there's so much gold that can be gleaned/mined out of these old videos of dear dear Fred. it's like going back to the source. The wellspring of some of to days slide guitar and clears the blackboard of half arsed ideas we may have misheard from great players just to see their inspiration more clear from just watching old mr Mcdowell, and where maybe most of it came from. (stuff like this should not be copied note for note) make it your inspiration and interpretation of his marvelous foundation blues. and to people like Stefan Grossman for making these videos (tutorials) possible and not blocking it, hats off to you Sir hats off to you 👍👍👍👍👍
Lots of shitty comments. Well at least everyone complaining about the little tuning misstep is getting their money's worth. Free. Spend ur time playin more guitar instead of bitching. This is a great vid
I can see from the comments thread that I'm not the only one who is perturbed by the howling tuning mistake, I'm so glad I'm not a novice... This misinformation must be really confusing for those who are unfamiliar with open tunings. May I suggest that the administrator of this upload ought to add a screen pop up annotation which clears up the confusion (it's the "B" string that stays the same whilst the "A" string is the one that is tuned up to meet it). [Open E = E,B,E,G#,B,E]. Whilst on this subject, an important fact that I feel ought to have been very clearly pointed out with regard to the "Open E Tuning" is that this tuning can be very damaging to many instruments, especially if this upward tuning is employed in conjunction with heavier gauge strings. However, there is an easy remedy for this problem... Open E Tuning exactly reflects the more commonly used "Open D Tuning", that is to say each of the six strings in Open E are two semi-tones higher than Open D. This fact enables you to avoid the pitfalls of tuning your guitar upwards by simply placing a capo on the 2nd fret having firstly tuned DOWN to Open D. [Open D = D,A.D,F#.A,D]. Tuning UPWARDS to "Open A" is also mentioned in the video and, in much the same way as described above, this tuning exactly reflects the more commonly used "Open G" tuning. Again, you can simply tune down to Open G and then capo up two frets to give you the key of A. [Open G = D,G,D,G,B,D].
it is possibly to play the learning song one tune down, the change is not so big and we keep our guitars ok, in all ways very thanks, i have a ship flamenco guitar from the early 80s as my open tuned and slide guitar so im nothing motivated to tune it in open e
This is amazing to me! You play like Ry Cooder and you obviously LOVE the blues slide guitar. I loved this and I have been playing slide for 20 years. Great job.
Your tutorials are great. However, in this one when you said the 5 string and 2 string were tuned to A you actually meant B. Very misleading for some people, according to comments. You should also tell them they're simply tuning to an open E chord. Makes things much simpler.
Great lesson, Tom. Very informative. For some reason, my cat hates this. He doesn't mind Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Skip James etc al, but he can't take Mississippi Fred at all. It must be the higher pitch.
Mr. Feldman- I can't wait to get this one!!! MFM is the greatest! I got your Bottleneck Gospel and Blind Willie Johnson just recently, and I love them! Looking forward to you future releases for Son House and Charlie Patton. Thanks for your hard work and sharing the secrets. Hope to see you perform live soon. Take care.
@PeluMaad. I'll be filming a 2DVD set on Charlie Patton in Oct and also a Delta Blues lesson focusing on Patton, House, Willie Brown and Tommy Johnson. I did a 2DVD set of Son House that should be available this fall.
Hey Tom! I love your lessons! Have you considered doing a DVD on the playing of Tampa Red? I play several of his instrumentals and would love to see if I'm playing them "right" and learn more of his songs. Denver Blues is the one I've had the most trouble with - since it's hard to hear exactly what he's doing with the bass. Thanks again!
Notice this cat has three picks.... 8 minutes and 22 seconds it gets a little sophisticated in a tuning Fred most of them blue players had Secrets tuning in their cord open tuning they didn't share the information competition but their style from different regions they played in so it depends on what songs you want you can turn it to this but you have a special strings to put them in is definitely not standard tuning ........ one-man Toby from Chicago came to my church and said if you play like this you be a star I never took them off on it course my experience with that playing with Master keyboards they won't tune to you you had to do to them but he was invited and they had a tune to him and he was all over the place LOL
Here's a thought....a 2 CD Charley Patton set....Feldman doing the bottleneck and John Miller handling the rest...or maybe call it "The Real Delta Blues" and include Son House and Willie Brown. (It really irks me that people tend to call anything acoustic "Delta"). Maybe even a duet to end the set?
I agree with everyone else that this is a great lesson, Tom. Well done. One question, though- you make a good point about "slide angle"- as you can see from the video clip, Fred is using a little length of bottleneck to get so much angle and mobility out of his ring finger- it's so short, in fact, that he can bend the first joint of his finger . My question is, do you think he's USING that finger to fret around the slide?
I saw him play close up in a Chicago club about 1970. I talked to him at intermission and he showed me his slide. It was short enough to fret with that slide finger. He said his slide was from a Seagram's 7 pint bottle. It still had the threads for the cap on it. His fingers were very long and his music was haunting and captivating.
how important is playing with thumb and finger picks? i've never used them before and I'm having trouble adapting and enjoying my playing (i'm 55 and have played mostly rock and folk all my life and just coming around to this genre------ love it btw); i get a decent sound w/o but feel i'm avoiding and not being authentic, what do you think?
