Blues guitar: Stop Breaking Down (the "I Gotta Be Me" take)

Sittin' around my room, jammin' the blooze. This is my best imitation of my own guitar playing. Please pardon my vocals.

If you listen closely, can you hear the strains of Canon Rock in the background? No, you can't. You're totally insane.

Presented within my inimitable signature raggedy sense of rhythm. (Go on, try to imitate it. I dare you.) Aspiring guitarists take note: once, I was like you, a beginner with a vast panoply of options before me, a worldly man, seduced and jaded by material things. Heed this lesson. Always practice with a metronome, or risk the consequences you see before you.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• blues
• sloppy
• acoustic
• guitar
• lead
• riffs
• music
• robert
• johnson
• stop
• breaking
• down
• lesson

[coolisfool]

fuckin do something about your hair man!

and your tone!

[GuitaristInProgress]

No!

[quinoacat]

I like this style of Blues which involves 'syncopated call and response' between the vocals and the instrument. Nice work, gave ya a 5/5 star rating on this one. I do this type of stuff on Guitar and Mouth Harp and sometimes I think about working it up as a threesome between vocals, Guitar, and Harmonica.

[GuitaristInProgress]

Yeah, it's a dialog between instruments... we can thank Jimi Hendrix for showing the world some of the best examples of that.

[Spoonful18]

What keys this in? I always through Bob used the pentanic(whatevery) scale but this song just seems a little weird when i try and figur it out i mean me and the devil i found pretty easy to figur out but start breaking down just seems a little odd a different to his other stuff. oh and good vid by the way.

[GuitaristInProgress]

According to Woody Man's book, RJ did this in Open G, same key I play it in (although that's about all my playing has in common with his.)

[kokoro86]

Post some vids man!

Demonstrate your superior tone, so that all can worship at the altar of your great tone and coiffeur, fool!

Till then, leave the guy alone!

[GuitaristInProgress]

I can't help it!

[al0102030405]

Very nice. The most important thing is to be you, and you got that part down.

[GuitaristInProgress]

(And, in all fairness, this take was a... uh... "unusual" one. It's called the "I Gotta Be Me" take because more of my influences than usual crept into places where they ordinarily wouldn't belong.)