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 Ollidore.
00:17In this edition of Indeep, we're going to continue looking at ways to improvise on the
00:20Muddy Waters Blues classic, Rolling Stone.
00:24This time we're going to talk about incorporating the use of open strings into improvised phrases
00:29along the lines of what you'll hear, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Stu Ravon, going back
00:34to Big Bill Brunze, and Lightnin' Hopkins, Magic Sand, people like that, how they would
00:39utilize open strings.
00:41Here we go.
00:43So more of these open string E type of looks, I mean there's so many of them, so a good
00:54place to start is...
01:01So that's just...
01:06And after the first one, there's a million other things you could do.
01:24So I went...
01:36Or you could go...
01:41So that one is...
01:42More like Stu Ravon.
01:49Go to the second fret, and then, first fret from the hammer pull, instead of three, two.
02:02Which is more what Hendrix would do, or Johnny Winter, Stevie would go...
02:05So you can really go to town on these things.
02:32So that one was...
02:35And then...
02:45And then of course...
02:49This fast run down.
03:02So that's one way to do that.
03:05That was with a slide.
03:13That's another way, another Stu Ravon type of way of doing it.