you mute the high E string when you play the high B String in the first lick tabbed ? Does you middle finger mute the E string when you play the B string with your index ? Can you do that with the fingerpick ?
I use this technique on electric slide (à la Dereck Trucks not as good of course) when i play in single note but not in country blues... I can do it with bare finger but not with a fingerpick... That why i've never try it. But i remeber you told me to be cleaner so maybe i have to mute... Hope i was Clear ?
Another question why didn't you play the national ? Is it because Fred mac dowell mostly play archtop of electric ? Or just for change ?
@Alex Too bad you stop but i can understand i've experience this for some kind of music ! Try to make some concert or play with other musician to keep motivation :) ! See you soon my friends !
I wanted to try some french lyrics on this one but i've give up... not enough time because it's not so easy to do !
I have some questions because i feel some tensions in my right wrist : Do you mute the bass strings on a quick song like that ? Because when strings are muted, it's harder to play ! I'm trying to brush lightly with a lightly thumb touch (not the edge of the thumb) but i still have tension and i see that when strings are note muted it's easier.
Does your choice of muting depend of the speed, the dynamic or simply the feeling and sound you like ?
I'm not sure i could post a video for this one cause i have a light belly surgery to do (not dangerous) and i couldn't really play for a month :( but i still enjoy the lesson !!
@Alex very nice message and your accent is better than Roberto Begnini one in Down By Law ;)
Music is simple there's 4 beats and you can put some accent on them : 1 2 3 4 or 1 2 3 4
And it's better to start singing beetwin the time :)
Try to count the beats on songs your hear ! that a good job, do it with music with drums it's easier. You have to find the one. Bootsy Collins (one of the greatest bassist in the world) said that "you can do what you want but never loose the 1 " So find it and then try to keep it :)
@Alex... My question was about the feeling of the blues. for example i tell to jazz beginner to tap their foot on the beat 2 and 4 to feel the jazz. So i asked Corey if i had to tap my foot on the beat 1 and 3 to feel blues :-) but yes Start your singing on the "and" or "levare" is better ;-)
Great lesson !! the singing tips were really usefull, now all the lessons became a great one, i love it ! And the handfull of endings is really cool. I also like when you block the strings at 17.04 !
I have a question Corey : You clap on the beat 1 and 3 and often your foot tap the 1 and 3. Is that the way too feel the blues ? I've always tap and 2 on 4 for the jazz (and some reggae stuff) but it's not usual for me to clap on 1 and 3... Do i have to feel the blues like this on the ebat 1 and 3 ?
Wow thank you for the compliment Corey, you make my day, couldn't be so happy !!!
Well for the french it's a hard langage to sing :( Lot of hard consonant and long phrase with adverb... English, italian sound better. In my singin lesson i sing a lot in french because it's makes me work harder. And my teacher said i had a bad accent too but sometimes she helps me on some prononciation for english song..
For the Creole, i love the Clinfton Chenier style a lot but i need a good accent too... Claude Nougaro did a lot of jazz with french lyrics but he was a strong poet...
But you're right i have to think about that "blues in french" option ;) Fortunatly i don't want to make a career as a blues singer ;) i just want to pick my guitar sometime at some gig and sing a blues or two in a set, i'll see in a year or two were i'm i...
Hello Corey, this is my attempt for sweet Black Angel. The singing is a little hard because i had to think to guitar and the lyrics so it's a little "young" try. The chorus is not good enough and the E at the 12th fret is "false". I haven't work on it enough.
I have to keep going on working these song, i feel i can manage variation of my own too :)
I think i loose the shuffle too.. you don't alway play it but you have such a solid ground that even without the thumb i can hear the shuffle... I have to work on the basics i guess...
Hello Duke,
Love this lesson ! I was the kind of guitar player who throw out the melody when i played jazz ! Now i'm studying old blues and taking care of the singing and emotion while plyaing a song. So i really take care now about the lyrics and the melody and this lesson really speak to me ! I'm now improvising on the melody with some of you licks and try to do my things ! Thanks a lot Duke :) !
Hello Corey,
this my first draft for this lesson. It tooks me a long time to choose a key for my voice, that why i'm so late. I sing in the high register and the melody isn't good but i'm workin' on it. Finally it appears that singing loud in higher register is better than in the medium register, it gives more energy ! When i sung in low register the song fell like a ballad...
