The Guitar of Charlie Patton

Description

In this double DVD lesson, Tom Feldmann gives you a note- for-note, detailed look at 18 of Patton's most celebrated tunes. Making this the defi nitive Charlie Patton lesson. DVD One is dedicated to songs in standard tuning, covering C, E, A and F positions. You'll learn Patton's relaxed right hand strum, top tapping technique, and of course his signature licks as you work through songs like, Down The Dirt Road Blues and Pony Blues. DVD Two focuses in Patton'sbottleneck slide and non slide numbers in Spanish (Open G) and Vestapol (Open D) turnings.Songs like, Banty Rooster Blues, When Your Way Get's Dark and Screamin' & Hollerin' the Blues will become heavy hitters in your blues arsenal. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF fi le on both DVD's. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included. Titles include: DVD One: Poor Me, Down the Dirt Road Blues, Green River Blues,Jim Lee Blues, Some of These Days I'll Be Gone, Pony Blues, Devil Sent the Rain, Shake It and Break It DVD Two: Tom Rushen Blues, High Sheriff Blues, Hammer Blues (Take 1 & 2), Banty Rooster Blues, Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues, When Your Way Get's Dark,Pea Vine Blues, Screamin' & Hollerin' the Blues, High Water Everywhere (Take 1 & 2), A Spoonful Blues DVD is region 0, playable worldwide. Review Warning: Do not misinterpret the bow tie worn in his ancient portrait. Beneath, the grand master flash of all Delta blues- bedrock Charlie Patton was a "rock star" decades before rock became a devilish glimmer in the blues' eyes. When your prototypical playing style and whiskey-n-women lifestyle recruit a Mississippi dream team of apostles in Son House, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and quintessential crossroad friend Willie Brown, you are the man. Singing, you can hear gravel being ground in his throat (don't miss the bonus audio with Patton's records). Combine that with how he struck a guitar, and you make dynamite. Up to then, the 1920s never experienced anything like that: whacking the instrument's body for even extra rhythm, as its strings got violently snapped or deeply stabbed by a slide on its way down to the 17th fret. Patton was even Hendrix before Hendrix, hot-dogging plantation gigs by flipping his axe into the air, playing behind his back, then between his legs. You're on your own for the circus acrobatics, but country blues authority Tom Feldmann has got you covered for all the rest. It takes two DVDs, in fact, for him to break down, step-by-step, Patton's method, licks, tricks and 18 classics. Feldmann is a revelator bare- handing the beautifully aching Some Of These Days I'll Be Gone, then bottlenecking the monster cotton patch smashes Screamin' & Hollerin' the Blues and Pony Blues. Back in the day, you'd have to sell your soul at the crossroads for four hours of detailed how-to instruction like this. --Dennis Rozanski/Blues Rag

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Product Details:

• Actors: Tom Feldmann
• Directors: Tom Feldmann
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR Not Rated
• Studio: Grossman's Guitar Workshop
• DVD Release Date: March 26, 2013
• Run Time: 253 minutes

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