Level: 2/3
Tuning: Open D

Fred McDowell was a great Mississippi Delta bluesman. He was a great influence on my bottleneck playing. I was fortunate to get to know him. He had a distinct style of creating a bass riff with single string lines and then contrasting this with a melody played on the treble strings. For "Como Blues" (named for the community he came from) I try to recreate this texture but without a bottleneck.

This lesson is to show you how to play funky blues licks in an Open D tuning. It also highlights the various sounds you can achieve with your left and right hands.