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Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

1856.0. "The CLASSIC Blues !" by SNOC02::SHEARDJEFF () Thu Jun 07 1990 08:02

    G'day Guit Dudes,
    
    Seems that all the blues lick and song type notes are either very basic
    twelve bar formats, or the real complex stuff.
    
    What I'm after is the CLASSIC blues lines. I listen to this stuff all
    the time, but never seem to have enough time to really sit down and
    play along or work it out (I guess I'mm just plain lazy at heart).
    
    Some examples of the sort of stuff I'm after is -:
    
    	* Hoochie Coochie Man
    	* Crossroads
    	* Mannish boy
    
    And any other old faithfuls that come to mind. 
    
    Cheers,
    		Jeff.
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1856.1The All-Purpose Three Note Blues LickAQUA::ROSTI'll do anything for moneyThu Jun 07 1990 12:1217
    
    Mannish Boy is real simple.  One chord!!!
    
    Usually played in E, the basic riff would be structured out of E, G and
    A.  Depending on how you play the lick, you can get lots of
    variations..."Mannish Boy", any of a few dozen John Lee Hooker tunes,
    even the verse to "Rocky Mountain Way".  I just ran across this agian
    in the bass line of a tune I'm working up, "Daddy Rolling Stone" by
    Otis Blackwell.
    
    "Hoochie Coochie Man" is actually quite similar to "Mannish Boy" except
    it *does* go through the typical blues changes.  Once I saw a vocalist
    sitting in with Muddy inadvertently go from "Mannish" to "Hoochie" and
    the band followed right along....then this look came over their faces
    when they realized what they had just done.
    
    							Brian