{"id":7504,"date":"2019-01-18T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T04:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2019-01-19T08:28:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:28:03","slug":"acoustic-open-d-tuning-elmore-james-slide-guitar-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/acoustic-open-d-tuning-elmore-james-slide-guitar-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic Open D Tuning Elmore James Slide Guitar Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to some blues radio and &#8220;Dust My Broom&#8221; by Elmore James was on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And I was struck by how he tended to use a very simple, characteristic lick (you know it&#8217;s him a mile away) but it never got old even though he used it throughout the song.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s a lesson in that alone &#8211; clearly it works and it&#8217;s good because it has stood the test of time and we still like to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a live video I did on the YouTube for you where I&#8217;ll break down how to get into open D tuning, how to play the groove and how to play the riff &#8211; plus some other stuff \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bF3O0ETF85o?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to some blues radio and &#8220;Dust My Broom&#8221; by Elmore James was on&#8230; And I was struck by how he tended to use a very simple, characteristic lick (you know it&#8217;s him a mile away) but it never got old even though he used it throughout the song. Well, there&#8217;s a lesson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7508,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504\/revisions\/7508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}