Recordings from the Past We are fortunate to have audio recordings and some video footage of the early rural masters, but I often wonder about all the music lost to time. Certainly the masters cut their teeth learning many standards of the time and played them by request in performance. What is an important consideration is that Delta Blues, especially Bottleneck slide style, is based on a foundation of fingerpicking that finds its roots in an earlier instrument that was more popular than guitar; the banjo. Playing with thumb, index, and middle finger is known as the Cotton Picking Method. A single (monotonic) bass or alternating bass (thumb) accompanied by treble lines (fingers). I have found fundamental songs like this standard to be a great way to train your ear to hear the musical movement (intervals) from note to note. Learning scales helps to organize your visualization of the fingerboard and find all the possible options for arranging. Once a basic outline of the song is created, there is no limit to how far a song can be embellished using single notes, two note double stops, and chords. Attacking a target note with a hammer-on, pull-off, bend, slide, passing tone walk-in, etc. adds a lot of interest to a simple melody line. Remember the important of arranging songs in the appropriate key for the vocalists singing range. youtu.be/Z7VB2zlq9V0
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:01:16 +0000
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