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Has anyone seen this DVD yet?

 

http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/058862/details.html?kbid=1070

 

Looks interesting... I don't have the Bookbinder videos yet, I sopose I should get those first, I hear a lot of good about them, but this one looks interesting too...

 

I'm still working through LB's DVD (and having a blast with it), just looking ahead to what I'm gona takle next.

 

On a side note, can anyone recomend a DVD lesson that focuses on flapicking acustic blues rather than fingersyle (ive done all the ones on LB's site)? I think I enjoy the fingersyle blues better, but wouldn't mind working on both. Looking for something in the 3 to 4 difiiculty range.

 

Thanks!

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LittleBrother Newbie

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Thanks for the kind words. I am surprised you haven't gotten more posts. We have many blues fans here. I haven't seen the video you mentioned.

If you like my stuff then you might really like lessons from www.guitarvideos.com from Stefan and many others on that site. They also sell 3 DVDs for the price of 2. I love homespun too but they often dont go into enough detail for me. I love Binder to death but you might be past that point if you can do all my lessons. He doesn't do as much ragtime and country blues in that blues by the book series but he hits on alot of simple A blues things.

There's also Jorma Kaukonen on http://www.breakdownway.com/ and his country blues lessons.

I also have a brand new big lesson coming on www.acousticplayermagazine.com any week now. I wish you luck. You might want to checkout Stefan's site next.

Good luck though :)

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Oh Yeah Bernie,

That's a great looking choice. I dont own any Stefan lessons but I want some bad. That was one of the ones I want to order. Good choice!

Yeah that walk down on fishing clothes works better if you go down to a two note A7. I missed that in the first DVD but I made a little helper movie on the web for that I hope you found. We may have already emailed about that. A few people had trouble with that part of Fishin Clothes :)

All the best!
Doug

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Since we're talking about blues... I got a kick out of this the first time I ever read it (still do).

1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning."

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like " I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a good woman - with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher - and she weigh 500 pound."

4. The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch; ain't no way out.

5. Blues cars: Chevys and Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.

6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, " adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.

8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cuz you skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg cuz an alligator be chomping on it is.

9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10. Good places for the Blues:

a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass

Bad places:

a. Ashrams
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses

11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old ethnic person, and you slept in it.

12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:

a. you're older than dirt
b. you're blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied

No, if:

a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived.
d. you have a retirement plan or trust fund.

13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.

14. If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the Blues.

Other acceptable Blues beverages are:

a. wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. black coffee

The following are NOT Blues beverages:

a. mixed drinks
b. kosher wine
c. Snapple
d. sparkling water


15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or getting liposuction.

16. Some Blues names for women:

a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling

17. Some Blues names for men:

a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie

18. Persons with names like Sierra, Sequoia, Auburn, and Rainbow can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

19. Make your own Blues name (starter kit):

a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi,etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)

For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc.

(Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")

20. I don't care how tragic your life: you own a computer, you cannot sing the blues. You best destroy it. Fire, a spilled bottle of Mad Dog, or get out a shotgun. I don't care.


Cheers,
Bluesfrog

(By the way, yes, this is my first post) :)

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and a nice one it was. I had read that a long time ago and forgot most of it.:D This one's been around too but maybe some are seeing it for the first time:

Get Your Blues Name!

From the first list, take the name using the initial of your first name.
From the second list, do the same with your middle name.
From the third, your surname.
First List
A= Fat; B=Muddy ; C=Crippled; D=Old; E=Texas; F=Hollerin'; G=Ugly; H=Brown; I=Happy; J=Boney; K=Curly; L=Pretty; M=Jailhouse; N=Peg Leg; O=Red; P=Sleepy; Q=Bald; R=Skinny; S=Blind; T=Big; U= Yella; V=Toothless; W=Screamin'; X=Fat Boy; Y=Washboard; Z=Steel-Eye
Second List
A=Bones; B=Money; C=Harp; D=Legs; E=Eyes; F=Lemon; G=Killer; H=Hips; I=Lips; J=Fingers; K=Boy; L=Liver; M=Gumbo; N=Foot;O=Mama; P=Back; Q=Duke; R=Dog; S=Bad Boy; T=Baby; U=Chicken; V=Pickles; W=Sugar; X=Cracker; Y=Tooth; Z=Smoke
Third List
A=Jackson; B=McGee; C=Hopkins; D=Dupree; E=Green; F=Brown;
G=Jones; H=Rivers; I=Malone; J=Washington; K=Smith;L=Parker;
M=Lee; N=Thompkins; O=King; P=Bradley; Q=Hawkins; R=Jefferson;S=Davis; T=Franklin; U=White; V=Jenkins; W=Bailey; X=Johnson;Y=Blue; Z=Allison



Ugly Legs Jones
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14. If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the Blues.

