Learn to Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar DVD 3

DVD 3: Lesson Three: Repertoire-In Learn To Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar: Volume 3 Bob Brozman digs deeper into the bottleneck blues repertoire with an exploration of major and minor keys in open and standard tunings. He explores the traditional styles of Bukka White Tampa Red Charlie Patton and other Delta masters.The songs covered include Old Dog Blues Jitterbug Swing Denver Blues Cypress Grove Telegram Blues Pony Blues and more.The duration of this DVD is approximately 75 minutes.

With Online Audio-A popular and easy to understand book which teaches and explores the many aspects of bottleneck/slide guitar techniques developed nearly a century ago and made famous through the recordings of legendary blues greats like RobertJohnson Mississippi Fred McDowell and Muddy Waters.Much of the book is dedicated to teaching you how to use these assorted techniques to make original improvised solos. You will learn to play bottleneck guitar in open Dtuning open E tuning open A tuning and standard tuning. Written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Keb' Mo' expertly accompanies his distinctively soulful songs with folk/blues fingerpicking swampy slide licks contemporary pop chords and a touch of jazz. The seven arrangements he teaches on this DVD are simple enough for early intermediate Guitarists but provide enough twists and turns to interest advanced musicians as well. With his easy-going humor and deep musical knowledge Keb' Mo' makes this lesson a joy to play along with. You'll learn unusual chord shapes a variety of tunings bottleneck/slide technique picking patterns and seven beautiful songs from his award-winning repertoire: Your Love Life Is Beautiful I'll Be You Water Every Morning Eileen Tell Everybody I Know and a bluesy slide arrangement of America The Beautiful Keb's songs are accessible to most learning players. The interesting part comes when he adds his 'surprise' harmonies - unexpected chords and ear-catching progressions. His stated intention is 'to inspire you by showing you things about the Guitar that will help you make choices in your music based on what you feel in your heart'.

There is nothing like the feel of a bottleneck sliding across your strings nor the sound that comes forth as it screams growls and moans. What other tool can create the sweat or raw emotion of the human voice? But some believe that there is a sort of mystery behind the use of a bottleneck slide but the reality is anyone can learn to do it.In this lesson Tom Feldmann teaches you the very basics of how to play with a bottleneck slide. Starting with the most important step producing a single note Tom then takes you through many simple exercises getting you comfortable sliding on single double and multiple strings.Starting in Open D (Vestapol) tuning Tom usesBukka White's Jitterbug Swing for the single string slide exercise Robert Wilkins' I Wished I Was In Heaven for double string exercise an Elmore James style shuffle for a multiple string exercise and closes with Guitar Rag by Sylvester Weaver which brings together all of the elements in one wonderful instrumental.Since the basics were covered in Open D the lesson closes with two songs in Open G (Spanish) tuning; Charley Patton's I'm Going Home and Bobby Grant's Nappy Headed Blues. These two songs will give you a solid foundation for single double and multiple string slide in Open G tuning.Vibrato left and right hand dampening as well as alternating and monotonic bass are discussed in detail and used throughout the lesson. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included.

Besides learning great songs by the likes of Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Blake, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie and Henry Thomas, you'll learn licks, scales,turnarounds and techniques that'll enable you to jam with other players and ad-lib, blues-style. There's even a lesson on bottleneck/slide uke. / Ukulélé