Open G Slide
Tutor Richard Barrett | Gear used Fender Telecaster, Boss Keeley SD-1 & Vox AC15 C1 Difficulty | 10 mins per example
for playing slide and hark back to the early days of the blues – as well as Hawaiian guitar, which originally popularised both slide and open tuning. In fact, Son House used to refer to slide playing as ‘Hawaiian style’. The example licks here are played in open G (low to high: DGDGBD), with a more modern distorted tone that’s inspired by Joe Walsh’s approach on the classic tune . These ideas can