Up and Gone Blues

[WindInTrees]

To celebrate finishing BGU in 2014, i bought two more courses (ABGU and the Acoustic Delta Blues Slide Guitar) and a new Resonator guitar. I am just now getting around to working on the the slide guitar course.

This recording is lesson 3 in the Acoustic Delta Blues Slide Guitar course - called the Up and Gone Blues.
It is standard tuning. Of course, i had to buy a whole drawer full of slides to play with for this course.
The slide i used for this recording is a blue glass slide which you can see pictured sitting on my Martin D-15M in some of my Soundcloud tracks.

I did most of the practice on electric guitars, which have a cool sound.
When i get the distortion dialed in and the volume cranked up i feel like i am channeling George Thorogood !
bad to the bone. Maybe i'll post one of those recordings later.

As with most lessons, i thought i owned this one until i started recording it then realized i sounded awful. After much practice, this sloppy acoustic version is good enough to give myself permission to move on to the next lesson.

https://soundcloud.com/windintrees/up-and-gone-blues-acoustic-adbsg-2016apr24

 

[luckylarry]

Very cool. Good job.

 

[mountain man]

Great play'n!!! Keep em coming!!!

 

[Paul W]

I liked this a lot - it had a raw energy that worked with the song.

 

[KAS2]

I like it!

 

[WindInTrees]

Thanks for the feedback and encouragement guys.
I know this is supposed to be an acoustic course, but this is really fun on the electric too.

Here's another shot at it after a little more practice, through the Fender Mustang Amp.....

https://soundcloud.com/windintrees/up-and-gone-blues-electric-adbsg-2016april25

 

[AlanT]

I liked both of these.....well done WindInTrees. I've been working on this one for a couples weeks on electric but in view of your comments I think I now need to record it and listen before I go any further. Thanks for sharing.

 

[tomtt2]

Nice job on what I consider a tough song. I worked on it for several weeks and still practice it. You audio clips shows that this beast can be conquered.

Thanks

 

[CJLaMere]

gets me more pumped to keep goin on

 

[ochomarvo]

Does he get into open tunings and chord shapes in open tunings in the acoustic delta blues course ?

 

[piebaldpython]

Yes.......standard, Open D and Open G.