One minute lesson on the one string guitar. Howlin’ wolf inspired riff (based on the song smokestack lightening) for the cigar box diddley bow. Learn it, pla...
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"Howlin' Wolf was born Chester Arthur Burnett on June 10, 1910 in White Station, Mississippi, a tiny railroad stop near West Point in the northeastern part of the state. ... At thirteen, Wolf fled his uncle's home, hopping a train to the Mississippi Delta where he reunited with his father and had a loving home at last."
I'm guessing trains rather than horses, but who knows? there are a alot of trains in the songs I've sung and also mention of river sides generally in blues. Jumping trains was the escape mechanism. But horses (before tractors) in the fileds, so could be too, I guess anything with a rhythm you can sing to... old pump engines a great to play along with to too... ;>)
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and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh6Ecm6F9ww
and this..but i've gone off pieste now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5frAMMXes8c&list=RDv2RYDQSGmOw&...
This is quite a cool,story too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2RYDQSGmOw
Or steam pump rhythms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMktSbMxrc
8hrs of train sounds useful :>0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVTXSntnA0
12 hours of horse galloping - erm handy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-V4DRPpucM
train rhythms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dBOhojBgc0
"Howlin' Wolf was born Chester Arthur Burnett on June 10, 1910 in White Station, Mississippi, a tiny railroad stop near West Point in the northeastern part of the state. ... At thirteen, Wolf fled his uncle's home, hopping a train to the Mississippi Delta where he reunited with his father and had a loving home at last."
I'm guessing trains rather than horses, but who knows? there are a alot of trains in the songs I've sung and also mention of river sides generally in blues. Jumping trains was the escape mechanism. But horses (before tractors) in the fileds, so could be too, I guess anything with a rhythm you can sing to... old pump engines a great to play along with to too... ;>)
"Oh, the engineers would see him sitting in the shade
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made"
:D