Key: F
Introduction:
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The trick to playing the third "note" in this measure
properly is to strike the string at the 10th fret, bend up
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Each one of these notes is bent. Often one does not return
to the un-bent note before restriking the string. It is
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(At this point, Mr. Buchanan makes an incredible jittery
climb up and down the fretboard that goes all the way to the
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This is the section I refer to as "The Howling". Here,
like the section earlier, each string is bent a different
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In the first note of this measure, the string is struck
only once, then bent up and down several times.
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Repeat the section enclosed in bars about nine times. Fade
out.
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As I said at the outset, this is not necessarily exact.
The wonderful thing about the blues, however, is that it