Fantastic! You make the finger-picking look smooth and effortless, which means you spent countless hours honing the craft. You've honored Merle and Townes tremendously with this great rendition.
Nice work, Max - I was sitting in the Old Quarter, drinking a Lone Star, listening to Townes sing this song in 1973... doesn't seem so long ago. Wonderful smooth fingerstyle work... Townes would be proud!
@@maxjoyner7705 no like seriously, I think everyone is thinking this same thing. For good reason too, i have NO clue how you did this whole song in like one position. I’m inexperienced still and I have such a hard time switching from comfortable C to very brutal F on the first fret. Atleast, please, please tell me that part hahaha. I would be eternally grateful
@@su1eman282 yeah it's tough if you're not used to it. Using a barre F is ok, but I find wrapping my thumb around the neck allows for more clarity and control when fingerpicking. The only way to develop this technique is to practice it. Start by practicing fretting F chords with your thumb and without barring, and eventually you can start to transition between F and other chords. I actually developed this technique by playing a lot of Hendrix, SRV, and John Mayer stuff. If you watch them live you'll notice they rarely use the forefinger to fret root notes in traditional barre chords. By the time I started playing Townes stuff I was comfortable doing this and it made his style much easier to learn. I hope this helps and thanks again for listening!
Are you picking this with just your index finger and thumb? You got this down by the way; ya sound great! Nice CEO-7 too (just gotta pull out that label).
Pretty sounding. But not a Townes song. Merle Travis lived and wrote it. He used a thumbpick and pressed part of his hand on the E, A and D strings to produce a percussive sound
I have been a huge Townes fan since '71 or '72, so please don't take my comment to be a criticism of anything or anybody. I am just saying that Townes is a Texan. The song is about coal. Merle and his guitar style and his songs are from Harlan County.
thanks for listening man! I give merle his credit, check the vid description. I simply put townes' name in the title because it's his particular version i'm covering.
@@maxjoyner7705 Thanx for the nice reply. I meant no disrespect: To me the song doesn't seem Texan. That's my problem, if my comment seems like a problem. But l feel ok about my comment. Back the late Seventies l spoke very briefly with Bill Monroe during a break at his concert. I asked him to play " Fox on the Run " after the break. He was polite and all, but he refused and said somethings like "Well some people play that song to sound like it is a bluegrass song, but we (him and his band
Fantastic! You make the finger-picking look smooth and effortless, which means you spent countless hours honing the craft. You've honored Merle and Townes tremendously with this great rendition.
Nice work, Max - I was sitting in the Old Quarter, drinking a Lone Star, listening to Townes sing this song in 1973... doesn't seem so long ago. Wonderful smooth fingerstyle work... Townes would be proud!
appreciate it man! hearing townes live must've been awesome. thank you for listening!
perfect !!
Thanks for listening!
Thank you amigo. This did my heart good 🖖
glad you enjoyed it man! great username btw lol
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Thanks Max. I look forward to looking through the rest of your channel.
aw yeah. Let's pick together! ;)
thanks for listening man! you got a great channel btw
good job man, love it
thanks man!
Awesome
thank you!
This is fantastic man, you should do a tutorial video.
thanks man!
@@maxjoyner7705 no like seriously, I think everyone is thinking this same thing. For good reason too, i have NO clue how you did this whole song in like one position. I’m inexperienced still and I have such a hard time switching from comfortable C to very brutal F on the first fret.
Atleast, please, please tell me that part hahaha. I would be eternally grateful
@@su1eman282 yeah it's tough if you're not used to it. Using a barre F is ok, but I find wrapping my thumb around the neck allows for more clarity and control when fingerpicking. The only way to develop this technique is to practice it. Start by practicing fretting F chords with your thumb and without barring, and eventually you can start to transition between F and other chords. I actually developed this technique by playing a lot of Hendrix, SRV, and John Mayer stuff. If you watch them live you'll notice they rarely use the forefinger to fret root notes in traditional barre chords. By the time I started playing Townes stuff I was comfortable doing this and it made his style much easier to learn. I hope this helps and thanks again for listening!
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dang u sang real good
thank you!
Are you picking this with just your index finger and thumb? You got this down by the way; ya sound great! Nice CEO-7 too (just gotta pull out that label).
thanks man! and yeah just travis picking w/ index and thumb
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shit rips
Thanks for listening man!
Pretty sounding. But not a Townes song. Merle
Travis lived and wrote it. He used a thumbpick and pressed part of his hand on the E, A and D strings to produce a percussive sound
I have been a huge Townes fan since '71 or '72, so please don't take my comment to be a criticism of anything or anybody. I am just saying that Townes is a Texan. The song is about coal. Merle and his guitar style and his songs are from Harlan County.
thanks for listening man! I give merle his credit, check the vid description. I simply put townes' name in the title because it's his particular version i'm covering.
@@maxjoyner7705 imagine thinking you took somebody to school in some comments but you ended up conveying virtually no new information to anybody
@@raleighjoyner5829 My intent was not to take somebody to school.
@@maxjoyner7705 Thanx for the nice reply. I meant no disrespect: To me the song doesn't seem Texan. That's my problem, if my comment seems like a problem. But l feel ok about my comment. Back the late Seventies l spoke very briefly with Bill Monroe during a break at his concert. I asked him to play " Fox on the Run " after the break. He was polite and all, but he refused and said somethings like "Well some people play that song to sound like it is a bluegrass song, but we (him and his band