• Zurf
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Topic: Free on-line acoustic blues lesson from Taj Mahal

It's sponsored by D'Addario and Guitar.com. 

This is the first part of a three part lesson.  I haven't had time to go through the whole thing, but if you like acoustic blues and don't like Taj Mahal, then you don't like acoustic blues.  He's a wonderful musician, but he's also extremely versatile in his playing and very knowledgeable on many features of world music and music history. 

You might not learn a lot about how to play, but you'll learn a lot of history and how different techniques relate to it for a deeper appreciation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nvKbLKlUtI

There is also a series by B.B. King I haven't looked at yet. 

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Re: Free on-line acoustic blues lesson from Taj Mahal

Best line so far: "You hear this on commercials on TV a lot.  They get some guy that claims he can play the blues and he gets up and plays some pattern.  Now let's see how we can take those patterns and turn them into something that sounds like music." 

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  • dino48
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Re: Free on-line acoustic blues lesson from Taj Mahal

Zurf that is some good stuff. I play a lot like this and also try too do some Buddy Guy blues.

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Re: Free on-line acoustic blues lesson from Taj Mahal

I will definitely be checking these out!!!

I watched a vid lesson from Joe Bonamassa a while back and it wasn't very good. He kinda just played stuff and said do this.

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Re: Free on-line acoustic blues lesson from Taj Mahal

Joe B is one of the worst speakers when it comes to teaching guitar. But boy can he play!