Hey, how’s it going guys this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, bringing you this video lesson, I’m just playing a little bit of “Manish Boy” by Muddy Waters, and man if we’re talking about the blues it doesn’t get any better than Muddy Waters he’s the man. An awesome tune that is rift based, meaning the guitar part just plays a riff over and over, and it almost becomes a sort of hypnotic.
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We’re in the key of a, going on the fifth fret, kind of fifth position. You can think of your a minor pentatonic and you’ve got basically a power chord you can play here and then, this turned into a big rock riff, but we’re going to play the seventh fret on the fourth string, and then I’m going to lay that finger down, and get seven, and seven, on the next two strings, and then go back to seven, and then I play five, and five, these are called double stops, where you’re playing two notes at a time.
That’s going to be on the second string, and the third string, you can bend those notes, lift them a little bit, then go back to seven on the fourth string, so you’ve got one, two, three, and in between. I’m just kind of chunking down there on a power chord which would be the fifth fret and seventh fret so it sounds like this. A one, two, three, and like I was saying that riff kind of became a staple in rock and roll kind of sounds you’ll hear all the time, and remember Muddy Waters see he played with like a thumb pick like clips on your thumb and it’s kind of interesting thing.
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