wth, how did i miss this guy! As long as ive been surfin youtube. So whats this simple trick? yrs. of trying to play this style and i still dont feel like ive got it down. Awh, man i really got the blues now.
Fantastic blues style you have there bud, nice and easy, effortless,( you sure as hell make it look easy!), great sound on that Stratocaster too,greetings from an old fart who remembers watching SRV, Hendrix, Taj Mahal,- hell, too many bluesmen to list here, and enjoyed them all.
thank you for reviving my faith in Texas Blues men. lol. Open E is like Open G and Drop D, etc. Eb is different. thought I was going to have to start from scratch. lol. ps. I heard blues men like to slide in Open G. I'll have to try that sometime.
you've got big mitts Rev, is that neck a deep U? If not, how do you keep from thumbing the low E when you barre? I screw up so many licks by accidental thumb mute in barre mode. Holla from the Grove baybee, I can hit buckner and bruton with a rock from my house (LOL almost, maybe a dozen blocks)
HOWDY from far away in a distant damn european land but feeling them ol' texas blues... Ain't nothin compared with such music and I wish for you nothin but the best... keep on the blues and keep on playing... and damn shame there ain't many of us left around that go with this... Outstanding job you're doing!!!
You're getting a nice sound out of that Squire, great playing. SVR was the man. Not sure why so many on here were confused, I knew immediately what you meant by Open E.
dude, u really play with Stevie? thats freakin awesome, I was also confused at first about saying this was open E until I realized u said Open E blues not Open E tuning
Hey I don't care what any of these so called experts think . I think that sounded great . Blues ain't suposed to be perfect . That's why they call em the blues . I think you got a great tone . Keep on slingin that guitar man .
Now if you wanna know why I'm bustin' your balls, it's the "expert" comment you made. Nobody's trying to be an expert here. I was just confused at first as to where you were coming from with the Open E tuning. If you're trying to teach somebody something, teach em right. Some kid goes into a jam with that knowledge, and if the people they're playing with know the correct way, kid's gonna look like it an idiot. I do like your playing, make it to Mississippi, we can jam, I'll show you round!
Pray tell what is an Eb Strat? Guitars aren't saxophones. No such thing as an Eb Strat. All guitars are made the basically the same and can be tuned to a variety of tunings, but Eb Strat? Oh, O.k., I've got a vintage 1964 Gadd9/aug5th strat, sucks I can only play it in that tuning, but it's a Gadd9/aug5th strat, dayum guess I'll have to deal with it.
Wanna know why Stevie, Hendrix and so many others tune down half a step? It's so they can use thicker gauge strings for the tonal qualities. Thicker gauge strings give you a different sound than thinner strings. Using heavy gauge strings and tuning down a half-step makes it easier to bend notes with the thicker strings. Oh, but I guess you knew that already.
Or I suppose you could call it neck position E tuned down a half, semantics, but calling it open Eb is wrong and shows that you ain't done your homework, and you want to come across with an attitude? Yeah, your' good but your not that damn good. With a closed mind you damn sure wont get better, and let's get real, blues is really easy to play when you get down to it. I love it, it's what I play, but it's really easy compared to other styles of music. Real easy, fun, but easy as hell.
Hate to say it man but it's not open Eb flat tuning either, it's standard tuning, tuned down a half step. Hey you're playing is great man, but just because you're good and supposedly played with SRV doesn't make "you" the expert. Ego guys who think they know it all, are a bitch to try and play with. What, you're too good to learn something? Nobody criticizing, and man I'm 48 years old and been playing for 34 years, so don't go all old school like that somehow makes you better.
Really Great man!!! Been watching a lot of your stuff lately and I really love your play man!!! Don't wanna come off as ome kind of smart-ass 'expert' but you truly play great man!!!! The first Squire I hear moaning like this!!!!! Grtz from Amsterdam / Jillis
You're absolutely RIGHT! I'm using an Eb Strat. So that would make it "open Eb tuning" That's what Stevie Ray and I used to call it when we played it in 1969-1971 in the Dallas Cellar Club.
