Arranging: Sweet Georgia Brown for Fingerstyle Blues Guitar

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[@joncard2941]

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GREAT stuff David. This is exactly what my guitar playing has needed...ie: not just another song, but a process for arriving at destinations. Love it!

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Thank you, Mike - so glad to hear it!

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[@thomasreilly-Guitar]

Excellent lesson!

[@FretboardConfidential]

Thanks, Thomas!

[@lgoler]

I really appreciate how you speak about the concepts you’re presenting. Very pleasing and approachable. On the I chord (C), what some call the gospel scale can also sound good: C, D, Eb, E, G, A and the flat 7 (Bb) if you like.

[@gulfmountain]

Incredible and inspirig picking son. Another month's work to do...Thanks .

[@FretboardConfidential]

haha! Thanks, Charles, hope you have fun with it :-)

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[@davidfreel1451]

I always look forward to your posts. The clarity of your explanations matches that of your playing and that is super rare. And what a great idea to start with a rag as it is a great form to transpose round other guitar friendly keys !! I hope you don't mind if I have the audacity to offer another perspective on how to come up with different melodic material than you happen to be presenting here. For A7, the melody is actually based on A pentatonic. We can look at that as an A triad with an added sixth and or A(add69) .For D7 the melody uses the upper structure of the A pentatonic 'minorised' ie the pentatonic produced from an Am(add6/9) chord (ie the upper structure of D13, importantly the melody avoids the root till the fourth bar). Then for G a G pentatonic. These are real nice sounds to combine with your mixolydian ideas and help colour improvisation in line with the original melody. Thanks again for all your great and generous work !

[@FretboardConfidential]

Hi David! Sure, that's another good way to think about it, and it sits really well on the guitar- you just play your (major-sounding) A blues licks as if you were on the I of an A blues, then flat the third of A when you get to the D7 (as if that was your IV chord). Glad you're enjoying the lessons and thanks for chiming in with the suggestions!

[@davidfreel1451]

I really am enjoying the lessons. And I am flattered that you followed my sketchy logic. Theory is best when descriptive, not prescriptive,and that makes music more fascinating,. The fact that good tunes are more individual than the chord sequences that support them might suggest is something that players knew in the thirties when there was no pedagogy and which I as a player today found it easy to miss.

[@anniefarr4373]

My Lordy I got down Rag Mumma 10 years ago but now with a bit of sensible theory that I only have a very basic understanding of... 'here are the notes I want to play'.. Im thinking its time to revisit and give it a burl as we say here Down Under. Who knows I could create some quite Sweet Georgia Brown. I thought I could be punching too far above my weight when it turned up on my threat 12mths ago n some, so I didnt click on it...but to see and hear and then soaking it in to do it seems not so far fetched! Cheers from Oz .. Oh yeah and Thanks for always bringing it

[@FretboardConfidential]

That's so cool! If you went from feeling you'd be punching above your weight to things not seeming so far fetched, my work here is done :-).

[@anniefarr4373]

@@FretboardConfidential Oh but please don't go away its never done for me. One small step can turn to foggy on the stave really fast

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[@FretboardConfidential]

Hi Chris - Thanks so much! Glad to have you here, and hope you enjoy what you find :-).

[@thomasreilly-Guitar]

Do you have any tips or ideas on doing similar licks on open g and d tuning?

[@FretboardConfidential]

Hmm, good question - do you mean, playing through a standard like "Sweet Georgia Brown" with all of these chords, while in open tuning? Or just the idea of pulling out single-note licks over a basic major or 7th chord while in one of those tunings?

[@thomasreilly-Guitar]

I was thinking more in the lines of more jazzier licks over a major / dominant chord in open tuning. I imagine playing changes in open tuning would be pretty difficult. Anyway your lessons are a goldmine of great tasty guitar material. Thanks for taking the time to do them.

[@raydrone]

do you have a beginers coarse show the name ofr the notes . I do th major scale now but have to lern th name of the notes . I have doing th cGED SYSTEM PLEase help

[@FretboardConfidential]

Hey Ray - You might check out my Acoustic Guitar Method (from String Letter Publishing); it covers a lot of the basics, including beginning to get around the fretboard in open position.

[@AJGreen-cn8kk]

Looks like you've had plenty of fun with that Martin. Is it really as old as it looks?

[@FretboardConfidential]

1956! But it already looked like this when I got it from Mandolin Brothers in the late '90s just after they did a neck reset on it.

[@AJGreen-cn8kk]

@@FretboardConfidential I can only imagine the stories it could tell.

[@raydrone]

Sorry I know note of the guitar i don not now flat of the not or 3 4 5 th of the notes

[@jrbr549]

Could you at least make it look like it’s taking effort? Good stuff.

[@FretboardConfidential]

haha! Thanks. If it makes you feel any better, I warmed up for about thirty years before shooting the video :-).

[@joncard2941]

Great, and a big help, but Dave please don't wear a plaid shirt in front of a striped wall. Hurts my eyes!

[@FretboardConfidential]

Hey Jon - glad you enjoyed the lesson! And thanks for the feedback - I'll have a word with Wardrobe about that... :-).