Guitartricks How to Play Death Letter Blues (Son House) TUTORiAL

P2P | 23 May 2021 | 456 MB
In this song tutorial, Anders Mouridsen is going to teach you "Death Letter Blues" , by Son House. After a song synopsis and looking at the tone and tuning, Anders will plunge into breaking the main intro riff. What's happening while playing the I chord is next, followed by the details of playing the IV and V chords. The Anders will show the whole 12 bar progression, and the ending of the song. Last, we'll do a play along performance.

This is Delta blues in its purest form, and it's a ton of fun to play. Son House was the guitar player Robert Johnson looked up to when he was learning to play, and it's not hard to see why. This is pure emotion channeled through the guitar using some very simple tools like the slide, the open tuning, and the aggressive finger strumming.

In this tutorial I'll show you how to play this song like you hear it on the record, and after getting into the open tuning, we're gonna breakdown the intro riff which is repeated throughout the whole song whenever there's a break in the vocals.

I'm gonna show you how to play the IV chord with the combination of the slide on your fingers. I'll show the same thing for the V chord, and finally we're gonna break down the awesome ending.

We're gonna talk about how to imitate the tone and attitude and much more. The song is in 4/4 and the tempo varies throughout the song, so let's get to work on it!