I'm really Glad there are so many "experts" on here to keep us feeble minded oldtimers who started playing in the early 60's straightened out and corrected. Thank You for that! Rev. Muddy
Well I'm not wrong. Saying "open e" ensinuates that the guitar is tuned to an e chord. open e is not a key, it's a tuning. e is a key signature, "open" is a scale position on the guitar. this whole blues shuffle isn't in the open position and the guitar isn't tuned to an e chord, so saying it's "open e" blues is incorrect
@CMRbuzz7 Rev. Muddy said you were technically right man. I think he's gearing this towards those of us that aren't as "educated" in music. I never took music class, and I couldn't read a sheet of music to save my life, but I can still make this strat say what I want her to say by translating feelings from the heart into a note. I know he's tuned to Eb, but my musically uneducated brain thinks "Open E" as in "using the nut as your index finger/thumb and playing". Much love Rev. Muddy!
Howdy You All!......The Video is Finished. Now we have to send it off and have it MFG. It will be professionally done so it will be about one Month before I have ready to sell. It has 21 Different Chapters and Had all been shot in High Definition.
Stay Tuned for more information, and Thanks to all of you who have been so kind to me....Dennis Dullea
Man, that was great, but I'm a little confused here, to my knowledge, open E tuning is as follows, E,B,G#,E,B,E which produces an E chord when the strings are played open, like for slide playing. What I see you playing here is standard tuning dropped a half step, in the key of E, thus making a first position E chord an E flat, Half step down tuning was used almost all the time by SRV, sometimes by Hendrix, and almost all the time by VH. It's standard, down a half, not open E, I'm sure of it.
But Of course my friend you are correct, But I'm referring to the neck position not the tuning. I call it "open E" because the nut becomes your index finger and it takes a completely different approach to playing the Standard Blues licks and scales in this position. It's not an easy thing to do if you have neglected learning it from Jump St. Hendrix was a Master at it, ( Slow version of VC on ELL 1968) and when Stevie showed it to me he was 16, I was 20 and he was already incredibly good at it.
Yes I am serious, I met him in Dallas in 1969 when he was 15 at a Jam session we had every Sunday at Lee Park. Then ran into him all the time in the Cellar Club in Downtown Dallas. We spent a lot of time swapping licks and hanging out. My Dear Friend the Late Robin Syler was a Big influence on him with the Albert King stuff, Nobody could play Albert King Better Than Robin Syler. They were in a band together in Austin called Kracker Jack for a while in the 70's. Thanks..Rev. Muddy
Yes....Always...He showed me that in 1969....I didn't know you could tune a guitar any way you wanted, and could not understand why I couldn't play along with Hendrix. It's called "Slack Tuning" "Drop Tuning" and/or "Blues Tuning" Hendrix did it with .009's. It makes it MUCH easier to bend the Strings, (especially on a Strat with the long scale) and LOTS easier to sing with if you're a limited range singer like I am. Thanks Rev. Muddy
yeah! i love that, tune the guitar so it fits you. plus guitar, imo, sounds better overall down a bit, more in the cello range and less in the violin, and those fast-up-the-neck extended solos aren't my cup of tea anyway. i now bring 3 guitars, an 'E', a 'E flat', and a 'D', which i like because the D gives you open D and G too,
and i love that big rhythm sound you're getting here! btw,
Dennis, Thanks for more blues food. Make sure you put a video up so we know when your HOW TO PLAY THE BLUES DD STYLE IS READY, so we can all purchase it. It will be a great way to thank you for all your efforts! Thanks again.
We are going to try and finish the DVD this Sunday. It will have HD close ups of my fingers shot from over my shoulder with explanations of each lick. All My Best Jimi and SRV Albert King Robin Syler Etc. AND it will not be overpriced. Thanks Rev. Muddy
HOLY CRAP that was smokin'!
ProudUnionThug 5 days ago
What amp are you playing thru, and how do you get such great bass? Don't tell me you use 13's too.
rbauer1632 2 weeks ago
SOUNDS GREAT!!!
defrancogmd 1 month ago
I wish I were you. I bow to the most holy reverend of da blues. Steve Ray lives. Rock on. Rock hard.
messiahsez 1 month ago
Awesome!
wes8870 1 month ago
too much delay
onerelic 2 months ago
What is open about this? It seems like you're playing in Eb Standard.
Maafa1619 2 months ago
wth, how did i miss this guy! As long as ive been surfin youtube. So whats this simple trick? yrs. of trying to play this style and i still dont feel like ive got it down. Awh, man i really got the blues now.
travlr423 2 months ago
sweet stuff
dago00 4 months ago
you have some baaaad motherfucking tone. ive got a boner from this awesome sound.
vzsozs 4 months ago
Fantastic blues style you have there bud, nice and easy, effortless,( you sure as hell make it look easy!), great sound on that Stratocaster too,greetings from an old fart who remembers watching SRV, Hendrix, Taj Mahal,- hell, too many bluesmen to list here, and enjoyed them all.
iaingbrennan 4 months ago
thank you for reviving my faith in Texas Blues men. lol. Open E is like Open G and Drop D, etc. Eb is different. thought I was going to have to start from scratch. lol. ps. I heard blues men like to slide in Open G. I'll have to try that sometime.
