Fix Your Travis Picking In Six Steps
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Published 2022-05-27
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Best fingerpicking lesson on the whole Internet, period. Believe me, I have seen them all, David Hamburger is a rare combination of a great player who is also great at teaching.
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You are a great teacher. Been playing and teaching guitar for 15years now but never seen anyone teach with as much clarity as you. No BS as well, straight to the point.
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Great lesson. This is by far the clearest explanation of the process of breaking down a piece I've seen on-line.
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I can't imagine a more thorough and clearer instruction on learning to master this classic, deceptively simple, Travis-picked song. Excellent!
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What a brilliantly analytical presentation of this style! I particularly liked the reference to the inner voice of the guitar/chord.
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Now I know why I found it almost impossible to change from my 60 odd years of finger picking, and if I may say so, quite good, to Travis style and also many times over that period as a kid hearing and trying to interweave Freight Train. Isn’t it just the best when someone, and in this case, not any old someone honours you with a Light Bulb Moment. Gift gratefully received David. Keb Jo. Nom de blues inspired by Keb Mo another hero.
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I like your slow approach. I like your explanation of why.
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I am revisiting this song on this episode. I "learned" it some time ago but the syncopation stuck with me better than I thought it would. I remember, being my first attempt at Travis picking, this taking many hours of one section at a time. Now I am realizing I have a lot of work left to do on this song to get the fingering cleaned up and getting control of the volume/emphasis of the each of the notes. There is getting everything memorized and then there is playing the touch David has. I love this song. :)
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What a great music, what a great teacher! Thank you, David.
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Great lesson, David. Well broken down and clearly presented. I love this style of playing guitar. Thank you!
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By far the most systematic & best step by step method to approach this wonderful song. Thank you so much for breaking it down so easy. God Bless you more abundantly
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I've heard Tommy Emmanuel say to learn Freight Train in order to start the road to fingerstyle. Of all the tutorials on this tune David's method is by far the best. Syncopation has been the bain of my finersyle path.
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You're a great teacher Mr Hamburger. Have been struggling with this song but this approach makes complete sense.
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This is the best explanation of this I have ever come across. I try and play finger style songs and struggle to get them to sound propped. This will help a lot. Thank you.
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I've been trawling though the Internet for guitar lessons for years and some are excellent and some pretty bad! But this man is the best teacher out there. superb
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Man this is what I need. I struggled with learning Travis, but now I can’t get out of it. Drives me crazy.
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Great video David . Very constructive and easy to follow.
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What a great song - this is the one that got started on the Travis style. Still trying to get the feel right. If it can be done, it will happen with this kind of help.
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That is BEAUTIFUL instruction! Absolutely top notch. Thank you.
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Thank you also! I stumbled on also as well as my playing! Going to study all your posts 👍
