You Can't Take My Blues

Doug MacLeod
Doug MacLeod

Lesson time: (3min 53sec)

Regarde Doug mettre la théorie en pratique en interprétant le morceau « You Can't Take My Blues ».

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This lesson is part of the course 101 fondamentaux de la guitare 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 est connu pour ses superbes compositions, sa maestria à la guitare, sa voix chaleureuse et pleine d'âme, son esprit et ses inoubliables concerts. Au cœur d'un concert de Doug MacLeod, il y a son don de conteur, qui donne vie de manière saisissante à des personnages allant des anonymes aux légendaires. Doug a remporté plusieurs Blues Music Awards, dont le Blues Music Award 2020 de l'artiste acoustique de l'année et le Blues Music Award 2018 de l'album acoustique de l'année pour 'Break The Chain', et a été nommé au Blues Music Award 2021 de l'artiste acoustique de l'année. Son album avec le producteur Jim Gaines est sorti en 2021. Dans 101 Blues Guitar Essentials, Doug transmet les fondements de son art - les grooves, les techniques et le feeling qui sous-tendent l'authentique guitare blues acoustique - pour que tu puisses te constituer un véritable vocabulaire sur l'instrument et commencer à raconter tes propres histoires à travers lui. « Comme tous les grands bluesmen, MacLeod vit sa musique, et les chansons ne sont pas seulement au bout de ses doigts et de sa langue, elles ne font qu'un avec son être. » - Blues Music Magazine « L'un des grands artistes de blues... point final ! » - Jorma Kaukonen read more

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