saturday night shuffle by merle travis

[buffalobilly]

that really swings

[usernamesuckagain]

This is by far my favorite interpretation of this song, and yet I'm not even able to learn 2 notes of it... :(

I searched the web for a matching tab, but it is nowhere to be found.

Congratz anyway, that was highly entertaining. ;)

[fridrikur]

5 stars

[Mariekesone]

Crikey...that's so good:-)

[JesseMathews]

man thats tight !, 5 stars :)

[Macingo88]

Molto bravo!!!mi piace la tua versione..magari suonassi cosi anch'io:-))

[hypnosync1]

Great rendition. Nice touch.

[hamamaamiia]

nice

[Sarahfreckle]

Your rendition seems to be more shufflesome than most.

[Mikeboyd09]

thats great............i got the same guitar also ...d-15 martin .....cant ask for any better ..

[AndyPol]

Nice job. I played this tune for 30 years.....

Learned it from: Dave Van Ronk and them from Rev. Gary Davis......

If there are fans out their of Merle Travis, his son is also a good picker. I saw him play live at a festival in North Carolina.

[ositoperez]

i hate you

[lklkhjhjdfs]

Voila comment ça doit etre joué ! excellent , la guitare faite homme !

[nichmars]

wow, nice.

[arjhendrix]

freestyle blues done in ur way(just as great)...

1-2-3-4??!? why bother when uve got a super toe...just like BB.

let others put that to sheet.

JLH to Canned Heat--->

dnt care where u go, just so long as you go.

You da Man.

[hoppa173]

that's fantastic ! You're very talented !

[gnomebottom]

I got me a 000-15 recently, what strings d'ya use to get that dark sound? Mine sounds a teeeeny bit thin, I want a more vintage sound like you're getting!

[cocoringo]

I use John Pearse Phosphor Bronze medium gauge or sometime light gauge...

Cheers

[Arkytaurus]

Fantastic playing. Wish I could do it! Is this normal tuning?

Bonus-king.

[cocoringo]

yup standard tuning, thanks.

[Ezekiel16banjo]

Wow!! This is some of the best guitar playing I've ever heard. Martin guitars as a nice sound. Keep on posting. Me to I'm learning Merle Travis Fingerpicking.

Ezekiel16banjo

[bnc98765]

I really love your guitar playing.

[miasm]

this is your best one on youtube. id pay to see this live.

[richagen]

sounds really good, love that style of playing.

[wahkean]

that was great!

[guitarepick]

Exellent ! du vrai Travis ! encore!, encore!

Félicitations

[cocoringo]

merci guitarepick!

[Atomicflash500]

very good !!!

[reponsator]

this is truly tough stuff, great!!!!

please give us more!!!!

greetings from berlin

[LemonadeBoy]

I really really like your playing, especially of this tune!

You've got an awesome authentic playing and impressive skills.

I wanted to ask you something - I just bought this guitar, the Martin 000-15, a few weeks ago. I want to replace the old Martin strings with something better. Which do you put on yours for that vintage, bouncy warm sound?

[cocoringo]

Hi Lemonade Boy, Thanks for the comments. I use Phosphor Bronze strings, either 12 or 13s (light or medium). I really like John Pearse strings, but they are a bit expensive so I tend to opt for D'addario. I'm not much of a fan of the Martin strings, and would definitely recommend switching...

[LemonadeBoy]

Can you really put mediums on the 000 ? In martin's site they say the maximum recommended tension for 000 and OM models is medium-light, and minimum recommended is light.

Yesterday I put some Newtone Heritage strings on the Martin (I ordered it before reading the reply) and I don't like them too much so far. They are lower gauge and tension but the sound is tinny and small. Maybe I need to wait a few days. The guitar's "old" smell is gone with the new strings too... :(

[cocoringo]

yeah, it's probably best to stick with 12s for the 000. don't know about the newtone heritage...but you're right, it does tend to take a few days for strings to settle in and sound good...

[AcousticIban]

T A L E N T . Man, I whish I could play like this one day. I prefer this song played by you !! Thanks for sharing

[cocoringo]

thank you!

[jpiir]

Very nice!

[cocoringo]

from the cd Merle Travis Live 1959, and i think for this one i might have found a tab for it online somewhere...

[rahpiklz]

where did you learn this from?

[primepretzel17]

You are just a star in this style...

What guitar is this??

[cocoringo]

thank you. this is just a cheap martin, the 000-15. they sound great for this style though. i also use a tacoma pr-12, which is built like an old gibson nick lucas...

[primepretzel17]

I really like your Tacoma's sound (the sunburst one, right?)

I'm considering a Tacoma myself. Looks like the only one I can afford is the EM9 mini-jumbo. Have you tried it? I like fingerstyle...

[cocoringo]

yeah it's the sunburst one. i don't know much about the other tacoma models. looks like the pm28 is the closest to the one i have, which they discontinued for some odd reason...

[inikokir]

fukin bad ass shit bro!!! ahhahaa wowowowow , i honor your gift!! man, talent , nothing but talent! thx so much

[peglegsam]

outstanding... thanks for reposting cocoringo :)