Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Studio » Video Tuition

Need Somebody On Your Bond

Brother John — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:56:53 +0000

The Blues Preachers, Brother John and Captain Bluetongue, perform their version of Blind Willie Johnson’s Need Somebody On Your Bond as featured in The Blues Preachers E-book.

Wabash Rag

Brother John — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:27:10 +0000

Brother John and Captain Bluetongue from the Blues Preachers play their version of Blind Arthur Blake’s Wabash Rag.

Blues In E Monotonic Bass Style

Brother John — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:15:46 +0000

Brother John Morris presents the monotonic bass style of fingerpicking as used by Mance Lipscomb, Lightning Hopkins and Big Bill Broonzy.

Baby Please Don’t Go

Brother John — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:01:49 +0000

Baby please don’t go by Lightning Hopkins. Beginners level Arrangement by Brother John Morris.

Robert Johnson Blues In A

Brother John — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:51:00 +0000

Brother John presents a classic blues in A based on the playing of Robert Johnson.
This arrangement is in the monotonic bass style. It also has some syncopated and walking bass notes.

Slide Workshop

Brother John — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:41:49 +0000

An introduction to slide guitar by Brother John explaining 2 ways of playing bottleneck slide guitar.
1. Single note style with right hand muting.
2. Used in conjuction with the alternating bass style where the slide plays mainly on the first string.
A simple version of Blind Willie Johnson’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine is used to demonstrate this approach.