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Great lesson. Thank you. I’ve watched you for some years now, especially the videos where you talked about different resonator. I ended up getting Gretsch Bobtail. Love it. Thanks!!
I remember hearing a bootleg version of Dylan playing it with a couple of guys from The Band (probably @ 1966). Excellent song and well played, Martyn! ✌🏻😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎶🎶🎶
Keith says it was the first song he learned to play properly. It was the Rambling Jack Elliot version, his mother insisted said Keith (Rambling in the name he means).
High Martyn, A good old song with more versions. I do like it in C,although the other ones sound very well 2. A good song to play in a loop with a slide in it. 🤙
I've got Diddy Wah Diddy down pretty good, but Meat Shaking is really giving me a fit. I can only find one tutorial on it and it's not very good. They don't spend much time on the main lick and it's a booger.
It goes back way before. Before recorded music. I think of MJB as the first to record it. Could be wrong as I haven’t looked up the history of this song for probably 20 years.
@@stanby2712 There's a video on youtube which is titled Cocaine Blues with John Hurt's name attached but it is certainly not Hurt. Don't know who it is, sounds a bit like Jorma, but not quite and the guitar playing is not up to either Hurt's or Kaukonen's.
@@TheWashboardResonators Of course, I don't know for sure, but I think it's likely that the versions in C that we all know and love came through Reverend Davis who, it seems, recorded an instrumental version as early as 1957. Then we have Van Ronk, who was one of Davis's students, spreading the song around the Village in the very early 60's. I believe that Van Ronk recorded it as early as 63, maybe earlier, and credited Davis though I've also seen it credited to Luke Jordan whose version was a completely different circle of fifths sort of thing. When I hear more recent versions in C, like Van Zandt's or Richards's or Jackson Browne's I can hear both Davis and Van Ronk in there. The source of the lyrics is a complete mystery to me if it's correct that the song came from Davis through Van Ronk as Davis, having found God, would not sing the lyrics to the Devil's music though he would play the guitar parts. My wag is that the lyrics we know were probably pieced together from Davis's personal commentary and other sources of Van Ronk. Van Ronk was pretty good at putting together stuff like that for example his remaking of John Hurt's version of Frankie and Albert. One very interesting thing to me about what Van Ronk did is that he inverts the order of the alternating bass. That is, instead of plaring the I note on the first and third beat he plays the I note on the 2 and 4 giving the playing an odd sort of feel -- a technique that is not easy to employ, in my experience, without lots of practice. Van Ronk did this with other tunes as well. I don't know of another C version of this song, or any version, which employs this technique. Indeed, I can't think of anybody but Van Ronk who every did that. Actually, I think Van Ronk may have been aternating the bass between the 3 and the 5 --in C that would be the E on the fourth string and the G on the sixth string but I could be wrong, of course.
Absolutely right. As I say, it’s not note perfect as that would take lots of learning. This video is just a guide to help one specific person. Anyone else that gains from this is just extra. The ideas are there and people can slow down TH-cam to get exact note placement. TBH I’ve never really listened to the KR version but hope JB gets what he needs to open the door to playing the song. If people need something more accurate they wouldn’t be watching this. They’d just transcribe it themselves. It’s not hard. Probably two nights would get it 100%. I spent an hour preparing this whole video. 🎼🎯🎼
He did say at the beginning it’s not note perfect, more a tool kit to work with to create your own version. Which incidentally is what I’m doing! I for one, as a novice, really appreciate these Brakedown’s, as I’m not classically trained and just like playing at playing. Cheers for the tutorials and keep em coming! 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
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Great lesson. Thank you. I’ve watched you for some years now, especially the videos where you talked about different resonator. I ended up getting Gretsch Bobtail. Love it. Thanks!!
Awesome! Glad to be of service and share this incredible music!!
Solo por esta lección, me voy a comprar una guitarra ... spot on!
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Once again an absolutely spot on tutorial! Thank you so much, you really are an inspiration!
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I remember hearing a bootleg version of Dylan playing it with a couple of guys from The Band (probably @ 1966). Excellent song and well played, Martyn! ✌🏻😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎶🎶🎶
Incredible musicians. 🎯
Real good ❤
Thanks!! 🎯
Great lesson! Thanks😊
Thanks! 🎯
Keith says it was the first song he learned to play properly. It was the Rambling Jack Elliot version, his mother insisted said Keith (Rambling in the name he means).
