Muddy Waters Catfish Blues Style Blues Guitar Lesson

I would love a video about Peter Green's bend vibrato on songs like Jumping At Shadows or I Loved Another Woman. Keep me comin Griff!

This is a really nice tutorial for one of the best riffs ever! Thanks Griff, this is killer bro.
Heavy Soul by The White Stripes uses this lick as well.

Is very good thank you for your advice. I will practice this very much

Thank you again

Juan

What Amp (& settings) are you using for this.

Bill

You know all the stuff - i need not continue my need for speedy solos- amazing after 20 yrs to learn your stuff, hope to join soon!
dave

Hi Griff, I just had to ECHO-Echo-echo Ramin's comments below. Thank you not only for your great lessons, and all the effort that you put into it! But also the inspiration which you've given me and many others. Learning to play Blues guitar is a very big part of my life and you're the inspiration for it. Many thanks Griff and I wish you everything you wish yourself.
Simon K

Dear,Griff really enjoy all your short lessons keep them comeing,actually enjoy all your lessons.

sweet sound man.thanks.

dont give to much away we might get somethin for nothin tight

Cheers Griff what an awesome lick woo hoo.

great lick, thank you. I love your teaching style, interesting not overwhealming. a similar one is the immortal bring it on home by the zepelin. Doug

I just wanted to thank you for your great lessons, and all the effort that you put into it! I for one have learned more from you,these past few months than I ever did during the 20 years I've been playing the guitar.I wish you all the best, thanks once again.Ramin

Just,got my Guitar out ,and try to play along with with some of your leason, that you sent me.through my e-mail. Ive just started to play ,more now and injoyed it now more.Ive played drums all my life,but wanted to play Guitar to.Ive haven't got your DVD yet but i will.Thanks again you help me alot. HANS

Been trying to figure out how to get that bend on that note to sound like that for years. Thought you had to have superhuman finger strength but if you put the helper finger in the same fret its actually pretty easy. Use to play a pretty fair version of Voodoo Chile but never had that lick broken down and played as correctly as you show it. Intro for "Brown Sugar" on ZZ Top's "First Album" (IMHO some of Gibbons best guitar work) also use this. Isn't this also the first part of Zeppelin's Heartbreaker solo but I believe that's in the key of A.

Excellent job as always Griff, you rock.
Robert

Excellent

Really Great; I really like the new stuff your teaching and the method is outstanding. Really easy to learn and works for me right off. Thanks

Thanks griff pretty simple thanks

G'day Griff, thanks for the vids. I do enjoy them. I did want to say that I appreciate your style. You don't just show a lick and some TAB, but demonstrate the lick in context. This "catfish" video is a good example. I want to play the sort of blues that incorporates rhythm and cool little licks and you just may be the one to help.
Thanks again, I look forward to what you have in store for us next.

Hi griff,l

thanks for the new licks and lesson you're sharing.this really works and add my knowledge about blues licks in guitar.more power to you and your company.

love it

Now that little lick I liked, we are now starting to play blues so give it to me dude....That one was cool Griff

Great lesson! I always wanted to learn that lick. Who would have guessed that those two songs had the same lick.

Nice one Griff, I love playing this riff, have for years.
Your lesson style is great, you make it fun and you explain and demonstrate well !

Griff -

Love the tidbits and licks. I also enjoy your presentation style; simple, direct and connecting.
Helps me greatly as a beginner and I look forward to more!
Cheers -
Stefan

this is great...I've been trying to learn Voodoo Chile, without anybody showing this amount of detail of this exact part. I knew it was from a blues "standard", not knowing it was Muddy Waters...now I know BOTH. Jimi, that sly dog...he knew what I needed...ask, and you shall receive. Jimi works in mysterious ways...ect. god references. Thanks for the simple explanation, for without, I'd still be riffing it very poorly.

simple but very well presented & useful. I use use it a lot in practice.

ZZ Top. I hear The Rev. BIlly Gibbons use this lick alot. Cheers

I Have Blisters On My Fingers. FANTASTIC LOVE IT< LOVE IT< LOVE IT

Griff,another fine lick to add to the great ones you have sent. I am still a little slow trying to do it,but it is starting to sound better. Thanks for sending. Mike Z.

