CannedHeat wrote:a player like me who always thought I would be nothing more than a rhythm guitarist haha.
Most of the time the Great Freddy Green was just comping? Please listen to this <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVwB7_CS6rk>, here is just soloing... He doesn't play single note but chords... starting around 4'40.
Think of that: soloing with double stops, you just build a triton chord above the note your bass player gives you as a foundation...
"Chords are everything" Robben Ford
"What can I do with such a beautiful chord" Eric Clapton (Listen EC comping while Dereck Truck or Doyle Bramhall are soloing...)
Just three examples... Just to not yet refer to Robert Johnson, don't remember having heard him playing single notes licks even when soloing
Learn how chords are made, it will help a lot to build your own voicing, really!
Kinda "Tip&Trick" start playing the well known pentatonic scale, then harmonize it (don't know how? Just ask

it' free

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CannedHeat wrote:Now I just need to find a extra guitar to get better at slide guitar.
Warren Haynes did a great educational DVD: "Warren Haynes: Electric Blues & Slide Guitar".
Hope this helps

Thanks for your kind words 'bout my last post, indeed

;-)
Cheers,
IF
"Don't be afraid by wrong notes, it doesn't exist" Miles Davis.