I feel like I just struck gold. Fantastic. I've played 47 years and many styles. Every once in a while I try to "clean up" some technique. I'm a flat picking lead guitarist -- but knuckled down on Travis picking a few years ago. I developed my own crude dead thumb blues grooves too, but they are never totally satisfying. This is so clear and logical that you've just hooked me. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of finger style guitar.

Recently discovered this pot of gold. Most excellent wealth of knowledge and teaching. Thankyou very much.

My only comment is thank god I was lucky enough to find your lesson today. This was the best 11minutes and :05 seconds I've spent on youtube. A great teacher is a treasure and you are a great teacher. Thank you for sharing.

Just found out about your content. It is really awesome. Im new to playing. I find your explanation and teaching to be superb for a beginner like me. Thank you

Thanks for taking things slowly. I'm an Australian

This is exactly what the doctor has ordered! Thank you so much, David!

Words fail. Thank you, David.

These video lessons (and I've watched many) are not only effective in their teaching methods but are so entertaining. Love them.

Thanks David. No one breaks it down into clear, digestible pieces like you have. I will really benefit from this series.

🎉 thank you for sharing, great channel 🎉 hope you are well God loves you deeply shalom 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐 Philippians 4:8

Great lesson. That intro to "getting the grove" is an eyeopener!

I recently tried learning key to the highway and found several attempts on various sites.... Most just about OK.... Then found Mr Hamburger!! But your name took me back to reading lessons possibly in GP and How to play guitar..... Probably about 20 years ago!! You are a great teacher! Please carry on!!!

Welcome back David. Great lesson. Exactly in my wheelhouse and loving the teaching.

Love the way you play. It is a great pleasure to be allowed to study the way you play. Thank you.🎶

Thank you for this! One of my favorite kinds of blues, and I'm just at a level where this is perfect practice for me. Excellent!

You explain things very clearly and this is invaluable. Thank you David.

Best lesson to start playing blues I ever saw.

David,you are teaching the real stuff.Bravo!

Excellent intro to the finger style blues. Being new to this, I had a little trouble with the right hand (walk and chew gum), but after a while, I caught on to the syncopation. You were recommended to me by the great London blues guitarist Doug Varty. You are indeed Hamburger helper!

So happy to have some nice new acoustic grooves. Hoping for more. Looks like that Austin sun has been shining down on you. :-)

Thank you! This lesson and upcoming series for me is just the right thing at the right time for my playing. I’ve been looking for a way to combine blues rhythm and lead for a while, and your detailed and patient tuition helps people like me to want to practice and get the approach right. Keep doing what you’re doing.

Thank you David!

Me: Whoa! A lovely groove, 2 bass fills, a chordal move and one very tasty lick all in 11 minutes??? Nah, can't be done. DavidH: Hold my beer.

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5 жыл бұрын

hahaha! Thank you, Peter, for making me laugh out loud with this comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the lesson so much.

Having fun with this David - Thanks!

Wonderful lesson David....love your presentation and content. Kind regards, Bob (Melbourne, Australia).

Great teacher.

Thank you David for the lesson! It'is going to take some work on my part for sure!

I just paid for this course series before finding it free on the KZreads, lol, but I don't even want a refund! This material is so good, you earned it. Gonna get through this to prep myself for the Fingerstyle Five. See you again then!

@johnharreld4875

Жыл бұрын

Oh, and the PDFs are super helpful, so there's that!

So glad I found your channel! Great stuff! Sincere thanks!

Thank you very much. You made me very joyful.

Just what I need to start and understand the magic of blues basics💥💥

Excellent lesson! Many thanks for posting. Looking forward to the next one.

@FretboardConfidential

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow. I need this. Thank you!!

Champion my man. Natural move forward from my country chords. Thanxs

Thank you , nice to finally have some clear instruction on the blues progression

Thanks for sharing!!

David a great lesson!

Very good lesson David. You are a great communicator sir, thank you.

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4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Dave!

Thank you. You e distilled many core ideas to their essentials . You've given me a foundation on which to build. Thank you again. How's that snow!!

Excellent!

Excellent!!!!

Enjoyed the lesson thanks!

David, I really enjoyed this. I struggled going from straight 8's to swing 8's when I started playing Blues; I wish I would have had this guidance back then. I look forward to the other lessons coming out.

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7 жыл бұрын

Hi Perry! Yeah, that can be tricky :-). More coming soon!

Thanks a lot. Very useful lesson

Brilliant lesson series David. It would be great to have some classic fingerstyle blues in E listening suggestions to accompany it if possible. Thanks.

Thanks David. Ravi

great teacher

Hey Dave, Great stuff and awesome presentation as usual!! I recommend your stuff to lot of folks. Keep up the great lessons I love seeing 'em!!........Paul H.

@FretboardConfidential

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks, Paul! That means a lot coming from you :-).

Doing the 6 then joining 😊👌

Excellent! Thank You! :)

Makes sense!, thanks

You. Are. Awesome.

@FretboardConfidential

6 жыл бұрын

Thank. You. Seriously!

Thank soooo much

Legend

As good as it gets!!

Extraordinarily valuable lesson, in fact this whole blues series. Clinically analytical and effective. We owe so much to those old African American blues artists. (But I'm wondering if blues requires such a physically dirty instrument!)

