Elmore James Lesson

Elmore James Style

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  • -Guitar Lesson:
    This is a lesson for beginners or mid level students. Here I show you how to play a song in the style of Elmore James (Mississippi, 1918) was an American blues guitarist, considered the father of the bottleneck guitar or slide guitar. Here I show you an arrangement of "Dust my Broom" using Open D tuning.

    -Music Style:
    Blues bottleneck

    -Tonality:
    D

    -Techniques:
    slide

    -Sound:
    I play a Fender Telecaster, nocaster pickups, ENGL crunch, SM57 micro.

    -Tuning:
    Open D tuning: D,A,D,F#,A,D

    -Tempo & Beat:
    104pm (Slows 60bpm)
    4/4
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