1E Tuning

Hey, I'm Andy Audord and t I'd It's a very common tuning for slide, Duane Almond used it, Elmore James, lots of different people So let's get into it and we're going to talk about the scale position so you can use in different shapes for solos. Here we go. All right, so the tuning, first of all, the sixth string and then the second and first string, they're all going to stay the same. So E is still E, B is still B, E is still E. But these three strings are going to move up as if you were playing a regular cowboy chord or first position E chord. So A goes up a whole step to B, D goes up a whole step to E, and Goes up a half step to G sharp. So from top to bottom you've got E, B, E, G sharp, B, E. String across all the strings and you get an E major chord. So you could bar across any fret or use the slide and you'll get a major chord. And the name of the chord is going to be the notes down to sixth, fourth, and first string. So G would be at the t So if you use the slide. So that's one t Your major chords are just the same fret across all the strings. So now let's talk about solving. One of the techniques you can use, w Now that's not any particular scale, but if we leave the G string out you get E minor pentatonic with some doubled notes. And the only double notes are the E notes. So that's very useful for solving, especially if you had t So then you would have. Now there's another position we can use where we would play off the throw in the fifth fret there. So we can put the fifth fret in there too. And then the other most common position is to go up to the twelfth fret and move between the twelfth and tenth fret on every string, but also use the ninth fret on the A string. And just as we had gone three frets And you have notes you can use for soloing here too. If you keep going up. And that's the same as. So let's play a couple of solos first focusing on the twelfth position and then focusing on the lower position. All right, I began the solo. Alright, I began the solo by T And then I try to use contrary motion, moving alternately between sliding up and sliding down. W And I do try to mute as I move across from Alright, now let's try a solo lower using open string. Alright, so I began. Then I played a cool Johnny Winter look. A little tricky because you have to change strings so quickly. You could also go do a quick pull-off. And then I played a typical Johnny Muddy Waters type. And then you can do a t So I would play E there, E there, and then the B. So I would encourage you to listen to Johnny Winter and Elmore James and Earl Hooker and Robert Nighthawk and these wonderful blues slide guitar players to get a handle on all of these types of looks.