Hesitation Blues guitar lesson with a guitar teacher (Jorma Kaukonen, Rev. Gary Davis)

Guitar lesson tutorial for Hesitation Blues, a blues standard played by Rev. Gary Davis, Jorma Kaukonen and many others...
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0:00 Start
0:57 watch Jorma
1:35 the form chart
6:18 form variation
14:23 solo part
20:23 Slow play through tips

[@maxmoose10]

Happy to see people interested in Jorma, who was my mentor. Since he taught me (and my section) his tunes himself, I won't nit pick -- there are too many things. BUT I just had to respond to your comment around 12:00. Jorma's five-finger G7 chord (which he used to call his "Bo Diddley" chord) -- it's sort of the basis for a lot of his old tunes, and I'm afraid you simply won't be able to play some of them without the right chord. For example, on "Search My Heart," he does a very distinctive slide INTO the chord each time -- if there's a way around it, I don't know it. The right chord is: low string - thumb on third fret, 5th string - middle finger on second fret, 4th string - ring finger on third fret. 3rd string - open G, 2nd string - pinky on third fret, first string - index finger on 1st fret. SO it's G B F, G, D, F. Of course, that's a jumping off point to do a lot of improvisation while maintaining the bass part. You are also set up then for the descending piano rolls on the 2nd and 4th strings. As for that bass, he can do it as an inside out pick - 5-4-6-4 so that the chord can sort of be applied in two steps, with the thumb getting secure after the rest of it. I don't remember it being a problem for me or any of his students there. BTW His hands are big but not huge. When I hung around with him he was about 6'2" maybe, and lanky. The Maestro is 83 now and going strong! I hope this helps!

[@FatLadyKiller]

I love your vids brother. Some people talk for 10 minutes and you’ve learned nothing, some people fly through it like you already know the song. Yours are perfect. IMO the best in the internet. Keep up the great work man 🤘🏻

[@michaelpadula2943]

YES!

[@iiiaiiin]

A favourite of my father's. Used to play it all the time. RIP

[@BlindLemonMeringue]

great video, and great choice of tune to learn. thanks for your efforts

[@dirtworshiper2800]

You are an amazing player and so is Jorma. First time I saw him on t.v. play with Jefferson airplane I was a little kid and he blew my mind on how easy he made it look. Thanks a ton for sharing.

[@dandalgleish1137]

Great lesson Thanks for making this kind of thing so much more accessible.

[@DJ-sn2wn]

I've been waiting for a good lesson on this song for a while. thank you!

[@philodonoghue3062]

What a find to luck across . Great to see a teacher still a learner “A teacher learns twice.” Straight up onto my homepage as a short cut.

[@jamesbannon395]

Great lesson

[@Buddhabellie]

I love the way you teach...you are really helping me...thank you....

[@isaiahneeposh2835]

Just learned it tonight man thanks a lot👍 I’ll be waiting for the follow up video

[@dmyerstc55]

Heath this is an awesome lesson!! thank you very much

[@stryderaaa]

The Lesson of the year !!

[@smandez2023]

You spell all this out so good Heath- another great lesson! Happy Thanksgiving!

[@butchermachine]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH!

[@serfdogg]

It would be a milestone to finally learn this thanks

[@vaxxedfilms7477]

Great lesson thanks!

[@SuperJohnmackenzie]

Many thanks great lesson

[@DavidDelarre]

Great lesson man! Thanks!

[@fredericfournier5662]

EXCELLENT !!! ❤ This song will be my next. I actually play J. Kaukonen's "Genesis" on a cedar GS5 Taylor* and it sounds great. Hesitation blues is one or two or three steps higher with more complicated and various picking patterns. BluesRag guitar recently led me to discover Gary Davis and... Wow. Greetings from France. * + Gretsch Deltoluxe hole mic on Fishman Loudbox, but anyway pure acoustic sound suits me most of the time.

[@carlyellison8498]

Thank you!

[@gnawbabygnaw]

Glad I found ya! 🤙🤙

[@brutallyremastered4255]

Jorma on the first side Hot Tuna-Double Dose absolutely fantastic - cool af.

[@knip80]

THANKS

[@51skibum2]

Damn! One of my all time favorites! Been listening to Jorma since the first Jefferson Airplane album(the one before Grace Slick). Hot Tuna and solo performances. You do justice in your teaching videos. Have a great Thanksgiving

[@billr2375]

remember that one very early album where Grace thanks her brother, "thank you Darby"...never heard from him again.

[@51skibum2]

@@billr2375 was that when she was still in the Great Society before the airplane? Darby Slick wrote someone to love

[@user-du1qf6yt2q]

bon exercice!

[@marco1950-s2b]

Bella lezione anche con sottotitoli in più lingue 👍e tab.con grandi caratteri 🤸

[@harpoon123]

Great lesson of a classic by one of the modern Masters. If you do a lesson on "If You Haven't any Hay" by Ernie Hawkins I will have no choice but to join your site. You are doing a fantastic job of teaching some great music BTW!!

[@HenBroon9]

Just love it sounds a bit blind Blake 😍

[@jordanboerum5865]

Please please please do a lesson of Done Got Old by Junior Kimbrough off of the Meet Me In The City album. I cant find any lessons or tabs for it. Thank you for your hard work. Ive learned a lot!

[@jukejointjack]

I’d love to see a great tutorial on the CW Stoneking tune On a desert isle

[@Malvers]

Merci pour tout ce que tu partages ! Could you make a tuto about a song cover by Jorma too, of rev. Gary Davis ? Name of the song : Death Have no mercy ?? A real raw blues... 😊 Thank you

[@stefanobiglia667]

That’s a great lesson for a great tune! May a suggest a beautiful song by Brownie McGhee, “Born and Living with the Blues”? Thank you so much for your beautiful work!

[@stevehowell231]

Hot Tuna live is great.

[@pauld7704]

The G7 with the thumb over the neck is similar to the G7 that Rev. Davis used, but the Rev. could also get the D on the B-string with his pinkie finger and F on the high e-string with his index finger, it’s nuts

[@PierLucaLanzi]

Really great tutorial. Ever thought about "How Long Blues" still by Jorma Kaukonen? :)

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Thanks! I just added it to my list! It seems yall like the Jorma lessons Ive done- Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@Blacksmith1959]

This looks hard and challenging

[@scottparmenter5783]

Listen to the version with Janis Joplin

[@healthdoc]

Good ending is to flat the C7 and slide up into C7 finish.

[@tomh4680]

Actually written by Jelly Roll Morton (I think) it might even be older than that.

[@timjames72]

i luv hot tuna !! thanks heaps !!! fun fact= they wanted to be called' hot shit ' but not allowed to

[@ianleonarrd123]

you should teach hot tunas nine pound hammer

[@FeedbackGuitarAcademy]

Nice suggestion! Ill add it to my list-Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@charlie44266]

Good vid. The song goes back before Rev Gary Davis, it was composed earlier by Jelly Roll Morton, a very early jazz piano composer, before 1915 and played in the New Orleans bawdy houses. before it was recorded. [ kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3TCi4Fvp9iKZ6c ]

[@andrewclack4881]

gary davis chord

[@jasperberends7799]

This is a waste of time if you're not going to go over te picking pattern. Wtf am I supposed to do with my pick hand???