Description

Taught by: Tom Feldmann
Format: DVD
Instrumentation: Guitar
In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you to where it all began, Dockery Plantation, dubbed « The Birthplace of the Blues », and highlights the earliest recording artists that gave Dockery its legendary status: Charlie Patton, Son House, Willie Brown and Tommy Johnson.
You will learn a few songs by each artist, giving you a taste of the individuals themselves as well as the genre as a whole. The majority of the lesson is done out of standard tuning, focusing on E, C and A positions. From standard tuning you move to Drop D tuning for Tommy Johnson’s Big Road Blues and then to Open G (Spanish tuning) for Willie Brown’s Future Blues. Of course no lesson on Delta blues guitar would be complete without a look at bottleneck slide and this lesson is no exception with Feldmann closing with two trailblazers of bottleneck slide, Son House and Charlie Patton.
A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included.
Song List:

• Standard Tuning
  • M&O Blues
  • Stone Pony Blues
  • 34 Blues
  • Morning Prayer Blues
  • A Down The Staff
  • Lonesome Home Blues
• Drop D Tuning
  • Big Road Blues
• Spanish Tuning
  • Future Blues
  • Levee Camp Moan
  • It Won’t Be Long