jim-bruce.teachable.com Blues Guitar Lessons The Delta Blues Guitar Sound It's imagined that Delta is the region where it all started, although it probably originated in several regions round about the same time. It's well known that quite a few mississippi blues men moved to the North to perform in cities like Chicago and Detroit when it dawned on them that they could make a living without laboring 15 hours every in the fields. The first acoustic work of Muddy Waters (Walkin' Blues) is testimony to this fundamental mississippi Incidentally, Muddy said that his version of Walkin pre-dated that of Robert Johnson. Delta blues guitar might be described as quite simple, often raw and intensely emotional. The bottleneck style of playing guitar was perfect for the area. The conditions were often hot and humid, which easily disturbed the tuning of a wooden guitar. Bottleneck songs {performed in open tuning were easier to keep in tune, and additionally it was easy to compensate for tuning inaccuracy by moving the slide around. Pieces from mississippi delta picked in standard tuning were predominantly in the Keys of E and A, and employed a monotonic bass line. The picking patterns were often basic but powerful. Artists to research are Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters and Fred McDowell. / #acoustic #guitar #blues #lessons #fingerstyle #blues #guitar #acoustic #lessons #fingerstyle www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8-yPHqH9M

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