Robb9096 5 months ago
you've got big mitts Rev, is that neck a deep U? If not, how do you keep from thumbing the low E when you barre? I screw up so many licks by accidental thumb mute in barre mode. Holla from the Grove baybee, I can hit buckner and bruton with a rock from my house (LOL almost, maybe a dozen blocks)
probinson1337 6 months ago
too bad srv did teach you how to have fun when you play... you look like you're about to fall asleep
carlzard 6 months ago
HOWDY from far away in a distant damn european land but feeling them ol' texas blues... Ain't nothin compared with such music and I wish for you nothin but the best... keep on the blues and keep on playing... and damn shame there ain't many of us left around that go with this... Outstanding job you're doing!!!
cognek 6 months ago
this is dope
achammer 8 months ago
Excellent stuff Mr Preacher !!!!
e28stevo 11 months ago
howdy rev muddy. say man do you know a gary craft from lampasas texas, he played lead for calvin russell way back when, 1979-2000
88ripitup 3 months ago
You do very nice stuff mate.From another Oldie. Keep well.
powergene1 11 months ago
You are bad to the bone, Incredible work! You can feel it! Thank you
gamvidys 1 year ago
in a word... WOW... i am going to be studying this video for so long.. i have so much to learn from this 6 minute clip.. YES!!!
dezrax 1 year ago
.Totallty amazing,you are definetly my idol! One of the badest dudes on the net,Thank you, so inspirational,
gamvidys 1 year ago
umm... you really played with SRV?
smackenurjunk 1 year ago
You're getting a nice sound out of that Squire, great playing. SVR was the man. Not sure why so many on here were confused, I knew immediately what you meant by Open E.
rickyfalcon 1 year ago
Holy crap a Reverand who plays the blues?
At what church does he preach? id totally sign up!
Imagine, a blues church, where they play awesome licks and slides while delivering the message of god! I'm no Christian but damn that would be cool...
'And God said...let there be blues" *Cue awesome solo with Jesus lookin dude
combine2 1 year ago
sounds alot like Stevie too, at first I thought it was pride and joy lol
westfallstudios 1 year ago
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westfallstudios 1 year ago
dude, u really play with Stevie? thats freakin awesome, I was also confused at first about saying this was open E until I realized u said Open E blues not Open E tuning
westfallstudios 1 year ago
Hey I don't care what any of these so called experts think . I think that sounded great . Blues ain't suposed to be perfect . That's why they call em the blues . I think you got a great tone . Keep on slingin that guitar man .
Videowatcher76 1 year ago
I wonder how this would sound a 1959 Les Paul Gibson.
Frank5133 1 year ago
This deserves so many more views!!! This is blues at its best ladies and gentlemen! listen and appreciate true talent
guitarmaster116 1 year ago
gtr362....you my friend are a tool and you need to get a life. You're responding to your own posts now.....come on, get over yourself.
Now get off the damn computer and practice your guitar skills so maybe you could be half as good as Rev. Muddy some day.
raunchymac 1 year ago 12
Now if you wanna know why I'm bustin' your balls, it's the "expert" comment you made. Nobody's trying to be an expert here. I was just confused at first as to where you were coming from with the Open E tuning. If you're trying to teach somebody something, teach em right. Some kid goes into a jam with that knowledge, and if the people they're playing with know the correct way, kid's gonna look like it an idiot. I do like your playing, make it to Mississippi, we can jam, I'll show you round!
gtr362 1 year ago
Pray tell what is an Eb Strat? Guitars aren't saxophones. No such thing as an Eb Strat. All guitars are made the basically the same and can be tuned to a variety of tunings, but Eb Strat? Oh, O.k., I've got a vintage 1964 Gadd9/aug5th strat, sucks I can only play it in that tuning, but it's a Gadd9/aug5th strat, dayum guess I'll have to deal with it.
