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Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix Guitar Lesson – Voodoo Blues – EP058

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This lesson is a combination of Jimi Hendrix style heavy blues lead mixed with a Muddy Waters style blues, played together. This is intended to be played on electric guitar with overdrive although you can do most of this on acoustic (if that’s all you have). For the overdrive tone, I’m using a Fulltone OCD pedal.

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    • John P says

      Another treasure of a lesson Brian. There’s a lot of great material in this one that can be used in many different situations and yet for me at least inspires even new ideas to use live when put on the spot during improv jams. Thanks Brian. : )

  2. jimbostrat says

    Anybody who doesn’t believe that they can’t take these great ideas and immediately stand out at any jam situation or use in their own original concepts, should just hang up their guitars!! Brian shows us all here how to leave any old and typical shuffles or boogies long behind us!! Just hitting the open 6th string at appropriate times for effect…….is worth learning this lesson!!

    Jim

  4. Bluesz says

    Brian I was watching this do you have a jam track for this. Maybe I was watching another video of your where you said you had a slow jam track and a regular tempo track.  And that it would be good to start off with the slow jam track first to get the timing right is it this lesson or another one. Please let me know. Thanks Brian

  16. warren james earp says

    I been watching brian’s Youtube videos for some time now but I have just become a premium member, very happy with the stuff I’m learning, seems to all come together and make sense, for instance like all the riffs your creating are from the pentatonic scale thats in the key of the song you’re showing us or the riff etc.  I know I should’ve understood this but watching you do it really helps.  thanks Brian. Warren

  17. butterscotchblond says

    hello Brian,

    would it be a advantage to name the strings E B G D A E instead of 1 2 3 4 5 6?
    sometimes it s somehow confusing for me now, hope other member will agree!

    otherwise it s great lesson again, thanks!!!

    all the best

    Peter

  22. timk says

      I completely agree with Butterscotchblond. It would be much better to identify the strings by EADGBE.  While watching various lessons, it seems as if Brian is at times confused when trying to identify the string number and fret number

  23. SuperDave says

    Super cool mix with Muddy and Jimmy . My 1st time playing anything like this. I’m learning tons Brian, Really sounds great on my new ES- Les Paul. I get a little bit closer to the lick each time. Thankyou, David

  25. eddyjames says

    Hello Brian, I just paid to subscribe to your site and lI’m earning your Muddy Waters Voodoo Blues. I haven’t been able yet to see the Jam Track for this song. Am I missing something.

  26. guldndragn says

    1st time subscriber here, although I have been following you on utube for a couple of years.  Great lesson!  I think your the best out there. Ever think of teaching ” Black Queen” by Stills? No one has it out there. Thx again!

  31. Chinobi27 says

    I think the first part is Robert Petway - Catfish Blues… And modified by Muddy Water and Jimi Hendrix is another great version.
    Cheers!!!

  33. WJW says

    This was a real eye opener, man! I’ve been playing “Voodoo Child” and other Hendrix stuff for a long time, but I was stuck on my standard licks, always looking to break out a little more. You opened my eyes to a lot of things that were hiding right there in plain sight. Great lesson!

  35. goodtooogo@verizon.net says

    Brian,
    Are the Muddy Waters/Jimi Hendrix lesson video still available for download.
    I have an extremely slow internet connection and the buffering is really slowing things down.
    With a download I can stop and start when needed.
    Regards,
    Martin

  40. Jeem says

    Brian: “…if you didn’t get the reference to Billy Squire, that’s probably a good thing…”

    That struck me as all kinds of funny!

    Great Lesson!

  41. jfn3000 says

    I gotta say, lessons like these do a lot more for me than teach me how to play something. Hearing your take on related sounds completes the puzzle and really paints a picture of the style as a whole. After watching this, I can’t un-hear the Muddy Waters influence in Jimi, and I feel like I understand this corner of the blues that much better now.

  44. mikeanders says

    Great stuff! Inspired me to go back and revisit Muddy’s works, and also some of the people who played in his band like “Steady Rollin'” Bob Margolin, whom I believe is still around!

    Captivating, is Muddy and Bob on “Blow Wind Blow!” along with Willie “Big Eyes” Smith on drums, Jerry Portnoy on harmonica and Luther “guitar” Johnson on guitar! What a rhythm section! Killer! There is Muddy right there, with capo on the third fret, steady, thumb thumping along, steady as a metronome! Awesome! I wish I could do that! I would rule the World with that thumb!

  51. John K says

    What is the timing in bar 7 of the tab? It looks like there is an eight note missing. The measure starts with a triplet. Second beat looks like 2 eighth notes. 3rd beat looks like 2 sixteenth notes followed by 2 eighth notes.

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