Hey guys,

I want to make the Guitar Students Club to the center of our small guitar community here. So if you have any suggestions, requests or comments please let me know what you guys think, or what is on your mind.

Tutorial Requests

It's always hard for me to find topics for upcoming tutorials since there are many things which I don't know and I often don't have so much time for research and stuff like that. If you want to help me to find topics for new tutorials please let me know. I only have one condition - it has to be somehow a popular topic or a topic which might be in the interest of the majority of students - but also sometimes topics which are rare might also be fun. So if you have any ideas or requests - please let me know.

I would love to see a tutorial on Rockabilly in the style of Scotty Moore,  James Burton,  Brian Setzer etc.. I am finding that genre difficult.  

Stay Crazy, 

Jimson 

Checked them out - that can be a possibilty. I'll take it into consideration - thanks for the idea.

I agree with Jimson…that would be an excellent tutorial..

Checked out Scotty Moore stuff a bit. It's clear what is done, also which sound he is using. It's a very short analog or tape delay. But his iconic rhythm guitar is kind of a brainer to get that one down.... will take me a moment.

The tutorial will come this friday. I did what I could but this style is really a bit out of the box of the normal guitar playing. I think I have the basic's together and can play them. It will come with some tabs and a cool backing track in this style.

Let me know guys what other topic you guys request.

I'm really enjoying the Blues tutorials.  Continue with them please!  My particular interests at the moment are older Chicago Blues, The stylings of Fenton Robinson, Jimmy Reed, Magic Sam, Hubert Sumlin (possibly the happiest Blues player ever, he looks like a kid at Christmas when playing) etc.  Anything to help the journey along would be greatly appreciated.

Hey Ricky,

thanks for your suggestions. Did't know all those guys - I checked them out. Magic Sam is quite a great player. Reminds me a bit to " Going Home " - Ten Years After. That would be interesting to check out his playing. Hubert Sumlin is funny - but typical Chicago Blues. It's also interesting that many blues guitar players - well the old ones play with there thumb.

I love this one here - I probably will take a closer look to this.

 

Sweeeeet!   

 

That had to be one of his last performances. He died in December of '69.

Didn't know that - probably that's why he is not so famous like other players. He's a great player.

Was quite busy in the past 2 weeks - checking it out now.... it's basicly not so hard but the speed makes the hard part of it

Yeah, he's pretty insane.  And all finger picking.

Crazy talent, if you get it that would be awesome!

I checked it out today - and got somewhere but one thing I could not manage to do because it's outside my skills of playing. Alternate picking with the thumb - thats probably why there are not many guys around who could manage to do this boogie. Check out this tutorial - this guy is able to play it pretty original and he gave me the hint with the alternate picking of the thumb. Thats in fact a wild technique I never tried before and I can tell I will not learn this on the fly. So I must pass on this....

 

Yup!

I have the tabs printed out for that one.  I like Andy's articles/youtubes.  Her also has a nice one on Hubert Sumlin, who he played with numerous times.

I was surprised when you chose that one anyway, lol.

I'll try it anyway (may take a year, lol) and send you the vid   

Well it's really a cool tune and I thought It's possible. But once you listen nearer to it you find that he is doing something really wild and that's exactly the alternate picking with the thumb + the rest. I guess that's why this one tune influenced so many players after him. It's really cool but impossible to play if you are not exactly into that playing style.

Ok - i'll go for this one here. Love it.

but since this is not a typical Chicago Blues with the mid tempo shuffle I'll also talk about this type of blues here. What is interesting that the majority of the players I checked play with there thumb and fingerpicking.

 

Most of these guys either learned their chops on acoustic or learned from someone who did.  The thumping thumb bassline was because they often performed solo, with no bass and had to lay down their own bottom.

The 3 most important words in blues are "Lump De Lump "  LOL.

11 minutes ago, rickylc said:

The 3 most important words in blues are "Lump Dee Dump "  LOL.

what does it mean ?

The shuffle rhythm bass line.

de-lump-de-lump-de-lump-de-lump-de

 

sorry typo - Lump De Lump but lump-de-dump works too

 

I see

So here we are - was not so easy because these players did not have so much in common execpt that they are round from the same time and genre.

You guys are free to post a new request. Sometimes it takes a moment till I can proceed.

Wow, great!  You are the best!

Thanks for your efforts and I hope you enjoyed the journey into uncharted waters

Yeah I always enjoy to learn more about guitar playing. As I am always saying - the journey never ends.

Hanspeter, love all the great work you do. I just recently came across a video of Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton doing a version of Moon River which looked very learnable and not to complicated. Maybe you could consider covering this song. Thanks and truly love your variety of lessons. Randy

Hey Randy, thanks for your nice feedback. Can you post a link to the recording your are talking about ?

There are also live versions available on YouTube. Thanks again. You truly Rock