Delta Blues for Patton
This tune is inspired by the playing styles of the great Mississippi Delta blues guitarists such as Charlie Patton, Willie Brown, and Tommy Johnson. The picking is a sort of a lazy strum-like effect where you brush across more than one bass note at a time. Even though the tablature may have only one written out, the idea is to brush across two or three. This is one picking technique that gives the Delta blues its distinctive rich sound.

Play the song slowly trying to create this brush-like pick to the bass. To hear these ideas in the original recordings, listen to Charlie Patton’s “Green River Blues” or Pony Blues” and Tommy Johnson’s’ “Bye Bye Blues” and Willie Browns “Future Blues.”