gtr362 1 year ago
Wanna know why Stevie, Hendrix and so many others tune down half a step? It's so they can use thicker gauge strings for the tonal qualities. Thicker gauge strings give you a different sound than thinner strings. Using heavy gauge strings and tuning down a half-step makes it easier to bend notes with the thicker strings. Oh, but I guess you knew that already.
gtr362 1 year ago
Stevie used all of that delay? I don't think so.
gtr362 1 year ago
Or I suppose you could call it neck position E tuned down a half, semantics, but calling it open Eb is wrong and shows that you ain't done your homework, and you want to come across with an attitude? Yeah, your' good but your not that damn good. With a closed mind you damn sure wont get better, and let's get real, blues is really easy to play when you get down to it. I love it, it's what I play, but it's really easy compared to other styles of music. Real easy, fun, but easy as hell.
gtr362 1 year ago
Hate to say it man but it's not open Eb flat tuning either, it's standard tuning, tuned down a half step. Hey you're playing is great man, but just because you're good and supposedly played with SRV doesn't make "you" the expert. Ego guys who think they know it all, are a bitch to try and play with. What, you're too good to learn something? Nobody criticizing, and man I'm 48 years old and been playing for 34 years, so don't go all old school like that somehow makes you better.
gtr362 1 year ago
makes me miss Stevie
RythmandStrings 1 year ago
Hey Rev...great stuff. Question: How much of the DVD is in Eb tuning?
Again, great video.
SingleCoilVoodoo 1 year ago
Very nice guy! I like it!
Ezguitarpick 1 year ago
Really Great man!!! Been watching a lot of your stuff lately and I really love your play man!!! Don't wanna come off as ome kind of smart-ass 'expert' but you truly play great man!!!! The first Squire I hear moaning like this!!!!! Grtz from Amsterdam / Jillis
JILLMOL 1 year ago
Nice work !
PTRX64 1 year ago
Damn Dennis...That is so sweet!
davido
ax1sg 1 year ago
well done.thank you
kelley95660 1 year ago
Excellent.
psychkoala 1 year ago
this isn't in open e tuning...
CMRbuzz7 2 years ago
You're absolutely RIGHT! I'm using an Eb Strat. So that would make it "open Eb tuning" That's what Stevie Ray and I used to call it when we played it in 1969-1971 in the Dallas Cellar Club.
I'm really Glad there are so many "experts" on here to keep us feeble minded oldtimers who started playing in the early 60's straightened out and corrected. Thank You for that! Rev. Muddy
dennisdullea 1 year ago 15
Well I'm not wrong. Saying "open e" ensinuates that the guitar is tuned to an e chord. open e is not a key, it's a tuning. e is a key signature, "open" is a scale position on the guitar. this whole blues shuffle isn't in the open position and the guitar isn't tuned to an e chord, so saying it's "open e" blues is incorrect
CMRbuzz7 1 year ago
@CMRbuzz7 Rev. Muddy said you were technically right man. I think he's gearing this towards those of us that aren't as "educated" in music. I never took music class, and I couldn't read a sheet of music to save my life, but I can still make this strat say what I want her to say by translating feelings from the heart into a note. I know he's tuned to Eb, but my musically uneducated brain thinks "Open E" as in "using the nut as your index finger/thumb and playing". Much love Rev. Muddy!
douggeorge87 1 year ago
@dennisdullea your set up sounds great damn there's nothing like the blues.. thank you Mr. Johnson!
TheF86Sabre 1 year ago
@dennisdullea You have to do your homeworks better Mr Muddy :)
Carlovfx 5 months ago
@dennisdullea too much delay
onerelic 2 months ago
Your the man Dennis. Nice.
widdlemonk 2 years ago
i love it
zafff13 2 years ago
Now that is what I call a good shuffle, love it man!
Greetings, Peter
amlahguitar 2 years ago
nice work. maybe you should post some lessons on the basic licks you're doing
MAMM0TH1 2 years ago
Really cool!! I think the V-Neck shirt is the best part of the video though.
jakep34 2 years ago
Rev the texasblues dvd is fantastic, its really well done, I like the over the sholder shots..:) appreciate you slowin' dem licks down....
davido
ax1sg 2 years ago
I thought those squires had a nice crisp tone too, but I was fooled into being embarrassed by the cheap price... DOH!!
powerkor 2 years ago
Awesome!!! Thanks for posting:)
Grandma Mary
Fr3derick 2 years ago
nice tone and playing!!
k4she 2 years ago
Howdy You All!......The Video is Finished. Now we have to send it off and have it MFG. It will be professionally done so it will be about one Month before I have ready to sell. It has 21 Different Chapters and Had all been shot in High Definition.
