The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

A great man. One of the best dvd's I have, Chuck Live at the Toronto Peace Festival 1969. Never tire of his music.

Thanks for the vids. I never realised he played his guitar upside down. I guess if you learn to play that way from the beginning there's no disadvantage. I tried it once on a lefthand guitar I later converted to righthand. Wierd, totally weird.

If your slide is a little loose on your finger, you could try this great tip I came across a while back. I believe this is what Derek Trucks does to his slides. Take a piece of cork, from a wine bottle works great, and break it down into chunky little pieces. Take your slide and run some PVA glue al...

Hi there Koffinjon. Sounds good, you and your brother have talent.

Verse 3: The cat came in and it brought me a rabbit, Like drugs or drinking, he makes it a habit, I stepped out of bed and into my shoes, Wait that ain't my shoes, that goo gave me the blues. Chorus: That dead rabbit, that dead rabbit gave me the blues, Now i'm sitting here on 12bar, when all i wan...

Nice one Vikingblues. I don't know about Chris Rea, the first thing that came to my mind as the vocals came in was "is this Johnny Cash."?

Good stuff.

Sounds good to me :clap: Only point I have is the intro lick. I think it would sound better in a lower key. :clap: Sorry, I didn't mean lower key, I mean't, play the same thing only an octave lower. I'm sure you knew what I mean't anyhow. Yep, playing it with a slide would probably sound cool just ...

Sounds good to me :clap: Only point I have is the intro lick. I think it would sound better in a lower key. I mean it will certainly get the audience attention at the moment no doubt, but I just think played lower down the neck would be better. And I presume when played live the lead solo will be wa...

Thanks for the advice everyone. I think I'll practice this "bend to nowhere" technique and listen out for it in future. To my ears adding vibrato when you land on the root at the end of a phrase can sound good. Obviously I don't do it every time but when the time is right it's right ! Than...

AFAIK bigger frets are supposed to make bending easier, because there's more room to get your fingers under the string to bend it, I have only been playing for 18 months now but I seem to have graduated to larger frets. My last purchase was a Fender Road Worn with 6105 frets (narrow and high) for e...

Hi guys (and maybe girls ? ) my first question, I'm sure there will be more later. :think: The February issue of Guitarist mag had a Blues theme about it and there are a couple of points I would like your opinion on. They say "when you push the flat 3rd slightly sharp for the "blues curl&q...

Hi everyone, some great info here. Glad I found the site. Learn't loads of stuff already.