Country Delta Blues; Open chords & essential 12 bar progressions. Authentic Guitar lesson + TAB!
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Can you comfortably strum your way through an authentic Country Delta blues in C, using open chords, substitutions and a few connecting runs? Find out in today’s lesson!..
It’s an essential skill for any guitarist and unfortunately, as with a lot of open position chord work, it all too often tends to be played with a serious lack of imagination, feel and vibe.
The blues deserves much better than that, and it deserves our close attention for 20 minutes!.. let’s make Lonnie Johnson proud!
Acoustic or electric, this stuff works on any guitar, any time and any place.. that’s the beauty of the blues.
The lesson materials include a transcription of my opening performance, as well as my 4 page “Evolution of a 12 Bar Blues” chord study!
⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
00:00 – Performance
00:40 – Introduction & lesson materials
01:17 – Evolution of a 12 Bar Blues;
01:39 – Level 1
02:28 – Chucking in the “fast four” & some 7th chords
03:33 – Level 2 playthrough
04:54 – More advanced additions; extra cadences
05:06 – iv minor
06:08 – Fingerstyle blues example
06:23 – #4 diminished
07:33 – Tone, Feel & Texture
08:55 – Alternating bass
09:09 – Level 3 playthrough
10:05 – Adding secondary dominant chords!
11:02 – Dylan’s D7/F# voicing
12:48 – Turnaround
13:09 – Augmented chord; G7#5
13:43 – Chromaticism
14:48 – Level 4 playthrough w/commentary
15:41 – Gear Talk!
16:51 – Summary & Sign-off
Related videos to check out..
Unaccompanied Fingerstyle Delta Blues;
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out; chords lesson;
Nobody Knows You; triad based soloing lesson;
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Sunbear “Farran Five” tele pickups;
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Gear used in this video;
Martin HD28v acoustic guitar
La Bella Phosphor Bronze 12-53 strings
Dunlop Flow 1mm pick
Neumann KM184 microphone
Universal Audio Apollo Twin X
Logic Pro
Universal Audio plugins
Sony ZVE-10 camera
Neewer Desktop Tripod
Final Cut Pro
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Alex 🙂
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Lesson materials: https://patreon.com/AlexFarranGuitar
brilliant
Your lessons are excellent and despite having been playing guitar for more years than I care to remember (wish I could play as well as you) have already picked up some useful tips from you so will keep checking on future lessons
Love the acoustic lessons so much! Keep it up!????????
I hate YouTube algorithms. I just missed your last 2 vids. They need a "Favorite Notifications" button.
Lots of information there, thanks Alex ????????
This guy deserves to be the biggest guitar lesson channel on youtube. Phenomenal teacher!
Really cool lesson! Thanks.
Please do recommend some good listening for this genre.
The beauty of simplicity.
Incredible lesson my friend!! Is the C7 before F what's called a secondary dominant!
This is probably the most instructive guitar video I’ve ever seen in terms of explaining a simple concept in a digestible format. You’re a hero.
This is great. I write songs and love this style. People can take this lesson and learn Nobody knows you when you're down and out.
What a great informative lesson ????
Nice playing and thanks for the blues
This dude is the best on the internet
What song is this sequence chords are based on I’d like to explore it more, good stuff, Thks!
I really like the way you explain HOW the chords relate to each other ie the 5th to the 5th and so on. Excellent stuff
WOW
Thanks for all the great education
Fantastic lesson. Always so much to unpack 🙂
Brilliant as always, thanks
Suona da Dio! ????????????????????????
I never knew/understood how the I7 chord fit musically – so, when your going up a 4th in a chord change, the I7 acts as the V relative to the pending IV, creating a mini tension-resolve throughout, giving the journey a “we’re going somewhere”feel. You “earned” my comment (like & sub). Do I have that right? I don’t see this in blues much (usually all bars are 7 chords), but it sent me down a journey of understanding stuff – like the 7th of the V resolving a half step to the tonic 3rd, and similarly the 3rd of V a half step to the tonic root – contrary resolution + leading voice. I never knew any of this until today.
Love all the voice leading walk ups or downs and secondary dominants I've heard and loved these moves from Brownie McGee, Bill Broonzy or Memphis Minnie and Charlie McCoy and wondered what was going on. Those later 1940's blues players were musically sophisticated and clued up, plus they must have had a great ear. There was a lot of interaction and competitions happening and it was customary to take on paid students and pass on your best moves. A lesson covering the infectious rhythms, a sample of the bouncy, dynamic, syncopated chord and runs of these catchy vocal accompaniments would be invaluable.
Great lesson for me!! Thank you for the patterns and nuisances that make music more fun!
Man, I wish you lived in Leith, I'd love to go for a pint with you to discuss guitar geekdom!
"I didn't plan it but my ears wanted to hear that." Ha ha ha. ????????????
I love that!
Well said, Alex.
Hi from a Scotsman in Australia. ????
More of the acoustic stuff please Alex, simple turnarounds and stuff like that would be great. Thanks for all your effort with these very instructional videos.
I do appreciate the depth of every lesson. From the basic to advanced. Thank you for being such a wonderful teacher.
Love it!!
Santa cruz low tension strings are a game changer.
New subscriber – great stuff, thanks!
I love the way this is explained. Great stuff
Such good teaching! ????????
Great lesson Alex and thanks for your crystal clear deconstruction of the why's and how's of those extra chords, very valuable information.
Excellent advice. Thanks!
Great lesson! Really looking forward to part 2 Travis picking!!
Very nice, Alex. I always appreciate your efforts to add the 'theory' behind how you take simple (almost boring) music and recreate it with very sophisticated variations and reharmonizations. And also your urgings to experiment with what you've shown us. Looking forward to the Travis picking video. My one suggestion would be to show your process in two keys, if time permits.
Hi Alex. What a beautiful way to start my Saturday! That was great, such a great slow swinging tempo. Looking forward to joining you on Patreon in the coming days.
Fantastic stuff Alex.. sounds wonderful & so clearly explained. Thank you.
Your lessons are gold man! ????????
Killer tone as usual!!
Excellent thank you
Love the simplicity of this lesson and I plan to work on this until it becomes part of me. I look forward to the Travis Picking version too. Would love to see a third take where adding some simple lead lines is the focus.
Always, even the simple stuff, becomes an eye opening deep dive with you. And gorgeous guitar. I'm jelly.
Love this style so much, especially that IV minor
I know some of this from Jazz/Blues. Never focused on open position basic stuff. My mistake!
Appreciate the John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis bit, always good to see where al this came from.
Thanks Alex for the lesson, I didn't know I needed.
Thanks Alex, can’t wait to break out the Martin and learn this. Sure got the blues over here in the states…good excuse to work them out on the guitar.
I always look forward to your new content because you always deliver the goods……and what great quality goods they are!! Cheers Alex.