Stay Tuned for more information, and Thanks to all of you who have been so kind to me....Dennis Dullea
dennisdullea 2 years ago
how about to show us some of those "key tricks" you learnt back in the early 70's ? :D
svidrigajlov 2 years ago
Man, that was great, but I'm a little confused here, to my knowledge, open E tuning is as follows, E,B,G#,E,B,E which produces an E chord when the strings are played open, like for slide playing. What I see you playing here is standard tuning dropped a half step, in the key of E, thus making a first position E chord an E flat, Half step down tuning was used almost all the time by SRV, sometimes by Hendrix, and almost all the time by VH. It's standard, down a half, not open E, I'm sure of it.
gtr362 2 years ago
But Of course my friend you are correct, But I'm referring to the neck position not the tuning. I call it "open E" because the nut becomes your index finger and it takes a completely different approach to playing the Standard Blues licks and scales in this position. It's not an easy thing to do if you have neglected learning it from Jump St. Hendrix was a Master at it, ( Slow version of VC on ELL 1968) and when Stevie showed it to me he was 16, I was 20 and he was already incredibly good at it.
dennisdullea 2 years ago
Great playing, great licks, great sound
great groove and great ending-solo !!!
***** for sure !!!
Congrats, man !!!
Grtz-Kurt-Belgium...
HDenBlues 3 years ago
Great news re the DVD Dennis...my life will be complete only when i own it !! (and then spend the next 5 years trying to master it!)
Cheers
Marty
martyjarvis 3 years ago
Brilliant as always Dennis...
martyjarvis 3 years ago
Nice vid man, thanks for posting.
mattchurchill 3 years ago
good stuff denny~~~~ but it's hell to get old.......
hogr2 3 years ago
Dennis you are a true master of the guitar . You make it look so easy . many thanks for your input
ajl123 3 years ago
Nice man very nice . . . . . and r u serious abt playin with SRV or am I an idiot?
talha318 3 years ago
Yes I am serious, I met him in Dallas in 1969 when he was 15 at a Jam session we had every Sunday at Lee Park. Then ran into him all the time in the Cellar Club in Downtown Dallas. We spent a lot of time swapping licks and hanging out. My Dear Friend the Late Robin Syler was a Big influence on him with the Albert King stuff, Nobody could play Albert King Better Than Robin Syler. They were in a band together in Austin called Kracker Jack for a while in the 70's. Thanks..Rev. Muddy
dennisdullea 3 years ago
Plus SRV was tuned to E flat?
jayscott49 3 years ago
Yes....Always...He showed me that in 1969....I didn't know you could tune a guitar any way you wanted, and could not understand why I couldn't play along with Hendrix. It's called "Slack Tuning" "Drop Tuning" and/or "Blues Tuning" Hendrix did it with .009's. It makes it MUCH easier to bend the Strings, (especially on a Strat with the long scale) and LOTS easier to sing with if you're a limited range singer like I am. Thanks Rev. Muddy
dennisdullea 3 years ago
yeah! i love that, tune the guitar so it fits you. plus guitar, imo, sounds better overall down a bit, more in the cello range and less in the violin, and those fast-up-the-neck extended solos aren't my cup of tea anyway. i now bring 3 guitars, an 'E', a 'E flat', and a 'D', which i like because the D gives you open D and G too,
and i love that big rhythm sound you're getting here! btw,
you sound killer overall, but that's obvious!
jayscott49 3 years ago
Damn Rev that was smokin...excellent as always, Thia will be one of my favs for sure..
davido
ax1sg 3 years ago
Dennis, Thanks for more blues food. Make sure you put a video up so we know when your HOW TO PLAY THE BLUES DD STYLE IS READY, so we can all purchase it. It will be a great way to thank you for all your efforts! Thanks again.
Man those DD bends are awesome!
Kind Regards,
Steve
cornhuskbag 3 years ago
We are going to try and finish the DVD this Sunday. It will have HD close ups of my fingers shot from over my shoulder with explanations of each lick. All My Best Jimi and SRV Albert King Robin Syler Etc. AND it will not be overpriced. Thanks Rev. Muddy
dennisdullea 3 years ago
You Da man Dennis !! You are so loose and relaxed in your playing is why it sounds so great.
Your friend Mike
SIXSTRING63 3 years ago