Great lesson, followed you over from TF

nice lesson

great

Hi David. Great to hear from you. Funny, I was just going back through the Week 1 TCMGTFB Acoustic material, so this "E" groove is perfect fit with the "A" material from the Course. Throw in a "B" lick and a turnaround and I almost sound like I got it goin' on. LOL In reference to New Course material, I like how this is directly related to the previous course material. An extention of. The same but different. I'd be interested. Dean

@FretboardConfidential

7 жыл бұрын

Ha! That's right, the groove exercises in last year's course were in A, weren't they. Glad you're still getting some mileage out of all that material!

@DM-qj3sy

7 жыл бұрын

There are many, many miles in that course material.

Good stuff, David! Cheers--PC

@FretboardConfidential

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Phil!! Thanks for saying hello - it's been waaaay too long. Hope you're well!

@philcat51

5 жыл бұрын

Doing fine, David, thanks, enjoying retirement and playing in a (gasp) rock band! Hope you and your family are likewise doing swell. P.S. A good buddy of mine is becoming a real blues hound, playing his new Clarksdale resonator and learning blues licks via your videos! Keep up the good work! Cheers--PC

@FretboardConfidential

5 жыл бұрын

Ha! Well, at least he's not picking it all up on the street :-). Glad to hear about the band, and yes, everyone here is rocking it, each according to their own individualistic predilections and inclinations.

Excellent - thanks. Do you have suggestions for playing in other keys, say, G?

Hi David love all your lessons. Any chance of some insight into Leon Redbones playing. Many thanks

@zeropoleski4360

2 жыл бұрын

mIck.....maybe we should barrage him with requests for Redbone's stuff. I've been wanting the same thing.

Hi David. You taught me on St. marks many years ago. Am Dennis n

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7 жыл бұрын

Dennis! That's going back a while :-). Great to see you here.

@messiahsez

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Your video was posted on Reddit. You look great and your teaching remains at the upper level. Hope you are thriving!!!

Hi David great lesson. Could you recommed some good listening in fingerstyle blues. I love Cary Morin Kelly Joe Phelps John Williams Mary Flower.

@FretboardConfidential

Жыл бұрын

For the steady-bass approach, you could start with Scrapper Blackwell's "Mr. Scrapper's Blues" and Dave Van Ronk's "Sunday Street." I'm sure anyone else here will have plenty of favorites to recommend as well :-).

Thank you,at last I must persist.

I hope this means that there's a course coming for fingerstyle. Thanks!

@FretboardConfidential

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Carlos, thanks for stopping by! Could be :-). What are you interested in working on?

Hi David,every time I play a melody note that is on the beat i,m missing out a steady base note,i don’t seem able to combine the two together.Is this a common beginner’s issue?

Excellent, David. A fingerstyle course in the offing? Johnny

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7 жыл бұрын

Hey Johnny! You took the last one, didn't you? I'd have to come up with something different, wouldn't I :-), so let me know what you'd want to work on next!

@johnnyfaragher5172

7 жыл бұрын

I took both the fingerstyle course and the "playing the changes" course, and continue to work through the videos for both. I've tried to incorporate the material from second into my fingerstyle playing. What I'd like is the incorporation of more comping, more grabbing chords, into my fingerstyle. I'd probably take whatever course you offered.

Hola, David--when you're doing the index finger up-brush on the E7 chord, wouldn't it be cool to leave the D string open to (maybe) ring, since it's the b7, as long as the A string is damped?

@FretboardConfidential

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Jeff! You could definitely do that for the reason you say. To me, it does start to sound a little muddy that way, plus I like having the control of choosing to hear the D string or not.

@jeffcaldwell2544

7 жыл бұрын

Got it--thanks, Sir.

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7 жыл бұрын

Just my opinion - as with all this stuff, if it sounds good to you, make it part of how you play it!

Thank you for sharing your talent and knowledge.

I have such a tough time with the palm muting. I've tried every variation I can think of and either the bass string isn't muted or all are muted. Is there a secret?

@jimwing.2178

9 ай бұрын

Practice. Accept that you will suck at it for some time. Practice using the palm muting always when playing other things. Accept that it will sound like crap for a while. Choose one way to do it (use either the base of your thumb or the base of your hand on the pinkie side) and stick with it for a few months. Accept that it won't be perfect. Soldier on. Don't worry about it. Your subconscious will figure it out. Eventually, you will wonder why you ever thought it was difficult and you will have difficulty in teaching other people how to do it.

Dave what gauge strings do you use?

@FretboardConfidential

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kevin! Usually John Pearse Phosphor Bronze lights - with a .012 on top.

David, I own several of your TrueFire courses and the content on this site is better, IMHO. You should include a link where people can contribute in return for the good stuff here. Just a thought.

@thagard7

7 жыл бұрын

Not saying that the TrueFire courses aren't good. They're excellent and I've benefited greatly from them. Just saying that the content on this site is good enough to warrant a contribution. Just wanted to clear that up.

I recently got the thumb independence and thought I was doing pretty good until I watch a video of myself. No groove sounds terrible needs much work

Welcome back David. Great lesson. Exactly in my wheelhouse and loving the teaching.

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7 жыл бұрын

Cool, glad to hear it!