Andy Aledort looked at the basic elements that make up Muddy Waters’ rhythm guitar playing and approach to single-note lines and solos on his blues classic, “Rollin’ Stone.” This video, we’ll add another essential element to the mix, which is the inclusion of open-string drones.
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00:10 Hey, I'm Andy Allidore.
00:17 In this edition of In Deep, we're gonna continue our look at different ways to
00:21 improvise on the Mighty Waters Blues classic, Rolling Stone.
00:24 We're gonna get into how to incorporate open string drones into your
00:29 improvisational looks.
00:30 Another thing is to add the high E drone as you play.
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00:44 So whatever I'm playing, let's say I wanted to play the melody.
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00:58 Or.
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01:05 So that was.
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01:15 And like Hendricks might go.
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01:30 So use this double step, the B and the D.
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01:36 Do it like that.
01:37 You could.
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01:42 Or get the high E in there too.
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01:49 So that's when you say.
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02:02 So now what?
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02:05 So now what?
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