The Power of Delta Blues Guitar 1 | movie | 1989 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

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Learn the traditional country blues guitar styles that have influenced generations of players. Rory Block, one of the mo | dG1fckFaVVlRSkNCb2s

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 Moon's gonna download it.

00:07 Sun's about to shine.

00:09 Sun's about to hot shine.

00:11 Hi, I'm Rory Block, and I'm going to be teaching you

00:17 country blues today.

00:18 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:32 OK, there's so many different interesting elements there.

00:35 We have hammer-ons, plenty of hammer-ons.

00:38 We have bent notes.

00:39 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:42 And some of the hammer-ons have a very special effect

00:50 in that some of them are played when you're not actually

00:53 plucking the string first.

00:54 And that sometimes takes a little bit of practice

00:56 at first, like--

00:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:59 All I'm doing here is playing the G string,

01:02 and I'm hitting the D string.

01:03 So we have--

01:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:06 In other words, I'm not plucking the D string

01:08 where I'm hammering on at all.

01:09 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:12 In walking blues, there's a lot of bent notes.

01:14 And in particular, at the top of each verse, you have this.

01:17 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:20 And this is fun, too, because it brings in yet another element

01:25 where you dampen the strings with your right hand.

01:27 You can dampen either with your left hand or your right hand.

01:31 In this particular-- at this particular point,

01:32 we're going to dampen with the right hand.

01:35 Take the third finger and bend the third fret of the A string.

01:37 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:38 And then go for the open D string immediately after that.

01:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:42 And then flatten the palm onto the strings, right down here,

01:45 right at the base of the strings.

01:46 You're going to go--

01:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:49 Just like that.

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01:59 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:02 [Music]

The Power of Delta Blues Guitar 1 | movie | 1989 | Official Clip

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