Travis Picking Blues Licks in C

[@Gminor7]

Hi David - I met you about 1985 at NGSW , I remember we had Gatemouth visit the class. It’s a gift to be able to follow your excellent teaching all these years later. You’re a gentleman and a scholar.

[@FretboardConfidential]

Gminor7 Thanks so much and great to hear from you! I remember that visit well :-)

[@ntimo18]

Wow everything you are teaching I have just started discovering I last while. Improvising with a constant baseline. Trying to do scales on top. Glad I found this. Great job

[@raydrainville1436]

David, for some reason this lesson has been the hardest for me to really master. I will continue to work at it and hopefully make it as ingrained as possible. Thanks for another fingerstyle piece of the puzzle.

[@FretboardConfidential]

Hey Raymond! There is potentially a lot going on here, beginning with the basic moves but escalating into some more elaborate applications by the end of the lesson. I'm not sure how far in you got, but I'd say concentrate on the coordination and the groove and making the simplest examples sound good, and you'll have a foundation you can start to build on before you know it.

[@jimmyhood1860]

Excellent! You always provide both the encouragement and the inspiration to play more! Thanks!

[@FretboardConfidential]

Glad it's helping! Thanks for taking the time to drop me a line.

[@raydrone]

It is interest when you learning somewhere else and see you talk about in your playing. It all fits together . It give a sense of completion & that your not wasting your time learn the beginner stuff or base note and how it build to music

[@paddy6295]

This is a great lesson; very helpful.

[@karlfarren]

Love your work, Man. Your step-by-step methodical approach, building layers really works for me. Thanks again, David.

[@brankovukojevic3628]

Great stuff! I love this style and you really present it well.

[@jkeith2525]

the john hurt vibe in this is incredible

[@jrmybwedding]

Thanks, man. Very useful lesson!

[@ryanfbrad10]

Great tutorial!!! Thanks so much. Is the tab still available on your website? Cheers

[@Gminor7]

Mississippi Hamburger, sounding great!

[@HomerLyle]

Hi David...Towards the end of the video, in two or three places, you make a brushing sound. I tried to isolate it, but it is difficult to tell exactly what you are doing. I was wondering if you could elaborate and explain what is going on. Great video, by the way.

[@lawrencemcconnell8962]

Why does everything you do sound like ragtime? Could you mix it up every now and then? H-m-m-m.

[@marieouellette1101]

Any tips on how to develop the independence required to keep the groove steady and play a melody over top? I've been a flat picker for 50 yrs and find it hard to separate the two.

[@FretboardConfidential]

Hi Marie! You could start with just the thumb, making sure you know exactly which string to play on each beat of the measure (say, 5th-4th-6th-4th, for the C chord). Then, start playing just one note on top, on the first beat of the measure (say, the open high E string at the same time as that first 5th-string thumb note). Then try putting that single note on top on all the other beats, one by one. After that, go back to playing that note on the first beat again, and add in a single eighth note right after it, on the "and" of 1 - that'll be the first time you play a finger note *in between* the notes you're playing with your thumb. And then, keep making up additional variations, start changing what notes you're playing on top (2nd string, 3rd string) and so on. Basically, you're just working out the *rhythmic* control for your right hand, which you can then apply to various situations like the ones in this video.

[@jaywall5938]

thanks fab

[@phillancello350]

C never sounded so good...................