Blues Guitar Lessons - Robert Johnson and Scrapper Blackwell (Udemy.com)

excellent tutorials.

interesting and thorough coverage of pivotal and landmark thumbpicking fingerstyle rural blues, which had a great influence on the Chicago blues which followed.

Jim's delta blues, finger-style, how-to videos are AMAZING. I don't know of any other place to learn this type of stuff. Thank you Jim for putting these together! These delta blues masters were SO far ahead of their time! Wow!!!

Was an excellent learning tool for me. Difficult at first, because it's a genre of music I've never really explored and the fingering seemed too complicated. Following Instructor Jim Bruce, clip by clip, for 2-3 weeks unlocked a bunch of the early Blues mysteries for me. I started the course using a 1995 Regal Resonator, switched to a 2015 Gretsch G5022CWFE A/E, then for comfort to an 1998 Electric Gretsch G6120 using fingers and thumb only. Finally on the Scrapper Blackwell last two pieces I wised up and used two metal fingerpicks and a plastic thumbpick playing a 2014 G&L Comanche. I know playing Electric doesn't present the original recordings the way they first came out, but it's much more comfortable on my fingers. Looking forward to other courses by Jim Bruce.

It pains me how disappointed I am with this course. I was so looking forward to it and and I was frustrated the entire time. His style of teaching, the way the lessons were demonstrated (or lack thereof), the pacing, the angles, everything was just so non-conducing to learning. He played the whole song first and then little bits for a second and moved on. It was painful how bad this was. Unfortunately there are not a lot of delta blues classes on Udemy, so i chose what was available. Luckily i found a good guy on Youtube. Sorry to be negative, but i don't want others to make the same mistakes. It really seems as if not a lot of effort was put in by the instructor so the review is just encourage a little more from other instructors on Udemy. Thanks for listening. I got this as a promo, so can't get my money back. I just wish I had my time back.

Instructor does a great job of presenting finger-style blues songs in an easy-to-understand way. Really makes the blues accessible.

Jim Bruce is a highly experienced blues player, busker and blues traveller.

Play what you feel. Follow Jim Bruce courses and learn to play the blues.

I've taken a several blues courses and this one it tops. Jim Bruce plays the pieces, breaks them down, and provides tabs. One of the best features that I don't find on a lot of courses is the fact that he sings (really well too) AND plays the guitar. This adds greatly to learning a song. Loved this course; thus, the five well-deserved stars. Thank you Mr. Bruce!

He just wants you to learn, and have fun. And thats all I want.