Description:
Woody Mann teaches the song forms and techniques of early American folk and blues guitar styles. Written for the near beginner to intermediate student, each song illustrates the techniques and approaches of these innovators in a clear and easy to understand arrangement of a classic theme in open G, open D, and standard tuning. He also teaches rhythmic fingerpicking, left-hand damping, brushing and percussive right-hand techniques and syncopating a melody. In this download, acclaimed blues performer and educator teaches two blues songs based on the playing of such originators as Charley Patton and Tommy Johnson. Woody Mann shows you how to tune your guitar then dives into a lesson on southern folk blues with the song Bullfrog Groan. In the second song, he demonstrates some of the early sounds in the key of E with Delta Blues for Patton in the style of Charley Patton.