Texas Open E Blues Guitar

Rev. Muddy AKA Dennis Dullea Demonstrates his approach to Open E Shuffle style Guitar. This is something that I have come to love on Guitar, but found quite difficult at first Because Open E is completely different than any other key (Neck Position). It is said to be "THE" Position for Blues. Stevie Vaughan was instrumental in showing me how easy it is by teaching me a couple of the key tricks back in 1970. For years now Jimmie has been playing this way using a capo. Thanks You Guys..Revmuddy

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• Texas
• Blues
• Guitar
• Open
• Position
• Shuffle
• Dennis
• Dullea
• SRV
• Hendrix
• Jimmie
• Vaughan
• Rev.
• Muddy

[CMRbuzz7]

this isn't in open e tuning...

[dennisdullea]

You're absolutely RIGHT! I'm using an Eb Strat. So that would make it "open Eb tuning" That's what Stevie Ray and I used to call it when we played it in 1969-1971 in the Dallas Cellar Club.

I'm really Glad there are so many "experts" on here to keep us feeble minded oldtimers who started playing in the early 60's straightened out and corrected. Thank You for that! Rev. Muddy

[dennisdullea]

Howdy You All!......The Video is Finished. Now we have to send it off and have it MFG. It will be professionally done so it will be about one Month before I have ready to sell. It has 21 Different Chapters and Had all been shot in High Definition.

Stay Tuned for more information, and Thanks to all of you who have been so kind to me....Dennis Dullea

[gtr362]

Man, that was great, but I'm a little confused here, to my knowledge, open E tuning is as follows, E,B,G#,E,B,E which produces an E chord when the strings are played open, like for slide playing. What I see you playing here is standard tuning dropped a half step, in the key of E, thus making a first position E chord an E flat, Half step down tuning was used almost all the time by SRV, sometimes by Hendrix, and almost all the time by VH. It's standard, down a half, not open E, I'm sure of it.

[dennisdullea]

But Of course my friend you are correct, But I'm referring to the neck position not the tuning. I call it "open E" because the nut becomes your index finger and it takes a completely different approach to playing the Standard Blues licks and scales in this position. It's not an easy thing to do if you have neglected learning it from Jump St. Hendrix was a Master at it, ( Slow version of VC on ELL 1968) and when Stevie showed it to me he was 16, I was 20 and he was already incredibly good at it.

[raunchymac]

gtr362....you my friend are a tool and you need to get a life.  You're responding to your own posts now.....come on, get over yourself.

Now get off the damn computer and practice your guitar skills so maybe you could be half as good as Rev. Muddy some day.

[ProudUnionThug]

HOLY CRAP that was smokin'!

[rbauer1632]

What amp are you playing thru, and how do you get such great bass? Don't tell me you use 13's too.

[defrancogmd]

SOUNDS GREAT!!!

[messiahsez]

I wish I were you. I bow to the most holy reverend of da blues. Steve Ray lives. Rock on. Rock hard.

[wes8870]

Awesome! 

[onerelic]

too much delay



[onerelic]

@dennisdullea too much delay

[Maafa1619]

What is open about this? It seems like you're playing in Eb Standard.

[travlr423]

wth, how did i miss this guy! As long as ive been surfin youtube. So whats this simple trick? yrs. of trying to play this style and i still dont feel like ive got it down. Awh, man i really got the blues now.

[88ripitup]

howdy rev muddy. say man do you know a gary craft from lampasas texas, he played lead for calvin russell way back when, 1979-2000