This course is a MUST for anyone interested in bottleneck blues guitar. It is a complete survey of country blues bottleneck styles and techniques and features rare footage of Son House, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb, Jesse Fuller, Furry Lewis and Bukka White!
"I first met Stefan in the States years ago and we became extremely good friends. Personally, I have learned a great deal from him. Let's face it, he needs very little introduction from me as a blues artist, discographer and connoisseur in blues." -Eric Clapton
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This is part 2 of a 2-part course that features 60 lessons and almost four hours of music and instruction. It is a MUST for anyone interested in bottleneck blues guitar. The lessons cover in detail all country blues bottleneck styles and techniques and feature rare footage of Son House, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb, Jesse Fuller, Furry Lewis and Bukka White. This first part of the course focuses on playing in Open G tuning (Spanish). The second part presents the Open D tuning (Vestapol). Left hand playing techniques are discussed as well as choice of bottleneck/ slide and guitar to use.
Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen.
Also, each course features bonus downloadable audio tracks of the original 1920s and 1930s recordings of the original artists playing the songs.
INCLUDED: A detailed 65-page tab/music booklet as a digital PDF file available in the "downloads" tab on this page.
Titles include:
Have fun learning!
Stefan Grossman has been recording, performing and writing about acoustic fingerstyle techniques and styles for over forty years. During the period from 1965-1975 he studied and traveled with some of the legendary figures in the story of blues guitar. These include Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, Fred McDowell and Mance Lipscomb
Stefan has recorded numerous solo albums including Love, Devil And The Blues, Yazoo Basin Boogie, Shining Shadows, Black Melodies On A Clear Afternoon and Friends Forever as well as duet recordings with John Rnbourn, larry Coryell, Duck Baker and Tokio Uchida.
"I first met Stefan in the States years ago and we became extremely good friends. Personally, I have learned a great deal from him. Let's face it, he needs very little introduction from me as a blues artist, discographer and connoisseur in blues."
-ERIC CLAPTON
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