Hey HD, That makes me really happy to hear that you are playing Delta style. It has given me so much joy in my life. Are you playing any slide? Here is a guy in Amsterdam with some video clip instruction of 3 of my favorite influences, R.L. Burnside with North Mississippi Hill style, Skip James from Bentonia Mississippi, in an open minor tuning, and finally some cool stuff from Mali. This guy really has the right feel for the music I love. Check out his whole site. http://www.joeppelt.net/workshopeng.html
I just got my CD re-mastered and re-packaged, and it has been so warm here in D.C. I've been busking many days this Winter. I am looking forward to a great new year in blues. Feel free to email me if I can point you towards any more resources. The acoustic forum is great, I have learned a lot. I now am playing on a saddle of fossilized mastodon tusk! No kidding. Those guys on the forum are hard core! Take care. Curtis --- In [email protected], hermandan0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Curtis. Good to hear from you. Happy New Year! > Thanks for the links. They are both terrific. > You inspired me to try to learn some Delta blues stuff, which is a lot > of fun--you're never too old to learn new guitar techniques as Bruce > Cockburn says--and I thank you for that. (Can't claim any great > proficiency but I'm having a good time.) > > Cheers, > hd > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Happy New Year everybody. > > > > Here is my favorite version of percussive guitar from Booker White. > > B.B. King, who is a cousin, says he created his unique vibrato to > > imitate his slide technique. I play this song but the technique tends > > to leak into all sorts of other songs I play now. It gets a big > > response. > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc > > > > Vaj and Spraig may be interested in this link to my favorite acoustic > > guitar forum. It is biased towards my early blues interests but I > > think you may dig it. > > http://tinyurl.com/t2ynt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jan 12, 2007, at 11:03 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > > > As an example, La Source du Lyson, written by Coste about 150 > years > > > > ago, includes short > > > > samples of slappig the fretted strings to produce special sounds. > > > > There's a specific > > > > annotation in guitar sheet music and tablature for such a thing. > > > > > > > > > Not the same thing at all. I'm a classically trained guitarist, and > > > this ain't *anything* like your example. In two hand technique your > > > not merely slapping the strings, you're fretting legato type > passages > > > with your right hand in extended slurring, hammer-ons and pull-offs. > > > > > >
