You Can't Take My Blues

Doug MacLeod
Doug MacLeod

Lesson time: (3min 53sec)

Mira a Doug poner la teoría en práctica mientras interpreta el tema «You Can't Take My Blues».

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This lesson is part of the course 101 fundamentos de la guitarra de blues
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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 es conocido por sus magníficas composiciones, su virtuosismo a la guitarra, su voz cálida y llena de alma, su ingenio y sus inolvidables actuaciones en directo. En el corazón de una actuación de Doug MacLeod está su don para contar historias, dando vida de forma asombrosamente real a personajes que van de los anónimos a los legendarios. Doug ha ganado múltiples Blues Music Awards, entre ellos el Blues Music Award 2020 al Artista Acústico del Año y el Blues Music Award 2018 al Álbum Acústico del Año por 'Break The Chain', y ha sido nominado al Blues Music Award 2021 al Artista Acústico del Año. Su álbum con el productor Jim Gaines se publicó en 2021. En 101 Blues Guitar Essentials, Doug transmite los fundamentos de su oficio -los grooves, las técnicas y el feeling que sustentan la auténtica guitarra de blues acústico- para que puedas construir un verdadero vocabulario en el instrumento y empezar a contar tus propias historias a través de él. "Como todos los grandes bluesmen, MacLeod vive su música, y las canciones no están solo en la punta de sus dedos y de su lengua, sino que son una sola cosa con su ser." - Blues Music Magazine "Uno de los grandes artistas del blues... ¡y punto!" - Jorma Kaukonen read more

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