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Old 02-12-2010, 04:58 PM
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Sweet Home Chicago - How do YOU play it?
Got a little band going and we're playing Sweet Home Chicago, Clapton-style. It sounds just a little boring and I'd like to make it a little more interesting. We've got just three instrumentalists - drums, bass, and me on guitar. I've tried the standard spread rhythm but with just the three of us, it sounds pretty thin. So I've been stuck in a rut with just the I, IV, and V chords.

Any recommendations that might give me some ideas to make it sound better?
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Old 02-12-2010, 05:14 PM
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The Lonnie Brooks version is cool and I base my version on that one.
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Old 02-12-2010, 05:18 PM
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Old 02-12-2010, 05:25 PM
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Old 02-12-2010, 05:29 PM
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You know that Blues Bros version is possibly the worst one.
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Old 02-12-2010, 05:41 PM
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Old 02-12-2010, 05:45 PM
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You know that Blues Bros version is possibly the worst one.
I like it musically. Pretty hard to pull off that arrangement with a three piece though.
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Old 02-12-2010, 05:50 PM
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Freddie King's version is very good.
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Old 02-12-2010, 06:06 PM
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I play it the way folks in Chicago taught me, which is kind of a mix between Buddy Guy's version (in terms of the intro) and Magic Sam's version (in terms of most of the song)
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Old 02-12-2010, 06:50 PM
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Those are cool, especially the Freddie King version. But Freddie, for example, has got someone on the piano. See it's not the arrangement so much that I'm stuck on, it's 'what can I do as the guitar player in a three piece band to make this more interesting that playing the I, IV, and V chords'.
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Old 02-12-2010, 07:00 PM
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Old 02-12-2010, 07:20 PM
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Maybe like this....Josh Smith rips!!
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Old 02-12-2010, 08:21 PM
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More ideas than you can shake a stick at here very cool and traditional.
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Old 02-12-2010, 08:22 PM
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Why would you ask the people here? you'll get replies from people who haven't listened to anything new since 1977 and actually believe the Blues Bros were cool.
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