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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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00:00Hey, I'm Andy Allador. In this edition of In Deep we're going to continue our look at different ways
00:20to improvise on the Muddy Waters Blues Classic Rolling Stone. We're going to get into how to
00:25incorporate open string drones into your improvisational licks. Another thing is
00:32to add the high E drone as you play. So whatever I'm playing, let's say I want to play the melody.
00:55Swimming in the land, swimming in the land, swimming in the land.
01:04So that was...
01:06Swimming in the land, swimming in the land.
01:10Have all you young women.
01:18And like Henders might go, I'd have all you young women.
01:31So use this double stop, the B and the D. Do it like that. You could...
01:41Or get the high E in there too.
01:48So that's when you say...
01:50I'd have all you pretty young women.
01:54Swimming after me.
01:58Sure enough, well.
02:00Sure enough, well.
02:02Sure enough, well.
02:04Sure enough, well.
02:11You can see here.
02:18We get to see.
02:20We'll see.
02:22We'll see.
02:24We'll see.
02:26It's so...
02:28We'll see.
02:29We'll see.
02:34We'll see.

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