How To Play Catfish Blues On Guitar | Muddy Waters Guitar Lesson + Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
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Catfish Blues Guitar Lesson: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide
If you're a guitarist looking to add some bluesy flavor to your playing, this "Catfish Blues" guitar lesson is a great starting point. This guide covers the basics of the style, from essential chords and fingerpicking techniques to tips for adding your own personal touch. With these skills, you'll be able to jam with friends and have a lot of fun playing the blues."
Understanding the Roots of Catfish Blues
To master the "Catfish Blues" style on guitar, it's important to understand its roots. This blues style originated in the Mississippi Delta region in the early 20th century and was heavily influenced by African American folk music and the blues. The style features fingerpicking, slide guitar, and distinctive chord progressions that set it apart from other blues styles.
Who originally wrote Catfish Blues?
Robert Petway, an American blues singer and guitarist born in 1903, is credited as the original composer of "Catfish Blues". His influential style heavily influenced later blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Jimi Hendrix.
Catfish Blues Chords
One of the unique approaches used in this style is what I call a “One Chord Blues.” Essentially this is improvising a blues all based around just one chord. For this example, we’ll be playing in the key of E. So the main blues chord would be an E7.
Mastering the Essential Techniques
To truly get the music to start sounding right it is important to focus on the essential techniques that define the style. For this example, I would recommend playing without a guitar pick. Now a lot of early blues players used a thumbpick, which would also work well here. But for this lesson video above, I’ll be playing without a pick.
Fingerpicking in the blues gets an expressive sound and makes you really feel the music. This is because your fingers are plucking the strings as opposed to a piece of plastic like a typical guitar pick.
Learning how to play Catfish Blues on the guitar can be incredibly fun and rewarding for any level player. By using the strategies outlined in this post and practicing regularly, you can improve your fingerpicking technique, develop improvisational skills, and expand your blues guitar repertoire. Keep in mind that blues guitar is not necessarily about mastery of technical skills but more about playing with feeling. So don’t be afraid to make mistakes and have fun.
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Gary Clark Jr really rocks this
Great lesson, Catfish Blues was one of Jimi Hendrix’s favorite tunes that Muddy Waters played. Little Walter was raised in my hometown before he moved to Chicago. Long live the BLUES.
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@@psychoticgorilla7088 LOL!!!! That was good!
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Hendrix version of catfish blues is unreal if you like his style, it's a lot of noise, wonderful noise.
This is solid gold. Easy, authentic, and fun. Thanks
I can’t thank you enough for breaking this down for me! Been noodling around for years & now I wanna get more into playing the blues. This is going to be a great help!!
This is blues at its very best!! Great lesson!!
Excellent lesson, Jon!
Every detail explained and shown thoroughly and slowly.. Excellent. Thank you 😎
Great lesson John thank you very much for this blues riff
Hay,finally a guitar teacher same quality as Marty Swarts teaching I've learned heaps of songs from you guys,I can't thank you guys enough.wow I can only learn songs by watching you guys
Excellent lesson. Thanks for posting!!!!
Very cool. Great job Jon!
Jon I absolutely love this step by step breakdown and sneaky little licks
Ace Jon, awesome love it..
Great lesson man 🤙🏼
Great lesson thanks man
great lesson thanks
Nice one!!! Thanks!
This is just inspiring!
Really that kind of blues I like to play !! Thanks for the tricks
Thanks John. I am trying to get back into playing and your lessons and song choices are really great! Very good playing and excellent work. Thank you.
Glad to help! Keep up the great work!
Thanks Jon for all your great lessons and videos! My Telecaster is finally getting some fretwear!!!
Very very nice!! I love this song
That was great man. Thank you. Im going to buy your course. Like your hat too :)
classic tune, thanks
Just found your channel and this video... and now thanks to you I'm acting this song tonight at a show! Cheers!
Great video, thanks for that
You have such a great channel to learn from and play great. Thank you
Molto bravo! Grazie.
I can't believe it took till 2020 for someone to make a quality video about this song and you casually throw in Smokestack Lightening!
Great lesson, thank you so much!
Glad to help! Keep up the great progress.
Shockingly good
beautifull i love it :)
Jon, thank you so much for sharing your talents on youtube. I'm a new subscriber, but I've already learned quite a bit from your lessons. I was hoping you might be talked into doing a finger style lesson on "It's a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong?
Very clear!...thanks.
You’re welcome! Glad it made sense. Keep up the great progress!
Thanks you
Excellent!!!
Thanks for watching! Glad to help. 🎸⚡️
Nice lesson. Thank you.
You’re welcome! Glad to help!
Great lesson describing how to jam using a simple lick. Would be great if you could provide a jam track we can jam over.
Love it! Thanks
Glad you like it!
OOh Nice to have a nice slow really bluesy, simple version of this.
Thanks you ❤ from Thailand 🇹🇭
Very nice wood on this Telecaster
John... you're the man, i' ve been searching a nice lesson of this, for ages and then yo' showed up, so thanks man, I was really searching something cool and bluesy to do on guitar, you're great ... btw you told so... when can we could see a lesson of smokestack lightning ?
Thank you so much. Happy to help. You're in luck. This link below has blues training all about Smokestack but it's not on youtube but it is free and has TABs and you can get it here: www.jonmaclennan.com/freebook
thanks a lor :3
Thanks John! like I've seen in the comments, I came here because of Jimi. Appreciate the video. :)
This is really good. If I had your hat might could catch me some catfish. :)
Great lesson could you please do slip away c Carter for me special meaning to me thinking of my mom I miss her she loved that song thanks jon.
Nice Maton shirt.🇦🇺👍
Ok,
I watched "hoochie coochie Man" The other day and today i see "Catfish Blues".
Now you got my full attention...subscribed and ready to get a bluesman.
Also a very cool Version is the "Taste" Version. Rory nailed it.
When will you be opening up the essential blues guitar course? I’ve decided to focus on blues specifically and would really like to speed up my progress with the help of a course.
Love ur tone. Did u go full clean or tiny bit of overdrive?
Hello, will you play catfish blues song by big jack johnson please? I want to learn to play it.
Hi Jon! Great lesson! I have a question. How do you mute the strings during the riff so not everything rings out, like crazy. It’s driving me nuts 😅
Check out Blue Matter Blues Band version .A 18 yr.old guitarist singer.
are you playing a minor pentantonic over a major chord?
What was the scale used in the first part of the freestyle at the end? Sounded great! Around 6:32 for reference
Blues. Thanks for watching. Grab the free tab here: www.jonmaclennan.com/tabs
Fingers!
I love the video! (but is it really free?)
Yes 100 percent free book that is my ultimate guide to soloing over major, minor, and dominant chords + exclusive blues training videos that are not on youtube: www.jonmaclennan.com/freebook you are welcome! :)
This is great but how do I download the tab?
www.jonmaclennan.com/tabs
Can you use a pick if you wanted to?
Sure
@@jonmaclennan Thank you I'm just starting out and I'm not very comfortable finger picking but I love this song
@@chuckydall9250 Give it a try It's such a fun riff. Keep up the great work!
Jon is this in the vault ?
Not yet. But I am working actually right now on adding a lot of previous lessons from youtube that existed before the vault. Stay tuned. I'll email you soon.
@@jonmaclennan top man
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It sounds even fatter if you add some dead notes to it.
The song the rolling stones got their name from
I would have all you good looking women, Fishing, after me 👌🙌👍✌