Top 5 Eight Bar Blues - Live!

Tunes you should learn in 2024

[@shavedmonkey9821]

Thank you so much David....i appreciate all the years you have dedicated to the guitar, the reclusive nights, the mornings and all the times in between, some people dont understand how much of your life you give away to it, i have played bluegrass banjo for 34 years and i suddenly put it down when i saw you showcasing the Republic resonator guitars, so i did some research and found your channel....and bought a Republic guitar

[@kentoskentos8428]

Amazing, DAVID the best blues teacher.

[@javiertaramona5982]

Great workshop! I learnt a few songs with one of your first dvds 20 years ago

[@VitalBigras]

Came in late but really appreciate the fine teaching, THANKS 🙏

[@jimsliverootsculturemusic]

Hey I learned Key To The Highway off a Little Walter record, with Muddy Waters on guitar, 1958. Walter selected a lot of old-time classic blues, this one from Big Bill Broonzy. Going through my collection, I've found a couple 8-bar blues you didn't play or mention: It Hurts Me Too, Just Your Fool. Plus a few singles such as Hobo Wine Blues by Nat Myers, I'm Growing Older by Herman E. Johnson, and a variation of I'll Get A Break by Tony Hollins, Big Time Woman, 1941. Annye Anderson's book, Brother Robert, contains a great story of Robert playing Trouble In Mind with Big Walter Horton, just hanging out at home in Memphis. Lastly, isn't Open C different from Open D taken one step down? I had to discover this learning Sunflower River Blues. ps-Duane Allman played slide on dobro too and I always thought he used the same coricidan bottle, not sure though.

[@joshnova9163]

David - Any chance you might teach songs from Beautiful Scar (i.e., When the Cold Front Comes”)? So many cool grooves and counter rhythms. .

[@oscarduc1653]

Martin guitar? Which model?

[@normanwheeler9802]

Just my 2 cents on guitars. I just got to Veitnam and went down to guitar Street here in Siegon. They make some very beautiful guitars here. But I found them over built and not very resonate. But I did find a Alvarez blue51 palor guitar on facebook marketplace. And I bought it for a travel guitar. I'm very impressed with the little beauty , flat top solid spruce.But the back is domed with no back braces .the guitar is a thin body guitar and is very resonate. I'm thinking of making a tone guard for the back of the guitar. Just because it noticeable when I play the guitar and when it touches my body the volume and tone goes way down. If you get a chance to play one ,let me know what you think

[@szingszing]

Sound is great here on SaltSpring Island.

[@Romamb]

Same here in Glasgow

[@gordonarnold3301]

I am very interested in how you “fake the fourth string” (37:45 in the video) You get a backbeat snap/click to it that used to make me think you were tapping your foot. It’s like a metronome hearing it on the video from your Martin. Do you have many lessons on that and your right-hand techniques?

[@FretboardConfidential]

Haha! Well, sometimes I *am* tapping my foot, too. But yes, in a series of lessons on playing "Rollin' and Tumblin'" in A with an alternating thumb groove, I spend some time going over that technique. And in general, I try and break down things like rakes and some of the other things that are hard to spell out but really have an effect on the overall groove. For every song, there is a detailed explanation of how to break the song down into just the melody and just the thumb groove, and how to put it back together so everything feels solid.