Roy Book Binder Teaches a Basic C Rag

[@sagarpitale]

Love the way he says, “I don’t know then names of most of my chords”, and yet sounds incredibly beautiful. Guess that happens when you play by ear and your heart instead of your eyes and fingers. Totally love your style Roy!

[@homespuntapes]

Roy is one of my all-time favorite people! He's as warm and personable as he appears in his instructional vids.

[@travelsonic]

Indeed he is - a cool uncle too (I'm one of his nephews - ALWAYS a good time at family functions, or even when he comes up north to visit.)

[@Braglemaster123]

He’s from Queens New York “

[@darthrabie11]

Man, I learned so much from this VHS about 15 years ago. If you are a new guitar player, this instruction is for you. It is so good.

[@flapjackson6077]

Same here! I learned John Henry, Louis Collins, Roy’s C rag, and Southbound… well, I’m still working on perfecting Southbound 20 years later. The Banjo roll part and a funky little part in the bridge section still confound me, but once in a while I manage to almost pull them off. 😏

[@buddybeetle]

Me too. Roy is such a great teacher, and player!

[@mumenrider862]

Being an intermediate blues player I stumbled on a few rag time tutorials. Oh MAN is this fun! I'm not the best finger picker but this may be the ticket to get me going!

[@DennisB643]

Have loved Roy's music for over 30 years. Have heard him in concert a couple of times. I love the Piedmont blues.

[@roberts7685]

I always love Roy because he is so humble. "I can't really explain to you what I'm doing with my right hand as far as picking because I don't really know what I'm doing either it just sorta comes to me. So just practice picking and develop your own sound and style instead of trying to sound just like me. I mean who would want to play like me." So glade I wasn't taking a sip of my coffee I would have spit it all over the computer screen I laughed so hard. LOVE YOU ROY!!!!!!!

[@awaywithpaul3423]

What an amazing teacher! Thank you sir

[@johnmcleod8961]

fantastic...my favorite style of guitar...thanks for sharing.

[@HomespunMusicInstruction]

Roy is so great!

[@PeterHyatt]

I have watched this DVD more times than I could count....it is a lot of fun and has a lot of learning to be gleaned! This is one of my favorite fun DVDs to just copy and play.

[@beniceorbegone]

I like how Roy talks his intro spiel over his pickin'. Not an easy task!

[@rogerdodger8415]

As a young 20 something I went to see bookbinder at a small venue, and after his performance, I asked him a question about finger picking. He blew me off like a turd. I never forgot that.

[@ledaswan5990]

I’ve heard similar stories

[@JK.Fraser]

Makes sense. Especially looking at his teaching style. Honestly, I like it when people ask questions about my playing during a break or after a show, but if I were confronted with a complex question when in performance mentality, I would have a hard time answering. Not only that, you can tell he was one of that generation that learned by ear and feel, without a firm grasp in theory and musical language. It's not a knock on him or people asking questions, but this is the type of guy that, once his guitar is out of his hands, probably wouldn't be able to describe what he's doing at all.

[@jaygeorge5743]

Sat down with my old Harmony in front of this and started teaching myself the variations. Excellent stuff, thanks!

[@Ystadcop]

Roy sometimes used to play in Tony Moore''s tiny pub, "The Meeting Place in Midleton, Co. Cork. He was in my opinion, the best artist to play there, always funny, instructive and very sociable..................... thanks for the posting.

[@1taylorgibson]

Well you definitely win first prize for best intro to a guitar lesson!

[@gmoore6166]

Roy “ the one” Bookbinder! Thanks buddy!

[@rogers531]

I love your humble account of making a great sound Thankyou sir Can even hear. Chet Atkins...

[@mousegang7]

Great stuff and I like your teaching style laid back.

[@CHANGUTHAKUR]

I tried playing this. I can do the thumb picking or pinky picking independently but doing them together!!!! This song sounds deceptively simple yet trying to play it has taken me back to the frustrations faced when I picked up the guitar.

[@ricoadventuravideos]

really nice after i get through the etta baker dvd im going to order yours i like what you guys are doing because i never felt right with playing covers but with this im right at home i also like that you are a good teacher etta doesnt help much all she does is talk about her daddy

[@divingduck1970]

I remember Homespun Tapes, the real tapes, the print catalog, all that. All the Traums. Woodstock lives on!

[@billybigtime2808]

I like this guys style no thrills informative and honest excellent work

[@JohnPoulton1]

Very good playing, I enjoyed the the humility. Very instructive.

