{"id":1973,"date":"2011-12-01T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T19:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2015-10-06T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T21:37:07","slug":"muddy-waters-catfish-blues-style-blues-guitar-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/muddy-waters-catfish-blues-style-blues-guitar-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Muddy Waters Catfish Blues Style Blues Guitar Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wise words of good old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090888\/quotes\" target=\"_blank\">Willie Brown back in 1986<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Muddy Waters invented electricity!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; okay, maybe not, but it&#8217;s a great quote from an otherwise questionable movie (Ralph Macchio as a bluesman?) But I have digressed again&#8230; how about a blues guitar lesson?<\/p>\n<p>This lick from Catfish Blues and TONS of other tunes is one you must have in your bag-of-tricks.<!--more--><div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/94c_wqpxfI8?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Right click to download this video &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/catfish-blues-style-lick-DL.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">MP4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/video\/catfish-blues-style-lick-DL.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">WMV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the TAB might look for the &#8220;Catfish Blues&#8221; example I played:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/muddy-waters-catfish-blues-style-blues-guitar-lesson\/catfish-blues-examples_0001\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1974\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1974\" title=\"catfish-blues-examples_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/catfish-blues-examples_0001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s how the TAB might look for the &#8220;Voodoo Chile&#8221; style example I did:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/muddy-waters-catfish-blues-style-blues-guitar-lesson\/catfish-blues-examples_0002\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1977\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1977\" title=\"catfish-blues-examples_0002\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/catfish-blues-examples_0002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have some fun with it. There are TONS of other tunes with this lick. If you can think of one, put it in the comments so everyone can check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wise words of good old Willie Brown back in 1986 &#8211; &#8220;Muddy Waters invented electricity!&#8221; Well&#8230; okay, maybe not, but it&#8217;s a great quote from an otherwise questionable movie (Ralph Macchio as a bluesman?) But I have digressed again&#8230; how about a blues guitar lesson? This lick from Catfish Blues and TONS of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6473,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/6473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}