I had to say that he extra bars are a little disturbing too ;)!
I had no time to had the extra work you taught here but i've tab everything and workin' on it.
At the end i wanted to play a final lick with your A7 voicing but having praticing it in open G just before, i missed the good strings and play that funny end...
I've notice that my choke at the end of the riff (at the 12th) fret is not good. I think for the tempo i rush a little bit but i stay around 105 bpm max...
That's all, thanks for everythin
Peace
JD
@Caudio Corey gave me this advice month ago and that was a terrible advice :)! Now i'm always recording the rythm guitar and sing without guitar ! And then both. I try to have the same confort with or without the guitar. Of course it take a long time and there's still for me a big diffrence with or without the guitar but i'm getting it. I think a tune ust be played everyday (all the partsts). For me i'm getting confortable with a tune in 6 months minimum...
I also try to make phonetic approch of the english, i don't trust what is written but what i hear like english singer do when then learn song in french or japonese...
Hope it helps you...
Wow nice lesson ! I didn't had this tune on my mind for a long ! A cool Shuffle groove with a lot of subtility like doing the high e at the end of the riff ! RJ is the master ! I'm studying his singing in Kind Hearted Woman in slow motion and is singing is awesome...
@Peter for open E i use 12-54 and open D (and G) 16-56. Maybe it's too much tension for the 0.26 G strings. Also watch wher the strings breaks ? At the saddle ? Near a special fret ? Changing tuning also use the strings, if you can stay in one tunning it's better. I often change my reso strings it's sound better when they're new :)
Hello Corey,
i'm back again ! First let me thank you for your kinds words on last lesson and the open mic :) ! I hadn't many time before the next lesson so here's my homework. I'm angry about the tempo wich i always speed up and more again when i start singing but i work on that. I think my vibrato is too short too... i may play slowly. Without the metronome i'm up to 130 and 120 with it.
see you soon, cheers
JD
Hello Corey, i'm in vacation now. i have only my phone for internet.
Thanks for your feedback. My video was a draft i wanted to send before leaving. Now, i'm work ingénieur precisely the melody and the riff of the first run through but i still havn't see the 2 Last vidéo...
Hope you have some vacation between your concert ! And Thanks for all you do for us, I've learn a lot with à Master like you !
Take care
Greetings
JD
Well, i always play the music i learn at half speed to get all details ! In every style of musique ! And I always tab (or wrote) Corey's lesson because there's always tricky variations and if i don't wrote them, i forget them quickly :) Special rider almost gone but i've tabbed the whole parts so i could play it again. For example i worked mississippi blues and saw that the grossman tab wasn't accurate with was Willie Brown played so i've made my own (but didn't sing it). I also try to notate the voice variation but with less accuracy... but i've decided to learn vocals with the same attention as i have always learnd guitar!
But in this case it's a bad example ididn't work it with a lot of accuracy !! Usually i post on the foutrh lesson when i'm ok ;)
The guitar is a Sigma (signature martin : it's like epiphone for Gibson) from 1974 a DM-5 model, cheap but fun to play :)
cheers
JD
@Corey I think i've managed to mute the High E strings before playing the B strings with my left hand! You have to have a little gap between the 2 notes ! i use the half speed to hear that on your video ! The sound must be cut a millisecond. You can't play purely legato the two notes. As you can seen it's a big draft !! I haven't caught yet the melody and the lyrics, it's a work in progress version :)
@Alex nice to see you again on SJ ! You're a big motivation for me my friend :) ! As you see i play slide on a folk, my Dobro is already in vacation ! it waits for me in Bretany !
@Peter Nice Sound !! I have to change my cone too soon !
@ David I have also the fred mcdowell lyrics but Corey (as many bluesmen) takes lyberty with the lyrics. So usually i make a mix beetween is version and the original. But in this case forget it i sing wrong lyrics cause it takes me too much concentration to play both. I first start to learn both singing and playing then i separate them when i can play the whole song in a sort of big draft. I think your way is better ;) ! But i prefer work the details after...
@Alex this concert was in Paris last year ! i know very well this jazz club "the Sunset". I miss this concert and the ast of Moh last month :( Our doaughter is getting older, hope i could do more concert this year !!
