Learning Jumper on the Line (RL Burnside) guitar lesson with tabs...

[@Dad-Gad]

I'm just glad people are still loving RL and Junior , 2 of the greatest blues musicians ever imo 👍

[@JimmyHagerstrom]

Juniors grandson is a Blues guitarist as well. He teaches this style of guitar playing on his channel too, check him out! Cam Kimborough

[@matiasishere1487]

I just saw RL’s nephew in Macon Ga. Opened for JJ Grey and mofro. I was so pleasantly surprised and enjoyed his set.

[@grahamsampson769]

Thanks for unlocking the mysteries of this foot stomping classic. R.L. is a national treasure.

[@youseufsuliman1546]

I always just assumed I’d never be able to play that song until now, thanks you so much for your time and effort to make it possible for others.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thanks, Im glad it helped! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@thellewelynmoss]

Dude this is such a thoughtful breakdown, not too many would go into such depth about the source of that brighter sound. Thanks a bunch

[@jds2056]

your channel is a gift to the delta blues

[@jamesisaaks]

hill country

[@RameshRamloll]

Hey, I don't think he is using the thumb the way you are describing, he is flicking the index finger off the thumb and hit the stricks with the nail of the index finger. It's so much easier this way. It's almost like striking a piece on the carom board or striking a marble.

[@ordonezelvin]

Yes I think it’s his index finger what gives it that scratch

[@jayhunt74]

Like thumping?

[@mohamedtlass3842]

Yes, I’ve figured this out by myself

[@Wulfzz]

I saw a video from a live performance and it really did look like he was using his thumb

[@mohamedtlass3842]

@@Wulfzz it’s both

[@SOKOTROKOS]

R.L. Burnside ! Master !! and you the only one to make this tutorial thanks you man !!

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Im glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@ninocosmico1519]

This channel is a reference in Hill Country Blues. Probably THE reference.

[@charliesideshow8400]

So very true!

[@JimmyHagerstrom]

THE reference would be Cam Kimborough´s channel in my opinion. He teaches the style he got from his grandfather and the other legends he grew up with. He´s a fantastic guitar-player and tries to keep the legacy and the teachings alive. But yeah, this channel is great :-). They should collab. I really wish more people would find Cam, he really deserves appreciation and he has all the storys!

[@maaaxx]

You got the best Selektion of Song-lessons on KZbin! Love your Hill Country Blues liabillity. Thumbs up for your work!! Best Wishes from germany

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Wow, thanks! Thats nice of you! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@CarlosPEnis]

I randomly stumbled on See My Jumper Hanging on the Line when I was like 14 and it really stuck with me. Blew my mind. I've been trying to play different styles of country blues ever since

[@Kujinu]

I tried for months too and I keep coming back improving it over time. I've been trying so hard recently, nice to see that you just made a video about this brilliant song. Keep up the great work

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thanks for sharing and watching and commenting!

[@TribalmonkeyS]

It’s also vintage Japanese pickups ?

[@sep69]

Thanks so much for breaking down this song man ! I fell into an RL Burnside rabbit hole the other day with no intention to climb back out. I had no idea how RL was playing this so thanks again ! RL Burnside is amazing.

[@Stevestevestevestevestevesteve]

Always loved that song. Such soul and rhythm in this.

[@fabientissier1218]

Your video’s lesson are just awesome !

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thanks! I really appreciate that! Thanks for commenting!

[@bryanclark201]

Wow R L was amazing that's some fast fingerpicking and your awesome for breaking down this song this one will take some practice

[@sefrango8221]

Nobody can play like him, the feeling, the rhythm is awesome, you must live his life to play like that.👋 Thank you for this lesson, now i try...

[@OliverKostrinsky]

its also that electric guitar he’s playing helps get that bump. every version sounds a lil different

[@Ocean5ix]

Imagine the concept of someone 50 years in the future watching a slow motion video of you playing to try to understand what you’re doing. It’s crazy man.

[@richardjerrett3144]

Wow, thank you. That's an amazing work you've done there both analysis and teaching. Well done!

[@IDreamofChocolateDreams]

18:34 shows RL Burnsdes genius in making his foot the human metronome.

[@wilko3034]

Hi , firstly great channel , I don't think there's many out there covering hill country blues but keep em coming. A player worth looking at regarding technique is Wilko Johnson as he slaps the strings with his finger nails. Thanks bill

[@vladimirputin854]

Wilco was a beast with that guitar

[@myyootube2]

Inimitable! But worth trying. Another point besides the thumb that's crazy "impossible" is that if you watch RL, he doesn't ever appear to mute the "chuck" stroke with his left hand, but somehow to do so cleanly only with his right. And yet... seems to pull other notes out of the air virtually simultaneously! Anyway you're inspiring me to work on it again. Thanks for inspiring us all. New subscriber.

