online acoustic blues guitar workshop

Subject: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: PatrickCostello
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 10:15 AM

I've started up a series of free workshops on a simple approach to playing acoustic blues guitar. There are two lessons available right now, and we should be updating the series about once a week or so.

http://howandtao.com/?page_id=20


-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: mooman
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 11:20 AM

Had a listen Patrick and it's a nice, easy laid-back approach. I've been playing awhile myself but would imagine this could be very good for learners.

Looking forward to seeing new material appearing.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: s6k
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 08:53 PM

ill put this in my favourites cheers, i love blues

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Dipsodeb
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 06:27 AM

Yep me too It's just gone in my favourites. Will follow with interest.

~Debs~

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: GUEST,Cattail (No cookie)
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 03:33 PM

Hi Patrick, this looks good! Maybe just what I need to get me into
this style of playing, I will be coming back for more.

THANKS for giving us these lessons, it's appreciated.

Best wishes

Cattail !

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 03:56 PM

Many thanks to you. After 35 years of pratting about maybe it's time I owned up to being a total beginner and learned something.

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: PatrickCostello
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 09:20 PM

Lesson three just went up. In response to the email I'm getting I used this workshop to go over the basics one more time and provide a few tab examples of the basic picking pattern.

I'm going to try and see if I can post a new workshop every day this week. So unless something blows up tomorrow I'll post another workshop - this time on adding in the B chord - and by the end of the week I should be going into adding bass runs and other stuff.

This has been a hoot so far. It's going to be interesting to see where this project winds up.

-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Kaleea
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 04:18 AM

Looks good! I let some folks know about it. I am sure that many people will appreciate the lessons.

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: PatrickCostello
Date: 31 Aug 05 - 04:16 PM

Lesson four went up yesterday.

-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: KateG
Date: 01 Sep 05 - 02:02 PM

Just checked out lesson 1 - can't wait to get my hands on my guitar and try it!! Just what I needed to expand my horizons.

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Tinker
Date: 01 Sep 05 - 07:22 PM

Listening now, tommorrow I'll get the guitar in the same room as the computeur... Okay maybe I'll try it a little sooner...

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: PatrickCostello
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 08:54 PM

Lesson six is up.

We are also starting up a basic fingerstyle guitar podcast

-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Sep 05 - 11:11 AM

Thanks for these, but one wonders why not start with open tunings? They are way easier to play, you can immediately give someone a slide and put them to work, they enable you to connect immediately to some of the great blues (you can play Son House's My Black Mama in no time -- I have taught a 7 year old all this in 2 minutes).

Is there a pedagogic reason, or just the worry that talking about different tunings will scare people off? Not complaining, just interested.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: PatrickCostello
Date: 19 Sep 05 - 01:46 PM

Well I did do the open tuning thing for The How and the Tao of Folk Guitar - but our first podcast using open G got a lot of weird feedback from people who thought that starting out in an open tuning was too simplistic.

(after what I went through learning the guitar, the idea of "simplistic guitar" sounds pretty sexy . . . but that's just me)

So I knocked out the first blues guitar workshop in standard tuning to see what the reaction would be - and so far the reaction has been surprisingly positive.

My personal advice would be to start out in an open tuning. It gives you easy chords to play and a chance to build up your picking technique. That said, if I'm going to reach people and get them playing I have to meet them partway on some things.

We'll have to see if holding an E chord while fretting the sixth string at the fourth fret makes folks rethink thier stance on open tunings. . .

-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Peter T.
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 10:52 AM

One nice thing about open tunings that happened to me was that I started to see the instrument as infinitely adaptable, that it is a tool for making music, and that I was not locked into anything. A guitar is not a piano or a flute: you can move the sucker around: my feeling is that many students (like me) think that it is a fixed piano like instrument. I was completely astonished the first time I realized that you could change the notes on a guitar from "standard" -- how dare you do that!! Kids get a picture of the guitar as something to which they have to conform. Rules are good, frets are good, scales are good, but if I had had some perspective on the instrument at 15, I would not have been so frustrated.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: PatrickCostello
Date: 06 Oct 05 - 07:08 PM

Lesson seven went up today.

In related news, we're starting to get sponsors for this workshop series. It's kind of cool to see the idea starting to support itself.

-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Patrick-Costello
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 08:57 AM

Lesson eight is up.
-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: GUEST,weelittledrummer
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 12:52 PM

scuse my general lack of street cred, but what is a podcast.

I had an e-mail from somebody the other day saying they wanted some items on an old album for a podcat, would it be all right. Of course i said go ahead, but what is a podcast?

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Patrick-Costello
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 03:57 PM

A podcast is nothing more than an audio file linked through an RSS feed.

RSS is a syndication format/concept that people use on the web. The idea is that you can create a RSS feed that people can access through a aggregator or (and this is pretty cool) post the feed on a web site.

The cool thing about podcasts is that the RSS feed allows for people to subscribe to a channel - and once that happens they can use a program to notify them automatically when new content goes up.

It's kind of like a gazillion watt radio network where every program is a unique station that can be accesses on demand.

-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: GUEST,wld
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 07:52 PM

Thankyou Patrick - gosh no more record needles then!

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 05:30 PM

Patrick: once again you have produced some amazing stuff!
It may even inspire me to learn Guitar

Gutbucketeer

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Patrick-Costello
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 06:54 AM

Lesson nine is up.
-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Patrick-Costello
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 06:54 PM

Lesson ten is up.

There is also a video workshop that covers the material in the first few podcasts.

-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Patrick-Costello
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:27 PM

Lesson eleven is up - this time with Dear Old Dad joining in with his
National Style N tenor guitar.

http://howandtao.com/?p=55http://howandtao.com/?p=55

-Patrick

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 05 - 09:53 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 03:03 PM

Thanks again Patrick!

JAB

Subject: RE: online acoustic blues guitar workshop
From: Patrick-Costello
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 08:46 PM

Lesson twelve is up.Lesson twelve is up.

-Patrick