This lesson demonstrates how to phrase your slide playing in order to match a singer. Youll notice that the great slide players, Charlie Patton, Fred McDowell, Blind Willie Johnson, Derek Trucks, etc, make their bottleneck playing sound like a voice. Hopefully, with this lesson youll get some ideas for how to practice this! Check out my blog for more Delta Blues stuff! www.deltabluesguy.blogspot.ca Open D Vestapol Tuning (low to high): DADF#AD (With the Blind Lemon piece I capo up two frets)

4 thoughts on “"Attacking" Notes w/ the Bottleneck Slide Guitar

  1. Good tips… What kind of slide is that, do you prefer heavy or light?

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