Here is the TAB for the blues in E monotonic bass style of fingerpicking as demonstrated in the video tuition clip shown below and as used by guitarists such as Mance Lipscomb, Lightning Hopkins and Big Bill Broonzy. Also included is a basic monotonic bass vocal accompaniment part with call Read more…
Baby please don’t go by Lightning Hopkins. Beginners level Arrangement by Brother John Morris. Baby Please Don’t Go TAB
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. Robert Johnson Blues In A TAB
Do not buy a Dreadnought. This type of acoustic guitar tends to produce a boomy bottom end but lacks volume and definition in the top end. The Dreadnought is a great strumming and flat picking guitar. Do buy an Auditorium, OM (orchestra model), triple O (OOO) or double O (OO) Read more…
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 conjunction with the alternating bass style where the slide is used mainly on the first string. A simple version of Blind Willie Johnson’s Read more…
“The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits” Willie Dixon “If the blues is an ocean, and that ocean is condensed down to a lake, and that lake is condensed down to a river, and that river is condensed down to a stream, and that stream Read more…
An introduction to the Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar studio by Brother John Morris. Today we are looking at the alternating bass style as played by Mississippi John Hurt and featured in his song Louis Collins. TAB
Here are some basic fingerpicking patterns in the alternating bass style.
A tuition video featuring Pay Day by Mississippi John Hurt and played by Brother John Morris. It is in the alternating bass fingerpicking style. Pay Day is in open D tuning (DADF#AD). The bass in this song alternates constantly between the 6th and the 4th strings. There are no chord Read more…