Interesting. Didn’t know that!!
High Martyn,
A good old song with more versions.
I do like it in C,although the other ones sound very well 2.
A good song to play in a loop with a slide in it.
🤙
Exactly. Nice tune. The bridge would be great to get you into chord tones while looping!
🙏 Thanks alot man!
There you are! No problem at all. Hope it helps!
Thankssomuchfot this. First heard the John Martyn version of this, live it!
Ps. The T-Shirt I bought from you looks great 👍🏻😊
Excellent! Thanks so much!!
How about a tutorial on Meat Shaking Woman by Blind Boy Fuller? Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to play it and it's really starting to piss me off☹️
It’s a beauty. I’ll look into that!! His version is similar to Blind Blake’s ‘Diddy Wah Diddy.’ Ari Eisenger has a good lesson on that tune.
I've got Diddy Wah Diddy down pretty good, but Meat Shaking is really giving me a fit. I can only find one tutorial on it and it's not very good. They don't spend much time on the main lick and it's a booger.
My favourite version is Townes Van Zant
Yes!!! Killer version! 🎯
Wasn't it John hurt who wrote this song.
It goes back way before.
Before recorded music. I think of MJB as the first to record it.
Could be wrong as I haven’t looked up the history of this song for probably 20 years.
Mississippi John Hurt never recorded Cocaine Blues; I went back through his discography to check.
@@stanby2712 th-cam.com/video/xoFWtohnz9E/w-d-xo.html
@@stanby2712 There's a video on youtube which is titled Cocaine Blues with John Hurt's name attached but it is certainly not Hurt. Don't know who it is, sounds a bit like Jorma, but not quite and the guitar playing is not up to either Hurt's or Kaukonen's.
@@TheWashboardResonators Of course, I don't know for sure, but I think it's likely that the versions in C that we all know and love came through Reverend Davis who, it seems, recorded an instrumental version as early as 1957. Then we have Van Ronk, who was one of Davis's students, spreading the song around the Village in the very early 60's. I believe that Van Ronk recorded it as early as 63, maybe earlier, and credited Davis though I've also seen it credited to Luke Jordan whose version was a completely different circle of fifths sort of thing. When I hear more recent versions in C, like Van Zandt's or Richards's or Jackson Browne's I can hear both Davis and Van Ronk in there. The source of the lyrics is a complete mystery to me if it's correct that the song came from Davis through Van Ronk as Davis, having found God, would not sing the lyrics to the Devil's music though he would play the guitar parts. My wag is that the lyrics we know were probably pieced together from Davis's personal commentary and other sources of Van Ronk. Van Ronk was pretty good at putting together stuff like that for example his remaking of John Hurt's version of Frankie and Albert.
One very interesting thing to me about what Van Ronk did is that he inverts the order of the alternating bass. That is, instead of plaring the I note on the first and third beat he plays the I note on the 2 and 4 giving the playing an odd sort of feel -- a technique that is not easy to employ, in my experience, without lots of practice. Van Ronk did this with other tunes as well. I don't know of another C version of this song, or any version, which employs this technique. Indeed, I can't think of anybody but Van Ronk who every did that. Actually, I think Van Ronk may have been aternating the bass between the 3 and the 5 --in C that would be the E on the fourth string and the G on the sixth string but I could be wrong, of course.
Keith smoked 30 cigarettes whilst playing it
He’s everyone’s favourite cigarette smoking blues-rock pirate.
The solo is not the Way Keith plays it, sorry
Absolutely right.
As I say, it’s not note perfect as that would take lots of learning.
This video is just a guide to help one specific person. Anyone else that gains from this is just extra.
The ideas are there and people can slow down TH-cam to get exact note placement.
TBH I’ve never really listened to the KR version but hope JB gets what he needs to open the door to playing the song.
If people need something more accurate they wouldn’t be watching this. They’d just transcribe it themselves.
It’s not hard. Probably two nights would get it 100%.
I spent an hour preparing this whole video.
🎼🎯🎼
He did say at the beginning it’s not note perfect, more a tool kit to work with to create your own version. Which incidentally is what I’m doing!
I for one, as a novice, really appreciate these Brakedown’s, as I’m not classically trained and just like playing at playing.
Cheers for the tutorials and keep em coming! 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