Fingers VS. Bottleneck Slide Guitar

by Javier Aviles

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  • A good way to improve your sliding vocabulary is to take licks that you play usually with your fingers and play similar using your bottleneck. Those licks transferred over to slide technique needs some creativity solutions to sound nicely. Sometimes you need to find a different way to adapt them to the bottleneck and eliminate noises. Here you can find out 5+5 independent examples, is not a song, you don't have to play them one after another.

    Music Style:
    blues rock

    Tonality & Scales:
    E Mixolydian
    E blues pent minor (b5)
    E pent major

    Techniques:
    picking, bending, vibrato, sliding, bottleneck

    Sound:
    I used a Gibson Les Paul Gold 73' with overdrive

    Tuning:
    Stabdard Tunnig: E,A,D,G,B,E

    Tempo & Beat:
    100pm (Slows 60bpm)
    4/4


    E MIXOLYDIAN MODE

    E PENTATONIC MINOR SCALE

    E BLUES MINOR SCALE

    E PENTATONIC MAJOR SCALE

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