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Post by PistolPete on Mar 3, 2023 15:58:03 GMT
I'm going to attempt an occasional series of guitar lesson videos where I try and I cram as much information as I can about a key concept of acoustic blues music into around 5 minutes as an introduction to guitarists of all levels who want to learn more about blues playing. Any constructive feedback, comments or suggestions of what to cover would be gratefully received!
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Post by borborygmus on Mar 4, 2023 12:08:50 GMT
Well done, Pete. Good licks. Suggestion: put your script higher, maybe just behind the camera, so you're not looking down. And, you hid your great smile until the end fade-out!
Peter
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Post by PistolPete on Mar 5, 2023 9:52:41 GMT
Thanks borborygmus . I did spot that I was talking to the desk and I have downloaded a teleprompter app to use next time. As for my lovely smile - I shall have you know the blues is serious business! (point taken)
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Post by delb0y on Mar 6, 2023 16:26:49 GMT
Yes, good stuff. You certainly crammed a lot in - obviously the intent! I worry that a beginner would be a bit overwhelmed - you've covered the shuffle well, and taken the viewer on a quick journey through many of the ways in which it can be used but left them to explore those ways themselves (even suggested this is what they do). As a content provider you may be better served guiding them step-by-step yourself rather than providing the high-level overview and then sending them off to other people's channels for the how-to-actually-do-it(*)(**). You could, for example, create a series of follow on videos for the shuffle, and take them through each step / example. Each video might only be three or four minutes long, but at least they're your videos.
It would be good to drop in some examples (copyright permitting) to illustrate the points in real situations. That might just be me - but it's a real bug-bear of mine when reading guitar books that say "These are the chords to a well known jazz standard" or "this sequence is often used to get back to the one chord." Real-life examples are gold-dust!
I guess the 12 bar blues sequence and some simple variations - quick change / turnaround / using the V for two bars versus using the V then the IV etc would be a good next step. You could also talk about the eight bar blues, sixteen bar etc without getting to complex.
Barre chords - even if it's just for the rhythm riff- will be useful. Especially playing the 12 bar starting with a 6th string root and another version starting with the 5th string root.
(*) I think it's easy to forget how much we all know, and even a simple "I'm deadening the strings" or a simple Texas blues riff can be daunting to the beginner. And clearly the beginner is your target audience
(**) They might not come back!
Good stuff! Derek
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Post by Derick on Mar 9, 2023 20:01:58 GMT
Well done Pete, excellent video.
Well who can resist a bit of Acoustic Blues. I'm sure your videos will become very popular, you have a great way of explaining and demonstrating the Blues techniques. Wish you all the best with your future videos, on the Blues.
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Post by PistolPete on Mar 10, 2023 15:10:21 GMT
Yes, good stuff. You certainly crammed a lot in - obviously the intent! I worry that a beginner would be a bit overwhelmed - you've covered the shuffle well, and taken the viewer on a quick journey through many of the ways in which it can be used but left them to explore those ways themselves (even suggested this is what they do). As a content provider you may be better served guiding them step-by-step yourself rather than providing the high-level overview and then sending them off to other people's channels for the how-to-actually-do-it(*)(**). You could, for example, create a series of follow on videos for the shuffle, and take them through each step / example. Each video might only be three or four minutes long, but at least they're your videos. It would be good to drop in some examples (copyright permitting) to illustrate the points in real situations. That might just be me - but it's a real bug-bear of mine when reading guitar books that say "These are the chords to a well known jazz standard" or "this sequence is often used to get back to the one chord." Real-life examples are gold-dust! I guess the 12 bar blues sequence and some simple variations - quick change / turnaround / using the V for two bars versus using the V then the IV etc would be a good next step. You could also talk about the eight bar blues, sixteen bar etc without getting to complex. Barre chords - even if it's just for the rhythm riff- will be useful. Especially playing the 12 bar starting with a 6th string root and another version starting with the 5th string root. (*) I think it's easy to forget how much we all know, and even a simple "I'm deadening the strings" or a simple Texas blues riff can be daunting to the beginner. And clearly the beginner is your target audience (**) They might not come back! Good stuff! Derek Thanks Derek - some stuff to think about there. Personally I get frustrated with how slow a lot of teaching videos go, even on subjects where I am a complete novice , like DIY or software. Given YouTube is a format that allows you to pause as much as you need, backtrack or re-watch at 50% speed, taking ten minutes to explain something that a moderately intelligent person can grasp in a sentence or two seems unnecessary (put your screwdriver in here, turn anticlockwise until effect is achieved, then re-tighten), which is why I made the decision to do some very short videos with a grand overview of a topic. My plan was that I might go back and cover things in more detail if there seemed to be demand for that. The riffs and stuff I included were supposed to be the real world examples you might come across (maybe I should have said "this Lighnin' Hopkins riff", rather than "this Texas blues riff") but my thinking was that by simplifying them a bit and putting them all in the same key it would better illustrate how the same feel gets put to different uses in different sorts of songs. Calling it The Beginner's Guide might have been a mistake too - in my head my "beginner" was someone who strums through some Dylan songs and wants to investigate blues a bit more, rather than someone who has never picked up a guitar before!
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Post by PistolPete on Mar 10, 2023 15:13:12 GMT
Well done Pete, excellent video. Well who can resist a bit of Acoustic Blues. I'm sure your videos will become very popular, you have a great way of explaining and demonstrating the Blues techniques. Wish you all the best with your future videos, on the Blues. Thanks. Just out of interest whereabouts in Staffordshire are you? I live in Stafford myself
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Post by Derick on Mar 10, 2023 16:54:24 GMT
Well done Pete, excellent video. Well who can resist a bit of Acoustic Blues. I'm sure your videos will become very popular, you have a great way of explaining and demonstrating the Blues techniques. Wish you all the best with your future videos, on the Blues. Thanks. Just out of interest whereabouts in Staffordshire are you? I live in Stafford myself Hi Pete. I live in that beautiful part of Staffordshire called Stoke on Trent.
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Post by minorkey on Mar 30, 2023 15:04:01 GMT
Sounds good to me, I'm in
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