Mance Lipscomb's "Charley James" taught by Stefan Grossman

[202pdiddy]

I can't get my ring finger to cover those two strings in the E chord he's showing at 1:40, at least not without touching the other strings. Arg. I've been playing the E with three fingers for a long time, now I'm having to relearn a basic chord. Man this is frustrating.

[storekeeper80]

I use Eric Clapton's Choice Martin strings, light, guages 0.13, 0.17, 0.26, 0.35, 0.45, 0.56 and they sound great but I can never get the strings to bend like Stefan does. Does anyone know what strings and guage he uses?

[archtoppop77]

I would be very suprised if he was using 13's. I had lessons from Stephan back in the 70's and he used D'Darrio P, Bronze then I think, but looking at this video and some others, they look like nickel wound. Tone/volume versus playability is always a balance between action and string gauge. If you want great tone and bendability (!) try Thomastic plectrum or spectrum bronze on Newtone strings. Incidently Stephan got his Vibrato from Clapton.

[surferchad122]

@storekeeper80 use lighter strings .11 or .12

[storekeeper80]

Would that be too slack to keep the tension on the neck right? Mine's a Martin guitar.

[PearTree37067]

@storekeeper80 He uses John Pearse 80/20 light gauge strings now. I don't know what he used when this video was made however.

[MrLeadbelly]

makes it look so easy .Especially that dodgy E chord. WELL DONE

[88ragtime]

Stefan is such a great teacher!!!

[paulwhitberg]

@88ragtime yeah, i really think he's the best in the business. his books and videos are amazing. He's so passionate about the blues, so good at what he does, and truly one of a kind.

[stillavril]

Stone me, that's amazing playing.

Love it.

[xxnecromanceroo]

thank you stefan- my playing has improved much with your channel already. I'm on my way to ordering a DVD workshop of yours... Happy Holidays 2 u!

[yogiearth]

It seems I can never get in tune with you even with a fork or tuner, do you have that special MJH tuning? I can never seem to find.

[royjpas]

Más, por favor... más. A lot of a lot of thanks