They’re Red Hot (Hot Tamales) Robert Johnson Guitar Lesson

Robert Johnson guitar lesson.
They’re Red Hot (Hot Tamales) is a great blues song from 1936.
More Hokum and Ragtime sounding than RJ’s usual Delta Blues and City Blues sound.
It’s a great song you may have heard The Red Hot Chilli Peppers performing on Blood Sugar Sex Magic.
Played on a vintage 1929 Gibson L-1 Guitar.
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[@martlgr]

Fabulous lesson!!

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[@bleakcandour]

You're killin it boi

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[@jeffreyharper2731]

Thank you sir for this lesson. Been wanting to learn this song for ages.

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Excellent! Hope it helps!!

[@afterburnercomics]

Excellent lesson !

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[@stevington]

I love this song, came to it and then Robert Johnson from listening to the Chili Peppers version. Great video Martyn.

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Yes ma man. ❤️

[@user-ti2xw1xo9e]

Hello, I very much appreciate you breaking down the cord shapes so I know how to fit them into the cords I already know. Thanks. Robert

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Perfect! Glad it helps.

[@imijofsoul-ajimiexperience7164]

Nice lesson and vibe kudos from the south!

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Thanks friend. 🎯

[@NipperLewis]

Great film! I like how you talk about making the song into a performance, I always find that is where the real fun is when learning a new song. I do the song "Hot Nuts" which is somewhat similar to this song and recorded in March 1936 by Lil Johnson. Robert Johnson recorded his song in November 1936, so may have been inspired by Lil as well as the Tamales seller.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

100% on both accounts!! I see so many guys do this type of music on expensive guitars and note perfect but they miss the thing where you connect to an emotional centre of the song then connect that to an audience. It’s all about PERFORMANCE! RJ performed the living daylights out of this song. I know RJ lifted so many of his songs (as so many did) but also feel that so many parts of this and songs like Hot Nuts have very generic patterns, words and themes. So much of composition is to recast and disguise other ideas that came before. 🎼🎯🎼

[@thomaswilleborts6771]

Oh yes, Martyn! What a great video with the right instructions,vocals and history of Robert Johnson 👏 I do like your accent and the differences in your voice. I was looking what tamales are and I came out on corn. Your described it better with words and a good old picture of it. That's what it makes to be 🔥 hot tamales!🌽 Thank you,man🙌

[@TheWashboardResonators]

They steam them in corn husks but it’s very stodgy. I don’t eat meat for a long time but I remember eating them when I did thinking this is too much fatty meatiness. I hope this video opens a few doors for people. It’s not definitive. Just a breakdown with extra pointers!

[@sirstashalot7441]

Heck yes! Thank you! I've been wanting to learn this song for a while but never got around to it.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

It’s really easy actually. Just have to listen to him lots to get the vocal performance, feel and drive! That’s the secret!

[@sirstashalot7441]

@@TheWashboardResonators the vocals will definitely be the hard part as I have yet to learn to sing and play... Even after 20 years of guitar 🤣😅

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@@sirstashalot7441 No time like the present to learn!

[@richmiller8979]

Another great video!

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Great video bro I’ve subscribed

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Thanks!! 🎯

[@CrazedFandango]

Great. I love this song. Thanks for posting. It might be a while before I can play this. :D

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It’ll come eventually if you practice it correctly! Thanks! 🎯

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❤ it!

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Nice

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Great video thank you

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[@cjbuk74]

Top job mister…!! Clapton did a great version of this, some great slide by Doyle Bramhall II, the late great Billy Preston on keys, Jerry Portnoy on harmonica.. some line up.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

Incredible lineup. Love all those guys together and as individuals too!

[@ThePandaProcrastinates]

I love Hot Tamales! For the extra measure in the intro, if you wanted to keep it in there what about treating it like a pick up note. At the end of the extra phrase the drummer can do a pickup to beat 1 of the song.

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It’s however people want to interpret it. In my case of using dep drummers I found that straightening it meant that with little or no rehearsal you can get through a gig. 🎯

[@jamessurnamepending1239]

i never registered this song as being anything other than easy to play, but oh boy this is a doozy

[@TheWashboardResonators]

It’s got some interesting ways of playing that pretty standard chord sequence! It’s a killer tune!

[@eastman566]

His actual Guitar is in the famous photo booth photo and it's a Kalamazoo.

[@TheWashboardResonators]

There are two photos of him holding a different guitar. I have both exact guitars. Gibson L1 and Kalamazoo KG14.

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@@TheWashboardResonators apparently the Gibson wasn't his it was loaned to him just for that photo as was the suit the hat and shoes.

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[@lithicus321]

Sadly you've never had a proper tamale. If you're ever in California...

[@TheWashboardResonators]

One day! Although it’d need to be vegetarian these days! 🥹

[@stevensmalls6302]

This guy is such a cheese ball

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Go to another part of KZbin Troll. 🫵🏻🍆

[@MrJesse3030]

Not even three minutes in and he’s veering from the original

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It’s a wide ranging lesson. 🎯