Homespun An Introduction to Open Tunings and Slide Guitar (DVD)

Roy Book Binder has given us another terrific look at his unique brand of fingerpicked blues guitar. On this DVD/video, he covers the basics of open tunings and the use of the bottleneck, teaching essential techniques in a way that will be easy even for newcomers to this style. Roy introduces beginning players to the slide through an exploration of open D (Vestapol) and open G (Spanish) tuning, demonstrating songs, licks, techniques, and the sounds of bottleneck blues. Songs: Never Drive a Stranger from Your Door, Cigarette Blues, Electricity, Palm Trees Shaking in the Night, She Did You a Favor, Baby Don't You Do It No More, Tired of Being Mistreated. 80-MIN. DVD OR VIDEO, LEVEL 2, INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB