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