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"Don't try to sound like someone else - tha's what we call a copycat!"
- Buddy Guy, interview 1997
As soon as you play your first songs, you should try to give them your personal note. Although it is good to listen to many different artists and to learn new playing techniques from other players, you need to find your own place in the Blues. No one needs another Eric, Stevie or Muddy. They all have found their characteristic tone. You need only a few notes to identify EC or Santana, even if both play the same song. Listen to "From The Cradle" - EC has studied the originals very well, used the same tunings, key and techniques but you can still hear it's EC playing.
So - how?
There are many ways to personalize your art of playing. Le's take the "three Kings of Blues" - B.B., Albert and Freddie King (they are no relatives!). B.B. is well known for his fluid, melodic Chicago style phrasing mixing major and minor scales. He plays with a pick and has a very characteristic wrist vibrato ("hummingbird"). Albert played different. Using his bare thumb and extreme bends, his sound was rough and used less notes to tell something. And Freddie used thumb and finger picks, playing a really powerful, often agressive Rock/Chicago/Texas mixture of Blues.
For example you may vary:
But always consider: you must feel comfortable with it, whatever you do. People will hear that!
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