Play Ragtime Blues Guitar - Jim's Weakly Tips - Gary Davis and His Magic Thumb

[Got2BeUp]

I always feel comfortable while listening to you! Thanks

[acoustictravellersl]

@Got2BeUp That's a good thing - thanks to you.

[EDDIEJAMES238]

Hi Jim, This is a really good lesson and shows what 3 cords can do. Simple but not easy. Thanks for all your vids and for the course which has sparked off my playing and practice with a vengence.

All the best

Ted

[acoustictravellersl]

@EDDIEJAMES238 Hi Ted, thanks for your input, and I'm really pleased you like my course. Often, it's the simple stuff that we need to look at again and again. It's not just the technique - there's something deeper there. It's the blues! It's fascinating isn't it?

Cheers

Jim

[fendermac]

Excellent!

[acoustictravellersl]

@fendermac Anguished Z - no worries, there's always more than one way to do it. After posting this vid, I watched an Elizabeth Cotton vid. She played the altertnating bass pattern with here finger and the melody with her thumb! Incerdible. She played her right-handed guitar upside down, as she was left-handed and didn't realise the difference.)

[fendermac]

@acoustictravellersl ....I suspect that this reply was aimed at someone else and hit me by mistake...Thanks and all that.

[rayoll]

very nicely done...I have come to think of my picking hand as something of a dance band drummer for the most part setting the feel of the piece....BTW Keith Richards plays a nice version of Cocaine blues. It is interesting to watch you play as you tend look at your fretting ahnd a bit but almost never look at your picking hand even when you slide it toward the bridge for different attack.....again bravo.

[acoustictravellersl]

@rayoll Thanks for your input - interesting and constructive. Is Keith Richards still alive?

[waterdog226]

You present such sweet sounds. I am starting to develop a better grounding in blues, as a listener. This is appreciated. I just had no idea...

[acoustictravellersl]

@waterdog226 What a great comment - thanks. It please me a lot that viewers like these old sounds + a little insight in how to do it (not that I'm an expert)

Cheers

Jim

[JesseMathews]

Hi Jim, Very nice lesson and discussion about Gary Davis's Technic, I enjoy your videos very much ! :)

Cheers,

Jesse

[acoustictravellersl]

@JesseMathews Hi Jesse - there you are again. Glad you like it.

[Litlelilia]

Merci beaucoup, Jim !!

[acoustictravellersl]

@Litlelilia De rien!

[hypnosync1]

Great lesson Jim. There's always so much to learn. And you make it so interesting.

[acoustictravellersl]

@hypnosync1 Glad you liked it - thanks for watching.

[djdonalin]

nice

[sonnyxxx1]

nice 

[acoustictravellersl]

@sonnyxxx1 Succinct but nice - thanks.

[ZEDZOR2]

Hi Jim im not really a big Gary Davis fan,its a bit too sugary for me if that makes any sense...because i dont use a pick i find it nearly impossible to 'roll the basses' any ideas?I know im alot of work.Anguished Z.

[acoustictravellersl]

@ZEDZOR2 @sonnyxxx1 Dear anguished. I put it up because we need to look at all the techniques out there, to incorporate into our playing. The structure of his stuff is very interesting. You don't need a thumb pick to roll the basses ( if by that you mean stumbkind from one string to another?) You can also jump the basses witjout a pick - I just used them because that's how he did it. I use bare fingers for about 80% of my stuff.

[ZEDZOR2]

@acoustictravellersl Yeh i c wot u mean about technique vids etc.I dont know why i struggle to play that roll from the top to the 2nd,i manage the alternating bass in an ok fashion but the straight 1,2 i just struggle.Mayb i need to find a song to play with lots of that technique in it or mayb i expect too much too soon,i do love that primitive sound though.Still anguished Z