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Post by maninashed on Jan 8, 2022 5:57:53 GMT
I've listened to, read a lot about and tried to play the blues over the years. Reverend Robert Jones' Truefire courses are some of the best resources I've come across for getting over what the blues is essentially about. Here he's talking about the course and performing some pieces he performs when he's teaching the history of the blues. His description of the minor pentatonic in the blues is brilliant and Son House's Death Letter Blues morphing into Hiphop might just be one of the greatest things I've ever heard!
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Post by maninashed on Feb 10, 2022 9:21:30 GMT
A bit more of the Reverend, this time talking about his Truefire courses Electric Roots and the Evangelists. In electric roots he talks about and plays some fascinating examples of how guitarists like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf adapted the sound of acoustic country blues to the electric guitar for urban audiences. And in the Evangelists he talks about how the blues influenced spritual music.
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Post by borborygmus on Feb 10, 2022 9:47:14 GMT
Is there a way to "save this post to watch/review/re-read" later. I am fascinated by these, but don't have time right now to watch them.
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Post by ocarolan on Feb 10, 2022 15:32:21 GMT
Is there a way to "save this post to watch/review/re-read" later. I am fascinated by these, but don't have time right now to watch them. -- if you view the vids on Youtube they'll be in your history; plus you can save them to favourites, or a self made folder or even their "Watch later" list. Alternatively just leave yourself an old fashioned pencil note to find this thread again! Keith
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Post by minorkey on Feb 10, 2022 16:04:13 GMT
Is there a way to "save this post to watch/review/re-read" later. I am fascinated by these, but don't have time right now to watch them. Just hit this button
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Post by maninashed on Feb 11, 2022 2:08:29 GMT
Talking of the blues puts me in mind of this excellent series of videos. I can't remember when I first learned about the microtonal blues scale, it was a long time ago but ever since I've been amazed at how much material about the history of the blues and playing blues omits this crucial aspect. These videos do a great job in putting that record straight. There are 10 in the series in all, here are the first 2.
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Post by borborygmus on Feb 11, 2022 17:53:04 GMT
I know the YouTube stuff, of course. If I had the time to click through, I would. As for pencil and paper... far too simple. I just wondered if there was a way to indicate a "read this later" on the post in the forum. Luckily, now that I have participated in the thread, it is in my "participated" box, which will help remind me.
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Post by ocarolan on Feb 11, 2022 22:17:21 GMT
.... I just wondered if there was a way to indicate a "read this later" on the post in the forum...... Sadly not I'm afraid. I suppose you could message yourself with the URL of threads you really want to revisit...? Keith
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Post by minorkey on Feb 12, 2022 0:08:56 GMT
One way is to save the actual page as a bookmark.
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Post by maninashed on Feb 12, 2022 3:11:14 GMT
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Post by delb0y on Feb 12, 2022 10:05:14 GMT
On the plus side there's an amazing amount of amazing stuff out there for free, these days. On the negative side there's an incredible amount of incredible stuff out there for free...
Back in the day I was a massive Jimi Hendrix fan and in the mid seventies it was almost possible to keep up with everything that was released about Jimi, whether it be new records, articles in music papers and magazines or Sunday supplements, or even the occasional snippet on TV. Now, a regular human being being couldn't keep up with everything that was written about Jimi in one single day, let alone all year. I could do nothing all day but watch amazing YouTube documentaries and tutorials and concerts and the like.
Anyway, don't do a Delboy - there was a (supposedly - I'm still yet to see it) great documentary called The Harlem Street Singer, all about the Rev Gary Davies. It was linked from these very pages... by the time I remembered to come and watch it was no longer easily available unless you wanted to buy it. Nothing wrong with that - I've paid for quite a bit of Rev. Gary Davies and Rev. Robert Jones material - just saying, don't leave it too long...
The other good news is that tucked away inside my naked lady copy of Electric Ladyland I have loads of press clippings and articles and odd and ends all about Jimi... If only I knew where that LP was...
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Post by minorkey on Feb 12, 2022 16:27:52 GMT
I've always felt that Hendrix was vastly overrated, hyped up and pumped up, especially because of his guitar burning antics. But I saw a video of him playing classical guitar too, fingerstyle. And I was like, oh he could actually play guitar!
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Post by maninashed on Feb 22, 2022 7:10:56 GMT
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Post by delb0y on Feb 22, 2022 19:47:52 GMT
Good call maninashed. Can't go wrong for 99p. I've almost finished the wonderful Travels with My Aunt, so will give this a blast next. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Post by vikingblues on Feb 28, 2022 10:38:54 GMT
Well found maninashed - Getting to find online resources of blues teaching that gets across the essence of the blues and gives you the framework of playing blues as yourself is not easy. Most lessons on blues found online seem to just show you how to play licks in a particular style. Either that or they are the instruction on how to play piece in one exact way - oddly enough the way the instructor would play it. My lucky find wasn't a free on line resource, but I was a member on Jamplay for several years and there were a large number of blues lessons on there by Michael "Hawkeye" Herman. He was very much into teaching the essence of blues and was forever encouraging students to try to put their own stamp and ideas on the basic framework he was demonstrating. One things I became aware of with his video lessons was that after working at one of those videos I found my playing was better afterwards for an hour or so even if I wasn't playing blues or anything to do with the lesson. He just magically passed on a dose of musicality at some sort of subconscious level. He got his learning one-on-one from players like Son House, Bukka White and Lightin' Hopkins - great sources. I wish I still had the young fingers to play acoustic blues. Mark
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