Arranging: Idle Moments for Fingerstyle Blues Guitar

[alannohlgren]

Thank you, man, for advancing my comprehension of this beautiful piece. Now, back to work.

[ckg]

Killer tune, love the lesson to play it fingerstyle 🙏

[loganfinn]

Awesome video! Gave me some cool perspectives on how to approach this tune

[robgray]

Great lesson David just getting into this

[davidfreel]

Oops I missed this one. It's always good to spend time arranging by ear during idle moments. Cheers !

[MrDotneck]

Just happened upon this one while browsing through the tube for versions of this tune. A favourite of mine since I heard it for the first time. Great idea to play this fingerstyle - reminds me a bit of "St.James Infirmary". One thing I like to do is change the B-7b5 into an E7b9 (or Bdim7) by changing the a on th g string to g# - makes for a nice transition. Thanks! Tom

[brucebyrnes]

Wow. Thanks so much for following up and posting this! It is amazing how you pack so much into a 14 minute video lesson!

[anniefarr]

Oh wow a kinda Django meets Travis hangout.. so lovely!

[LuckyDejardin]

Interesting lesson. Thank you for all these great guitar moments you share.

[wasteyelo]

Great stuff. Thanks for this. My weekend is now sorted.

[danielcoffey]

Another five minutes of you taking off on this would be terrific!

[johnlind]

Great lesson (somehow I missed this 2 years ago!). This is my favorite song on David's great album - "Blues, Ballads and a Pop Song". Do yourself a favor and check out this album is you don't have it. (of course, Grant Green's version is great as well)
Thanks David,
John
WA, USA

[schmeltzys]

My favorite Jazz, blues album is George Benson's second release entitled 'uptown. It has an earnest and fire about it that jumps out at you from the opening track right to the close. Produced by the legendary John Hammond and his unique, captivating way of bringing the listener into the session. This is a headphones, lights off, recliner experience from start to finish. Incendiary, pre-pop Benson guitar and vocal. The insatiable Ronnie Cubrie on baritone. Master of grove, Lonnie Smith on B3. Bennie Green, trombone & Jimmy Lovelace on the kit. It doesn't get much better than that.My stand out track is 'clockwise'. A royal kick in the jazz player, wanna be yob from the get go.Yummy!