[@travelsonic]

I liked when Roy would, while playing live, play the ending to the Black Dog Blues, and pretended he learned from a skipping record / would repeat the end a few dozen times, always a good laugh. 😂

[@c.chelseathedog7987]

Great lesson …and a very beautiful Groucho Marx -style moustache or even Billy Bevan !! Thanks for this precious post , From Deep South of France 🥖🍷🧀, 🖐😀🦊

[@robertscott5191]

You speak my language book binder. Thought i was intermediate until i saw this and reevaluated my thought process.

[@iSagada42]

This is an excerpt from a lesson, not a lesson. It's not ideal for a beginner, but for someone who has some basic fingerpicking and command of chord changes it's very useful in the effort to expand those skills and make more of them.

[@vitalismed]

That is one hell of a helpful video! So many things you can learn from the awesome Roy

[@jamesmonahanmusic]

Wonderful video. 😊 I'm your newest subscriber.

[@HomespunMusicInstruction]

Thanks for subscribing. We will be posting more videos soon!

[@xaymaca666]

wonderful video!! i love the way you snap the strings! thanks Roy!! :)

[@erniegibbs4002]

This guy is a great teacher

[@Danielle216trans]

This is insanely fantastic

[@robertscott5191]

I know right!!!!! As soon as my upper lip reaches maturity. So will my right thumb i suppose. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@gymtao6343]

Excellent lesson my friend, regards from Spain

[@stevevallance6326]

Thanks, always find time to learn something new.

[@mjain2]

Love it.... great teaching style, the conversational instructions and good visuals of the left hand will make this a good resource for me I think. I'm off to the website to see what I can order. Cheers mate, thanks.

[@goodtimefolkrock]

good stuff to be learned here......I'm self taught and just checked in to see if I'd been playing it right.......yup I was. youtube is amazing in that reguard

[@Andrew-ez9cp]

Thanks for the lesson made get back into my guitar 🎸

[@leoded]

Man, i just love you. i wish you were my uncle or brother. i think you have a therapeutic quality. god bless you.

[@c9sus4]

I bought his country guitar video tapes a long time ago...and feel very disappointed and thought how could this guy teach anything? However this DVD has changed my mind, he looks very pro. and sounds very experienced and most of all down-to-earth-kind-of-guy. Thanks Roy.

[@hatespeasoup]

was he singing in the beginning?

[@sethw997]

Great blues ramble intro

[@flapjackson6077]

@@sethw997 Exactly!

[@shanfaulkner5607]

WONDERFUL GUITAR LESSON.. THANK YOU

[@steverichardson9128]

I see folk are whining about your style..damn their eyes, fules...lovely stuff Roy, keep it up.

[@scottparmenter5783]

I wonder if you can still get these tapes. I have original reel to reel homespun tapes. I learned a lot from the Traums

[@62dan57]

Great fun! Real good advice. And I love deadpan humour !

[@stevedouglas7375]

Love the honesty! "I don't play like Mississippi John Hurt. I don't know the names of all the chords." Wow, I sure can relate. I play and most people like it, but I don't get puffed up about it. Very nice lesson here!

[@murraysmusic5121]

what a powerful moustache. what a useful video. this must live on.

[@TNJ454]

jees Roy how could I have missed you!?.. well guess it wasn´t that hard , ....anyway I sure am glad i found you now!

[@iansing5278]

"not that I didn't wish I did, but I don't." thanks Roy...

[@TimothyRyanFisher]

The G7 with the D on the second string (third fret) is a classical guitar voicing. It is still called simply G7, D is the 5th, part of the chord.

[@charlesklein9169]

Sounds great. ❤ it !!! 👍

[@daveblevins3322]

Well now. This is what I have been looking for. Thank you Roy. By the way, I play the same A FLAT that you do in this video on my version of "World is waiting on the Sunrise". :)

[@pollotom]

God! Your intro to this vid w vocals sounds like the tune Alices Restaurant Very nice!

[@lynettekomidar]

it's 'talking blues'

[@SuperOlds88]

I'd like to play like you Roy.

[@johnklatt4726]

He inspired me to buy my first instrument.

[@MyChrisfish]

Nice video lesson, thank you

[@CharlesFunk4]

I love this guy!!

[@TrevorColeman93]

that was sick

[@martinevans7771]

great song

[@pegasus745]

Does any one know what kind of guitar this is that he is playing in this video??? Been trying to find out for some time

[@TheHammyman59]

awesome lesson thanks so much !

[@caryl246]

Thanks Roy!

[@mosescotton]

Roy is my Friend

[@robindavies24]

Certainly agree with above comment; great DVD

[@LosApuntes]

Amo el Rag.

