You Can't Take My Blues

Doug MacLeod
Doug MacLeod

Lesson time: (3min 53sec)

Sieh zu, wie Doug die Theorie in die Praxis umsetzt und das Stück „You Can't Take My Blues“ spielt.

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Lesson transcript:

Closing Session with a Song

You know, this feels so good to me.
I think I'll do a song of mine and we'll close this session right now with a little song of mine. I'll show you how it all goes together.

Song Introduction

  • Title: You Can't Take My Blues

There's a song called You Can't Take My Blues,
and we're gonna make a sound just like this on this DVD for you:

"You can take my money, take my car,
take my woman, if you can get that far.
There's only two things you can't do:
You can't walk where I walk, partner.
You ain't gonna take my boo."

You can take my bourbon, take my beer,
take yourself right on out of here.
There's only two things you can't do:

"You can't walk where I walk,
and you ain't never gonna take my blues, man."

Performance Notes

I gotta be careful,
because the stool's squeaking a little bit, but that's alright.

You can take my snap, take my stash.
You even take what she used to have.
There's only two things that you can't do:

"You can't walk where I walk,
and you ain't never gonna take my blues, man."

Now I'm gonna roll to the solo section.
Remember those things I told you?
Now see if I can't keep that in my mind
and make some good music for you here.
Keep the groove!

Continuing the Song

Yeah, you can take my song, take my guitar.
Fireflies die when they're trapped in the jar.
There's only two things you can't do:

"You can't walk where I walk, man.
You ain't gonna take my blues."

You take the credit, you should take the blame.
You're acting like a heavyweight,
and I know you're small change.
Only two things you can't do:

"You can't walk where I walk,
and you ain't never gonna take these blues."

Conclusion

Well, I think that will do it for this segment.
Keep those things I taught you in mind,
because we're gonna be using those
as we go on with this DVD.

Feel free to go back, check out everything
that you got on this thing: right hand, left hand,
use that technology.
Then you come on back,
and we'll go on and do a 12-bar blues
and see what kind of adventures
we can get into in there.

"You can't take my blues."

About the instructor

Doug MacLeod
Doug MacLeod

Doug MacLeod ist bekannt für sein hervorragendes Songwriting, seine Gitarrenkunst, seinen warmen, seelenvollen Gesang, seinen Witz und seine unvergesslichen Liveauftritte. Das Herzstück eines Auftritts von Doug MacLeod ist sein Talent zum Geschichtenerzählen, mit dem er Figuren - von den Namenlosen bis zu den Legendären - eindrucksvoll lebendig werden lässt. Doug hat mehrfach den Blues Music Award gewonnen, darunter den Blues Music Award 2020 als Acoustic Artist Of The Year und den Blues Music Award 2018 als Acoustic Album Of The Year für 'Break The Chain', und war für den Blues Music Award 2021 als Acoustic Artist Of The Year nominiert. Sein Album mit dem Produzenten Jim Gaines erschien 2021. In 101 Blues Guitar Essentials vermittelt Doug die Grundlagen seines Handwerks - die Grooves, Techniken und das Feeling, die authentische akustische Bluesgitarre ausmachen - damit du dir ein echtes Vokabular auf dem Instrument aufbauen und beginnen kannst, deine eigenen Geschichten darüber zu erzählen. „Wie alle großen Bluesmänner lebt MacLeod seine Musik, und die Songs liegen nicht nur auf seinen Fingerspitzen und seiner Zunge, sie sind eins mit seinem Wesen.“ - Blues Music Magazine „Einer der großen Blueskünstler ... Punkt!“ - Jorma Kaukonen read more

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