Just want to thank you for your efforts.
Your examples are clean, clear and easy to understand. Keep up the quality.
Sicerely, Mike

Nice one Griff as always. Many thanks.

Great lesson and a very valuable cross-over lick which I plan to incorporate into my play. Thanks for the lessons, not to mention all the motivation and inspiration.

Thank you so much for all the lessons ,they are very good and i am trying to get into them steady with the summer coming and i work on the golf course it gets hard for me to find time ,but i will try my best cheers

Thanks for another gift..good stuff...great style of teaching..so helpful!...more please!!....thx Dick.

So sweeeeeeet! I hope you can show us more riffs that go with this one as Hendrix, SRV & KWS did in Vodoo Chile. This song really had a great groove! Love it!

Thanks!

love it!

Griff you have a lot of great lessons, at 56 years old one of my life long desires was to learn how to play the blues, bought my 2nd guitar at 56, first one got taken from me when I was a boy, I gleam what I can from watching your videos and it's good stuff, one of these days I hope to save enough money to purchase the set of CD's, on social security disability, so that will be down the road, but until then, thanks for being there.

Griff Great lesson thank you

Thats really cool.....
Thanks a mill

Great. Thanks for the lesson!

your licks are always great & very much appreciated

thanks GRIFF

That is a very good illustration of Muddy Waters style blues.

THAT WAAS FAANTAAASTIC

Awsome licks!!! Thanks for the lesson.

Sweet lesson. Short but way to the point. I hadn't tied the Muddy lick to the SRV and Hendrix licks. Thanks

very cool Griff i like the lenny kravits thing that i never would have thought on my own unless i tried for about an hour .

Great to have what seems complicated made simple, which it is note for note, but as you state it still takes practice practice practice.
Thanks for the lick.

Great little piece,Grff to help along with other blues licks,or, just practicing! Thanx! Sam.

Great, thanks.

Very useful Thanks.

Same lick with variations to different artist; great lesson.

One of the things I most appreciate about you teaching style if the background explanation of where riffs come from. Great stuff. Thanks.

Cool, it's always nice to get a little more knowledge on how those simple licks can be payed and where they have been used before with great success...thnx again for a useful lesson once again and like the lick it was a short one, but a good one, keep up the great work.

Very useful.

Grif is a good teacher and I can tell he is a good man for sharing, he takes the complex and makes it simple, which is what a good teacher does.

Thanks, exciting lesson.
I thought about Bring it on Home. By LedZep. It uses the same bend on A to G to E.

Hi Bud, Thanks, you make it look (and it becomes ) easy, a breath of fresh air in comparison to most guitar sites. I look forward to more to come. Alan (past haggis) Scotland...

Good one Griff!

I think Steve is touring Australia at the moment...

He is certainly an innovator and original. Many thanks

bilA

Love that stuff, great lesson, send me as much as you like!

Regards

James

Thank you for your most exemplary web site.
Your efforts are much appreciated.
Best wishes,
Bob #==(o )

Similar lick. Listen to Tab Benoit - 'Shelter Me' from TV show 'Sons of Guns'.
Heavy cajun blues. Search Tab Benoit on YouTube.

Great lessons. Thanks Griff.

Thanks Griff i always injoy love this ! Hank.

Thanks Griff ,

Amazing how easy lots of licks really are but how damn good they sound ,especially with the amp set up correctly . I think you said it all , a lot of it is attitude !!!!!

Great. Thanks
Peter

Excellent lesson Griff .
Thanks.

Hey Griff

That same lick is in SRV's intro to Pride and Joy.
Thank you for the lessons!

Mike

Cool lesson Griff as usual.
Thanks amigo!

Nice lesson Mon Ami

Hi Griff.... I am short on time ....homebase is dialup....so I have to go elswhere to get hi-speed...
Can't thank you enough for all the licks I have saved up.....Just need time to get at them.....
Especially enjoyed this lesson
Thanks again....

Hi Griff,
Love your music and easy style of teaching. Great riff lesson - I can use this in several songs too.
Your a star.
Mick
ps Where can I get a "Manny's Music " NY Tee-shirt from ?

Yep another good one to try out , keep them coming Griff, I'm still going through the BGU book but its good to divert a bit on the way, great stuff !

i have played for over 40 years and still hit the wrong string sometimes ..

