Terrific, simple lesson, Mark. I've been tackling stuff that's too hard for my experience level and therefore discouraging. Result - my guitars sit gathering dust. Going to try to make 2021 the Back to Basics year and maybe recapture some of that passion for the instrument. Thanks and Happy New Year!
Hi Mark, I just found you yesterday while I was looking for Smooth. You seem like just the right dude to do tabs for Mike Bloomfield's Albert's Shuffle, which is covered on youtube, but no tabs.
Hey Dapper Dude! The only version I'm familiar with is the live session with Al Kooper. Is that what you're looking for? What small piece of it would you like to see tabbed? (It's an improvised solo ... mistakes and all, which I approve of, but don't wish to memorialize in today's "exact-obsessed" TH-cam world. Plus it's super-long and not popular. Kind of a recipe for lots of work with little reward.) Love Bloomfield and his style of playing off the cuff and going for it despite making the occasional mistake.
@@MarkZabel In that case, mi amigo, you are in for a solidly bitchen album: Super Session, released July, 1968. Al Kooper booked two days in the studio, but Bloomfield (I suspect it was addiction-related) pooped out after the first day and Steve Stills did side two. Albert's Shuffle is the first track on side one. I still have the LP, which Bloomfield autographed at an SDSU appearance in '78 or '79, while I was there. I'm 67, with one eye left and God knows how many years. I failed at guitar at age 9 or 10. I tried blues guitar lessons about 15 years ago when I still had a career to attend to and children to raise. But, now, I have time and money, and am more motivated than ever before, cuz I love slammin' jammin' blues that don't quit. Given my level, I am most grateful for your appraisal that trying this tune would be a case of Pinto economics, i.e., too much cost, too little benefit. That being said, I'll stick with something a bit more my level. There are a couple of mixes of Albert's Shuffle; the album has horns, one of the mixes on youtube is strictly guitar, bass, etc. Enjoy. John
@@RealDapperDude hey thanks. Looking forward to listening to it tonight. I know well the balance of career and music. That's my life!! One thing you've probably already gone through is Peter Green's "Need your Love so Bad" or Clapton's version of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out". Great stuff, but maybe less challenging. Get those under your belt to the point of being able to sound good varying from the exact thing played and putting your own flair into it. Bloomfield was maybe the best of them. Certainly the real deal for sure and Albert's shuffle is fantastic! What a pity he and Peter had such demons.
@@MarkZabel The only tabs I could find for Down and Out are from a French dude and his tabs are written with musical notation on narrow lines. I love that piece, and I'm working on Someday After a While. Do you have tabs for either of these? As I noted re your Smooth tabs, they're written on easy to read lines with numbers and arrows the way I've learned. Thanks again for the encouragement and guidance. John
@@RealDapperDude here you go brother. Someday: th-cam.com/video/5WopQbZLZDA/w-d-xo.html Need Your Love So Bad: th-cam.com/video/2NH-TXTHO6I/w-d-xo.html Nobody Knows You ... :th-cam.com/video/t0sCqVagrIo/w-d-xo.html
*LIVE STREAM tomorrow, Sunday December 27 at 12:00 pm Eastern US time. Top 10 1970's Blues-Rock Guitarists* Beginning Blues Series: th-cam.com/play/PLSVfUQKkNUqYZleav3HIM6ra-a420ZaTN.html Get Tabs: tinyurl.com/ybpzjuwm Please help support my lessons by donating here: www.paypal.com/paypalme/MZabel335 My equipment in this video The guitar - Squier Classic Vibe 50s Telecaster: imp.i114863.net/q1e6y The amp - Blackstar HT5R MKII: imp.i114863.net/74yZO
You're really giving us the blues this Christmas... in the best possible way!
Thanks brother!
Thank you Mark and happy holidays.
Thanks Jay! To you too!
Thank you Mark. Great lesson, straight forward good video shots
Thanks!
Thank you for all of your lessons Mark...Happy holidays and all the best for the new year.
You're welcome. Thanks for your support and Happy New Year!
Very good. Thanks
Thanks Stan!
Great video. Cheers from Ottawa Canada.
Thanks! Greetings from upstate NY.
@@MarkZabel That's actually very close to where I live. I could be in Upstate NY in about 45 minutes.
@@gioknows we're practically neighbors!