@Corey great song ! i'm a fan of Fred Mcdowell he got awesome groove !! Sometime he doesn't play the first beat and the song still groove ! When i do that, it makes just a gap for me :(
By the way how do you mute the high E string when you play the high B String in the first lick tabbed ? Does you middle finger mute the E string when you play the B string with your index ? Can you do that with the fingerpick ?
I use this technique on electric slide (à la Dereck Trucks not as good of course) when i play in single note but not in country blues... I can do it with bare finger but not with a fingerpick... That why i've never try it. But i remeber you told me to be cleaner so maybe i have to mute... Hope i was Clear ?
Another question why didn't you play the national ? Is it because Fred mac dowell mostly play archtop of electric ? Or just for change ?
Thanks
JD
@Alex Too bad you stop but i can understand i've experience this for some kind of music ! Try to make some concert or play with other musician to keep motivation :) ! See you soon my friends !
Hello Corey,
I wanted to try some french lyrics on this one but i've give up... not enough time because it's not so easy to do !
I have some questions because i feel some tensions in my right wrist : Do you mute the bass strings on a quick song like that ? Because when strings are muted, it's harder to play ! I'm trying to brush lightly with a lightly thumb touch (not the edge of the thumb) but i still have tension and i see that when strings are note muted it's easier.
Does your choice of muting depend of the speed, the dynamic or simply the feeling and sound you like ?
I'm not sure i could post a video for this one cause i have a light belly surgery to do (not dangerous) and i couldn't really play for a month :( but i still enjoy the lesson !!
Thanks
JD
@Alex very nice message and your accent is better than Roberto Begnini one in Down By Law ;)
Music is simple there's 4 beats and you can put some accent on them : 1 2 3 4 or 1 2 3 4
And it's better to start singing beetwin the time :)
Try to count the beats on songs your hear ! that a good job, do it with music with drums it's easier. You have to find the one. Bootsy Collins (one of the greatest bassist in the world) said that "you can do what you want but never loose the 1 " So find it and then try to keep it :)
Geetings my friend :)
JD
@Corey Well i prefer your groove to my groove so i'll get à little Try with the 1 and 3 ;-)
@alex i'll see your vidéo tonicité :-)
@Alex... My question was about the feeling of the blues. for example i tell to jazz beginner to tap their foot on the beat 2 and 4 to feel the jazz. So i asked Corey if i had to tap my foot on the beat 1 and 3 to feel blues :-) but yes Start your singing on the "and" or "levare" is better ;-)
Great lesson !! the singing tips were really usefull, now all the lessons became a great one, i love it ! And the handfull of endings is really cool. I also like when you block the strings at 17.04 !
I have a question Corey : You clap on the beat 1 and 3 and often your foot tap the 1 and 3. Is that the way too feel the blues ? I've always tap and 2 on 4 for the jazz (and some reggae stuff) but it's not usual for me to clap on 1 and 3... Do i have to feel the blues like this on the ebat 1 and 3 ?
Thanks for all
JD
@alex maybe my explanation aren't clear ;-) i prefer my dobro for slide.
the action of my folk are too near the neck ans less confortable... Aspettare gli Tutte version ciaro amice ;-)
Wow thank you for the compliment Corey, you make my day, couldn't be so happy !!!
Well for the french it's a hard langage to sing :( Lot of hard consonant and long phrase with adverb... English, italian sound better. In my singin lesson i sing a lot in french because it's makes me work harder. And my teacher said i had a bad accent too but sometimes she helps me on some prononciation for english song..
For the Creole, i love the Clinfton Chenier style a lot but i need a good accent too... Claude Nougaro did a lot of jazz with french lyrics but he was a strong poet...
But you're right i have to think about that "blues in french" option ;) Fortunatly i don't want to make a career as a blues singer ;) i just want to pick my guitar sometime at some gig and sing a blues or two in a set, i'll see in a year or two were i'm i...
Thanks a lot for your lesson and support Corey :)
Hello Corey, this is my attempt for sweet Black Angel. The singing is a little hard because i had to think to guitar and the lyrics so it's a little "young" try. The chorus is not good enough and the E at the 12th fret is "false". I haven't work on it enough.
I have to keep going on working these song, i feel i can manage variation of my own too :)
I think i loose the shuffle too.. you don't alway play it but you have such a solid ground that even without the thumb i can hear the shuffle... I have to work on the basics i guess...
Greetings
JD