NEW RELEASE: ‘DEAD CATZ CAN BOUNCE’ The Blues Preachers continue their blues and roots musical journey with their latest release: ‘Dead Catz Can Bounce’.Unlike their previous releases, this album contains 7 original songs about the big issues of today: the global financial crisis, greed, relationships, global warming, materialism, life and death and the search for […]

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

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 and response. TAB

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

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

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 changes. This piece is a […]