This course is all about the fun ragtime blues guitar style that lets you jam like the pros! You'll dive into cool techniques like alternating bass and learn to play classic songs. Perfect for adding excitement to your guitar skills!
Blues Guitar lessons in the ragtime blues (Piedmont) style is perhaps the most exciting guitar technique to learn.
Alternating Bass And Ragtime Blues Guitar
Ragtime piano became popular in the early 1900s and some blues guitar players realized that the characteristic bass signature could be played in a simplified way on the guitar. To accomplish this, it was necessary to strike two or three bass strings with the picking thumb, alternating between the strings, producing a bum-chick sound. When this technique was combined with the picking sounds of the fingers, a very complex sound is produced which sounds like two guitars!
Many guitarists, such as Mississippi John Hurt, used this technique exclusively and recorded some fine work - he is one of the artists we take a look at in this course.The dexterity needed to play this style is far above that required to play monotonic, delta style blues. Blind Blake was probably the foremost ragtime blues guitar player between 1920 and 1930. He achieved this by taking the thumb control to a new, extraordinary level.
In many of his songs, Blake doubled up on the alternating thumb beats, making two notes instead of one. Blake's work is covered in another of my courses.
I've presented 6 video lessons demonstrating the techniques of some great guitar players who were experts at playing ragtime style syncopated guitar songs - John Hurt, Pink Anderson, Willie Walker, Blind Boy Fuller and Blind Willie McTell. These guys laid the foundations of the style and provided the foundation for later master guitar pickers such as Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel. Modern players took hold of this early ragtime sound and quickly extended the chords and techniques, exploring new areas. Many of the original Scott Joplin rags have been faithfully transcribed, and other ways of playing appeared constantly. In the U.S., many notable musicians extended these picking styles and gave the music a country flavor.
Jim Bruce was voted N°2 Internet Guitar Instructor by Truefire.com in 2013.
You will learn how to perform a solid alternating bass thumb pattern and learn to play ragtime guitar songs in the keys of G, C and dropped D.
You will learn to play Satisfied and Ticked Too by Mississippi John Hurt
You will learn to play Pallet On the Floor by Mississippi John Hurt
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Fingerstyle Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons In The Old StyleAcoustic blues guitar teacher Jim Bruce was voted Number 2 top guitar instructor on Truefire in 2013 (Number 1 for acoustic blues lessons). Jim still plays blues guitar on the street in Europe and also gives concerts - plus teaching old style finger picking wherever he goes! Now online students can benefit...
Priceless tunes, well taught, but if the tuition layout had been a bit more uniform, I would have enjoyed it more.
Still I am aware this tuition is rare and for that I am grateful, for imbuing these secrets in the art of acoustic fingerpicking / fingerstyle guitar playing
I love the blues
The way the tabs are written is hard to work out the timing
I think I can learn from the examples and tabs. Very nice!
Jim Bruce is an excellent teacher. I have experience of a large number of guitarists who supply teaching videos. Many are very good, but Jim really concentrates on the teaching. You're left in no doubt that he is really concerned that he gives you what you need to learn the pieces he presents. Absolutely first class. You won't find better.
If you wish to learn the blues and feel the dust, the hunger and the hard life, the blues songs from the real life, and if you are looking for someone who are able to introduce you to the "real thing", then you should let Jim Bruce guide you. You will not regret if you are buying the entire course at once.
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Wolfram H.
Gute EinfĂĽhrung in den Ragtime-Stil mit tollen StĂĽcken