Sunflower River Blues - JOHN FAHEY - Song Tutorial

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

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[@drzecelectric4302]

I did!

[@harryfarber6435]

Is open C tuning another name for C unison tuning?

[@danbgt]

@@harryfarber6435 No.

[@mountain_girl]

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[@jimji5116]

I've been a John Fahey fan since the 60s. I actually met John, he had come to Montreal to play at a local folk music club. Apparently he had a girlfriend in Montreal. In between sets I would talk to him in the green room. He had been to India and also I had been to India. Apparently he was or had been a follower of a woman saint, Anandamayi Ma. After the gig, I drove him back to his hotel. The next morning he was flying back to the states. I still love his music, an originator of the guitar style called "Americian Primitive Guitar".

[@wolfpencilmap]

For years I have only ever picked with my thumb and index finger (I'm a left handed player who plays right handed so always felt quite 'handicapped' in that sense) and thought I'd never get any better. This tutorial got me picking with my thumb, index and middle finger for the first time ever! Thanks for this amazing tutorial which helped me finally push through and challenge myself to be a better player!

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

This is fantastic! I'm so glad this lesson helped get you picking! Go you!!!

[@MonnizProductions]

More John Fahey! This one is great, thanks!

[@Andy_Fallon]

Another great lesson. You’re one of the few online teachers I can sit with for the weeks or months it takes me to learn a tune. I’d love you to add ‘The last Steam Train Engine’ in the near future.🤘🏻

[@danbgt]

That is the very first song I learned to play.

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

I knew this was up your alley as soon as I tuned my 6th to C 😎👍

[@danbgt]

@@BluesGuitarInstitute My favorite tuning! Do some more. 👍

[@Tthumb]

Thanks for this! Sounds great 👍🏻

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

Glad you like it! Great tune, thanks!

[@pauldehorn]

Beautiful sounding Larrivee!

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

Thank you, Paul! It's my #1 and I loved hearing it in this tuning. Appreciate you taking the time to comment. Play On! John

[@mountain_girl]

Did somebody say John Fahey?? Think its probably safe to say that most people here love music, love a lot of artists, and love a lot of songs. But there's a small handful of artists who's music ...i dunno...haunts my sould at night-kinda-thing? Fahey is one of those artists. Chris Whitely, Jeff Buckley......If anythings gonna keep anyone up at night, it may as well be a chord pregression or a riff or a lick that is so simple yet so next level amazing.....thanks for this, it was nice to find in my email today. cheers adding...that Larrivee sounds amazing/beautiful.

[@MrPDGee]

Have to say, after trying to learn thumbpicking techniques with the standard molded thumbpicks which hurt my thumbs, the Black Mountain picks are outstanding. Spring loaded with just the right amount of closure to hold them without the hurt, and shaped like a regular pick so they feel more natural in playing. They already feel more natural to use and my practice times are more productive and enjoyable.

[@SailingCeledon]

Thanks a lot for this lesson and the videos. If you could slow down a tiny weeny notch when dicoomposing the picking patterns that would be of great help, I have to go over and over again to figure some parts out 😅

[@russkolisnyk8909]

One of my favorites to play. Open C tuning is such a rich tuning (some say John invented it). Many of his pieces are in Open C. Jack Rose did a recording tuned down an entire step. Sounds amazing. Always play with my Black Mountain thumb picks (and National Brass finger picks). I tried the National thumb pick but prefer my Black Mountain! Thanks for the lesson. 😀

[@RyanNelly]

really like the shape of that

[@drzecelectric4302]

Dude you make me such a better player. Thank you!

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

Glad to hear it! Play On!!

[@Sweepdog700]

I just watched a video Catfish Keith before this one. Was thinking I’d love to play guitar like that. Then this came up and it has that same sound. This is great I will learn it thanks.

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

Thanks, Rob. I really dig Catfish Keith. He's great.

[@jankdale]

Thank you!

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

You're welcome!

[@GM-mv1ch]

More Fahey please!

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

Which tune? :)

[@GM-mv1ch]

@@BluesGuitarInstitute thanks for replying! I would love St. Louis Blues or Worried Blues Also Kensington Blues by Jack Rose would be fantastic!

[@seadnamacgiollacoda4019]

Great lesson thanks. I hope you cover more John Fahey songs. And maybe some Leo Kottke...? When will the TAB for this be available on BGI?

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

there are a couple of links to tabs in the description. I can't provide tabs for these copyrighted songs.

[@seadnamacgiollacoda4019]

@@BluesGuitarInstitute No problem, thanks. I have the John Fahey Anthology TAB book from Hal Leonard and it's on that!

[@pawild5594]

Great tune is there an open D or open G version of this song?

[@nashwilliams5852]

It’s pretty easy to do in open D.

[@raymondville]

Thanks!

[@BluesGuitarInstitute]

Thank you!!