"Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" Fingerstyle Lesson, from Blues Guitar with Orville Johnson

The Peghead Nation Blues Guitar course with Orville Johnson will help you become a complete blues player through lessons in country blues fingerpicking, blues lead guitar, and bottleneck slide, with examples from vintage blues songs by Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and more. In this sample lesson, Orville teaches a fingerstyle arrangement of the folk-blues classic “Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor,” inspired by the playing of Mississippi John Hurt.
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Orville Johnson is a Seattle-based singer, instrumentalist, record producer, songwriter, session player, teacher, and, above all, instinctive and sensitive musician.
As his entry in the Encyclopedia of Northwest Music states, Orville “has become a vital figure on the NW music scene in the 30-some years he’s lived there, appearing on over 400 CDs, movie and video soundtracks, commercials, producing 22 CDs for other artists, hosting a roots music radio show, and appearing in the 1997 film Georgia with Jennifer Jason-Leigh and Mare Winningham, on the Prairie Home Companion radio show and on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show.
Born and raised in the southern Illinois heartland, Orville acquired his love of singing as a youth in the fundamentalist Pentecostal church he attended and, when he later began playing guitar and dobro, responded to the roots music that surrounded him by learning to play the blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, and country music that are all part of the mosaic that characterizes his own mongrel music.
Orville is also known as a patient and insightful teacher of music and has taught often at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop as well as the International Guitar Seminar, Pt. Townsend Blues Workshop, Euro-Blues Workshop, B.C. Bluegrass Workshop and others. www.orvillejohnson.com

[@caydenbrewer9379]

who else agrees that the hardest things about finger pickin is getting the bass notes down?

[@PTE989]

The first time I've heard an online instructor say, play around, play how you like it. That's a big step in becoming a musician that a lot of people miss out on due to every instructor selling "play it like this. This is the secret. Buy my stuff" , this man right here is an educator/parent , he just wants to see us grow and spread his knowledge

[@bhsg]

Your play-through of the song was cold-blooded.. You sir, are a bad dude👌

[@scottvrosenfeld]

Damn old man.. . you got SOUL! I'll give you that... Respect and Thank You!

[@SuperOlds88]

I love how the notes snap off the strings. Listening to this video just to hear you sing and play.

[@laurent4480]

Thanks for your encouragement and your tolerance for begeners...

[@richardvaughan9994]

This reminds me so much of a song I learned Freight train... right down to the chords in it

[@Oberkobold]

That's true. The change to E major especially

[@chaunceyhulbert7264]

YES!!!!

[@sambrackbill6486]

Also similar to Railroad Bill

[@pargelenis8928]

I mean thats blues man, hell music in general sometimes.

[@quandaledingle8960]

Thanks for playing the full song in the beginning. Amazing

[@rickbrooks3628]

brilliantly taught Orville

[@ianson3]

Those embellishments are gorgeous. Working hard to incorporate.

[@zumo3312]

You look so kind

[@the_spaceinvader7556]

Dang man you’re definitely underrated, this lesson is great 👍. Keep it up

[@raindogred]

thats the coolest thin I have seen in a while. excellent singing and playing

[@kendo5862]

That’s a lovely finish on the guitar

[@kylekinney7578]

Thank you for the tutorial Orville! Very easy to follow and helped me learn this song!

[@rembrandtvanrijn8591]

Pretty sure Mississippi John Hurt would be proud.

[@nniicckktt]

Beautiful!

[@MegaChoo2]

That is a righteous guit fiddle

[@kendo5862]

I see your 3 fingers playing ... but I hear 12 fingers playing. Sweet melodies!

[@dufus2273]

you play with such ease and accuracy. maybe someday I can...…… thanks

[@RickNBacker]

"this in an old, old song, dates back to the turn of the century..." so only 21 years old then? ;)

[@danielloden1939]

Very helpful. Many thanks.

[@haroldmartin7499]

Most cool sir !

[@2121johnmark]

Amazing. Thank You!

[@haroldmartin7499]

Dang you good.

[@jacobwright4653]

Don Ross teaching me finger-style Blues

[@aps510]

Is that your Gibson Orville? I've never seen you with it!

[@VALObrand]

nice arrangement. but no tabs??

[@chrisshaw380]

make your own friend :)

[@Gregorskorino]

That was allegedly the exact same thing Robert Johnson said to the Devil that time at the crossroads. Devil kicked him square in the nuts and said "knock it off doofus". Rest is history.

[@delberry8777]

"turn of the century" around 2000 , ok

[@tjpowell520]

He's talking about the 1900's sir