LEARN TO PLAY

BOTTLENECK GUITAR

FRED SOKOLOW

Guitar TAB Book with CD

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 Robert Johnson, 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 D tuning, open E tuning, open A tuning, and standard tuning. Written in notation and tablature

How To Read Tablature

Equipment

• Guitars & Strings
• Bottlenecks & Slides
• Picks

Open D Tuning

• "String-to-String" Tuning
• Tuning Down form Standard Tuning
• Sliding on the Strings-Preliminaries
• Barred Chords
• Fretted Chords
• Boogie-bass Accompaniment
• The D Major Scale
• Higher D Major Scale
• Emphasizing Open-String Notes
• Lower D Major Scale
• Turnarounds
• The 12th Fret D Major Scale

Open E Tuning

• Tuning Up From Standard Tuning
• It's the Same as D Tuning

Open G Tuning

• "String-to-String" Tuning
• Tuning Down form Standard Tuning
• Barred Chords
• I-IV-V Relationships
• Similarities Between D and G Tunings
• The G Major Scale
• Emphasizing "Open-String" Notes
• A Lower G Major Scale
• The 12th Fret G Major Scale

Open A Tuning

• Tuning Up from Standard Tuning
• It's the Same as G Tuning
• 7th Chords

Slide In Standard Tuning

• "String-to-String" Tuning
• Playing in the Key of E
• E Chord Positions
• A Chord Positions
• B Chord Positions
• 9th chord licks
• Slide in the Key of A
  

Play in Any Key You Like - Using a Capo

• Conclusion and Listening Guide
• Learning From Recorded Music