[@miketayse]

I've always dug his rhythm, glad to know others do too!

[@Beachbumartist]

This song is great and been trying to learn it. Thanks so much for teaching the way R l played. In the video where he is playing in the field, which I have watched many many times, he is also playing a strat so that will change the same where you are playing a 335 with humbuckers so might sound a little different. Thanks for all the videos you make as you do a great job.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Im glad its helpful for you- Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@mohamedtlass3842]

It was a guyatone or teisco 60s Japan guitar, modified

[@thefungai1]

Yours is by far the best interpretation of this classic. Thanks !

[@TheBillybob2112]

I spent 5 years trying to convert this song to harp with respect, I hate covers that don't give the proper respect to the technical difficulty of the artist that created it. 5 years but on harp. I recently think I got close, but yeah I'm gonna have a hard look at your vid, and hey thanks for giving the man the respect he deserves. Peace

[@floridacrackerguitartips6004]

Very well done. I've messed with this great song for years and I believe he's brushing both his thumb and his index finger on the strings. Also, if you brush the strings with your index finger on the upstroke, you even get some additional rhythm. It's almost like "painting the strings" with down and upstrokes, with some subtle palm muting. That's my take. RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough are two great players of this unique Northern Mississippi blues genre. Sadly, they have both passed.

[@scallywag8788]

Great lesson. Here's a solution I find works (for my level of technique at least) : muting with a slap effect instead of fretting the D string achieves the same unique, authentic, bright scratch sound for this. No thumb pick

[@JohnBlair-p2z]

what a bloody great lesson. your a very good teacher.

[@timridley1]

Excellent deconstruction of a wonderful riff.

[@rwsfwifi]

Your hill country posts are the best. Great in depth breakdown

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Glad you like them! Thank you!

[@keithcarmelia7341]

I really appreciate your lessons, and especially on this sing since I've been waiting for it.

[@WilliamSlaght]

Amazing lesson! Also I do think he is using his thumb nail even if cut short, but really the 'left corner' of the nail where a bit sticks out where you can tuck a string to be plucked, and the nail doesn't need to be long for this. Once you get the idea how to pluck one string this way, then you can learn how to rake across the strings, and then strum the strings altogether. It's possible for any player to pick this up quickly, but you really have to be shown this. There's a time where Greg Koch, Danny Gatton, and Mark Knopfler talked about only needing a bit of thumb nail (or any nail) not needing it to be long to tuck the string under to pluck it, but it'll give a more chicken pickin' sound than if plucked with a long nail. It's possible to strike this strum with only a bit the thumbnail, just takes a bit of practice, and also much brighter sound than striking it with the other fingers.

[@MrJohnMarbles]

this song is insanely good. awesome video!

[@habits_of_humanity]

This really great work. You're a legend!

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Wow, thanks! Thanks for commenting too!

[@markvickroy6725]

You could also get a super bright.Japanese Sears guitar and a 10 W.Amp with an eight inch speaker, Probably get you way closer on tone than a 335

[@frankmirra8243]

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

[@MementoVita]

First song I’m learning on the guitar and it’s actually impossible but I can’t have it any other way that man is a legend 😂😂

[@dr2675]

Personally, I think the downbeat is with his thumb and the chank is his thumb AND the index fingernail. Look at how close he holds his index finger to his thumb. They’re both hitting the string or the index finger nail is hitting the string, but it looks like it’s the thumb because the thumb and forefinger are so close.

[@mohamedtlass3842]

Yes, he’s wrong look at Blackmons lesson for more correct way

[@vendettatraining-jeremycar9332]

Best Hill Country Channel-Wondering if you could get into some Kenny Brown-If you know RL, then you know him-Album: “Stingray”-Song: “You Don’t Know My Mind” Respect

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Wow thanks! Yea Kenny Brown is great! I did a snake drive slide lesson on his playing once. Ill check out his other stuff too! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@emmerfarro]

Jerry Garcia slays RL's "Someday Baby". Like RL, Garcia could comp rhythm and lead like few others. If you listen to some 1971 Grateful Dead, you will hear and feel a locomotive in motion. The band dynamic that year really highlights that driving that train sense. Look up Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, Berkeley 9/1/1974 uploaded by DC Cat.

[@karlobluesman]

you are doing a great job! ive been playing this stuff for years this kind of music sounds easy to play until you delve deeper into it. another underrated player is Mississippi fred mc dowel hes an amazing player unfortunately their isn't much of him playing live. be great if you could break his stuff down. keep it up you are doing a great job

[@youssef7253]

Verry good job It sounds exactly the same!!!! Thank you for giving the lesson for free!!

