Black Water By The Doobie Brothers – Guitar Lesson – Double Drop D
Black Water By The Doobie Brothers – Guitar Lesson – Double Drop D
In the video guitar lesson, I teach you how to play Black Water by the Doobie Brothers. I show you the tuning, chords, strumming, licks and all the other bits and pieces to get up and running quickly.
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Thanks for showing the tune up front
Nice, but its not accurate, he plays 1/4 note bass notes throughout that piece
I love my three Takaminis, two sixes and a twelve, very informative lesson.
cool…..love it …this song is hard to figure out……is it b flat or a sharp ??????
Great lesson but disagree that it's all about practice. Some people have a ear and natural talent for music. Look at how many popular artist come from a family that has good musicians. Most of is a sense of timing and tone. My best friend sinse childhood picked up a guitar after he broke his leg wrestling. Within a year he could play Chet Atkins' Freight Train and other pieces. He would go up the neck and identify chords as A – G but not their techical names. He simply knew which one he needed. You can practice your butt off and become pretty good IMO but not really good unless you have some natural instincts which explains the term "he/she is a 'natural'. 😉
Great video
NOT a Bb chord in second part of tune! It’s an Ab!
Just found your channel and liked and subbed 👍
Thanks Erich! I'm going to see the Doobie Brothers next week. Such a cool tune.
Good tutorial. But it’s too easy to say is it has nothing to do with talent. I’ve had students whom no amount of practice could turn into musicians. If talent were not a factor, there would be no such thing as talent to speak of
How bizarre. He is using the same guitar my dad had my whole life and mt first guitar.
Looks like you rolled out of bed with a Takamine in hand with only thought was the Doobie Brothers. LoL
Thank you great lesson 🙂
Good voice! Thx for this lesson!
Great video, learned a bunch and I’d been playing this in Standard so ya mind blown.
Thanks I finally got it
If you say it's not as hard to play as you think,then have to explain how to get to Double Drop D ,doesn't quite add up, but of course if you are not fingerpicking this song as it should be played then I understand your comment
Every time he says noodlin' I can't not think about catfish
So Awesome Thank You!!
Ranch it up!
Enjoyed this lesson great job, nice touch mentioning the A 11th !! 👏👏👏👏
GREAT JOB BROTHER !!
THANKS MUCH !! 😎🤘
I noticed you’re not playing the verse at singing along that seems to be the hardest part doing that Intro and seagu to log at the same time is this originally figure picked
Quarantine video of the Doobies doing this song. Fantastic version! Notice the slide up the low E string he tosses in for a little texture.
https://youtu.be/4ZLY2ht9iBM
Thnaks buddy … I always wanted to play out that one !!
Thank you so so much! I've been working on this favorite song of mine for years and you have completed the circle. I didn't realize it was double drop D. I was trying it in only one drop D. Thanks man! Great personality too!
God Bless
Nicely explained. Good teaching👍🏼
Can’t tell you figure how you’re doing G and you don’t tell us. That sucks
This would make a great doom metal cover, in double drop A of course. ; )
Just wanted to say I have all the videos out there that you're a really nice mellow cat and you take the time to play the songs correctly and do it slowly enough so that people can catch on! I teach myself in every now and again I find myself noodling through YouTube and you're the only guy that I'm subscribed to!
so after playing guitar for 43 years I love to tell my students that you never ever stop learning! BTW Pat Simmons just put up a in house so to speak with three of the other cats all playing together in isolation! And I was noticing the way he plays it and some of the interesting chord shapes! I'm sure you've probably seen it but just wanted to let you know! Keep it up my brother! I've seen so many different versions of oh, and been shown so many different versions of this song over the years! I think you nailed it here!
THANKS PARD! ☮️
Oldie but goodie!
Man, you will always be one of my go to teachers!
I just stole the Am7 – D lick from Patrick Simmons from the Doobie's isolation vid they posted but it was hard to see what else he was playing. LOL He's picking it as apposed to bending/strumming along with half-step slides on the A (first finger) and low D (second finger) strings but you really can't go wrong either way. Love this tune. I picked it up yesterday and this evening I'm already puttin the funk to it with ghost notes and alternate picking on the A and D strings.
After some thought, I felt like I needed to edit this post to say that I didn't mean to make it sound like there was a wrong way to play/teach this. Over the years I've had some very good/patient teachers and stumbled my way through some awesome youtube vids from folks kind enough to show how they enjoy playing something while professionally presenting it with folks of all playing levels in mind and I can't thank them all enough. Thank you @YourGuitarSage!
Have just discovered this lesson during lockdown. Great song & great lesson. Thanks.
When you played that chord fully, after explaining it, I heard 'Shiney, Shiney……..Shiney, Shiney leather…" from the Velvet Underground. Now I wonder if it was dropped D.
This qurantene has me picking my old guitar up and revisiting these old videos. Each time I pick it up I get alot better than I was the previous time at a faster pace. Definitely have always appreciated you for uploading full lesson for free, and basically only making people that want to understand the theory and mechanics of what's going on pay for something more advanced. That's a very honest way to teach.
No wonder I f___ up this song (tuning).
Please spay and neuter your strange friends
Missed a part “And I ain’t got no worries…”
Thank you kind sir, this really helped me to play a much loved tune from my heyday. Loving the double drop D tuning of late, Neil Young's Ohio and Harvest Moon are other great examples. Keep on rockin'!
Having watched a lot of your videos, I can say, you look a little hung over in this one, cracking me up. Actually have to admit, even though you're not taking your vocals seriously here, I dig em on this song especially. Funny stuff! I was born in '85, as a young buck I'm proud to say I was just 5 years old when I saw this live in Anchorage Alaska. Have to thank my parents for taking me to so many cool bands as a young child. Thanks so much for teaching this one brother, it really brings me back to happy childhood memories, I dreamed when I was a child of playing this and here I am thanks to you! Rock on man!
Thank you so much for the very helpful instructional video
You're awesome – practice, practice, practice!
What is this? Campfire version at best. Chords are not all right…….the song is way more intricate with Travis picking. Horrible lesson.
you are fucking annoying and talk to much. Teach the song asshole.
If you've seen any documentaries on Hendrix there's a recurring theme… everyone says how Jimi was constantly playing. If you saw him walking down the street, he was carrying (if not playing) his guitar because he was playing where he left and he was gonna play where he was going. Chet Atkins says the same… that he played absolutely every waking moment… to the detriment of his relationships, diet, etc.
I've got a buddy who's back yard adjoined EVH's when he first started. Ron says that he would heckle Eddie over the back fence telling him to, "Stop! You suck!". (If you knew Ron White you'd know how he will, semi-good-naturedly, tell you whatever's on his mind. He has a filter but often declines to enable it.) Years later, Eddie finally got pretty okay with the instrument, I suppose! 😉
The original is finger style…..not with a pick.
1974…..Jeff Baxter was on board.
Jeff was a huge James Burton fan…….
Ricky Nelson Hello Marry Lou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSoKUm8WsKs
Double drop D what does that mean?
@ 0 :20 "It means that you're too high" lmao !!