Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons - Blind Blake's Guitar Tips

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You could think of ragtime blues guitar as the pinnacle of acoustic blues guitar finger picking, and Blind Blake would be the King of the genre. It's not just his blinding speed, but the syncopation he achieves with fats finger triplets and also his amazing rolling thumb basses - we can have a stab at how he does it, but trying to perfect it takes years (I'm still trying). 

Even when he's not playing fast guitar, he still manages to create that bounce. Did he wear picks? Who knows? There's not much we do know about him, except that he left some of the finest examples of ragtime picking ever recorded. 

Keep it real Peace Jim

Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons - Some Dylan Picking

 

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Buckets of Rain - The story goes that Dylan was performing around Greenwich Village, and mostly strumming traditional folk songs mixed with his own works. He went away for a while and came back with a brand new finger picking style (bit like the R Johnson story). Buckets of Rain is one of his finger picking songs which I always liked, so I've posted it here.

It's in dropped D, easy to play and the tab file is added at the end of the video - the trick to get is singing at the same time. Have fun, Jim You can pick up the guitar tab file at the end of the video.

Best, Jim

Acoustic Blues Guitar - Live From The City Streets - Candy Man

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Not exactly studio conditions out there on the street, but it really, really gives me some idea of what it was like for those blues pioneers who had no choice.

 Peace, Jim