In Deep by Andy Aledort
OPEN WATERS
These last few columns have been dedicated to exploring soloing approaches to the Muddy Waters blues classic, “Rollin’ Stone.” The song is played in the key of E, and, true to the style of acoustic Delta blues, as well as electric Chicago blues, many licks are played within the first few frets and incorporate open strings. Ample evidence of this is heard in the acoustic playing of Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and Lightning Hopkins, as well as the electric playing of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King, Magic Sam and many others.
OPEN WATERS
These last few columns have been dedicated to exploring soloing approaches to the Muddy Waters blues classic, “Rollin’ Stone.” The song is played in the key of E, and, true to the style of acoustic Delta blues, as well as electric Chicago blues, many licks are played within the first few frets and incorporate open strings. Ample evidence of this is heard in the acoustic playing of Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and Lightning Hopkins, as well as the electric playing of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King, Magic Sam and many others.
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00:00Hey, I'm Andy Allendort. In this edition of Indieb, we're going to continue looking at ways to
00:19improvise on the Muddy Waters blues classic, Rolling Stone. This time we're going to talk
00:25about incorporating the use of open strings into improvised phrases along the lines of
00:30what you'll hear, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winner, Stu Ray Vaughan, going back to Big Bill Brunzi and
00:36Lightning Hopkins, Magic Sand, people like that, how they would utilize open strings. Here we go.
00:43So more of these open string E type of looks.
00:47I mean, there's so many of them. So a good place to start is
00:55so that's just
01:02and after the first one, there's a million other things you could do.
01:17So I went
01:24Or you could go
01:36So that one is
01:42More like Steve Ray Vaughan
01:49Go to the second fret
01:52And then
01:55First fret for the hammer ball instead of three, two
01:59Which is more what Hendrix would do or Johnny Winner. Steve would go
02:05So you can really go to town on these things
02:23So that one was
02:33And then
02:36And then of course
02:46This fast
02:49Run down
02:51So that's one way to do that
03:03That was with a slide
03:08That's another way
03:14Another Steve Ray Vaughan type of way of doing it
03:20I don't know
03:22Hi there came to eat
03:22And then
03:23One
03:24Does this
03:26have a good thing
03:27Have a prat
03:29Got it
03:30I don't know
03:31Oh right
03:32G
03:39A
03:41You
03:41Are
03:43Oh
03:43Ok