“The Glory of Love” Fingerstyle, Part 2

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Become a complete blues player through these lessons in country blues fingerpicking, blues lead guitar, and bottleneck slide, with great technique lessons and blues songs from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and more.

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In this lesson you’ll learn a fingerstyle arrangement of the folk-blues classic “Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor” inspired by the playing of Mississippi John Hurt. Orville plays the song through and then explains the guitar part phrase by phrase. He also explains how you can alter the lengths of some of the chords, depending on how you hear the song, something that John Hurt and other great blues singers and guitarists did all the time.

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The Glory of Love

“The Glory of Love” Fingerstyle, Part 1

“The Glory of Love” Fingerstyle, Part 2

The second time Orville plays the verse he changes the timing of the melody to add some variety to the arrangement. He walks you through that section as well as the bridge in this video. Orville also talks about how he simplifies the guitar part when he’s singing, and how he gives the song a rhythmic bounce by cutting off the notes with his picking-hand fingers instead of sustaining the notes of the chords.

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