I've been playing slide guitar since 1969. Like most players, I started out in open tunings, the traditional way to play bottleneck. After several years, I got tired of sounding like every other slide player out there — forced to play those inversions and clichéd licks — so I decided to try standard tuning. To my delight, I found a rich array of positions, a very friendly fretscape. I then tried dropped D and discovered the best of both worlds. I've stuck with that ever since. In 2006, I put put together a 70 minute DVD revealing all I know about the art of playing slide guitar in Standard and Dropped D Tunings. I also sell the beautiful slides pictured here, machined to my specs from solid brass. Click the images to find out more.

Have a watch and a listen to some of my playing and if you want to learn more, go to BottleNeckGuitar.com

My teaching site. With over 110,000 members (12-2011) and growing daily, this is where I post my movie lessons. It's also home to the friendliest, most civilized guitar forum out there. If you have any questions about any aspect of playing guitar — from theory to buying to technique to gear to recording — anything — this is the place to ask.

Click on the lesson titles in the player below to hear them. ( the image-link to each lesson does not work from this server — go to the lessons here.)