Bottleneck Slide Guitar (DVD)
Acoustic and Electric Guitar Techniques

Nothing sounds as bluesy as a slide guitar, and this DVD shows you how it's done on electric and acoustic, solo or with a group. Fred Sokolow shows you how to play and improvise slide in the styles of the great bluesmen - Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Duane Allman.

In this DVD lesson you will learn:

  • Solos, backup licks, turnarounds and fills in three tunings: open G, open D and standard.
  • How to play slide in any key.
  • How to improv ...more
Product Number:
GW409DVD
Format:
DVD
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Binding:
Boxed
Size:
5.25 x 7.5
UPC:
796279092814
Publisher:
Grossman's Guitar Workshop
Date Published:
3/28/2005

Nothing sounds as bluesy as a slide guitar, and this DVD shows you how it's done on electric and acoustic, solo or with a group. Fred Sokolow shows you how to play and improvise slide in the styles of the great bluesmen - Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Duane Allman.

In this DVD lesson you will learn:

  • Solos, backup licks, turnarounds and fills in three tunings: open G, open D and standard.
  • How to play slide in any key.
  • How to improvise slide solos in standard and open tunings
  • Using moveable blues boxes.

Close-ups of both hands help you see just how it's done and the accompanying tab/music booklet makes it easy to follow the arrangements. Fred's teaching is clear and easy to understand. This DVD lesson is a great introduction to the soulful world of bottleneck/slide guitar.

73 minutes - Level 1/2 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

Little Red Rooster

Sittin' On Top Of The World

Reconsider Baby

The Sky Is Crying

Farther On Up The Road

One Way Out

 
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