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The Power of Delta Blues Guitar 1 | movie | 1989 | Official Clip
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7/21/2023
Learn the traditional country blues guitar styles that have influenced generations of players. Rory Block, one of the mo | dG1fckFaVVlRSkNCb2s
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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Moon's gonna download it.
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Sun's about to shine.
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Sun's about to hot shine.
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Hi, I'm Rory Block, and I'm going to be teaching you
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country blues today.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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OK, there's so many different interesting elements there.
00:35
We have hammer-ons, plenty of hammer-ons.
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We have bent notes.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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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.
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And that sometimes takes a little bit of practice
00:56
at first, like--
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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All I'm doing here is playing the G string,
01:02
and I'm hitting the D string.
01:03
So we have--
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
01:06
In other words, I'm not plucking the D string
01:08
where I'm hammering on at all.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
01:12
In walking blues, there's a lot of bent notes.
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And in particular, at the top of each verse, you have this.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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And this is fun, too, because it brings in yet another element
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where you dampen the strings with your right hand.
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You can dampen either with your left hand or your right hand.
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In this particular-- at this particular point,
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we're going to dampen with the right hand.
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Take the third finger and bend the third fret of the A string.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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And then go for the open D string immediately after that.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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And then flatten the palm onto the strings, right down here,
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right at the base of the strings.
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You're going to go--
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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Just like that.
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