“One of my favorite medium-slow shuffles is Jeff Beck’s Rock My Plimsoul... based on the B.B. King blues classic Rock Me Baby”: Joe Bonamassa invites you to join him on medium/slow blues shuffle – don’t worry, he’ll show you the notes
Joe Bonamassa
created: Aug. 16, 2025, 1:27 p.m. | updated: Aug. 20, 2025, 9:37 a.m.
One of my favorite medium-slow shuffles is Jeff Beck’s Rock My Plimsoul, which was featured on his debut album, Truth, and is based on the B.B.
(Image credit: Future)When you’re playing a shuffle at this moderate tempo, you can approach it in a similar way to a slow blues.
In bar 2, I switch to B major pentatonic (B, C#, D#, F#, G#) and then back to B minor pentatonic, shifting up to 10th position in bar 3.
At the end of this bar, I shift up to 12th position and play another B major pentatonic phrase.
Bar 5 is played over the V (five) chord, F#7, and in bar 6 I return to the IV, E7, with lines based on B minor pentatonic.
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