The Blues Guitar

  This is my version of the old Blind Blake song Bad Feeling Blues. It is an upbeat, and quite fast paced piece. This is charcteristic of Blind Blake's style of playing which was influenced by the popular ragtime music of the era. This video covers just the guitar part and does not include the vocals which Blind Blake sings in the original. Bad Feeling Blues is a fingerstyle piece played in 4/4 time on a standard tuned guitar. It has a continuous bass line played by thumb, and the melody played with the other fingers, which is standard for fingerstyle blues guitar. It is quite a tricky piece with a fast tempo and non-standard bass line. In the video above I just play through the main section of the song once. In the original, there are a number of verses for which this guitar section is repeated. I adapted the tab from one I found on the internet, however, I couldn't find an author to credit for this. Bad Feeling Blues Tab - Power Tab - PDF - TXT Playing Advice Bou...

Sail Away Ladies is a traditional tune which has many different versions of it. This version is based on the one by John Fahey from the album - The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party Vol 4. Although there are multiple instruments playing in the Fahey version, including sitar sections, the version I have done merely covers the two main guitar sections. These two guitar sections are both very similar with only a few different notes in each. However, the main difference between the two sections is the tempo. The first section is played much slower than the second Sail Away Ladies is a fingerstyle piece played in 4/4 time, although there are a few bars in 2/4 time. It employs a travis picking pattern with the thumb playing the bass notes and alternating between different bass strings. It is a relatively easy piece to play but the second, faster section does have quite a fast tempo, so this does make it more tricky to play although many of the notes are the same as the first, s...