Norman Blake youTube Flatpicking Guitar
This site is about Guitar Education, if you don’t know Norman Blake, his playing is worth exploring, that’s why I’ve posted about him.
Norman Blake is a Bluegrass Folk Country legend. He is highly respected amongst guitar players and has played back up guitar for Bob Dylan. He has influenced more guitar players than you imagine.
Have you ever wondered why some guitar players are so good?
Simple, in many cases they have worked through a lot of the old bluegrass / Irish tunes.
I have noticed that players that play tunes and have avoided hours of scales have a much better sense of melody than those that ‘shred’ scales. In fact I find scale shredding quite horrendous.
This important: Once you get rid of ideas of being stuck in one particular style your playing will open up. Be open to learning, all the great players are.
To watch Norman Blake flat picking guitar is a guitar lesson in fluency of both left and right hands. This tune starts on an Em shape with a Capo on the 3rd fret, this means it’s a G minor. The tune is full of guitar fills, guitar breaks full of lines and chords. Note his use of open strings in his solos and how all of his breaks resolve nicely. to play to the standard that he does is no small feat, just try it!
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So here’s Norman Blakes youtUbe video live in action. enjoy it!
I also author another blog site. The acousticguitarist, here’s the guitar site link.
Hi Tony,
You sure have an awesome site here and brilliant articles. I am a guitar enthusiasts also i owned a folk guitar and a classical one, unfortunately I am not that a virtuoso like you–maybe someday. I started playing since i was 18 and 22 years later still haven’t reach performance level. maybe because lots of my time were spent working.
I will definitely comeback to your site, it’s informative as well as cool. keep up the good work.
Rom
I loved the video of Norman and Nancy Blake. Great site! That dude can play and make it sound like there at least two guitarists playing!