Feldmann addressed his error 2 years before you put your arrogant oar in the water. Your interminable self-aggrandizing screed actually pretty much shoved the instructors comment so far down the line as to make it invisible.
10 min before you get to anything real. Should also cover right hand technique in depth as that's to me the real magic your words as well. And ya covered that in less than a minute. Stop screwing around.
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Brilliant lesson from a very talented young man.Helping to keep the old blues styles alive.He is also a very nice and helpful fella.
there's so much gold that can be gleaned/mined out of these old videos of dear dear Fred. it's like going back to the source. The wellspring of some of to days slide guitar and clears the blackboard of half arsed ideas we may have misheard from great players just to see their inspiration more clear from just watching old mr Mcdowell,
and where maybe most of it came from. (stuff like this should not be copied note for note)
make it your inspiration and interpretation of his marvelous foundation blues.
and to people like Stefan Grossman for making these videos (tutorials) possible
and not blocking it, hats off to you Sir hats off to you 👍👍👍👍👍
Lots of shitty comments. Well at least everyone complaining about the little tuning misstep is getting their money's worth. Free. Spend ur time playin more guitar instead of bitching. This is a great vid
Sorry for the tuning blunder with that A string. It does not stay as A but get's tuned up to B for Open E tuning: EBEG#BE
I can see from the comments thread that I'm not the only one who is perturbed by the howling tuning mistake, I'm so glad I'm not a novice... This misinformation must be really confusing for those who are unfamiliar with open tunings. May I suggest that the administrator of this upload ought to add a screen pop up annotation which clears up the confusion (it's the "B" string that stays the same whilst the "A" string is the one that is tuned up to meet it).
[Open E = E,B,E,G#,B,E].
Whilst on this subject, an important fact that I feel ought to have been very clearly pointed out with regard to the "Open E Tuning" is that this tuning can be very damaging to many instruments, especially if this upward tuning is employed in conjunction with heavier gauge strings. However, there is an easy remedy for this problem... Open E Tuning exactly reflects the more commonly used "Open D Tuning", that is to say each of the six strings in Open E are two semi-tones higher than Open D. This fact enables you to avoid the pitfalls of tuning your guitar upwards by simply placing a capo on the 2nd fret having firstly tuned DOWN to Open D.
[Open D = D,A.D,F#.A,D].
Tuning UPWARDS to "Open A" is also mentioned in the video and, in much the same way as described above, this tuning exactly reflects the more commonly used "Open G" tuning. Again, you can simply tune down to Open G and then capo up two frets to give you the key of A.
[Open G = D,G,D,G,B,D].
My pleasure.
it is possibly to play the learning song one tune down, the change is not so big and we keep our guitars ok, in all ways very thanks, i have a ship flamenco guitar from the early 80s as my open tuned and slide guitar so im nothing motivated to tune it in open e
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Bravo Sir Spotty ... good job clearing up
Hey your pretty smart!
Were when extraordinary stringin mighta camedown coolio tunable Old time feelin ag love it brub!!!
That's what I call a great lesson: even I can understand! Thank you.
Im usually tuned to open D and just throw a capo on the second fret. Excellent lesson! thanks.
Me too. Better than breaking light gauge strings. But it may be challenging for tunes that go beyond the 12th fret, especially on the bass strings.
Love!!! Love!!!! Love!!! Valeriy
Thanx Form IRAN.very beautiful technic.
Poss my favourite blues artist thanks for this I couldn't figure out his technique am now inspired to pick up my old git box
Fred knows he the man
This is amazing to me! You play like Ry Cooder and you obviously LOVE the blues slide guitar. I loved this and I have been playing slide for 20 years. Great job.
Your tutorials are great. However, in this one when you said the 5 string and 2 string were tuned to A you actually meant B. Very misleading for some people, according to comments. You should also tell them they're simply tuning to an open E chord. Makes things much simpler.
Sweet post, thanks.
Great lesson thank you.
Great lesson, Tom. Very informative. For some reason, my cat hates this. He doesn't mind Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Skip James etc al, but he can't take Mississippi Fred at all. It must be the higher pitch.
Cat's gotta go.
Marc Highliner,
Booo.
Boingusboingus , poor kitty. Very funny, though. But not for the cat.
nice one tom...was scratching my head about this new blues tuning eaeg#ae
very nice lesson , Phil
Needed this 40yr ago lol
Mr. Feldman- I can't wait to get this one!!! MFM is the greatest! I got your Bottleneck Gospel and Blind Willie Johnson just recently, and I love them! Looking forward to you future releases for Son House and Charlie Patton. Thanks for your hard work and sharing the secrets. Hope to see you perform live soon. Take care.
Thanks for so much for the information...
Great stuff, sir! lovely looking guitar you got there too....
Fred was all about the THUMB……. This is the way to teach his style…
Nice vocal!
