Cocaine Blues Dave Van Ronk is there a lesson for this song

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Thu Oct 13, 2011 2:06 am

Cocaine Blues Dave Van Ronk is there a lesson for this song or any tips or links to playing it? thanks


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neverfoundthetime
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Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:58 am

No lesson on that song here yet. You can go to recommend a lesson and suggest it and see who else votes for it.


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Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:54 am

Dave's version, from his 1962 album, Inside Dave Van Ronk, was pretty much Gary Davis' arrangement as Dave learned a lot of his style from the Reverend. Dave's main alterations were playing the bass notes upside down (4th string then 6th string on a C chord with G in the bass), and some of his own lyrics, in the style that Davis would improvise anyway. We do have a lesson on Rev. Davis' version.

Neil


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