How she ACTUALLY played Freight Train | FULL Tutorial Elizabeth Cotten, Freight Train | Fingerstyle
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- FULL TAB AVAILABLE "How she actually played Freight Train" on my Patreon.
Aside from playing upside down, and backwards, it's easy to overlook how Elizabeth Cotten actually played Freight Train. Myself included here!
Freight Train actually has some really wonderful chord voicings that make this thing sound wonderful! Using a video provided by @VintageMusicHub, let's trying to learn a little more about how she actually played Freight Train!
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Reference Video:
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (Rare Live Performance) - @VintageMusicHub
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How she ACTUALLY played Freight Train | FULL Tutorial | Fingerstyle Guitar
i use this song as my warm up every day and I think it sounds different every day which is crazy..I have heard this played so many ways, so many styles, recognizable, but different...I guess if music is a language, then as with spoke words, we all have our own accent that makes it our own
Absolutely! I hope this vid gave ya something new to work with too! One of my favorite things to do is learn different live versions of the same tune from the same artists. It really helps understand their “vocab” and spill over into mine.
Hey Kyle, Stop messing with my head! Have been trying to learn this for a little while. Makes sense now that I watched the video of her playing. Always wondered how it sounded so smooth going from C to G. Great detective work 👌🏼
Ha! Thanks Bill! Let me know what you find out next okay?
@@kostringworks Bert Jansch used the hammer on and bass note at the same time. Makes for a unique sound. Takes a bit of getting used to though as you say.
@@billallen1594 love Jansch. Yeah it's one of those things that the more you think about, the worse it seems. But you do start to just "feel it" after some time.
Sounds good but Miss Elizabeth only used her her thumb and fore finger!! Amazing and Mesmerizing!!!
One of the greatest!
Thanks, Kyle. Your interpretation is the version I’m going to learn. Been wanting to work on it for a long time.
Love your channel
It’s an honor to hear! Good luck with it!
Yo I thought you were gonna play it lefty upside down too. Love these videos man
Ha! Dude I tried it but I didn’t make the final cut. I should do a bloopers reel maybe 😂.
great ... explained very relaxed. Finally someone who explains it well
Excellent! Glad it works for you!!
Hey Thanks soo much for this !! She definitely throws in a few little finger patterns of her own inbetween !!! I can work the rest out , lol MAN WHAT A TUFF ONE !!! IT'S BEEN DRIVING ME CRAZY FOR A WEEK I FINALLY JUST GOT IT !!! I WAS STUCK ON THAT LAST C PART FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS , LOL THANKS AGAIN !!!
That's what I like to hear!! Pumped for you dude!!
@@kostringworks I really appreciate you taking the time to show how she really plays it !! Thanks so much !!! What a Gem she was !!! Her playing and singing just melts me !!!!
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First time to this with C/G!
Great lesson, thank you!
Nice! Another tool in your lick-box!
Her version is in Bb. She tunes a whole step down and plays with the strings in reverse as you said.
Nice, yeah pre-electric tuner days is kinda the Wild West for those trying to learn this stuff! Good tip!
She knew keys/pitch just fine probably.. Singing it in C is harder. People tune down to fit their vocal range .I know I do. Most blues guitarists tune down..Nashville guitarists tuned down also for many reasons - one being to sing easier.@@kostringworks
Your an awesome teacher, thmxs Brodhisattva 🙏
Thanks much! Hope you’re having fun with this one!!
Brilliantly done, Thanks♥️
Glad it was helpful!
Cool.
Ms Cotton only plays what feels and sounds good and right. Nothing technical just heart, soul and sound.
So true!
Thank you!!!!!
Absolutely!! Thanks for watching and saying hey!!
Great foundation for playing that song
Glad you think so!
There are hundreds of videos on CZcams using the generic label "Travis-Picking" which is a complete joke; Elizabeth Cotten (and a host of other Folk/Blues players) played finger style (inc alt-bass/treble picking) long before Merle Travis. Also Merle Travis only ever used one finger, so it's ludicrous to refer to finger style/fingerpicking as "Travis Picking" - how did the myth ever get started I wonder?
Dude I have had this EXACT idea for a video. It baffles me how far the “travis picking” thing has gone from how he played. My guess is melbay called some exercise in a book that and then the fire spread. Total guess though. I should make this vid.
@@kostringworks It is testimony to the sheer power of CZcams, the internet and social media generally in the spreading of misinformation and so many lies. When I started playing guitar and then soon wanting to play finger style based on the wonderful players I knew back then I'd never heard of Merle Travis and certainly would not have wanted to use only one finger. Freight Train was a favourite song of mine when I heard it back in about 1955 (before I heard of Elvis even!) and at school in the early 60's a friend taught me how to play St James Infirmary Blues - he could play that style. Another friend was steeped in the music of Black American Blues singers and somehow got hold of records not even released here in the UK! So many of them came over from the US in 1962 and influenced members of the Stones, Beatles, Animals etc. We had live bands performing locally every week - doing blues and R&B covers - of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Brownie McGhee, John Lee Hooker, Howling Wolf etc. I wonder if Travis appeared on something like the Ed Sullivan show and the phrase started out life on Black & White TV to a mass White American audience - who knows? It's a mystery myth.... yeah - make that vid! Good luck.
@@Lowdenjim that stuff happened long before CZcams and social media. Those coming into the equation certainly does cause information to spread quicker.. but it's not the cause. It only worsened an existing problem.
@@jmorrisey79 You're right. I've been watching the excellent coverage of "Ain't Nobody's Dirty Business" by Fretboard Confidential (which is a great example of alt-bass finger picking) and thought how ludicrous it would be to refer to it as Travis-Picking given that Mississippi John Hurt pre-dated Merle Travis by 25 years! I doubt that Tim Berners Lee could possibly imagine how the WWW would become a vehicle for propaganda, misinformation often extending to even dangerous lies on such a large scale.
thumb and index finger that is Travis picking , all styles change with time , in fact everything changes with time .
great video!! just wondering at 5:40 it says on the tab open d with the second hammer on but seems like you leave your finger on the third fret. i like how it sounds on the third fret but just wanted some clarification? thankyou for the video
Oh! That’s an error in the tab, def leave third finger down.
Thanks for the explanation man ! Also that guitar sound sweet, really appropriate for this song. What model is it?
Thank you! It's an old Lakeside Lyon and Healy I restored! Search my channel for Saving a guitar from Savers, if ya wanna know more about it!
So far I'm doing well with it! But when you get to the F chord and say "the second time you have to drop your thumb with the hammer," I don't see where this is in the tab.
it seems the tabs you posted don't actually match what you teach/play at the 'e chord' part of it. which is correct? the tabs or the video?
Proooobly the tab. Easy to go rogue on some of the more groovy stuff. Honestly a mixture of both would be sweet!
Song is a whole step down too
Shoot did I forget to mention that?! Thanks!!
Super random question, but what brand/gauge strings are you running on that guitar? I know its was a year ago lol but worth an ask.
Almost positive they’re John Pearse lights phosphor bronze.
@@kostringworks you are a gentleman & a scholar 🙏
Where do I find the tab for this?
full tab is up on the patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/full-tab-for-68528626
can I get the tab for this?
Yep! I have tab for this and most of my tutorials over on my patreon!
Full TAB available on my Patreon!⬇⬇⬇
www.patreon.com/posts/full-tab-for-68528626
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