Chugging Ideas?
Hello All,
I probably can't see the forest for the trees here.
I am looking for some "chugging" ideas; as in the "I am a man" lick-sort of thing, where the lick is played and then a "response" is made.
I would like to have a few of these ideas in mind so that I can use them for practicing when I am out and about with my harmonica in my pocket.
I don't have much of a repertoire of licks at this point, but it seems like a good way to acquire some. It is much appreciated.
Hank
Sorry - I forgot a big source on BluesHarmonica -- Joe Filisko Lessons
https://www.bluesharmonica.com/joe-filisko-lessons
Here you will find:
Fox Chase Study 1 - Technique & ApproachFox Chase Study 2 - Artist Studies
Train Imitation Study 1 - Technique & ApproachTrain Imitation Study 2 - Artist Studies
Chugging usually means fast repeated rhythms, as in train imitations.
But from your description it sounds like you're after call-and-response riffs, which are quite different. They're usally three or four notes that play after a line from the singer or sometimes another instrument.You're already aware of the I'm a Man riff.
Turn it backwards and you've got the Hoochie Koochie Man riff in first position:
2D 3Db 2D 3Db 4B
Put it in second position and it plays like this:
1D 2Dbb 1D 2Dbb 2D!
The Help Me riff can be used as a response riff:
2D 3B 2D 3Db 4B (same notes as the first-position Hoochie Koochie riff, just a different sequence)
Then there's the Mojo Work' riff (James Cotton and all subsequent players version) in second positon:
2D 2D 2D 2Dbb 1D
There are more, but this is a good start.
Topic: train / chugging
Read Winslow Yerxa's excellent dissertation located on BlueHarmonica site here:
https://www.bluesharmonica.com/train_chugging