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.
00:55Or
01:04So that was
01:06And like Henders might go
01:19So use this double stop, the B and the D. Do it like that. You could
01:38Or get the high E in there too
01:43So that's when you say
01:49I'd have all you pretty young women swimming after me
01:58Sure enough, well
02:00Sure enough, well
02:02Sure enough, well
02:04Sure enough, well
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