Muddy Waters - Deep Blues (Guitar Recorded Versions)

I've been learning to play guitar for a decade. I am not very good. However, I tend to be able to play slide guitar material despite my innate lack of internal rhythm. George Thorogood, Hound Dog Taylor, Elmore James and even Duane Allman I can play those. I was running low on material. Then I saw this.This book has tablature for a ton of songs including Muddy's most popular and not so popular. The tablature is accurate. Most of the material is very simple, and a lot of the songs have similar riffs, rhythms and tempos. A beginner could use a lot of these to practice. For an intermediate I can go through a song in about an hour and also change a little bit here and there and add a little of myself.Plus I like Muddy Waters especially his work with Johnny. Good stuff.

Chess Years Disk 1:018 1948 - I Can't Be Satisfied (Open G)023 1948 - I Feel Like Going Home (Open G)026 1948 - Streamline Woman (Open G)034 1950 - Rollin' and Tumblin' {Part 1} (Open G, capo 2)Chess Years Disk 2:039 1950 - Rollin' Stone (Std.)043 1950 - Louisiana Blues (Open G, capo 1)048 1951 - Long Distance Call (Std., capo 1)051 1951 - Honey Bee (Std., capo 1)059 1951 - Still a Fool (Std., capo 1)Chess Years Disk 3:064 1953 - Baby, Please Don't Go (Std., capo 2)068 1953 - Blow Wind Blow (Std. Tuning, capo 2)072 1954 - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Std., Capo 5)074 1954 - I Just Want to Make Love to You (Std.)Chess Years Disk 4:076 1956 - Got My Mojo Working (Std.)081 1957 - Evil (Std., capo 2)085 1957 - Good News (Std.)090 1959 - Close to You (Std.)095 1962 - You Shook Me (Std.)Chess Years Disk 7:099 1963 - My Love Strikes Like Lightning (Std.)106 1963 - My Home Is in the Delta (Std.)Chess Years Disk 9:115 1964 - The Same Thing (Std., capo 8)118 1964 - You Can't Lose what You Ain't Never Had (Std., capo 8)Hard Again/Blue Skies, etc:123 1977 - The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock & Roll (Std.) (Hard Again)131 1977 - Deep Down in Florida (Open G) (Hard Again)139 1977 - I Want to Be Loved (Std.) (Hard Again)144 1977 - Screamin' and Cryin' (Std., capo 1) (I'm Ready, & Blue Sky)151 1977 - Mannish Boy (Std.) (Hard Again)156 1978 - I'm Ready (Std.) (I'm Ready)160 1979 - She's 19 Years Old (Std, capo 3) (Live Mississippi)167 1981 - Champagne & Reefer (Std., capo 5) (King Bee)173 1981 - Sad, Sad Day (Std.) (King Bee)Excellent. End of story.

Overall, a great buy - lots of great songs, the transcriptions are accurate, and the explanatory notes at the beginning are informative. However, one issue I noticed is that there is sometimes a call for a capo where there shouldn't be (e.g. Honey Bee). Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the notation for this song says to capo the first fret, but this doesn't match the recorded version to my ears and doesn't match the key signature listed for the tune. It says to adjust the key signature for capo, but even if the capo should be on the first fret, it's confusing to not just have them match.If I'm doing something wrong here please let me know, as this was mysterious to me. In any case, I've solved the problem to my satisfaction by simply ignoring the capo instruction for this song and playing it open in E, rather than capoed for F.

Very satisfied with my experience.

I found the book to be a clear written translation of a group playing an emotional and expressive side of 'The Blues'That sound on paper is a real experience and the choice of songs has been done with a clear span of the great Muddy Waters life and feeling.

31 songs with tabs and lyrics, all the hits and others;I like that each song is presented with the history of it, and the mood Muddy played it.Also the introduction with the history of Muddy, and good pics from early days to late ones.very good description of Muddy's guitar style and how to play it , before starting the songs

Great for helping you make the musical water muddy. Get it. Rock out!

Gave this as a gift but he seems to like it.

Pretty good overall,but the tablature doesn't always seem to correspond with the recorded version of the songs. Of course that could just be my crap guitar playing. Nah!Quite a few of the songs are in open tunings (mostly G) so you'd better be prepared to buy yourself a slide and start playing them delta blues.

molto utile e interessante per i chitarristi appassionati del vero blues bello tosto,niente di difficile per un chitarrista medioma utile per vedere gli sviluppi di alcuni pezzi,che sembrano e sono facili,ma provate a rifarli e vi accorgeteche manca sempre qualcosa, il mood,

So soll es sein, wenn drei Gitarren gespielt werden, dann sind auch drei notiert! Hinzu kommen Anmerkungen zu jedem Stück und zum Guitar Style von M.W.

Great collection of songs everything seems accurate as expected, worth playing for classics such as Mannish Boy and Hoochie Coochie Man alone, though I've discovered some other gems as well like I Can't Be Satisfied, great back catalogue!

Great fat book full of great fat songs by a favourite artist, gets me the right notes in the right places.