3 string

Sometimes a controversial topic, what happens when you attempt to play a 3 string like it's a 6 string? (it's my site, I can say stuff like that)

There's mountains of stuff throughout the site on playing a shuffle so subscribers will have seen most of this before, could still be worth a look though.

The first part of the beginners workshop from the Recyclked Roots Festival 2014. Subscribers won't find anything new here.

The second part of the beginners workshop from the 2014 Recycled Roots Festival.

Love this old Floyd tune, if you've heard it you will too.

17 Blues turnarounds for the 3 string. Grab the TAB here

Howlin' Wolf's version of Willie Dixon's one chord classic

This is actually the harmonica riff but the guitar underneath is not nearly as strong in Muddy's version so everyone just plays this, and it works better on the 3 string anyway.

Willie Johnson's classic is a one chord tune with a slide guitar riff that closely mimics the vocal line.

Try and play it up-tempo if you can which means you'll have to be very accurate with your slide particularly. The trick to this one is in following the phrasing very closely to get the melody tight around that constant downbeat on the thumb.

Elmore James take on the old Robert Johnson song. This is a good one to demonstrate how triplets work in a shuffle groove