Brilliant ... i am a beginner , and i never thought a little lick like that could lead to so much . Thanks bloody brilliant....

I love this lick

Thanks Griff.

Love these they are great.

Cheers

Thanks Griff! Love this lick, 10 min.'s and had down! You"ll make a blues guitarist out of me yet!
Also, love all the courses I bought from you and work on them everyday.

Jim Volpone

Griff,this has been so interesting to me that I picked up my guitar and found I could easily follow this!.I am happy to say I have actually learnt something for the first time in ages!.Thank you very much.

Great lick. It was a cheezy movie but I do like the delta blues parts. Somebody else played all the stuff Ralph Maggio supposedly played.

I love this lick and always wondered how to play it. I'm a rhythm player but want so badly to broaden my playing skills and lessons like this give me the opportunity to do so. So keep-em
coming okay.I save all of your lessons and go over them at least once a week.

Thanks so muc!!!!!!!

John

Great lick ,looking forward to some John Lee Hooker riffs as well THANKS!

Your lessons have been great and I try everyday to block off time to work on them. I am blown away by your theory class! This riff lesson was fun and consise. Perfect for the way I usually squeeze practice while working at home.

BIG THANKS!

robo

Nice short piece to learn.

Thanks,

You always give some great instruction. I am a beginner and immature fo my age (67) and just started to learn guitar (six months ago) and I have bought some of your inst. courses and I appreaciate your teaching methods.

Thank You! It don't cover it, Been telling all the pickers I come in contact with about your site .
I haven't made the pro grade ,and have a few physical chalanges.
I love to learn and play and you and your team make it total non stressfull exciting event .
Thanks don't cover it .

Hi Griff, Manny's huh? West 48th St. Love that store. Right next to Sam Ash. You get around. My Dad use to buy his drums there. They go back 50 or 60 years. I still remember Manny and his sons.

Since you've gone to youtube videos I can no longer watch as I cant download and play fast enuf. This one took me a half hour to play. You olds ones 2 years ago I could just click and watch. You upgrade is my downgrade and I have to find someone else who inst so techy to get lessons from.

It was great Griff and thank you. As i am dyslexic and unable to read music certainly helped.

a great lesson a fine licks from some of the best blues players in my yonger i play with little walters keep up the good work your guitar buddy joetheshakerRBLLEGEND thanks

Nice,short and sweet and well presented.

Hi Griff thank you for this cool unleashed riff. I had the pleasure of tahking photographs of John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy ,and Bo Diddley in a small club here in Victoria, BC Canada I had their permission to shoot the shows. I realised that I was up close, so on the second half of the shows I started to take photo's of the guitar and what they were playing, this was all available light B&W film . I would like to be able to share photo's these with your students. Desi

a very positive sound , and short and sweet for a quick study. Keep 'em coming

A great addition to PTTB and blues course I bought a while back. I have learned a lot from you and Bob M.
Please keep them coming.
Thanks

Thanks for the short, but very powerful and useful lick. Great sound and rhythm to it.

Hi Griff Just to let you know your efforts are not in vain. I really enjoy your short videos. Have your blues course ,and have a much better understanding of scales,chords, progressions,and riffs. If you ever decide to make a course consisting of several licks explained like catfish blues be assured I would not hesitate for a second,Iwould be the first to buy it. Might be a good way to increase your revenue,as I would surely not be the only buyer.(food for thought maybe). Just cannot wait for your next e-mail,keep them coming as I am not alone appreciating your great teaching style. THANKS A MILLION.

very helpful thanks

Great riff griff U make it look so easy I'm going to practice it and keep-em coming

sweet lesson griff.

This should read "Muddy Waters' cover of Robert Petway's 'Catfish Blues,'" as this is a Robert Petway song, but I don't think Petway used this riff in his version. (Sorry for being the blues police, but Petway is an oft forgotten contributor to the blues and this song, which was covered and copied by many and transformed into Waters' "Rolling Stone," is a contribution he should be remembered for.)

All of your pointers are very welcome and needed to perfect my playing and having fun doing so

I have been having a little trouble with Voodoo chile this new lesson helped alot.
Thanks Griff . Noel