there is a riff that rice miller used alot that used triplets and was frequently played by howlin` wolf-any body familiar with this riff and how it is played?
Is it the 3 4+ 4 4' lick? I think that's in one of Adam's videos, but I can't remember which one. Or it could be the 4 4+ 3' 2 3' 4+ 3+ 4+ 3' 2 3' one from Help Me?
Yeah the one I associate with that is the stretch of triplets on the track little village. 4 draw, 3 draw, 4 blow. Repeat. The 4 draw might have a slight bend on it. I don't remember off the top of my head 100% but I know that is the gist of it.
I covered it in one of my "low hanging fruit" videos
The way I hear it, the lick alternates between 4D natural, and 4D half step bend. Some people play it without bending. ---------- 12gagedan's YouTube Channel
I am playing howlin wolf memphis days and uses that riff on more than half the songs followed by his throat vibrato-he seemed obsessed with it but sure he copped it from sonny boy
I was crazy back then. Jeez. And of course those were the days when I thought that I'd be courting disaster if I used YouTube in a way that connected it with capitalist enterprise. Thus the "send it to the church" pitch. Pretty soon I looked around and realized that if the big movie studios were uploading trailers to YT, I didn't need to worry quite so much about pitching for my own business. :)