[@harrylook7810]

'strumming makes the fancy part look better'. i'm stealing that hilarious line :)

[@johnnyvlimki2389]

Part2, And 2-3 weeks later he´s dad gave me this gitar,of cause i´ve been playing for some time and he had notised that. When i took of the top of this gitar,today,i could reed"For Roy Book Binder" and i was thinking"who the h..l is that", cause i was told that this gitar was onse belonging to a Norwegian blus artist wiyh the name of Vidar Busk! Now i will sit down and listen to this RoyBB for the first time,And i will be back. J. Norway

[@andrebenoit404]

Had to like this just for the intro

[@ricaurandt6713]

Bet a top dollar he covers a mean rendition of Alice's Restaurant. Probly a real hoot round Thanksgivin.

[@peterhansen6919]

Now THAT is a F'in moustache...

[@GixxerRider1991]

It might sound a little hollow (as barre chords tend to do), but you can play an Ab by using a standard barre on the fourth fret. When you're playing finger style like this, pluck a little harder on the low E (or in this case, the G#) for a little more resonance. Since you're going right from a C chord, you can slide your index finger up the low E string and start curling your fingers so by the time you get it up to the fourth fret you can hit the barre. You can do a hinge barre here like he's doing, but playing a hinge barre that close to nut requires finger strength that most novice and even some intermediate players simply don't possess.

[@rodneykitchen3869]

sounds a lot like Gary Davis, must 've played the albums over n over !

[@johnpaulbonnell7038]

I dig it

[@grassfireu]

Hard to find the old KZbin vids. Glad the misguided geeks at Google sent me this one.

[@artlo8553]

Excelente!!! Thanks

[@RussellMcCannIT]

Very nice! I really appreciate it. :-D

[@gibby6904]

What guitar is this...I know it is an advanced Jumbo copy but it's not a Gibson.

[@ricktemmen6272]

It looks like a Gibson J45 to me

[@66guitaROB]

GREAT !!!

[@SkandorMusic]

Zak McKracken can play one helluva guitar!

[@roussos87]

BADASS TEACHER

[@Nicbarnes1]

Put in a little boogie woogie, love it :)

[@dejaliloquy]

thanks!

[@forcd2createchannel321]

The chord with the D on the B string is a G, unless you add the F on the E string and then it's a G7. A G6 is when you add the 6th tone in the scale which is an E. So, if you add the E on the D string (with G, B and D) you will have a G6

[@robertscott5191]

Ya............right...gotcha

[@ES_335]

Could be a little boogie woogie in that stach if you ask me

[@oliverk191]

Learning without the internet "learn to play it your way" vs "do you have the tab for this?"

[@DennisB643]

Sounds like a old Gibson certainly and from the truss cover.

[@WillPower5361]

Yeah, looks that way doesn't it. That's just Roy!

[@digitalwitness2706]

That stache!

[@stevenl378]

💪💪💪

[@Braglemaster123]

Born “ Bookbinder “

[@davidmacleod9313]

Who would want to play like you?!!! Are you kidding? I would!!!! (Do you do stand up as well? Because you are funny) Thanks for this tutorial!

[@philbowflaggon8363]

Thats a heck of a good mustache.

[@yachtabaco]

Roy awesome thank you, a man after my own heart. lol. PW

[@HarryNicNicholas]

I had an advanced jumbo once - but it got stolen....

[@Hyperion_Studios1]

❤️

[@Thrawn6211]

That "some other g chord" is a G6.

[@heatmanable]

I'd love to play half as good as you (-:

[@drbogenbroom2000]

Gibson Advanced Jumbo

[@fkustaa]

I like the part where you explain that a guitarist especially those learning to play the guitar should follow the lessons of the teachers, but they should not forget to develop their own style instead of trying to follow the style of the guitar teacher. It would be helpful if you can write down the notes instead of just mentioning them at the beginning of the lesson. You play a bit fast and don't teach the way you do the picking of the base strings and the melody ones simultaneously for the song. Also, can you provide the TAB for the way you are picking the notes for the song because here you don’t teach the picking pattern that you are using as you play the song?

[@darthrabie11]

If you get the whole DVD/instruction video it has the tab included. As all homespun videos have.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

Funny, when I met him back in the eighties he told me that tabulature was cheating and I should learn to play by ear - lol.

[@erniegibbs4002]

This one's like Alices restaurant by Arlo Guthrie

[@johnnyvlimki2389]

Today i was disassembeling my newest gitar in my collektion,cause it needed to be lined up and inntoned,of course it needed to be washed properly to. This gitar is an Polycrome 030 from july 1994,and there was a boy in about a year ago whom bougth a moped from me. He did buy it from a friend of mine and i gave him my moped to him when he was at my home to pick it up with hes dad. me my self gave ca.500,-usd.for this bike and my friend did give the same. I was allreddy sick of that bike. ## J