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Police Dog Blues by Blind Blake
Chicken Soup guitar journey stories should be interesting. We’ll see what the end of May brings us. I’m a trouble maker and a rebel and I can’t follow rules, hell I can barely count to four. So I have a problem with 90 day challenges cause focusing on the same goal for 90 days might be beyond my capacity, what with my A.D.D. and all. But I have something to share today. It’s not a finished piece because the piece is quite complicated and I’m still reluctant to share my wretched attempts at singing. However, I’ll share this much for now with the hope that it might help encourage someone with similar goals as mine. My goal is to learn Police Dog Blues by Blind Blake. The intro is 6 bars and the verses (my tab has 6 verses) are 12 bars each with 4 different “breaks”, one after each of the first four verses. Then the last two verses back to back, followed by an “outro” of 6 bars that finishes the piece. So you see it might take me more than 90 days to remember and much longer to polish. Today I’m bringing the 6 bar into followed by 12 bar verse, played through 2 times. The recording time is 1:42 so it goes pretty quick. I’ve recorded a couple of the breaks but there not clean enough to share yet. So . . . . here goes
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Wow, you’re really going to town with those finger picks @-Rick- ! Great work indeed. I’m looking forward to hearing the whole rendition – sounds awesome so far – keep it going.
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@-Rick- Damn, that was good!
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Rick, sounds great. Good work! Keep it up. Your guitar is beautiful? Is that a Gibson Koa wood acoustic?
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YouAll are kind to watch and comment on my work because learning this piece is taking a little more effort than ten minutes a day but we all know that you get out of it what you put into it. Likewise the reward is reverent to your effort and I find this to be soo rewarding. Thanks @Bill_Brown, @Loraine and @par3eagl appreciate your kindness .
And Glenn, to respond to you question, that is a Breedlove Discovery Mahogany that I got 2nd hand for about $200 and it’s a great value that I’ve never regretted for a second. ♡♡
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Hey there Rick, That is pretty darn good. Great picking. Must have taken a long time to get this down. You inspired me so much, that I might add this one to my always evolving list of things to learn, but might have to target it for next year as I am not at your level yet. The key word here being “yet”.
Thanks for posting.
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Thanks @ChuckS
After you click on a members name Then you find the three little dots ” … ” then forums, mine has a couple pages, but in their you can find “play for us” posts from previous postings. and you will see some of the older stuff, and it’s always hard work learning new pieces, one measure at a time note by note. Just be consistent, you’ll get there!! Believe you can = you can, you will. 🙂
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Sweet! Sounding great. That is a lot to learn. I don’t believe I could memorize something with that many verses any more (maybe never LOL). The best to you as you chip away at it. Nice use of the finger picks.
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Well, if that is a sounding pretty danged awesome to me! I can’t wait to hear the whole thing. … For me… your level of playing is my goal… lol! Keep on pickin!
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You definitely have a groove started there. Those picks bring out the tone. Thanks for sharing your progress.
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