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Bottleneck Slide Guitar Fred Sokolo
Bottleneck Slide Guitar Fred Sokolo
Slide Guitar
Acoustic &
Electric Guitar
Techniques
taught by
by
taught
Fred Sokolow
Sokolow
Fred
CONTENTS
G TUNING
G Tuning and Chords .......................................................... 2
Little Red Rooster ........................................................... 3
1st Position G Blues Scale .................................................. 4
Little Red Rooster Melody .......................................... 5
I Hear You Knockin ....................................................... 6
More Chords for G Tuning ................................................. 9
I Hear You Knockin Chordal Solo .......................... 10
Seventh Chords ................................................................. 12
I Hear You Knockin With Sevenths ....................... 13
12th Fret G Blues Box ....................................................... 15
Sittin On Top Of The World ........................................ 16
I Hear You Knockin 12th Fret G Blues Box ........... 18
D TUNING
D Tuning and Chords ........................................................ 20
1st Position D Blues Scale ................................................ 20
Reconsider Baby ............................................................ 21
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On ..................................... 24
12th Fret D Blues Box ....................................................... 26
The Sky Is Crying .......................................................... 27
STANDARD TUNING
Standard Tuning Positions .............................................. 30
E Blues Boxes ..................................................................... 30
Reconsider Baby Standard Tuning .......................... 31
One Way Out .................................................................. 35
Positions for Key of D....................................................... 41
Farther On Up The Road .............................................. 42
G TUNING
AND
10
CHORDS
12
1st = D
2nd = B
3rd = G
4th = D
5th = G
6th = D
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G Tuning
INTRO
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Additional Lyrics:
She called me up in El Paso.
Said, Come back, daddy, I miss you so.
But now shes gone and I dont worryetc.
Dont like my peaches, dont shake my tree.
Get out of my orchard, let my peaches be.
But now shes gone and I dont worryetc.
Mississippi River is deep and wide.
The girl Im lovin is on the other side.
But now shes gone and I dont worryetc.
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D TUNING
AND
CHORDS
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1st = D
2nd = A
3rd = F
4th = D
5th = A
6th = D
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D Tuning
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Additional Lyrics:
Come on over baby, we got chicken in the barn.
Come on over baby, baby you cant go wrong.
We aint fakin, whole lotta shakin goin on.
Shake baby shake. Shake baby shake.
Shake baby shake. Shake baby shake.
We aint fakin, whole lotta shakin goin on.
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Additional Lyrics:
I saw my baby this mornin, she was walkin down the street. (2x)
It made me feel so good, made my poor heart skip a beat.
I got a bad bad feeling my baby dont love me no more. (2x)
Now the skys been turned, the tears are rollin out my door.
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E Blues Box
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RECONSIDER BABY
STANDARD TUNING
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Additional Lyrics:
Weve been together so long, darling, to have to separate this way. (2x)
Im gonna let you go on, darling, Im hoping youll come back someday.
You said you once did love me, but now you have changed your mind. (2x)
Why dont you reconsider, baby, give yourself a little more time.
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Raise your window, baby, so I can ease out soft and slow. (2x)
None of your neighbors wont be talkin all that stuff that they dont know.
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You been laughin pretty baby, someday youre gonna be cryin. (2x)
Further on up the road, youll find out I wasnt lyin.
You got to reap what you sow, that old sayin is true. (2x)
Just like you mistreat someone, someones gonna mistreat you.
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