Taj Mahal Guitar Lesson Part 1

Guitar Lesson With Taj Mahal

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Music

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• guitar
• lesson
• blues
• tahj
• mahal

[deltron2007]

god, I wish I could see his hands. Is there a better version of this video?

[daddariostrings]

@deltron2007 Unfortunately no - but we agreed. We wish we could see his hands a bit more clearly.

[tattooninja]

jeez. one of the last living legends.

taj please stay with us as long as you can.

i hope he lives to 200

[TheBluesBeggar]

I love this video. So many lessons I've watched in other places are so polished and about patterns... but he takes it into Mojo. The real deal, not just the image. Not that patterns are not important to understand but I like how he talks about feeling the dance of it, the walk... it's like he's not playing the guitar as much as *they* are spending time together.

Yet around 6:39 or so I couldn't help but think he was going to give himself whip lash!

[theshowmecanuck]

I like the 'country E'. I learned how to play blues from Bennie Smith in Saint Louis. He was considered the dean of blues guitar in Saint Louis. When he saw me play a barre chord he said 'show me that chord again'. So I played the barre chord again. And he said, 'oh, you play dem COWBOY chords'. So I asked him a better way to play it and he showed me how to play a barre like the way Taj Mahal shows what he calls a country chord. Except Bennie would play the A string and optionally mute it.

[iwishiwasbell]

LOVE IT

[SinaArtism]

forget the guitar.. his voice is so bluesy it makes you feel like you're sitting in one of those cool old shitty bars!

[bapbap22]

wow. he plays some phenomenal licks.

[tripadegato]

Best class on tube!!!