@PeluMaad. I'll be filming a 2DVD set on Charlie Patton in Oct and also a Delta Blues lesson focusing on Patton, House, Willie Brown and Tommy Johnson. I did a 2DVD set of Son House that should be available this fall.
nice voice on this guy
@lespaul19851. It's a Hauver, Stella grand concert replica. Charley Patton model.
So Fred is the god of blues slide
Wow. Nice skill level. I dig this video very much. Props.
excellent
Bon sang! Quel sont!
Quel song, l’ordi a fait une faute là haut...
Hill country blues!
That's a really nice shirt :)
you should do Guitar of Blind Boy Fuller I'd buy that in a heartbeat
Hello what would be the advice of nuts height and bridge height to convert an acoustic guitar to slide?
This tuning and slide progression is common in Sacred steel.
On the first recordings by Alan lomax fred is in open D
I enjoy a lot but I haven't the level... Very nice
Hey Tom! I love your lessons! Have you considered doing a DVD on the playing of Tampa Red? I play several of his instrumentals and would love to see if I'm playing them "right" and learn more of his songs. Denver Blues is the one I've had the most trouble with - since it's hard to hear exactly what he's doing with the bass. Thanks again!
Notice this cat has three picks.... 8 minutes and 22 seconds it gets a little sophisticated in a tuning Fred most of them blue players had Secrets tuning in their cord open tuning they didn't share the information competition but their style from different regions they played in so it depends on what songs you want you can turn it to this but you have a special strings to put them in is definitely not standard tuning ........ one-man Toby from Chicago came to my church and said if you play like this you be a star I never took them off on it course my experience with that playing with Master keyboards they won't tune to you you had to do to them but he was invited and they had a tune to him and he was all over the place LOL
Top🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸
Thank you for this lesson. Hey, at 10:15 and 10:18 he appears to be doing some index finger drag or something like that? Can you say what that is?
Thanks
Wow!
Do I need lighter strings cos I’m scared mine are gonna snap I use 12/53 is that too thick?
What's Wrong with Tuning to the 4th instead of the 5th???🤔🤔🤔It's still Open E.
Where’s the shake em in down lesson please? Can’t find on TH-cam. Are there any others? Thanks
I dig the shirt man. Very cool. And I'm so drunk so I will listen to this and hopefully make some sense of this!
Any reason you couldn't just do this in Open G ( no capo ) assuming you could sing it there?
Here's a thought....a 2 CD Charley Patton set....Feldman doing the bottleneck and John Miller handling the rest...or maybe call it "The Real Delta Blues" and include Son House and Willie Brown. (It really irks me that people tend to call anything acoustic "Delta"). Maybe even a duet to end the set?
Unwind third string?
A string tunes up to a B.Not as stated in video.
We've seen Bonnie Rait do this style on electric. Are the thumb pick and finger picks absolutely required?
Not required, does help.
Hi Tom can you tell me what guitar you are using ?
Tom, would you know the manufacturer of Fred McDowell's guitar. I do not recognize he logo. I remember the body was red.
I believe it’s a Baldwin or something similar.
The link is a no go...
www.guitarvideos.com/products/instructors/tom-feldmann-1/guitar-of-fred-mcdowell
13:59..i seee it comin...lol knowledge...basss line
I agree with everyone else that this is a great lesson, Tom. Well done. One question, though- you make a good point about "slide angle"- as you can see from the video clip, Fred is using a little length of bottleneck to get so much angle and mobility out of his ring finger- it's so short, in fact, that he can bend the first joint of his finger . My question is, do you think he's USING that finger to fret around the slide?
I saw him play close up in a Chicago club about 1970. I talked to him at intermission and he showed me his slide. It was short enough to fret with that slide finger. He said his slide was from a Seagram's 7 pint bottle. It still had the threads for the cap on it. His fingers were very long and his music was haunting and captivating.
Open E chord
Chug bro. The word you're looking for is chug. Great Video
It's Eddie Marsan's long lost brother.
I always just tune down to open D then Capo at second fret.
Doesn't work so well on 12 fret guitars though.
He do not play no rock n roll. The only rocking he does is in a rocking chair.
Fuck rock n roll
Tell that too Hendrix bellzbad...peace
@@prutissbartlow8835 jimmy was blues not rock n roll
how important is playing with thumb and finger picks? i've never used them before and I'm having trouble adapting and enjoying my playing (i'm 55 and have played mostly rock and folk all my life and just coming around to this genre------ love it btw); i get a decent sound w/o but feel i'm avoiding and not being authentic, what do you think?
Like everything new, it'll take time. You might want to try just a thumb pick and finger nails?
You could try to get into to hybrid picking. Pick and fingers. That's what i dom
Ok shit that tuning was way confusing. I had to fucking google it....
I think you should focus more on teaching and less on playing.
No actual instruction is given until 11:40....FYI....lots of talking
Feldmann addressed his error 2 years before you put your arrogant oar in the water. Your interminable self-aggrandizing screed actually pretty much shoved the instructors comment so far down the line as to make it invisible.
10 min before you get to anything real. Should also cover right hand technique in depth as that's to me the real magic your words as well. And ya covered that in less than a minute. Stop screwing around.
Stop your moaning son and just practice.