 

How's this for a blues title? "I got GAS so bad I can't hold it in"! :p

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Originally posted by kwakatak



How's this for a blues title? "I got GAS so bad I can't hold it in"!
:p

(Don't we all - I can connect with that :D) It works. :p

Cheers,
Bluesfrog

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Originally posted by LittleBrother


Yeah that walk down on fishing clothes works better if you go down to a two note A7. I missed that in the first DVD but I made a little helper movie on the web for that I hope you found. We may have already emailed about that. A few people had trouble with that part of Fishin Clothes
:)

All the best!

Doug



I remember seeing that before I got the DVD, but I must have forgot about it. I just took a look at it. It would have helped, but I'm glad I didn't see it before I learned it. I got it down the hardway, and figured to do the A7 myself. :D

Muddy Fingers McGee... now that just doesn't sound right

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I ain't got no middle name. Just plain ol' Fat Harp

:D

Good choice of DVD lessons, Bernie. Let us know how you get on with it! Course, you could always come to LB's jam in Conyers this coming September and learn a whole bunch there from the man himself!

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Originally posted by Cams

I ain't got no middle name. Just plain ol' Fat Harp


:D



See, this is a PERFECT situation to add some legitamacy to your blues name! You could always tell people that."My momma an' daddy wuz too poor ta give me a middle name!" and thus, Fat 'Po' Boy Harp was born!

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Originally posted by Cams


Good choice of DVD lessons, Bernie. Let us know how you get on with it! Course, you could always come to LB's jam in Conyers this coming September and learn a whole bunch there from the man himself!



I'll definitely let you know how the lessons are.

Man, I would love to come down to LB's jam. I watched the highlights from last year and it looks like a great time. My wife is due on September first though, so maybe next year. :)

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bernieberg,

I've just received the 3 dvd set you've ordered, and very inspireing it is too. There's some fantastic footage of some Old time blues players in there.

One small niggle, everything sounds flat, not half a step down, but maybe a 1/4. To get round this I calibrated my tuner to 432 Hz and tuned up from there. It does mean the guitar sounds a bit starnge when I go to play anything else though.

Michael

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ROFLOL :D :D :D

This post is a riot. I'm chuckling away while reading this.


I'm Texas Fingers Lee. I kinda like the sound of that one.

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Originally posted by UGB

and a nice one it was. I had read that a long time ago and forgot most of it.
:D
This one's been around too but maybe some are seeing it for the first time:


Get Your Blues Name!


From the first list, take the name using the initial of your first name.

From the second list, do the same with your middle name.

From the third, your surname.

First List

A= Fat; B=Muddy ; C=Crippled; D=Old; E=Texas; F=Hollerin'; G=Ugly; H=Brown; I=Happy; J=Boney; K=Curly; L=Pretty; M=Jailhouse; N=Peg Leg; O=Red; P=Sleepy; Q=Bald; R=Skinny; S=Blind; T=Big; U= Yella; V=Toothless; W=Screamin'; X=Fat Boy; Y=Washboard; Z=Steel-Eye

Second List

A=Bones; B=Money; C=Harp; D=Legs; E=Eyes; F=Lemon; G=Killer; H=Hips; I=Lips; J=Fingers; K=Boy; L=Liver; M=Gumbo; N=Foot;O=Mama; P=Back; Q=Duke; R=Dog; S=Bad Boy; T=Baby; U=Chicken; V=Pickles; W=Sugar; X=Cracker; Y=Tooth; Z=Smoke

Third List

A=Jackson; B=McGee; C=Hopkins; D=Dupree; E=Green; F=Brown;

G=Jones; H=Rivers; I=Malone; J=Washington; K=Smith;L=Parker;

M=Lee; N=Thompkins; O=King; P=Bradley; Q=Hawkins; R=Jefferson;S=Davis; T=Franklin; U=White; V=Jenkins; W=Bailey; X=Johnson;Y=Blue; Z=Allison




Ugly Legs Jones

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I was sitting and thinking of my best friend who is vacationing in boston and thought of her name which is rather odd... Blind Killer Smith-McGee (her last name is hyphenated as her parents wanted her name to use both of their last names)...ummm... how does a blind person kill someone... "I got the runover a man with my Cadillac in memphis, 'cause I'm a blind ol' man and i'm fixin' to die blues"

My parent's names... father - Muddy Bad Boy Davis
Mother... Blind Cracker Davis... rofl :D

Balding "Soy Latte" McGee...

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