Article: Sonny Landreth: part four: the ghostly drone of sympathetic vibration.(BEGINNER)(Interview)

FROM DELTA BLUES TO MODERN ELECTRIC slide to his trademark "behind the glass" technique of playing fretted pitches and slide notes simultaneously, Sonny Landreth has a near supernatural ability to infuse his music with the most exciting and soulful aspects from every era of slide guitar. In this installment, the Louisiana slide deity shares ways to take advantage of the phenomenon known as sympathetic vibration.

Other than being a whole-step apart in pitch, open-E and open-D tunings are exactly the same. Why do many players tend to gravitate to one more than the other?

The interval structure is indeed exactly the same for both, so the fingerings are ...

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