Play 32-20 Blues by Robert Johnson. Delta Blues Guitar Lesson!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- This classic blues song by Robert Johnson is 32-20.
We show you how to play it with verse backing, variations and lead guitar / instrumental sections.
If you want to fingerpick the blues then this guitar lesson will get you going.
Played on the 1929 Gibson L-1 guitar. The same guitar RJ is seen with in the 1936 Hooks Brothers portrait.
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Robert Johnson gave us 29 songs...all are amazing! This is one of my favorites! Very well done, Martyn!! 😎✌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎶🎶☘️🍀
Thanks Tom!
You did a great job at explaining things from robert johnson that i thought were just straight up magic. This really shows how advanced and insanely good guitar player he was for that time.
Thanks!!
He worked hard on music all his life and especially when he went to stay with Ike Zimmerman in 1930 after Virginia died giving birth to their child.
His stuff is all fairly straightforward. Lots of standard tuning stuff lifted from ‘Life Saver Blues’ by Lonnie Johnson and slide stuff lifted from ‘Walking Blues’ by Son House!
It’s easy to trace and learn!
l’m not a guitarist, but l love listening to this kind of music interesting. He seems to be a good teacher, of which l am one. I just don’t teach guitar. I play the trumpet and the piano a bit and sing as well. Very nice lesson. Keep up the good work!
Five month on from finding this tutorial and I love it even more! Lessons that just keep on giving, the more you learn. Double good plus!
There’s a lot here actually, especially with the solo ideas. We did one about expanding blues fingerpicking recently. That will also keep giving you ideas!
@@TheWashboardResonators love it 😊 really helpful and appreciate your time producing these. Looking forward to more Robert Johnson’s 😎👍🏻👍🏻
I've been learning guitar for 4 years now and I can honestly say that this lesson is the most amazingly in-depth lesson for technique and theory I have come across. I've learned so much in the last 38 minutes. Thank you 👏
Awesome. Hope it opens many doors.
Now that I have heard it,this guitar does sound great...and yes, I do watch the entire video. Thanks for the effort.
Thanks for the kind words!
I just subscribed! I really like this lesson!
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This is very interesting lesson,Martyn!
Thank you,sir.
Thanks. Hopefully it opens a few doors for the fingerpicking blues types!
Outstanding tutorial! Many thanks you wonderful guitarist!
Thanks. Hope it helps!
If you have to have a pick guard get a Gibson LG2. The 50s reissue comes with pa great one and has X bracing. The L01 is lader braced
Don’t want a pick guard. Also, never liked the LG range. I’m saying I have to be careful to not add more wear to the guitar. It’ll be with me until I die.
Great version- really appreciate the tips for mixing it up!
Good hood that helps! 🎯
I'm going to try this as I've never learned to finger pick.
Thanks for posting this.
Should open up some basic ideas. Look for Travis Picking lessons too!
This is an excellent tutorial…very clearly presented….Thanks!
Hope it opens some doors!
Looking forward to the Robert Johnson playlist!
Me too! Few life things to sort first. 🎯
Thanks… a great tutorial… cheers mate from down under
Great! Thanks!
Great stuff!!Always one of my RJ favorites. thx
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Excellent guitar 🎸 lesson 👍 many thanks 😊 most helpful fun and informative 👍 😀
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Great Lesson TY!
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Great lesson, thanks so much. Being a Gibson nut I love the guitar as well!
Thanks! It’s a super guitar. Had some tasteful restoration since. Our video ‘British blues road trip’ shows it!
I’ll check that out now. Sounds right up my street. I spend way too much time on CZcams watching guitar repair/restoration/ guitar anything vids😂. Thanks again for the great lesson.
Great lesson!!! Thank you!
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Thank you so mucho, I came back in another try to play RJ, one mouth playing before about 5 years don't play nothing. One year ago I hurt my Index finger and it is not good, but I'm improving a lot. Plucking the strings sometimes the finger does not follow the beat but this time I will not give UP, for nothing. My songs: I believe I'll dust my Broom, Terraplane Blues, Rambling on my mind, and for your grace🙏 32-20. I have Just one guitar😭. Thank you again👊🏼
Glad to help! Good luck!! 🎯
Nice one, Martin. Real musicians into real music. Keep up the good work ! I'll get to see you live somewhere, that's a promise !
See you out there. Don’t be late!!!
@@TheWashboardResonators Just a question - don't know if it would be straying from your remit or not - but a great lesson, if you could figure it, would be Keb Mo's version of RJ's Kind-hearted Woman. Thanks again.
thanks man, it's pleasant to hear something a little bit different, I mean not the music, but your talk and show. Don't worry about the length at least for me, some days you have time enough some others not, but i think is good to have that choice, it's up to you.
