Playing Blues Guitar - video tips

[honeyboy]

Some Jimmy Reed blues guitar insights from "America's best young guitar player." according to Jimi Hendrix in 1968 when he was playing in the 'Moving Sidewalks'..


Second from the right, a youthful Billy Gibbons..


Blues guitar insights from Billy Gibbons

[honeyboy]

Fretting behind the slide - a video masterclass from Sonny Landreth..



Read the accompanying interview here - As he says, it takes a moment to learn and a lifetime to master...

[honeyboy]

Crosskey playing - slide playing in the key of D when tuned to open G

A technique used extensively by Ry Cooder



Beautifully explained here in a short video by Arlen Roth.

[honeyboy]

The teenage Ry Cooder (far right of picture) was obsessed with the guitar style of Joseph Spence after picking up the album Bahamian Folk Guitar released in 1960. John Fahey who in 1964 was working in the folklore department of UCLA, turned the young Ry Cooder on to the pleasures of slide guitar, Joseph Spence and Blind Willie Johnson.





Spence toured California in the late 1960s, staying at the home of his admirer Taj Mahal.

Ry Cooder said Spence was an example of "someone who breaks through whatever the dominant style or conventional approach might be, and makes a new statement."


Playing in the style of Joseph Spence

[slidenpickit]

Thanks for the great links!

[fitchmeister]

Thanks Honey boy

I am currently struugling with how to play a 'angie' esque bass line in Dm - preacher boy , nehemiah james, and never thought of having a go in Open G.

Cool

Thanks again

Roj

[Steverb]

Wow! That 'playing D in open G' lesson is amazing. As soon as he starts playing you instantly hear Ry Cooder playing The Very Thing That Makes Her Rich and numerous other things. Can't wait to get home and have a crack at that. Thanks Honeyboy.

[honeyboy]

Not much around about playing slide in standard (EADGBE tuning), like George Harrison or Muddy Waters (for example)



I found these two lessons very useful indeed, hope others do too..

Introduction to slide guitar in standard tuning

Slide guitar in standard tuning Part Two

[honeyboy]

Open G miscellany - 3 interesting Ry Cooder style video lessons



A dissection of the Open G riff Keith Richard nicked from Ry Cooder



All about Open G slide harmonies - Ry Cooder style



Open G chords for rhythm playing - Ry Cooder style

[ken1953clark]

Just to add my 2d worth. The cross-key (D in G) video in particular opened some doors in my head. Great stuff.

Thanks for all this Honeyboy.

If the internet had been out when I was a kid maybe I'd be a lot further along the guitar playing road (though maybe not).

[ken1953clark]

Re slide playing in standard tuning, We did a muddy-esque slide piece in standard tuning with Rich DelGrosso at the Bromsgrove Acoustic Blues weekend earlier this year. He is one of the tutors at Blues Week this year, so if you ask him nicely... (Unfortunately I don't think I can make it, not unless I win some money )

Also Arlen Roth has changed a bit since since I last saw his picture ("Traditional, Country and Electric Slide Guitar", Oak Publications, 1975). The first book I got that made any sense (it also has a section on standard tuning slide)

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For Standard Tuning slide lessons, Mr Tuggle's course are excellent....

May 14, 2010 22:07:57 GMT honeyboy said:

Not much around about playing slide in standard (EADGBE tuning), like George Harrison or Muddy Waters (for example)



I found these two lessons very useful indeed, hope others do too..

Introduction to slide guitar in standard tuning

Slide guitar in standard tuning Part Two

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Hey Honeyboy and JDS, great posts. Love the Arlen Roth stuff really useful.
Thanks