Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Slide Guitar Method of Duane Allman - Fender Players Club PDF
Slide Guitar Method of Duane Allman - Fender Players Club PDF
escape notes
5 9
5
5
5 3
3
AUDIO CLIP
A third element of Duanes style is his use of gradual, drawn out slides. He created tremendous tension by
landing a half-step or more below a chord tone and slowly hauling the note up to pitch with the slide. Be sure
to begin your slide immediately after picking the G natural on beat one (of the first complete measure), but
take your time, gradually sliding, so that you dont get to G sharp until beat three.
10 12
12
12
11 12 10 12 10
10 12
w/ slide grad. slide
E
Duanes World
In the Allman Brothers Band, Duane Allman freely improvised fills and solos throughout tunes like Elmore
James Done Somebody Wrong and the bands signature tune, Blind Willie MacTells Statesborough Blues.
Duanes vocabulary was uniquely his own; he seems to have created his techniques specifically to express what
he was hearing inside through the guitar.
This next riff is in Duanes hard-swinging eighth note style. Pay close attention to how the pulldowns and
ascending slides stitch everything together. It looks complex, but usually for every downward pull there is a
corresponding slide up, and vice versa.
6 8
8
8 6
6 8
8
8
8 6
6 8
8 6
6 8
8
8
8 6 8
6 8
8
w/ slide
C
AUDIO CLIP
AUDIO CLIP
AUDIO CLIP
A few of Duanes moves can be traced back to Elmore. The next lick is similar to one of Elmores slow blues intro
licks cranked up to shuffle-boogie tempo and run through Duanes triplet-feel fingers.
10 12
12 12 12 12 12 12 10
12 10
10 12
12
12 10
12 10
10 12
12
w/ slide
3
E
3 3
3
3
3
This riff is pure Duane, playing off the double stop on the second and third strings.
10 12
12
10
10
11
11
11 12
12
w/ slide
3
E
3