Thanks. I had feedback that people liked taking it slow and getting stuff explained fully. Recent videos are much more condensed and overall seem to do better on all metrics so going forward it will be the way.
Thank you for the lesson
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Love the Chanel Martin thanks for keeping this wonderful music alive
Thanks Phillip! 🎯
You are my favorite channel on youtube
That’s lovely to know! Thanks!!
Great stuff 👍👍
Thanks!!
You did a fantastic job with this song….
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Great tutorial Martyn!
I'm a huge Robert Johnson fan . You have his style down, excellent! 👍🎵🎶
New Subscriber!
Thanks!! Much appreciated!!
Man that was so good 😅👍🏼
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Great lesson. Thanks a lot.
Pleasure! Thanks!
New subsciber here....great lesson! Love the old Gibby too.....thanks......
Excellent! Thanks and thanks!!
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Keith plays the rythm string, calls Charlie his engine who never missed a beat nic)
Spoken like a scholar and a gentleman.
Brilliant, love that style great skills 👌
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Superb pal 👍🏻
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A tutorial for Death Letter Blues by Son House would be fantastic! Thanks.
I do a basic one in my ‘delta blues’ lesson but it will happen!!
Nice L 1
It’d a beauty!
Very useful
Thanks 😊
too cool love your teaching , can you do other Robert johnson songs like "standing rollin man and malted milk"? please?
I’ll put it on the list!
thanks alot looking forward to it :)you re a great teacher if you do a program on how to learn many songs of R.jOHNSON i would buy it@@TheWashboardResonators
Thumb independence and getting fingers and thumbs in sync has to be learned before even attempting this.
You’ll have no choice but to get the independence if learning this!
Hey martyn, great lesson. I love these old blues songs, looking forward to more of these lessons!
One remark I would like to make is the A chord around 10"45 you refer to as an "a minor 6" chord. Isn't that an A diminished chord? With an Eb instead of an E in there...?
Wonderful work anyways. Thank you. Take care
Good point!
Lots of ways of thinking of that chord in different contexts.
A-6 b5 is one. F#dim / A is another. Ab 7 / A too. A dim 7 too!
Looking at it again I prefer your analysis!!
Have you ever thought of transposing these for a tenor guitar? Just kidding, great video and very helpful. Look forward to working on this one.
Ha! Literally have no idea how tenors work. Inspired by you I’m on the hunt though. Occasionally I get asked to do gigs on tenor.
I always thought the guitar in the photo booth portrait was a mid-1930s Kalamazoo - more affordable for a not very rich bluesman as well?
The 1938 dime store pic is a KG14 Kalamazoo.
In 2024 money they were around $370 new.
The 1936 Hooks Brothers Portrait (Stripey suit) is a 1929 Gibson L-1.
It’s very used and has a split in the body if you zoom in to the pic.
It was a $700 ish guitar in 2024 money so I reckon he could have swung his used one, especially considering he had just got a recording session confirmed for somewhere in the $8000 (2024 value) area prior to the pic.
I’m massively of the opinion he owned this even if briefly.
By this point Bukka White owned his brand new Duolian, Scrapper Blackwell had his own L-0 and Tampa Red his Style 4 Tricone etc.
RJ was a relatively successful freelance player with plenty of regular gigs and was a successful street musician.
A used pro level guitar was well within his means.
The flop houses, crime, jukes and humid weather would have all taken their toll on his instruments and I’d be surprised if he got more than a year out of any guitar.
generous!
Fully loaded.
I love the sound of your guitar. It sounds very close to the old delta blues records. What's the brand?
Think I say. This is a 1929 Gibson L-1.
What year is that Gibson L-1? I just restored a 1926 one, got it in an antique shop in rural, really rural, Louisiana for $65. It was in extra terrible condition ... plays amazing now...
1929. You did good. They’re way expensive in real terms but this one is great!
Nice video! I would have appreciated some information on your picking though
It’s all quite individual. Hopefully you see enough or figure what works for you. So long as you’re making music it’s all beautiful.
@@TheWashboardResonators It works of course! And it’s definitely enough to figure it out. The thing is I just think you are doing a phenomenal job on the picking part. So much better than any other version of the song that I have seen apart from the original. That’s why I think it would have been particularly interesting to dive into that element of your playing. thx for the reply! Keep up the good work 👍
Bravo pour le chant! .....sinon,rien de nouveau !
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very well -played, enjoying all your videos. Please may i challenge you to a tune that i have never worked out how to play? i have also asked many very accomplished guitarists if they can work out how this is played with no succsess. the song is called "hacksaws down south blues" by Richard Harney. are you up for a challenge?? thankyou
Don’t know the tune. I’ll check it out. Who knows! I might be able to figure it. Thanks.
Can you comment on the recording speed/pitch of his songs?
Great question!
I’ll do a whole video in time.
Essentially all the rumours of that in RJ’s case are nonsense.
Elijah Wald is a preeminent RJ scholar and his writings on the subject should be enough to stop that myth.
They can be variations in pitch of a a few percent each way from masters because of the mechanical nature of the equipment used for manufacture of 78’s.
In a few cases back then records were speeded up for excitement.
RJ’s all relate to standard pitch and having his guitar with capo.
Looking forward to sharing my evidence on a later YT video.
Very, very, well done: by far, the best lesson on that subtile piece. However, I'm still not convinced by that guitar. I know that, being so old, it must cost a kidney (and the major part of a liver), But like most acoustic Gibsons, compressed and supercharged in the medium range, it lacks much of treble and dynamic. Maybe am I biased by my Martin culture (or maybe, am I turning definitively deaf), but I don't hear a better sound from that L1 than from my $100 little Stella... Doctor, please, is my case serious ?
It’s an incredible guitar.
The guy that sold Mark Knopfler his famous National Resonator just did some work on it. He’s one of the UK’s best guitar builders.
Steve Phillips.
He said it was an incredible instrument. It’s not the loudest but it’s rich and complex in real life.
Go back about 10 videos and you’ll see a ‘British Blues Road-trip’ video talking about the work and meeting Steve.
They’re weird guitar’s because they’re made lightly and need to be dialled in for the best sound.
In the flesh it’s great (I think). Worth every penny - which because I traded other stuff I got cheap means it didn’t cost the market value of about £6k.
I love having the same guitar that Robert Johnson played for I reckon a few months.
One man’s junk is another’s treasure.
I have a 1942 Harmony Stella I paid £200 for I think it’s also great in a different way!
@@TheWashboardResonators Thx so much for your extensive answer. Never said that Gibson was a piece of junk... I think YT is largely responsible for the disappointing sound quality we hear: I expected more magnitude and richness, but what can we have with a deep compression and narrow bandwidth...
Great lesson but yo7 do get side tracked by various other licks that you perform …
We’re sharing wide ranging concepts and ideas.
No pick guard on that model. Never had one and would ruin its unfucked with antique value
I know. Not got once saying I want one. Since this video it had a a tasteful restoration looks in better condition and is still fully original.
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Is there anything similar to that L1 or a replica type that you'd recommend?
Nothing quite like these except the real thing!
@@TheWashboardResonators Thats what I figured ha
32-20 is a rifle cartridge.
Bore size.
32 is the bore size, 20 is the weight in graines of gun powder.@@TheWashboardResonators
Tabs would be helpful
I’m literally showing you where to put your fingers. It’s like tab but better.
Gute lesson aber du redest zu viel😉
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off topic question. Where do you get your clothes from, please?
Hey Keith.
All over!!
We’re both into bespoke tailored suits for stage as well as ethical small batch British / European made stuff in the vintage style.
In this video the shirt came from a charity shop / goodwill. The trousers are 1930s replica ones from a British brand called Revival Vintage. We both have lots of their shirts.
Favourite brands you can google or Instagram are;
Thomas Farthing, Stanley Biggs, McNair Shirts, Revival, Some Like It Holy, Loake etc.
The bible for us that we both subscribe to for doing vintage style but creating our own look and mixing ready made with bespoke items is a periodical called ‘Chap Magazine.’
The movement this magazine promotes is called ‘slow fashion’. The idea being you only buy little clothing but when you do it’s recycled / vintage or new but - high quality that you can repair and wear for decades if looked after. Good for the environment and good for skilled Artisans in the west rather than child wage slaves in the east.
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@@TheWashboardResonators awesome reply. Thank you. I’ve heard of briggs but not the other brands, so I’ll take a closer look. Didn’t know about chap magazine though. Thanks
Your playin way way way too fast, you English are too impatient, trust me, I’m living in the heart of Louisiana, born and raised … slow it down and smell tha notes….you’re a damn good player though ❤️
It’s not hot and humid in England!
Plus there’s a great tradition of us taking American music and playing it harder and faster!
Trad jazz as we called it. British blues etc!
@@TheWashboardResonators that’s true!
Talk less and play please !
We all have different teaching styles.
This guy talks too much
The information is there. Also, watch the more recent videos. It’s all been a learning curve making these videos.
Hmmm put a small pi ckguard on ur guitar
Never. It’s also been very tastefully spruced up since. Looks great now.
Please tell if you are playing in Open G
It’s clearly standard.
Nice L 1
It’s a great guitar!