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I have been working on EP235. I did a search on it on this forum and found a few who posted their interpretations of it. I must say, a couple of them were, to my ears, better than the original.
That said, some time back I did a study on TBone Walker and learned a lot of his licks. A lot of licks in this were very similar, and one was right out of his book. I am thinking I could substitute some of the licks I learned for the ones in this piece. But I will start out by trying to learn it close to verbatim.
TBone walker was and is the bridge between blues and jazz. And you could make this piece really jazzy simply by changing the rhythm and accents some.
Someone in one of the threads said some of the licks were identical to another lesson. This is quite common. If you listen to a lot of TBone walker you will hear him using the same licks in different songs. But if you weren’t a guitarist you would never pick up on that. Chuck Berry was once asked about his licks, his response was, “those weren’t my licks I got them from TBone walker”. One guitar teacher I had a while back, said he liked to teach TBone walker licks because, when you get a lick from Stevie Ray Vaughan, it is probably a lick he got from Albert King and put his own twist on it, Albert King probably got that lick from TBone walker and put HIS own twist on it. So why not go right to the source and put YOUR twist on it?
Brian, in his videos, keeps talking about how this would be a good take away if you get nothing else. His entire thrust seems to be producing autonomous guitarists rather than clones. In a lot of the videos I have watched I have caught him saying to “play around with this and see where it takes you”. My approach to his lessons for now is similar to my approach to cooking. The first time I cook something I follow the recipe to a tee. Once I try the product I tweak it to my liking the next time. As I learn these pieces I intend to learn them verbatim, then start changing the rhythm, using different licks, etc. To make them mine.
I forgot where I was going with this…but there you go
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