Slide Guitar in Standard Tuning, Part 2

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Become a complete blues player through these lessons in country blues fingerpicking, blues lead guitar, and bottleneck slide, with great technique lessons and blues songs from Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and more.

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Slide in Standard Tuning

Slide Guitar in Standard Tuning, Part 1

Slide Guitar in Standard Tuning, Part 2

In this video, Orville shows you the accompaniment pattern he plays with his thumb on this blues, a shuffle rhythm on the open strings: A, D, and E, which correspond to the I, IV, and V chords in the key of A. He also shows you how to keep your slide out of the way of the open bass strings while playing chords with the slide on the top strings and explains the cool turnaround he uses at the end of the form.

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