Which other websites / sources are you using ?

[Tienie J]

Hi Everyone.

My apologies if this has been asked before!

I’m totally addicted to Active Melody and my playing skills has leapt ahead by massive amounts since starting to learn from Brian. (What an awesome teacher! Not to mention his original arrangements 🙂 )

My question is, where else do you peeps go to learn new songs? (specifically acoustic Blues songs in my case)

I’m finding it hard to find acoustic arrangements and songs similar to what Brian has on offer on Active Melody. I’ve had a JamPlay subscription before, but did not really getting much out of it for what I’m looking for.

I love Brian’s stuff, but I would like to work on a few songs / arrangements which are a bit longer. Brian makes it really easy for us and I doubt I’ll find anybody as good as him… But it doesn’t have to be video websites though, I’m happy to learn from tabs if I can find a good source for them. Any Advice?

Hope my question is clear enough!

[6stringer Pete]

Many people go here: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete

It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete

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[GnLguy]

Hi Tienie J

A couple of You Tube channels comes to mind – both have a lot of free material and one has various arrangement for sale

Will Fly is a guitarist from the UK that has a lot of arranements on You Tube with tabs available on his website
https://www.youtube.com/user/HenfieldWill/videos
https://www.willflyguitar.com/guitar-tab.html

Daddy Stove Pipe is from Belgium and has some arrangements on You Tube with tabs on his web site. Some tabs are free but he offers package deals, which are pretty reasonably priced considering what he includes
https://www.youtube.com/user/daddystovepipe/videos
https://www.daddystovepipe.com/
https://www.daddystovepipe.com/guitar-lesson-pack-tabs-volume-1.php

There is a 3rd player that has similar videos and tabs but I’ll have to remember his name – will send it to you once I do……..

Keith

[GnLguy]

OK – player #3 is Jim Bruce, another blues player from the UK. Very authentic acoustic blues as is Daddy Stove Pipe and Will Fly

https://www.youtube.com/user/acoustictravellersl/videos
https://gumroad.com/l/jimbruceguitar/yt59

[sunburst]

i go where I know best,, been doing this maybe 20 years online youtube is my favorite but have over a hundred subscriptions,, i like fretjam for now cause i’m learning from his theory tutorials

[sunjamr]

Better yet, you could just watch Youtube videos of the old blues masters and learn from their styles. A good place to start might be some Piedmont blues, which is always acoustic. Check out a group called Piedmont Bluz. Sebastion’s Tune by Erik Bibb is another good one to learn. You can just listen to it and it will fall into place. He plays it in D, but I play it in C which I found to be easier:

Sunjamr Steve

[Tienie J]

Awesome advice, thanks everyone. I’ll definitely look into all of these! I’m probably waaaaay too far a beginner to even try to learn from the old time masters 🙂

[Sal]

Nice lesson Steve! “Cheap homemade thing” lol lol,Steve,you are a riot!!lol

[Don D.]

I agree with Steve. You can learn a lot from performance videos. I’m listing the keys when I can (after the first film), what I think they are—most I know, but a couple might be questionable.

These might not be your favorite style, so they won’t do for you what they do for me, but if you find the right songs, you’ll probably want to hang around till you do get something from them. There are lots of live performance videos with clear shots of people’s hands on the fretboards.

From Low Light & Blue Smoke, 1956. This is more for inspiration than licks. The speed is a little slow and wobbly, so I’m not even going to try to name the keys (I did try). “When Did You Leave Heaven?” seems like it modulates (I am only human and don’t play these in any shape, I don’t know where it goes).

From A Musical Journey: The Films of Pete, Toshi and Dan Seeger. This one has more to offer as an instructional video. First and second songs, “Worried Man Blues” and “Hey Hey” are basically in E. I think “How You Want It Done” is done in C.

From The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins by Les Blank. This is in E.

This is in Bb.

All of the tutorial websites have something to offer, but it pays to focus on what you like rather than skipping around.

Don D.

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