Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Learning Slide Guitar: Little Red Rooster

[ed. Pretty good introduction to slide guitar (singing not so much, haha). See also: various tips and embellishments like the "howling dog" technique at 14:35. Pretty cool. Open G tuning is used extensively throughout rock with Keith Richards being perhaps it's most notable practitioner. But it's fundamental to Hawaiian music too (ie. Taro Patch tuning]. See this excellent overview of Ki Ho'alu/slack key styles by Jeff Peterson.]