Arranging: All of Me for Fingerstyle Blues Guitar

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[@jamescalderon4028]

DANG, DAVID...You are Prolific!!! THANK YOU FOR ALLL THE FREE VIDS. I COULD FEED HERE THE REST OF MY LIFE and never get hungry.

[@saschalorch2445]

Hi David your lessons are eyes opening and full of required exercises for ambigious students.

[@robgray9620]

Great lesson as always Thanks David

[@rogerfoster8520]

Excellent lessons and a very laid back approach....I love it!

[@GRJ-uz7kf]

Nice. I'd never even be able to work out the tin pan alley chords, which are way out of the familiar pop/rock/country/folks repertoire most of us are stuck in.

[@emlyngriffith5846]

Brilliant.....I love it! Thanks a lot.

[@FretboardConfidential]

You're welcome!

[@davidfreel1451]

Always clear, always incisive. I specially liked the exercises starting around 8.30 mins, there goes my afternoon...Thanks David.

[@FretboardConfidential]

Thanks, David! Wait - there are *other* ways to spend the afternoon? :-)

[@davidfreel1451]

Not now Dave, I'm busy !

[@C.Hawkshaw]

Thanks buddy!

[@phillancello350]

great lesson David!

[@FretboardConfidential]

Thanks Phil!

[@flyingfish5604]

Great lesson...love these old jazz standards. Could you do a lesson on Lulu's back in town? Best wishes from UK

[@DM-qj3sy]

there is so much information in this one video that it's just stupid. Thankfully, I have been following you long enough that I can follow it and in six months, I might can play some of it. the adjacent note decoration is awesome info. Thank you much as always. Love the FAWM stuff.

[@FretboardConfidential]

High praise, thank you! Yes, the idea here is to build on some of the other open-position things I've talked about for the blues and just kind of roll them into the context of a standard without anyone really noticing it's happening :-).

[@Kailashkumar-nt2ps]

hi david! great fan of yours from india..:-)) loved your 50 jazz blues licks (on youtube) and blues alchemy. i have a request could you do a video - where it is great to learn licks of great jazz players but i find it difficult to connect it all together could you do a video taking few of those licks you taught and piecing it all together . it will be great ...

[@thomasreilly-Guitar]

Great lesson and playing as usual David. I’ve a wee question. I see you play a lot of different styles on acoustic and electric. How do you manage to keep on top of them all. I play a lot of irish Celtic stuff along with blues and country but I always feel I’m struggling to keep on top everything. Is their any tips you could give me.

[@FretboardConfidential]

Now that is a good question, though more than "wee," I'd say :-), and I'm not sure I've got a coherent answer, but I'll take a stab now and think about it more for the future. For one thing, there's a difference between sitting down to explain something for ten minutes in a lesson, and standing up and delivering three sets of repertoire in a bar. Some of the things I talk about *are* things that I went through a period of being thoroughly obsessed with, and *did* stand up (or sit down) and play for sets on end onstage. Some are things I spent years pursuing in the background before realizing they were worth incorporating into what I do. And sometimes I just take something someone's asked about and think, "huh, how *would* I think about that." Like the lesson recently on jazz voicings in open D tuning. That's not something I use on a regular basis. I've fooled around with it because I'm interested in open D tuning and I'm interested in 9th chords and so on occasion when I've found myself in D tuning I've thought, "can I get those standard-tuning chords I like when I'm here in D?" There's a galaxy of difference between that and the way someone like Laurence Juber can voice whatever he wants in DADGAD and make it look effortless over the course of several tunes in a row. Right now, the things I'm most interested all seem to be converging anyway, so they don't feel like a lot of different things to me. The stuff I've gleaned about playing the changes on electric feeds directly into how to play these standards fingerstyle, ditto for what I've managed to learn about swing guitar chord voicings, which also plays into how I think about acoustic blues and what additional colors I can sneak into it, which loops back and affects how much of the blues I can shoehorn into a standard... Blues and country are *certainly* overlapping style, I'd think - and I'm a big fan of the stories about how guys like Hank Garland were playing Nashville sessions during the day and listening to Charlie Christian at night, or how the Bob Wills crew would go down to the furniture store to listen to Blind Lemon Jefferson records and then use the lyrics as part of the creation of Western Swing. Somewhere in amongst all you're doing, there's plenty of common ground as far as the musicianship part goes: you need good time, technique and understanding of how to get around the fretboard for any style, and over time the various genres may just start to feel like playing the same basic stuff in various accents. That said, there are always several things I'm trying to get better at, at any one time, and there never do seem to be enough hours in the day :-).

[@thomasreilly-Guitar]

Thanks for that David maybe I need to stop over thinking everything in separate styles and more what’s common to them. Your right about not enough hours in the day

[@C.Hawkshaw]

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