附注:
Recently, I read an interview with John Fogerty. He
commented that he had never heard a bad version of
"Proud Mary" because the arrangement is so simple.
There's a lesson here for blues musicians. If you listen
to the music of Lightning Hopkins, Hank Williams, and
Muddy Waters, you'll find that it's all basically bare-
bones music played with tons of emotion and intensity.
There are very few unnecessary notes or changes.
Let's keep this is mind as we try to build a fingerstyle
blues arrangement of the song "Fill 'Em Up" in the key
of E. We'll keep things simple at first and just get a feel
for the song and what it's trying to say. Taking this
approach ans playing to your own technical ability is
very important. Get into the music and save the
pyrotechnics for you scale exercises or practice
sessions. Remember that when you're playing guitar --
especially when you're playing the blues -- it should
look easy.
In "Fill 'Em Up" I've decided to use an alternating
bass. This was a tough choice because I love the
rough edge of the monotone bass style, but I felt that
the alternating bass would give us more options in the
development of the song.
