Slide Guitar in Open G - Available Space by Ry Cooder (& Leo Kottke)

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TGNeil
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Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:17 pm

Hey Everybody,

Here is something that got a lot more complicated than I thought it would, causing a bit of a gap in new stuff on my end - Available Space by Ry Cooder.



Available Space is a slide/bottleneck guitar piece originally by Ry Cooder but also covered, and slightly rearranged by Leo Kottke. It is in Open G Tuning (D-G-D-G-B-D). It is unusual in a couple aspects, the main being that is follows a 12-Bar Blues format but adds a couple extra measures, making it one of the very rare 14-Bar Blues tunes.

The lesson sticks mostly with Ry Cooder's format rather than Leo's rearrangement of measures, but includes most of the melodic additions that Leo used.