Blues Guitar Lessons www.playbluesguitar.eu News Letter Sign Up and Free Lesson Video http Mississippi John Hurt was a giant amongst blues guitarists and had a huge influence on later generations. However, its rare to find modern players carrying the same feeling – its certain that I cant, but I though Id put out this lesson so we can take a closer look at what he did. Often, we change the style for various reasons, mostly because some of the stuff is too time consuming to learn for most people – this isnt a criticism at all – we dont have time to copy all styles perfectly. In some cases, like John Hurt, its pretty easy to get the idea because his style is crisp and clear, but its something else that blocks us – we have difficulty capturing that special feeling Here again, this isnt surprising. we havent lived it and we didnt create it. The very least we can do is to try and bring a little of that special flavor into our music and pay homage to legends such as John Hurt. John had a superbly almost unique style, in that he kept his third and fourth picking fingers on the sound board while his other two finger picked the melody. because of this firm anchor, his timing was great. In my case, my hand lifts away from the finger board when I use the second finger and it messes up the timing. Oh well, back to the drawing board – talk later, I have to go and practice Spike Driver … Have fun. Cheers Jim
Blues Guitar Lessons With Jim Bruce – Mississippi John Hurt
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Jim, thanks for another terrific lesson.
You’re always good, Jim. Mississippi John Hurt has a magic way of playing that gets the maximum out of a simple tune. Thanks for showing how.
Thanks Jim I like playing Mississippi John Hurts music His rythm is fantastic and not easy to copy Good one!
Great stuff. Up to your usual high standard. Thank you.
another great bluesman born 10 miles up the road from me!!
Another great lesson! Thank you Jim. 🙂
Have a great week.
Awesome
Thanks Jim. Another great piece to wrestle with
Jim
Thanks for more cracking music.Not only inspirational but now becoming addictive.Many thanks Jim
If I can crack this I shall be very happy! Thanks Jim
Thanks once again jim
Sometimes, what sound "simple" turns out to be the hardest to get right..! Going to enjoy tackling this, Jime—thanks as always for a really interesting lesson.
Very valuable and instructive material – as usually, of course.
I love Mississippii John Hurt’s style of picking- in fact it’s my favorite style of picking. I for one will buy it when it’s available. For now, I will keep this on my desk top to practice. I will be all over this lesson like flies on garbage LOL Thanks for working this out, Jim.
Another great lesson Jim, very easy to follow. I like the info about how these were originally played. Keep up the great work Jim.
Great! I’ll be working on this. Thank you, Jim. And thanks again for making this a freebie!
Love it Jim. Thanks for all your efforts to get old codgers like me playing better.
Love it Jim. Thanks for all your efforts to get old codgers like me playing better.
Love it Jim. Thanks for all your efforts to get old codgers like me playing better.
as usual great lesson Jim, BIG THANKS for uploading!!