McKinley Morganfield better known as Muddy Waters grew up onStovall Plantation near Clarksdale MS where he learned to play Guitar in the regional style emulating local legends Son House and Robert Johnson. In 1941 and1942 Muddy made his first recordings for Alan Lomax (Library of Congress) who came to Stovall to record various country blues musicians. These first recordings gave Muddy the confidence to move north to Chicago with thehopes of becoming a full time musician. He purchased his first electric guitar in 1944 and in only a few short years not only achieved his goal but became a major star recording hits like 'I Can't Be Satisfied' 'I Feel Like GoingHome' 'I Got My Mojo Working ' 'I Just Want to Make Love To You' and many more with his infamous band. This raw electric sound ushered in a new era of blues and Chicago Chess Records and Muddy Waters where the epicenter.In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you through 6 of Muddy's staple slide tunes in Open G Open D and Standard Tuning. Feldmann teaches each song slowly phrase by phrase making this a perfect lesson for those new to playingslide as well as the more seasoned players looking to get deeper into the mind and music of the great Muddy Waters. A detailed tab/music PDF file is included on the DVD.
SKU: BT.MUSME0334
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With its 50 Blues rhythms inspired by the biggest hits of the greatest guitarists of all time (Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Albert Collins, B.B. King, T-Bone Walker etc.), this tutorial will keep you pleasantly busy for quite a while. But there’s more to it than that! Besides affording pleasure, these rhythms allow you to discover and study the tools required for a good Blues accompaniment: triads, double stops, single notes, bends, barre chords, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, rest strokes, binary and shuffle rhythms, etc. All this is included in the guidelines given to you in the preliminary chapter –guidelines regarding the structure, the rhythm, as well as the chords employed. The DVD attached to the tutorial offers you the possibility to mindfully observe all 50 rhythms – first at actual playing speed, then at a slower speed. This again gives you the opportunity to closely follow the movement of the hands, to choose the right fingerings and keep a steady beat(!) For its part, the MP3 CD is composed of as many backing tracks as there are rhythms in the tutorial; the 50 backing tracks are recorded at two different tempi: the intended tempo (actual playing speed) and the rehearsal tempo (slower speed). On the backing track at actual playing speed the Guitar is only present during the first round, then it disappears, yielding the floor to you. The backing tracks provided here are of an appropriate length (about 4 to 5 minutes each, which sums up to almost 7h of musical practice). This means that you have enough time at your disposal to practice under the best conditions.
