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Blues
Guitar Of Muddy Waters P.2
Now we'll take a look at the other side of Muddy's Aristocrat
hit single, "I Feel Like Goin' Home". The song was originally titled "Country Blues No. 1" by Alan
Lomax, the man who made the first-ever recordings of Muddy Waters at his small shack on a plantation in
Mississippi.
The Song Form
The standard blues form is twelve bars (measures) long. There are
three chords that make up the basic blues progression. In the key
of G, those chords are G7 (I chord), C7 (IV chord), and D7 (V chord).
In the song "I Feel Like Goin' Home", Muddy adds a two-beat measure
before the C7 is played. The F chord is played for those two beats
and it leads beautifully into the C7. Muddy adds this extra 2-beat
measure only in the intro and the solo. Every other Verse is a standard
12-bar Verse.
This is a great example of extending the blues form to change the
feel of a song.
Feel Like Goin' Home Riffs
- On this riff, Muddy slides from the 11th to the 12th fret and
repeats 4 groups of triplets.
- If you're unfamiliar with slide guitar playing, first take our
slide
guitar lesson!
- Muddy is playing fingerstyle on this song as usual. Most likely, the first finger of the
right hand is playing this riff.
This is a classic Muddy-Waters turnaround!
Muddy plucks the first octave with the thumb and index finger.
Then, using an alternating right-hand pattern (thumb strums down
and index strums up), he strums the turnaround chords. It's awesome!
t = thumb strum, I= index
- Try your best to strum only the strings that are notated.
- Really snap the finger when strumming the chords.
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