Andy Aledort - Improvising On The Muddy Waters classic 'Rollin’ Stone' - video Dailymotion

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In Deep by Andy Aledort CATFISH BLUES Muddy Waters is widely revered as being one of the most important musical figures of all time and the “father of modern Chicago blues.” In this lesson, Andy Aledort explores Muddy’s signature guitar style is this track, “Rollin’ Stone.” #AndyAledort #MuddyWaters

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00:00 [music]

00:07 Hey, I'm Andy Alladort. In this edition of In Deep, we're going to take a look at a few

00:19 different ways to improvise around the Muddy Waters Blues Classic, "Rolling Stone."

00:26 If we listen to Muddy's version at the top here.

00:33 So you got one, two, three, four, and one, two, and one.

00:41 So he always puts this lick on two.

00:53 [music]

01:00 So there's lots of ways you can improvise around this.

01:13 One simple one is to hammer on not just the E note, but

01:21 hammer on the G sharp too.

01:28 Hammer once, and then do a trill.

01:37 And Muddy does that kind of thing.

01:39 Yeah, there, a little bit.

01:45 And then he just kind of, you know, "Lord I wish I was a candidate."

01:52 You know, it's very simple, Delta style.

02:09 [music]

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Andy Aledort - Improvising On The Muddy Waters classic 'Rollin’ Stone'

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