Pickin' The Blues

The Basics - Slide Guitar Technique

Muddy Waters, Robert Nighthawk, Big Joe Williams and Mississippi Fred McDowell are some of the blues artists covered on this website who play slide, or bottleneck, guitar.  This lesson is a basic one on slide technique.  It shows you how to work on your slide technique to get the sound you are looking for.  

SlideTechnique
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