[@eduardocesarcastrohernande8011]

One of my first thoughts when i saw and heard Mr Burnside, was that he should have been accustomed to hard work on the fields, so his hands should be rude enough to produce that great sound. Hard working man calluses hands.

[@thiswasnotmyhandle]

Thanks for the lesson! Really great job with this video and nice playing!

[@youssef7253]

Thank you for solving this mystery!!

[@LONEEAGLE_space_rock]

Great, you can hear the upstrokes (finger(s))as it sounds clearer and not as muted

[@sanakassara]

First, did R.L. Burnside seem to be the type of guy who over complicated things? Second he clearly hammered the strings with his index finger and plucked with his thumb. Anybody who has even heard about clawhammer sees and hears that. That's why I like Burnsides sound so much because he incorporated so much banjo to his blues guitar and maybe even without thinking tributed his African roots by reminding the listeners about akonting.

[@womma]

Thanks for this great breakdown of this complex riff. What influenced your choice of guitar?

[@kerryfromaj9032]

RL may have had a callous in his voice 👍 I’m taking a closer look at how I practice after you showed me the build method in more detail a couple weeks ago on one of our Zoom lessons. Thanks for helping me learn better through looking at timing and techniques better to find my voice.

[@jimsliverootsculturemusic]

Every time I think I've got this one, which I'd been trying for several months before this lesson (and even before you featured the tune in an earlier lesson), I'd eventually lose the feeling and couldn't get it back until I revisited your early lesson or another one by Eric Blackmon. I need to internalize what makes the groove drive so with all the subtle changes and strumming. And I think it sounds different from one R.L. recording to another. The truth is this song is deep within R.L. himself and he can do whatever he wants with it. We can try to learn a version but how can we learn to think like R.L. and turn it into a malleable piece for ourselves? Keep practicing, I guess!

[@jemahl123]

Thank you, I've been trying for years to get that scratchy quack.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Glad its helpful! Its pretty hard and it took me a long time to get it sounding close. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@jemahl123]

@@FeedbackGuitarAcademy That and the hammeron has just fixed everything, it actually sounds right.

[@njoysuccessnow]

Wow! I think you nailed it. 🔥🔥

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thank you 🙌

[@emanuelnabarrete]

You're amazing man, I love yours videos.

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

I appreciate that- Thanks!

[@mississippirob2]

I am sure someone else has pointed this out, but he was using single coils (cheap ones at that) which are naturally brighter than those hummbuckers you are playing.

[@edhernandez1218]

Great lesson.easy to understand...

[@jimsliverootsculturemusic]

RL points his large, long-fingered right hand down the neck, so relaxed.

[@erneibollmtt1263]

oh mannn ı was serching all the time this song to learn. Thank you very much

[@unfamiliarenvironments]

the algorithm has smiled upon me this day

[@reviewerman9786]

Great thanks for working this out

[@carriersignal]

This is great! Thank you!

[@andrelott4851]

In my humble opinion it is impossible to copy these amazing men...

[@1Vurgas1]

its his pointer finger that does the chug edit:you are not even holding your hand in the same position as he is. the scrape is his pointer nail, not a callus on his thumb

[@jayhunt74]

Like thumping the off the thumb? I'll try it. That is the unique sound I've always felt from Muddy Waters, R L & others. Thank you!

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

You bet! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@plumberboy501]

Great video, it looks like he has some kind of mute below the first fret that might be causing the bright scratchy sound, just food for thought

[@tommygustafsson2011]

this is a great lesson 👍

[@wooggeek]

RL is so inspiring and even trying to replicate gets into your playing somehow in your range. Thank you for unlocking and sharing which keeps this magic alive. One thing not covered is possibly the masking tape in the first fret... Binding repair? Intentional slight buzz of open strings?😂 🙏🎸🙏

[@JimmyHagerstrom]

Hi! I watch Juniors grandsons channel a lot. Cam Kimborough here on youtube, he teaches this style of guitar too. He actually talks about his fingers in many videos when he teaches riffs and makes the audience weary that it might be difficult to play it like him or don´t sound like when he plays because he has massive calluses on his thumb and index finger from playing this style for all his life. It´s not like when guitarplayers talk about getting calluses on the fingertips on the left hand, not at all. His thumb is all hardened up. I actually think you see that in R.L´s video too, if you look at his thumb. It looks almost deformed and big. Like his thumbnail is thick and his skin is very dry and hard.

[@SixteenJacobsCreams]

Also been stumped on this for fucking ages and love the video. Do want to point out tho - isn't he only playing the top 2 strings for the scratchy bit in the main section? Don't hear the g string/minor third on my end but willing to be corrected.

[@WharfTerracesConcierge]

Am i mistaken or is that a piece of metal stuck on the first fret of RLs guitar that could be adding to the bright metalic sound?

