Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt

[gmbf]

great video. seeing your finger work really helps me pick up some new licks.

[montreemtx]

Bryan

Your fingers work so good. Love it.

Is it 180 BPM? ooww

[montreemtx]

The guitar sound is nice...

I found that diff arrangers give diff

notes.

Whose arrangement are you using for this rendition? Please advise.

Thank you.

[bryand79]

Thanks.  This arrangement is from Stephen Grossman's book. It's the same as a lot of the tab on the internet though. I play the same notes as the tab, but I finger the chords differently than most people. I find my way to be easier because I don't have to do the quick move with my pikny on the high E and B strings. So I end up fingering the same G chord two different ways.

[paulthemilkman]

lacks soul

[gigamemo123]

thank you for uploading this inspiring one!!

[bryand79]

Hey, thanks!

[AutocrossDotUS]

Nice job. You just sold me on getting the Grossman DVD with this song. Was on the fence about it.

[bryand79]

Not sure if there is a DVD, but the book is good.

[natureclips]

Very good, this is a very nice version of a great song!

[bryand79]

Thanks!

[gward75]

nice - good job!

what's the guitar you're playing?

I'm looking to buy a good finger picking guitar, any tips?

[bryand79]

It's a Larrivee OM-03. I love it. It's great for finger style, but also good for playing lead.. it has a nice fast action like an electric. The only advice I can give is to try some out and see how they work for you. Generally the smaller guitars like mine are better for fingerstyle than bigger guitars like dreadnoughts are.

[vardamin]

I love my d-03 for everything including fingerstyle, though I've got a martin 00016 that's I use for fingerstyle. I've heard it said and I agree, "the d-03 is a versatile instrument'. I luv my larrivee too!

[cappy92]

hey is this in standard tuning?

im workin on learning this piece

you make it real clean by the way

good job : )

[bryand79]

Thanks. Yeah it's in standard tuning. I might be out of tune though..

[fanqmon]

You played it awesome man! is there there a site or book for tabs for this? i been looking for a while.

[bryand79]

Thanks! I used the tab from Stefan Grossman's Mississippi John Hurt book. It's a good one to buy since it has a lot of his songs and includes two CDs full of full-length recordings. I think the tab in the book is the same as what I've seen online though.

[jackwhittington]

nice job on this. check out the pat donohue version, too. man what a great song. i think this is one of the original "take this job and shove it"-type songs...

[GflatMinor]

Nice Job.

Happy labor day!

[thumbpickr1812]

nice playing and you have a good voice too - enjopyed it

[bradykendall]

Well done. I love this song.

[derin111]

That was great!

I've been struggling to learn to play this for ages now. I just can't seem to get it even trying to follow the Stefan Grossman lesson. Guess I'm just not good enough :( Only been playing a couple of years

Wish someone could do another lesson.

Anyway, thanks for posting that video!

[bryand79]

Thanks! It took me a few weeks to get that picking pattern down, and probably a month or so to be able to sing over it. Now it's second nature. A big help was "Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar", a book by Arnie Berle and Mark Galbo. It does a good job of teaching alternating bass technique by starting really slow and adding just a little bit at a time.

[derin111]

Thanks Bryan...I have that book! I'll have to dig it out and use it again. Yeah it's that bass pattern that I really can't seem to get.

Thanks