So this is an original composition and a follow up from my last posting a couple of days ago. I want to be crystal clear regarding how this came intro existence. It’s a product of lessons learned here at AM taught by Brian. This is also why I post these compositions of mine here in the “showcase your playing” forum. I also like to keep theses recordings on a “bah-who-cares” kind of level not striving for absolute perfection.

The general technique regarding how I approached this rhythmically comes from EP187. That lesson dug itself deep into me, and is almost always present when I noodle these days. The slaps and simultaneous hits/frails to keep a melody is just so powerful a tool if one wants to kind of preserve that droning feeling without actually droning the thumb all the time.
The intro and B7 parts are inspired by a combination of stuff from EP177 and EP169. Bending C# on the B string up a half to a D also comes from EP177. The BB-box stuff in general I developed out of LEG029, EP078 and EP041 if I remember correctly. And there’s probably some EP013 in there as well. It’s the same with that lesson for me as with EP187, it stuck in more ways than one! 🙂 What I don’t think is inspired by a specific lesson is the bending I’m doing. I wish there would have been a lesson about the theory behind why one would bend strings in a major or minor blues, but as far as I know that lesson isn’t here as of yet, and this was what I was practicing when the pieces of this composition started falling into place!

So that’s the background. Hope you get something out of this for yourself, and if you happen to enjoy it too, consider it an accidental bonus! 🙂

Cheers!