Rambling On My Mind - Robert Johnson

[ebutuoy62]

Very, very interesting. Thank you!

[holliday666]

mix master mike brought me here

[caesarcerf]

way to slow. they were recorded too slow by at most 3%. nice idea, though. your teacher is wrong. tape recording existed since at least the 20's however it was VERY uncommon.

[JethroStampTV]

Its a valid question. The tunes may be sped up.

Again, read the description - this was created in less than 5 minutes. An in depth creation would sound better.

Finally, very very few people can play his music accurately on the guitar.

[impec]

You youtubers ARE INCREDIBLE when you want to!!!!

[Abedude71]

Nice job, Andy. I actually think that lowering it by a tone has made it sound very decent indeed.

[ronchifederico]

sentite come sono già presenti le radici oltre che ovviamente del delta blues,quelle anche del rock'n'roll alla elvis preasley....gente come elvis,bianchi americani sottolineo,presero spunto da un nero,schiavo raccoglitore di cotone che creò la storia del delta blues in mississipi....era geniale robert....con o senza il suo patto con il diavolo...io penso sia stato piu un patto con se stesso,viste le condizioni degli afroamericani in quel periodo,anche un modo credo uscire dalla miseria..fede

[Tamara215]

love it :D



[edwfriend]

What Robert Johnson song has the lines: My baby is like(furniture) a dresser, somebody always rambling through her drawers"? I heard it on a complete works of his music years ago but can't remember the name of the song . Thanks Ed

[hinch71]

@edwfriend Four Until Late! I know the Cream version. I guess its a Robert Johnson song.

[F1superfanantic]

My god this is so charming... For two and a half minutes the world stopped and all i could feel was a man feeling the blues an beautifully channeling it through his skills this is gorgeous

[Juviex]

Eso es estúpido, los que conocieron a Robert Johnson en vida y han escuchado sus grabaciones, ellos no pensaban eso.

That's stupid, who knew Robert Johnson in life and have heard their recordings, they did not think that.

[Flatted357]

My guitar just happened to be tuned to open D when I put this on; It suprised me to realize this remastered track exactly corresponds to that popular tuning (although Johnson normally used open G) - - For me, it provides some evidence in support of the track alteration theory -- if RJ did play in open D , ... then the final product would be exactly what it is by simply speeding it up slightly -- at any rate, this track makes tabinng his actual notes very easy--

[TonyBanana08]

why the fuck do people slow down tracks? bored and high???!

[BaggedGnome]

@TonyBanana08 Read the description..

[CapoFirstFret]

I've heard this argument before but by being a blues musician who has been born and raised in the Mississippi Delta I've had the opportunity to talk to musician's who knew and played with Robert Johnson, including Robert Junior Lockwood and Honeyboy Edwards. They claim the sounds you hear on the records are pretty accurate audio recordings of the sound of Robert Johnson. Given the age of these gentlemen, they could be mistaken, but I'm gonna stick with what they say.

[TMS320C5505]

Too many un-believers out there.

Record yourself playing slide guitar.

Then speed it up till you sound like Robert Johnson.

The guitar Robert Johnson played was a Gibson L1, which sounds like a modern acoustic. When slowed down have a listen to string noise made by the slide, e.g. on Come on in my Kitchen.

In my opinion the worst offenders for being too fast are "They're Red Hot" and "Drunken Hearted Man".

Note that Robert Johnson used a plain 3rd string (see Devere Photo)

[jonas1452]

fuck is too low

[psike5000]

this doesnt' sound good...

[magnum9987]

You make this sound aweful.

[ghist420]

speed that shit up a touch. its way too slow.

[chikmagnet0]

Fuck you go kill yourself

[ghist420]

hahaha. your a fuckin retard. i have the viynll. and it plays out at 33 and 3rd rpm. this is WAY TOO FUCKING SLOW

it sounds like a dying battery!

[MrMudneck]

too low for sure. but what an awesome new look at sometrhing that seemed impossible, and now, seems a little easier slowed down.

[MrMudneck]

woah dude. way to open up a can of woop ass on my robert johnson practice. holy shit.

[JerrySmith2]

people who actualy witnessed johnson paly said his voice was very gritty and not as hogh as the original recordings

[iamlameduck]

I think it's a bit too low in pitch.

[Andytheashton]

I only lowered it a tone, but like I said before, I only spent a couple of minutes on it so that people could here an approxomated version.

[bpabustan]

@Andytheashton I'm afraid you lowered it to two whole steps. The ones onrrecord is at F#, the one you have here is in D.

That being said. I do believe that many of RJ's recordings are speeded up. But IMHO, this one is too slow. How about doing it again and in E?

[ZEDZOR2]

@bpabustan lol !

[jessedemarino]

awesome

[Andytheashton]

I only spent a few minutes on this so maybe someone with more knowledge than me could do a better study of this....

[Andytheashton]

I've recently heard people saying that the original tapes of Robert Johnson were speeded up and that it isn't a real reflection of what he would have sounded like.

I took the orignal track of Rambling On My Mind and using a program called Transcribe! I slowed the track down and used the other 'FX' features to lower the pitch to approximate what it may have sounded like at a slower speed.

[TheBluesB4Sunrise]

@Andytheashton I think you should use a pitch pipe, or tuner to adjust the recoding to be in the key of G which is what tuning AND key this song is in.. THe original recording is higher than that due to the sped up recording of the master.

[TheBluesB4Sunrise]

@TheBluesB4Sunrise

BTW, I meant adjust the speed by finding the correct pitch/key...

[Feeldafunkblast]

@Andytheashton His tracks aren't sped up. Play them on guitar. This doesn't even sound like a person.