This course is all about diving into the blues on guitar! You'll learn to tune to open D and G tunings, explore fingerpicking styles, and even tackle slide guitar. Plus, you'll check out songs from blues legends like Robert Johnson. Perfect for anyone wanting to jam some blues, seriously!
How To Play Blues: How To Play In G tuning & open D For Blues Guitar: How To Play Slide Guitar : Bottleneck Blues Guitar
How To Play Blues:Open Guitar Tunings -Â Fingerpicking Blues Guitar Lessons
Playing guitar in open D tuning opens interesting possibilities. For example, it isn't necessary to hold down the bass E string when playing a D chord - a deeper bass gives the guitar a low down, bluesy feel but also lends itself to ragtime picking. The acoustic guitar lessons in this course explains how to tune down to open D tuning and open G tuning , and presents several videos teaching a variety of songs in these open guitar tunings.
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       Open G guitar tuning is of particular interest and we take a look how Robert Johnson, King of Delta Blues Guitar used it to create songs such as Walkin' Blues and Crossroads.
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How to play blues using open D and open G guitar tunings - tune the guitar.
You will learn how to tune the guitar to open D tuning
You will learn how to tune the guitar to open G tuning
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...
I was hoping for more instruction on technique for the right hand, and more chord isolation for the left hand.
Maybe too complicated for my level of playing, but great for learning particular songs for someone more advanced.
This is a very nice course in bottleneck playing on the acoustic guitar. Jim takes you through the tuning, the positioning of the slide, and then through the tablature of some interesting songs. Fun stuff to play!
I was under the impression this was for beginning blues players. Not so.
Jim has a style of teaching that suits the way I like to learn...so this makes it very easy to learn.
He is definitely a master musician and teacher of finger picking and delta blues. His approach is multi dimensional and very focused and organized. Thank you Jim!!!!
Very detailed and easy to follow. Three different angles for most every lick demonstrated.
The best way I've found to learn the guitar styles of the old blues masters.
Jim's lessons are consistently high quality and accessible to anyone with a little patience. He offers an impressively large number of the Delta blues songs that are the foundation of so much modern rock and blues. I also enjoy his anecdotes about the original players - he is really keeping this music alive.
Steve
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Len C.
I feel like I'm learning more of the Open D and Open G Blues & gaining appreciation of the style with Thanks to Jim Bruce's instruction methods & Clips. Practice and repetition is the only way to gain speed; so after a couple years of practice I may sound passable. During the Bonus Song "Crossroads", I finally found the best way to use the glass slide on metal strings is to use a light touch. The lighter touch, without using the bar to force the strings all the way to the fretboard, gave a more sought after tone and made playing easier.
Like to try this course with a nylon string guitar to see if it will improve my playing. For this course I've been using a Gretsch A/E G5022CWFE played thru a Danelectro Billionaire Tremolo and a Danelectro Billionaire POD Overdrive into a Flashback X4 Echo/Delay into a Roland Street Cube EX Amp with Reverb turned up. May not be the original sound, but I like the resulting sound. I'm thankful for instructors who can bring us these old Blues Songs and also for having today's technology to keep the music alive. When I first started taking udemy.com guitar courses I never thought I'd actually progress this far in a couple years.