Blues Slide Guitar: Double Stops

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Brian Dulheimer and on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to show you how to play blues slide guitar. So so far all of the riffs we have been playing are basically single note riffs but you can also throw one in which are called double stops which is playing two notes at the same time. So I'm going to show you one riff that uses this technique and we are going to be basically hitting our B and E string at the same time, picking those at the same time and covering those two frets with our slide and we are going to slide up to the twelfth fret a couple times. Just like that. You have probably heard this root a million times in blues stuff. That's a double stop and you are playing two notes. I played two notes there on the D and the G string on the fourteenth fret and the twelfth fret, basically anywhere where two notes line up on the same fret in the scale you can play those two together but back to this riff we just started. A way to finish that off then so we just added two notes at the end, twelfth fret G string, slide off of it and then up to the E on the fourteenth fret on the D string. That's it. The next thing I'm going to show you is how to chord with the slide."