Hi Folks,
For this, our final lesson on the swing / BB King-ish version of Trouble in Mind, I show you a two chorus solo that employs many BB Style riffs that has the feeling of swing. With this groove you can play a few different styles. You can make it mellow and jazzy or you can make it pure modern blues. Lets see if you can post an original style solo over my rhythm with the first verse stating the melody the way you hear it.
Let's hear a lot of versions from you all. Its a song everyone knows so I really want to see a lot of different versions whether it be acoustic, Chicago style or BB / swing style.
Come on now friends, let me hear your own take on Trouble in Mind.
Enjoy,
Duke
Topics and/or subjects covered in this lesson:
Chicago Blues
Duke Robillard
B.B. King
Trouble in Mind
Jimmy Rushing
Print Chords & Tab
Loop 0:00 Run-Through of B.B. King Inspired Solo
Loop 1:07 Breakdown of Solo
Loop 10:55 How To Create Your Own Solos
Loop 12:25 Practice Track with Duke Playing Rhythm
Comments
Log in to leave a comment
Hi Duke! So, I've been giving your comments a lot of thought. There are a few clams (Mmmmmm, clams.....), but is this closer in phrasing to what you are advising? I was thinking about something Monster Mike advised, which was to make sure I cleanly ended my phrases. I think what I was doing was always holding notes down while thinking about where to go next, like saying "Ummmmmm" when you are talking and don't want to be interrupted. So what I'm trying to do now is make cleaner statements in each phrase. Better? I hope so! ;-) Thanks Duke! And thanks, Peter, for the kind words!
Hi Peter, You're making me proud! Good work, and nice phrasing.. Your rhythm playing has also greatly improved and your ideas are getting clearer all the time. a little meandering by the last chorus but that's fine.Tthe first three showed a lot of growth and good ideas. Thanks for posting! Duke
I just wanted to second Duke's comments. I *really* enjoyed this! I especially like the 2nd chorus; the opening and the use of the "sliding 6th" on the IV chord is very cool, and the arpeggios in the 3rd chorus are very effective. That really builds it up nicely there. Very nice! I'm (almost) as excited to see progress in someone else as I am to see it in myself, so this is great to hear. Really, nice job, Peter, well done!
Hey Duke! For this one, I just did my own thing -- ended up being mostly just a better version of the one I did last week. Still a little rough around the edges, but I'm feeling a bit more fluid in my phrasing. I've also just sort of figured out this whole guitar neck thing recently. I was finally able to see it's just a repeating set of patterns, up and down the neck. So different from piano. It's rather beautiful, the neck and the patterns, strings like silver highways. Anyway! ;-) Thanks again for the great lesson. I love that finish on that guitar! Best, Bruce
.
Sounds great Bruce, Love the sound. Nice Les Paul too! My only critisism would be that you still need to relax a bit on your timing. one method for that is to try to breath as if you are playing a horn.Take breaths when you finish a phrase which slows you down naturally a bit. Many musicians employ that trick to help with phrasing. You're phrasing is fine actually, you just need to relax on laid back Duke old man tempos.LOL!!!
Thanks Duke! Ok, I have reflected upon this and here is another version. Please let me know what you think! Bruce
Hi Duke --- absolutely beautiful. Looking forward to learning this one.
Thanks Mike!