He shows us beauty of the guitar tuning and note layout which can through your right hand be taken by an order of magnitude to a different musical sphere. I have to say that now that I think about it the closest other player to this "finger style with pick" type of articulation is Hubert Sumlin but what do I know?
There have to be many more folks that play that way and I hope to play with that sort of insouciance myself one day. I mean that forefinger is lazy looking. He is playing blues with his forefinger the way Wes Montgomery played jazz with his thumb.
This is not my Mom forced me to have guitar lessons... this is give me my guitar and put on your mourning gown. This is not hybrid picking. He does that too. Buddy done good!
Buddy has his own right hand technique of thumb and forefinger. Its a refreshingly very un-classical out of so-called position style. Buddy uses the length of the guitar neck in his I iv V7 chord voicing changes more to get the flavor for his tonality and intervals.
He shows us how to play the blues voicings in the country style 'been citified' and then he throws some Buddy on it. Good luck copying that. No but when he plays fast it looses that country nuance which maybe is the point. Its harder to follow as it starts being Buddy Guy and not ingrained Wolf and Muddy. That's why a foundation will make all the difference. A foundations means one to two hundred hours of looking down at it! Maybe more!
Is it easier to learn Albert King or Freddie King or T-Bone Walker than Buddy Guy? Buddy is for the most part electric Chicago blues but in this lesson at least with one foot in country blues. But I guarantee you Buddy Guy studied each of these other players and up close too. Buddy can run rings around Eric Clapton if he wants to. That's why he is smiling.
Buddy Guy Page One Two Three“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” ― Karen Lamb