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Rockin’ D Rhythm
from Joe Deloro’s Blues Rock Road Trip
In this lesson we’ve got a combination of a couple of influences. Our riff is based on a Chicago sound derived from Howlin’ Wolf and Hubert Sumlin’s work on “Killing Floor” and later “Rockin’ Daddy” on the London sessions album. Originally, it was split between two guitars: Hubert Sumlin played the riff primarily, and Clapton the solo work. Here though, we’re combining the two, so one person can play it.
Now to keep things interesting, we want to get a theme and variation going, so we’ll do it again, but the second time, instead of going to the minor seven we’ll go to the root, and damp that as well. I’m also palmmuting the bass.
The introduction is really important in this type of music, because it can get repetitious starting in the first measure and repeating consecutive twelve bar choruses. One way to alleviate that is to begin elsewhere. What’s typical is to begin in the eleventh bar, going with some octave damps starting in the E shape position.
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