Christmas Music This song live with the blues is a classic track and can I please when we performed as acoustic blues travels wherever we went the guitar picking couple there's so many areas hypnotic harmonica playing presents a very very attractive sound. Unfortunately, I'm presenting this piece as I played notice it was played by brown in the P. And there's a reason for this. When we first off to play in public, to make sure we had enough material for our geeks can watch it To play this song with the blues never heard it. So can play the harmonica. He's playing a few bars, and I put the guitar work around it. Later on when I heard the original, I realized that it was quite different.

In some places, I oversimplify it in other places, over complicated, but in any case, it works well. So I keep it as it is. The style uses a combination of strumming with a fingernail or you could use a thumb sometimes use a monatomic base and then I'm down. Often hitting two strings together. Sometimes it depends where I am in the song, what effect I want to achieve at some point on the alternate just one or two spaces It's a song he. So we started in the basic shape.

At some point in the turnarounds between the verses and between the verse and the chorus, we make the age of six. I often turn around as is normal with most blue songs, we have the seven, basic v seven. Automatically, I can move my finger over to the Pacey string and make this shape. Often I'll push this up one fret. back down again we have a shape Hello. Sometimes you may see me on both the last strings down in this way.

And sometimes if I'm tapping on the A, I won't even bother by the fingers just hold the bar ticket when we move up the fretboard, we have the F shape which appears on the right to make a shape or sorry E chord. Good to move that down long again and again. Now Brown, he definitely did not play this, but I keep it I kind of like it. Also in the turnaround we're going to use this shape This inverted D shape, the 77. Base who saw this piece, the introduction and in the verses, we're going to Boogie on the equal level and I use my fingernail with my thumb to support it. You can use your finger or your thumb however you like.

It's kind of like this I down at the same time, the palm of my hand sounds like this. You'll notice how the back of my hand the palm of my hand, is resting on the saddle. And as I move my hand down to strum, it touches all the four bass strings just a little bit. And then I start to strong. Here's the strum that I Use without the fancy pieces. Here's the same strum, with the finger picking as at the end of each phrase.

Notice that even when finger picking my palm stays on those bass strings to mute the sound, don't worry about the detail at this point. We're just looking at the strumming picking technique, and we'll take a look at the tablature in great detail later on. Of course you don't have to play the same as I do. In this technique, I use my thumb and my finger of my right hand to alternate and give a strumming pattern. I often use this on the street when I'm Wearing a plastic thumb pick and a steel finger pick on my first finger. You could also just use downbeats with your thumb in the style of lightnin Hopkins, which is more difficult.

The possibilities are almost endless. Just choose something that sounds good and suits your style. For the detail tuition, I split the song into three main parts. First of all, is a short introduction. Then there's a verse part. And then there's a middle section, which is where the chorus where we play this talks have been Blue Sky let's take a look at the tuition now.

Here's the first tip for the introduction to living with the blues. Enjoy yourself. Good luck. Take it easy You'll notice that I'll use a strum pattern, strong pattern. I'll move into a picking pattern and it needs to be seamless. Back to the struggle.

If you make it seamless make it flow is very attractive. It provides up and then it gives some delicacy picking pattern run down You'll also notice on this rundown, it's not a case of just hitting the cord, then back down. I half lift the cord away and I make a strong with the strings open, but not completely open. There's a little template my left hand is a little like this creates a little bit of syncopation, a little bit of tension. It's nice to listen to Now we'll use this section, the same section. If we go into the next verse, or going to the next verse down, you know how to be like an engine got no drive.

But if we're moving into the chorus gonna play something slightly different. It's like this sing the chorus This sounds a little strange unless you move down to the code experts you know this song This song is a lot of fun to sing. Normally, when we played together, we did we chair the singing, I was singing the chorus, can we sing the verse B could also sing it all together yourself doesn't really matter. Try to keep a nice pace. I tend to go a little bit too fast and also when you vamp on the Have you Boogie? That's quite a stretch if you keep the normal e shape on.

Now some people just use their finger across those bass strings. I'm playing this way, but it always sounds like an E chord, I do it. So I tend to keep the normal E. It really doesn't matter too much. If you miss the note or you hit another note, it moves along. It's very flute free flowing. And also if you listen to the old blues guys, often they didn't play things really perfectly.

This seems to be a bit of a modern trend. We modern guitarists want everything to be perfect and in fact, he never was. Just have fun with it. So we start to sing rock spin moku spin blanket you ever been down? You know how I got no drop rock has been my blue sky you Take it easy practice well send me an email. I'd love to know how you're getting on with this material.

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