ReioAh
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06/16/25
Learn from the masters!
One of the best methods to learn the Blues is to take original standards and learn from the masters, learn to copy. The early Rolling Stones have been nothing but a most gifted blues cover band, before they did their own things. Seth Rosenbloom has prepared a couple of good standard blues songs to help to get into it and come closer to the real thing. In this sense like all of his courses in the Song Lesson series, hoping, he’ll do many more!. Albert King’s style is very special in the sense that he never seems to be comping to his singing. Instead he constantly switches between singing his phrases of lyrics and responding to them with the guitar. Singing and answering with the guitar is common in blues, but he uses it constantly, this way creating a very unique personal stile. Like in all Song Lessons never the less Seth Rosenbloom adds useful rhythm-guitar parts for comping: here one in an easy manner wtih doublestops in the bass and another one with typical chord voicings and an easy strumming. The real challange is the solo guitar. Seth leads through all the licks and the complete solo of the song. This is not for beginners, maybe for beginning intermediate. One should have at least some experience with half and whole step bending, because bending is the essence of Albert King’s solo style. Anyway it is not too hard, because in this song you have no three-half-step or 2 whole-tone bendings, which Albert uses in other songs. I like the song and recommend it for anyone who wants to dive into the technique of singing and answering with guitar licks, as well as for to work on his/hers vocabulary of authentic blues licks, especially with rich bendings.
