How To Play In Open G - Delta Blues - Bottleneck Slide Resonator Guitar Lesson 

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Good lesson. I'm really glad to hear you name-checking Rory Gallagher! Under-appreciated master of electric and acoustic.

Amazing how Robert Johnson was able to play with an element of percussion, bass, rythm and lead, simultaneous in his playing making it sound like more than one person is playing, way ahead of his time

Excellent! B string tuned slightly flat is a great tip.

love the guitar swapping breh so fun to pull out another axe and change up tone

That intro was bad ass

Beautiful guitar. I'm getting into playing open G blues now. I learned the open G from The Stones, though, of course.

Faint train sound was choice at the end of the first music definitely emotive.

Fantastic lesson! I'm just getting into slide guitar (and loving it). Other lesson vids seems to give really complicated licks. This gives me plenty of simple ideas ro play about wirh. Thank you!!!

I mean this with the utmost praise, That MFr be spittin! I'm quite the beginner and have gotten a few great chops from this vid. I shall still devour every delicious nugget I can get from this video. Thanks !

A fantastic lesson and you have great teaching skills Martyn. Fabulous. Thank you

Pretty much the best slide lesson for us faux slide players...thanks!

really, REALLY good lesson, thanks

Awesome I'm learning Resonator I feel in half the time thanks to your videos. The level of appreciation I have is fatter than that top string.

Hello! Thank you for this slide approach to the bottleneck that I have just followed to the letter with my triolian! Alex from France! Great thanks!

I've just watched with interest another one of your videos (How to play blues slide & bottleneck guitar). You've answered my previous question RE :- finger picks. Please disregard last post. Thanks again Martyn.......................

Thans you so much for this usefull lesson! I’ve learned so many licks in one hour, can not wait to dive in the rest of your video’s

Outstanding lesson.l THX

Parasta A-ryhmää! (that is like "Excellent! in Finnish) Great work! Both playing and teaching.

I am - correction: was, after watching this video - new to open G tuning. Thanks for the information! 😀👍

Well done

Love that Delta thing

There’s a lot in this video. Great.

Thank you. I needed some inspiration and you have given me that. You're a good teacher. Thanks again!

Very cool👍

Great lesson and easy to follow explanation to get going. Love to see more lessons from you. Thanks.

Thank you great lesson looking forward to trying these licks out.

Very helpful, thank you. I just started learning to play slide and this helped a lot! Cheers from Canada!

Amazing content Martyn... much appreciated and good luck... gotta love the Delta blues

This was great :)

Thanks Marten. Great stuff!

Really enjoying this lesson Martyn. If you did a lesson breaking down how clapton plays walking blues on unplugged, you'd be my hero forever! Now that I know a little about slide, seems to me it would be an achievable goal for a beginner/intermediate slide player.

Really love your videos and your style. Thank you. Just got my first Resonator guitar and your videos really help. Keep it up.

Learned so much on this lesson 👍

U Be Bad Ass Bro! I will go to market and look for the tablets that can make me play as good as you!🤣 Just kidding 👍🏻! Great lesson...from a British guy! You sound like you were brought up in the Delta! 👍🏻 Thank you! Ray, Boston Massachusetts

Thank you 😊

hi. thx. a lot of good new inspiritations/tricks. great lesson. g

Gotta love those B&G commercials

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

Great lesson

WOW ..THANK YOOOOOOOO

Really appreciate the idea of using the same song to illustrate different player's styles. I just discovered this channel and I'm glad I did. Looking forward to more, thank you!

Love your style of music -- you are a great teacher -- keep up the lesson videos!

Killer

Man, I love this channel!

Awesome

One (small) interesting detail that very few delta blues teachers illustrate: as the key string is open string 4 (in open D) and open 5 string (in open G tuning), you don't have to learn the chords shapes in both tunings ! Whatever you do in open D, you can do it in open G, with a simple downward one string shift! Of course, it works with ANY chord (minor, 7th, sus4, 6th...). Isn't life wonderful?

Love your Gibson acoustic, is it a real old one or a reissue ? They must be quite expensive . Good lesson 👍🎸

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I quit purchasing guitar picks some years back. As i got tired of the price of a 2.0 Dunlop turtle green. Were 50¢ pc but must identify the correct plastic from which to harvest as my god. Plastic quality varies wide as the ocean. Many seemingly adequate pick making haed plastic such as soda lids or lids of any kind of food pb j mayo etc are 💯% garbage. For picks But from my experience the finest pick making plastic. Is the blue box that surround all GFI and light switch. Type of. Outlet. That is bloody ideal U can either use heat to melt it. And flatten with pliers but most importantly u sand the bevelled edges and points to your preference. And using finer and finer sand paper until the very end u take the finest grit. And literally rub the surface hard and firm preferably in long uninterrupted. Strokes to give the most dynamic. And advantageous. To u. Structure but this hard rub should make it look shiny as if its glazed or coated poly. So there is no unsmooth. Surface that would otherwise sound skranky and snag. But I also put on three different points on them usually I have like a dominant point but I like to slightly alter each pick a little bit so that if I get tired of holding a pick one way and my fingers ever get like numb I'n my picking hand i switch out. And instantly provide a much needed. Relief. But i become obsessed with which i prefer but u might find ur self. Indecisive as well but I definitely covet my own picks.

You mean more like, "I got those mean ol' Docker wearin' blues"...

Bring the DEE lay man. You are playing on top of the beat. Get behind it.

I bit the bullet, an bought 1, an Ozark wooden bodied resonator, with a spider bridge, got heavier gauge strings 13s I think!2 chrome, 2 glass and 1 brass I have another somewhere, and a bar! it came in standard tuning but since tuned to open g, i also returned a Yamaha Pacifica to open d, an odd choice for slide yeah but it's a hardtail with a P90 at the neck and a splittable humbucker at the bridge! Any advice is welcome??

@thewashboardresonators: thank you for the video. I want to blow my mind. What should I google for the tuning topic. I could not understand it. Tampa Tuning? Could somebody help me? Thanks

Martyn, what are the picks you are using? I have tried some and they either cut blood off because they are too small or just seem a still as a stick. I have quite big fingers. Thanks for the lesson.

Hi Martyn, (Apologies for getting your name wrong initially). Great Video again. Lots of ideas for me to have fun with here. I've been for 9 months solely using Gibson nylon finger picks every day, (was a real struggle at first, but now really paying dividends on all the guitars I play) I notice you favor the metal finger picks. Is there a particular reason for this over nylon finger picks ?? or just simply your own personal choice ?? Thanks again.................

Hi there - don't suppose you know anyone that will do 1:1 slide lessons?

I can’t get use to the finger picks. I pick the wrong strings all the time. Feels horrible. Thanks though.do you trim down the thumb pick so it’s a bit shorter? I think a metal guitar may get better tone than my Jim dandy.

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Sitting on top of the world is a 9 bar blues

Would a pick work?

What gauge strings are u using and are they phosphorus bronze? I'm using a regular 000 recording king guitar until I get better. I'm coming from a Scruggs roll banjo picker.

Dude! The fat string? Really?

Sound funny mate better use fingers and heavier slide on 3rd finger .listen to people like cal reason superb

Reposition your camera

Reposition your camera!

I’m getting that gay vibe

Why does every Open G Video start with tuning? Good lord, come prepared people… no offense to content provider