Right, a super simple song.
E A E, A D A
My band want me to do a couple of solos on this in a dirtier rock kind of way. It should be dead simple but I just can't get anything to sound convincing. It could be the syncopation but pretty much all the YouTube versions of this sound a bit crap too. The best is the Rolling stones version but the solo on that is harmonica.
The closest I got was attempting using a slide but to be honest, I'm useless with a slide, it's all over the place.
Any good ideas on this? Pentatonics should work fine but Im just not feeling it.
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Don't just aimlessly noodle- sing a melody (with your voice) and then place that on the guitar.
I would also use diads made up of 3rds, because they are such a part of the guitar part anyway so it will work pretty seamlessly.
You could even just do more of a chordal thing.
Have a listen to this Setzer version, which is pretty cool.
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Try clapping the guitar part with the accents.
Then take one or two beats away, or move one of them by an 8th or a 16th.
You have a new rhythm- let's call the original rhythm A and this one B.
Now do it again- and you have C.
This gives you 3 parts that you can play.
I like playing them in A B A C but feel free to alter this as well.
This is essentially how drummers approach getting variations into their playing.
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