[@bwsinfonia13]

What is going on with the first fret of his guitar? Looks like a card or paper in the strings. Johnny Cash used to get a rhythmic sound like that.

[@anddowgray4698]

Wow great lesson, tried to playing this all year, now I’m a little better er. Ha. Please think about doing a Lead Belly, Poor Howard lesson, maybe the precursor for Hill Country?

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thanks- good suggestion! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@nobodysignificant9040]

I believe the technique is a swift upstroke with the thumb nail which is hard to see on camera

[@mauricioferreira4157]

Awesome Dude. This is video increble

[@CoyoteSlim]

Good topic and breakdown. However, i believe the "chuck" you are talking about is from the thumb. I dont think he's flicking down with his finger in the manner you are. Notice how your hand clenches up while you do that. In contrast, his forefinger is much more free to be flexible and hit the treble strings for contrasting treble licks. He definitely does brush his index finger back and forth in the intro but thats not part of the rhyhmic pattern imo. That being said, this song is still a challenge. Maybe whatever way works for you is the best way.

[@mantisshrimp8019]

The thumb sound could also be because he’s playing an old cheap 60s guitar with brighter pickups. The amp could also have something to do with it. Those old guitars in general are a lot more twangy and it’s easier to get that kind of sound.

[@wesbyers9210]

Been trying for this one forever. I totally get the frustration lol

[@IDreamofChocolateDreams]

17:33 Beauty in motion

[@maxwellescobar3089]

Another awesome lesson ❤ cant wait to get home and stuck into it love and respect from Australia

[@StopTryingSoHard]

His fingers look pretty identical to how they look in "R. L. Burnside with Johnny Woods" DVD and there he clearly cuts his nails super short and the skin rounds his thumbnail, so he's not playing with the side of the nail, so calluses is probably all it is.

[@bob6034]

Bro you so good I was looking for someone to explain how to play this🤣❤

[@bh9970]

You know how I get that sound with my thumb??? I lost a thumbnail and ever since it has grown back, my thumbnail is much more thicker. No joke. Great video thanks for sharing.

[@rumblcat]

Crazy difficult. Been trying for years. I saw a 12 year old kid on KZbin nail it. Made me want to quit guitar. But there is some cool history in music created by RL ‘s style of playing. It’s really difficult to play a normal drum beat to that style, so a unique drum beat was formed trying to play along with RL. Turns out that beat is amazing and may even have some voodoo qualities to it.

[@mutt8553]

Great video! I would love to see a video breaking down R.L’s playing on the video “Honky Tonk” on KZbin, where he plays goin down south and jumper hanging on the line live with a whole different groove going on, it’s awesome. I’ve tried to figure out what he’s playing on goin down south and just can’t get it right

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thanks- Thats a cool video. Ill see what I can do. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@tonyphillips878]

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[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

I recommend getting D'addario .011 or elixir .011 guage strings. These are a little lighter than some strings but itll make it easier to play. Your strings are most likely breaking just because they're old or defective. With the strings I recommend they should last years before you'll need or want to change them. Of course you can change them more often if you want but you wont need to. Hope this helps!

[@tonyphillips878]

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[@jeffgrove1389]

You gotta get your index finger working and alternating with the thumb strokes.

[@Mark70609]

It could be a thumbnail as some people have a nail grows around their thumb, so they don’t need longer nails. I would run with the thumb pick. A light Herco style pick with a light gauge would get you there.

[@田中ひよこ太郎]

教えてくれる人がいるのかぁ、ありがたいです。

[@田中ひよこ太郎]

ピックは使わない予定です。

[@timmcdougall5536]

Thank you so much xx

[@los_rubos]

Best SMJHOTL on YT !

[@FeguerFineArt]

He definitely is using his index finger, it's fast as lighting but you can see it move or better yet you can see the slight displacement at his resting spot.

[@JaSmiNEtherlands]

Omg man please make a video on how to play the entrance part of the song

[@erezklein5769]

Calluses form pretty fast, a month or less you'll be fine. don't push it or it will blister.

[@AnticTube]

Thank You!

[@huggins2012]

Can you show me the original tabs for this song, please.

[@1683clifton]

It's gotta be the amp at a hundred outside that makes it sound sick. I love doing that.

[@OneBeerLeft]

Hey I was just curious what the riff is RL plays at the very beginning before he even starts the song

[@OneBeerLeft]

I guess a better question might be what scale is he playing

[@failstreet99]

​@@OneBeerLeftjust the regular pentatonic in E

[@OneBeerLeft]

thank you! @@failstreet99

[@wulf67]

Put a drop of superglue on your thumb. Instant callous.

[@c420_nights]

This. 🧠

[@CastlesMadeOf...]

Tone is in the fingers... or in this case, the THUMB! :)