Filled out. Law law nobody's seen the movie everybody Crossroads is played an open G. So if your guitar in standard tuning need to make changes, we're going to change three strings only. So it's a great tuning to get into because there's not too much to change. We're going to change this. As you can see from the diagram, we're bringing the sixth string, the low E, down two frets to D, the next string, the fifth, two frets down to G. And the first string the high E, we bring that down two frets to D as well. If you prefer and it suits your voice, you could take the D, G and the B, the middle three strings, two frets higher and leave the other three where they are, and you'd have open a. I'm using light gauge strings on this guitar.

My turret is a little bit heavy, so the strings boasts quite a lot. It may be that medium gauge strings would be more suited to this style of playing. I use a glass bottle neck, it's got a thick wall and it gives a different kind of flavor to a metal wall with a thinner wall because it's heavier so the vibration is a little bit longer and it takes a little bit more effort to control it. It's also quite loose on my finger so I need to make sure that it doesn't fly off. If you use a tapered one or a real bottleneck, then you shouldn't have this problem. As you'll see when you place the fourth leg on the screen, it makes a lovely sound.

But it makes some strange sounds if you don't damp it with your finger behind the bottleneck in this way. You'll also need to make sure that your thumb is pressing against the back of the neck and slides along to maintain the pressure on your bottleneck. Robert Johnson's music is a combination of Greek technique, precision, and attack. What I mean by attack is the way that he approaches his notes and he puts the slide onto the strings. It's like an attitude, and he's got this attitude. He starts off in this way for crossroads.

Quite like little lullaby and it comes down here. Many people play this this high string here with a bottleneck. Why don't I use my finger so I can give it a nice little plan and then I can move down. This song has a few special things going for it as far as I'm concerned. After the introduction, you change the timing and starts to sing. The introduction is quite melodic and quite like a lullaby.

Then he starts to see you change the timing. Attack on the high strings is very important. It has to be accurate and fast. The difference between the high strings low strings is a stark contrast and it gives a piece of very special flavor Well now we have everything we need to know to play cross roads. But of course we have to sing at the same time, which brings up the challenges. Let's take a look at how we're going to make the words fit with the movements.

We start to play the introduction which are playing now. As soon as we start to move back to the high strings of the bottleneck, we start to sing went down to the Crossroads that on Crossroads on cross, we're already down here. Things like this to the crossroads and then we move back to the highest finger that seeing and we wait until we will back down to the low ones to finish off that line in this way to the cross room Then back to the next part, remember we we fret all of the strings of the third fret with our finger strung twice to the fifth fret. Then we start to sing. The first two words coincide with this movement and it carries on to the Crossroads down to the cross. But the problem is here at the same time we're singing to the crossroads.

Our fingers again goes like this, down to the classroom. Long, long so as you move through this vibration here, Lord, Won't you help me please? Nobody seems to Lord once more slowly Buy me a lot it's really nice to sing. It's very challenging you need to practice every day.