Train beat Riff Open G

[mkster]

In the first video you practice alternating between bass and chord strumming , the index is very active because its the one doing the melody ,So you need to learn to use it on every beat , Every Blues man have there own variation , its like a fingerprint and must be decoded to copy those old guys . This video is the first of a series of 4. I will show you also Rl Burnside and Mississippi fred Macdowell style beats.

This exercise is to help you inventing your own train beat riff

 

[JSMac]

Thanks for that. That’s the type of groove that speaks to me the loudest and also is so difficult for me play. I’ll keep trying though.

 

[mkster]

Thanks for that. That’s the type of groove that speaks to me the loudest and also is so difficult for me play. I’ll keep trying though.

I know you will get it , there 's more to come . I will help you as long a you keep trying .

If you have song you wish to learn , tell me so i can look into it .

 

[mkster]

RL Burnside lesson . easy train Riff

 

[telekaster1999]

RL Burnside lesson . easy train Riff

I've tried for years to play with a thumb pick like that and never could. Guess I just got use to hybrid picking. If your open to suggestions, I'd love to hear some Amos Moses by Jerry Reed.

 

[JSMac]

. If your open to suggestions, I'd love to hear some Amos Moses by Jerry Reed.

I recently saw that mentioned in another thread and gave it a try. Not an easy riff to get right.

 

[mkster]

I've tried for years to play with a thumb pick like that and never could. Guess I just got use to hybrid picking.

Hybrid is slow to me anyway i did everything and got good at everything except thumb pick i had 25 years of playing when i committed to mastering it . My fingers could not handle country blues , i could not build enough calluses it was bad plus Robert Johnson did it so i had to.

I had tried many times over the years with the dunlop the white skinny one , no success . I guess the big problem is the pick hook getting caught on the strings dislodging the pick it never felt natural . I have switch the big one and made my own shape closer to how i hold a regular pick.

Most people that use a standard pick find different ways to be efficient like holding it sideways or slanting .
With a thumb pick the same apply . I found that if you point pointy end of the pick up it pretty much solves it .

 

[Willie Johnson]

I've tried for years to play with a thumb pick like that and never could. Guess I just got use to hybrid picking. If your open to suggestions, I'd love to hear some Amos Moses by Jerry Reed.

Same. I play with my thumb and fingers exclusively, but if I put a thumbpick on, it's like trying to play with an oven mitt on my right hand.

 

[telekaster1999]

Most people that use a standard pick find different ways to be efficient like holding it sideways or slanting .

Sideways for me, I wanted to be like SRV.

 

[mkster]

Sideways for me, I wanted to be like SRV.

I did that too , i was a SRV/Hendrix want to be . But at some point i figured there was nothing special about trying to be someone else . There was one SRV he was a great , imitating someone because of there success never left me inspired , and always looking outside for inspiration. I decided to thumb pick to erases 25 years of copying everyone cool , and start really building my self.

 

[Gimble]

I did that too , i was a SRV/Hendrix want to be . But at some point i figured there was nothing special about trying to be someone else . There was one SRV he was a great , imitating someone because of their success never left me inspired , and always looking outside for inspiration. I decided to thumb pick to erases 25 years of copying everyone cool , and start really building my self.

Yup, like the other Vaughan brother likes to say, “I keep it simple and play what I feel, and people get it.”



BTW, in a prior thread you mentioned you were French, I assumed from France, I just noticed you’re Québécois.

My wife is from Saguenay up north love all of Quebec!

 

[mkster]

Yup, like the other Vaughan brother likes to say, “I keep it simple and play what I feel, and people get it.”



BTW, in a prior thread you mentioned you were French, I assumed from France, I just noticed you’re Québécois.

My wife is from Saguenay up north love all of Quebec!

I think money made music boring , how great would it be if everyone did their thing . SRV was a legend but he is the only one that made money out of it , he is a learning tool not a prison. After seeing the Norwegian or the Mexican or the next SRV or Phillip Sayce , it was clear to me anyway.

Well we have something in common we love les Québécoises .

 

[mkster]

Train Riff #3 Mississippi Fred McDowell . This one is a bit harder based on a version of Kokomo Blues.

 

[mkster]

Train Riff #4 one of my own . I little harder ..