How to Play Foggy Mountain Breakdown on Slide Guitar

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Reno McCormick and I'm here to tell you about playing the Dobro today. All right, here's Foggy Mountain Breakdown, the simple way. We do our lead-in which is, start on our B, so we didn't do anything but slides really. Now we're going to try and make an E minor. We have to cheat to make an E minor. I was doing a hammer-on and a pull-off. An important thing to remember is we don't have to play it exactly the way the banjo player did, Earl Scruggs who wrote the song, or the way Josh Graves played his Dobro part, we just need to keep in mind what the chords are, and the progression that we have to follow. So we're playing G, and we know E minor is the next chord, so we take our E minor back to G. Back to E minor. To a D. I can use a backward roll, forward roll. Whatever resolves, that's all we need. Here's how I did the right hand. That last roll I did is a very useful thing."