Figure 5. Sonny Landreth
It’s not easy to find radical new ways to play slide, but Sonny Landreth figured out that what was going on behind the slide was just as important as the stuff in front of it.
Landreth plays in open E tuning and wears his slide on his 4th finger, which enables him to use the bottleneck and simultaneously fret notes behind it.
You’ll need to follow suit for this example, as there are some fretted notes added behind the slide, as indicated in the tab by the “1” (for 1st finger) next to the relevant note.
Landreth frequently uses two fingers simultaneously behind the slide, but we’ve opted to keep it simple here, since this is a rather tricky technique to perform. Once you’ve gotten the hang of the technique, try playing some of your own musical ideas using more than a single digit behind the slide.
