The Blues Guitar

  In this video I want to have a look at the blues song 'Blues in the Bottle' by Lightnin' Hopkins. This is a less well known blues song but is a good fingerstyle guitar piece. The song is a 12 bar blues and the 12 bar blues sequence repeats throughout the song. In my version I have structured it slightly different to lightning Hopkins original version. What I have done is put the intro then the 12 bar blues section as it's played on his first solo break. Then the second solo break and then another 12 bar section which is stripped back a bit and this is similar to what he would have played when he was singing over it. The reason I have done this structure is because I feel it's better for solo guitarist who isn't singing, and by putting the the stripped down verse last, it incorporates the outro section better. The structure of the song in my version is: Intro - Verse (1st Solo Break) - Verse (2nd Solo Break) - Verse (Sing Over) - Outro The music is mostly in 4