Andy Aledort introduces the basic elements that make up Muddy Waters’ approach to the types of rhythm parts, licks and melodic lines that he plays on his classic track, “Rollin’ Stone.” This month, he presents more ways to branch out from those basic elements to generate new phrases and melodic ideas.
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00:16 Hey, I'm Andy Allidore, and in this edition of In Deep, we're going to continue looking
00:20 at different ways to improvise around the Muddy Waters Blues Classic Rolling Stone.
00:26 So let's improvise a little bit more now.
00:31 I would play, and Hendrix did this when he did his version of John Warner, I might go...
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00:53 I'm going to just embellish in the beginning more.
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01:04 So you could do it like that.
01:08 Or I'm hammering and have the open high E string in there too.
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01:20 That's a nice thing too.
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01:37 So I add it to it...
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01:45 By hanging around up here a little bit more.
01:47 [music]
01:53 You have this double pull up.
01:55 [music]
01:59 And then...
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02:14 So you have the top part of it.
02:15 [music]
02:22 And then a...
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02:25 Or you could go...
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02:28 And incorporate this.
02:29 [music]
02:31 It's like a push up, pull back, pull off.
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