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Old School Blues Licks & Riffs - Bessie Smith "Backwater Blues"
🕑 Added 2023-03-17 21:09:26 +0000 UTCHello friends,
Welcome back to Swiftlessons for another old school blues tutorial. One of the best ways to diversify your skills and make your playing sound more unique is to dig into obscure tracks or to adapt techniques employed by other instrumentalist. In today's session we will do both as we master lead and rhythm techniques performed by pianist James P. Johnson on the iconic 1927 recording of "Backwater Blues." Let's get started!
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Will you be posting the tabs in a downloadable format? I can't find them here. Thanks.
Keith Poulin
Nice lesson, thanks! One slight alternative fingering on measure 21 would be to use string 2 fret 9 (G#) instead string 1 fret 4 (G#) on beat 3.
another great lesson as usual Rob I had a question for you could you possibly divide video for I should be released originally done by the band, but I am more interested in how playing for change did their slide guitar in their video it can be found on YouTube. Thank you very much Rob McPheron.
Yes! Thank you Bob🙏❤️
You are the Bob Ross of Guitar.
Great breakdowns as usual Rob. FYI, I signed up for your Truefire Acoustic Etude lessons and found them very useful. Keep up the great work and hope all is well with your new studio and family. Best wishes. Steve
Glad you're excited for this one Steven, enjoy! -Rob
Working on this one. Very cool classic.
