Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train
Learn how to play Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (Travis picked)
Tuning: Downtuned by a full step
The lesson teaches Elizabeth Cotten’s guitar part from her recording of the song.
The complete file contains two lesson videos, a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 399 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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Mark says
Happy to chime in with suggestions! 😉 (Even happier there are others who might want some ragtime lessons!)
“That’ll Never Happen No More” is great. Jorma Kaukonen from Jefferson Airplane does a version of this on YouTube (this is Jerry-bait, because I know he is a fan of the Airplane)
https://youtu.be/tyQGyvurZME
“Police Dog Blues” another good one, more advanced.
Cheers!
Mark from Brooklyn
Jerry says
Noted.
Coming up is some Robert Johnson (not exactly the same thing I know) then maybe some Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Blake.
Truth is that I have a somewhat different style to that classic country blues thumping bass. I won’t sound all that authentic but hopefully I can get the idea across.
RMay says
Great. Thanks, Mark. Looks like Jerry is going to be busy.
RMay says
Excellent stuff, Jerry. A lovely fingerpicking tour de force in its own right as well as being a gateway to the ragtime style. Worth every penny. Many thanks. Any chance of some ‘easy’ Blind Blake?
Jerry says
Tell me which one you’d like and I’ll add it to the list.
RMay says
Jerry, I’ll leave that to you. Suffice to say, I’m very much a novice where ragtime is concerned!