Great stuff
Thanks!
Terrific, simple lesson, Mark. I've been tackling stuff that's too hard for my experience level and therefore discouraging. Result - my guitars sit gathering dust. Going to try to make 2021 the Back to Basics year and maybe recapture some of that passion for the instrument. Thanks and Happy New Year!
Thanks a ton! It's important to keep it simple and fun and then build up over time. Take your time and enjoy the ride. You can do it!
Thanks a lot!
My pleasure.
Hi Mark, I just found you yesterday while I was looking for Smooth. You seem like just the right dude to do tabs for Mike Bloomfield's Albert's Shuffle, which is covered on youtube, but no tabs.
Hey Dapper Dude! The only version I'm familiar with is the live session with Al Kooper. Is that what you're looking for? What small piece of it would you like to see tabbed? (It's an improvised solo ... mistakes and all, which I approve of, but don't wish to memorialize in today's "exact-obsessed" TH-cam world. Plus it's super-long and not popular. Kind of a recipe for lots of work with little reward.)
Love Bloomfield and his style of playing off the cuff and going for it despite making the occasional mistake.
@@MarkZabel In that case, mi amigo, you are in for a solidly bitchen album: Super Session, released July, 1968. Al Kooper booked two days in the studio, but Bloomfield (I suspect it was addiction-related) pooped out after the first day and Steve Stills did side two. Albert's Shuffle is the first track on side one. I still have the LP, which Bloomfield autographed at an SDSU appearance in '78 or '79, while I was there.
I'm 67, with one eye left and God knows how many years. I failed at guitar at age 9 or 10. I tried blues guitar lessons about 15 years ago when I still had a career to attend to and children to raise. But, now, I have time and money, and am more motivated than ever before, cuz I love slammin' jammin' blues that don't quit. Given my level, I am most grateful for your appraisal that trying this tune would be a case of Pinto economics, i.e., too much cost, too little benefit.
That being said, I'll stick with something a bit more my level.
There are a couple of mixes of Albert's Shuffle; the album has horns, one of the mixes on youtube is strictly guitar, bass, etc.
Enjoy.
John
@@RealDapperDude hey thanks. Looking forward to listening to it tonight.
I know well the balance of career and music. That's my life!!
One thing you've probably already gone through is Peter Green's "Need your Love so Bad" or Clapton's version of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out". Great stuff, but maybe less challenging. Get those under your belt to the point of being able to sound good varying from the exact thing played and putting your own flair into it.
Bloomfield was maybe the best of them. Certainly the real deal for sure and Albert's shuffle is fantastic! What a pity he and Peter had such demons.
@@MarkZabel The only tabs I could find for Down and Out are from a French dude and his tabs are written with musical notation on narrow lines. I love that piece, and I'm working on Someday After a While. Do you have tabs for either of these? As I noted re your Smooth tabs, they're written on easy to read lines with numbers and arrows the way I've learned. Thanks again for the encouragement and guidance. John
@@RealDapperDude here you go brother.
Someday: th-cam.com/video/5WopQbZLZDA/w-d-xo.html
Need Your Love So Bad: th-cam.com/video/2NH-TXTHO6I/w-d-xo.html
Nobody Knows You ... :th-cam.com/video/t0sCqVagrIo/w-d-xo.html
I always thought of this rhythm as a boogie-Woogie, am I wrong in thinking that?
Not wrong. "Boogie Woogie" is one type of shuffle.
@@MarkZabel fair enough. This one is the best though 🔥 especially is drop D, it almost hints at the funk music that would come later
*LIVE STREAM tomorrow, Sunday December 27 at 12:00 pm Eastern US time. Top 10 1970's Blues-Rock Guitarists*
Beginning Blues Series: th-cam.com/play/PLSVfUQKkNUqYZleav3HIM6ra-a420ZaTN.html
Get Tabs: tinyurl.com/ybpzjuwm
Please help support my lessons by donating here: www.paypal.com/paypalme/MZabel335
My equipment in this video
The guitar - Squier Classic Vibe 50s Telecaster: imp.i114863.net/q1e6y
The amp - Blackstar HT5R MKII: imp.i114863.net/74yZO
Thank you so much! I'm a noob and have wanted to learn to play that since the beginning but had no idea where to even start 😀
Glad I could help!