An Introduction to Open Tunings and Slide Guitar

In this Homespun series, Roy Book Binder teaches the essential open tunings and bottleneck style techniques in a way that will be easy even for newcomers to slide guitar!

Videos

• Chapter 1 (16:05) - Roy welcomes you to the series, and talks about the first tuning he'll be using, "Open D". He then plays a simple song he made up called "Travelin' Blues".

• Chapter 2 (06:02) - Next up, Roy dives into "Vestapol Tuning" and gives some background to where it came from. Moving forward, Roy shows you "Never Drive a Strange From Your Front Door".

• Chapter 3 (12:21) - Roy dives into a song called "Cigarette Blues", by Bo Carter.

• Chapter 4 (11:25) - This video focuses on "Electricity" "Open G" tuning, also known as "Spanish Tuning".

• Chapter 5 (07:37) - Roy plays "Palm Trees Shaking in the Night", and breaks it down for you.

• Chapter 6 (14:10) - This video focuses on a song called "She Did You a Favor". Based on a few different styles, one of them being "Muddy Waters".

• Chapter 7 (10:19) - Roy gives some examples on "Spanish Tuning" and plays "Tired of Being Mistreated" before signing off.