Whats up people! This is Henrik for Guitar Tricks and today we're gonna learn how to play the old blues jam "Baby Please Don't Go", as made famous by Muddy Waters (And Big Joe Williams). We're going to take a look at two guitars today, and we're going to focus mostly on guitar 1 that'll be playing the main riff as well as the solos. Guitar 2 is going to come in during the first guitar solo and will help the rhythm section out with a nice and swung rhythm part.

Guitar 1 is going to play the main riff for the intro and the verses. This main riff is going to be what's called a call and response part to the vocal; the vocalist will sing the line and the guitar repeats it, then they will do the ending of the verses together.

This song is a classic blues jam, and we're just jamming along in G throughout the song, along with some typical blues turnarounds. Guitar 1 will start the song out by playing the melodic riff through the progression and the first turnaround. Then the vocals come in and the call and response between the vocal and the guitar starts. This will go on for 3 verses before we go into a guitar and harmonica solo.

For the solo we'll introduce guitar 2 that'll lay down a classic boogie rhythm that's got a pretty heavy swing to it, but when it comes to the turnaround over the V and IV chords we'll add a strange feel by playing the riff very straight over the heavy swinging band.


If you want to play this song with only one guitar, stick with guitar 1 for the whole song.


The song is in a 4/4 time signature for the most part, but you may notice that when we're playing the last melodic phrase of the verse that it's actually a bar of 6/4 instead of just regular 4/4. This isn't really something that you should consider too much; it's just sort of the way the song goes along with the vocal. It's nothing really worth counting out or getting confused by. We're at a tempo of 110 bpm.

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