Level: 2/3
Tuning: Open E

"Shake 'Em On Down" is a popular Delta blues originally recorded by Bukka White in 1937. It was his best-known song and became a blues standard with recordings by a number of blues and other artists. Mississippi Fred McDowell recorded several versions, using both acoustic and electric slide guitar, Fred plays this in Open E. A strong rhythmic lick is played behind the vocal with high singing melodic lines played between verses. Open E tuning is the same as Open D but your strings are tuned up a tone. This gives the guitar a crisper and harder sound.