These basic slide guitar exercises will introduce you to the right hand muting method which is necessary for improvising using single notes across all six strings as used by of Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Warren Haynes and many others.
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3
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Right Hand
E pentatonic minor with diminished 5th.
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Click the youtube link below.
This clip includes information about 2 ways of playing bottleneck slide guitar.
1. Single note style with right hand muting as discussed in the above exercises.
2. Used in conjunction with the alternating bass style where the slide is used mainly on the first string.
A simple version of Blind Willie Johnson’s ‘Nobody’s Fault But MIne’ is used to Illustrate this approach.
