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