Eric Clapton - Walking Blues (Robert Johnson) played on a Fender Resonator video free download

Walking Blues Robert Johnson Eric Clapton played on a Fender Resonator

Robert Johnson's Walking Blues, based on Eric Clapton's unplugged arrangement. Not note-perfect, but note-perfect isn't what I was going for. :-)

This is my Fender F50 Resonator guitar, not a top drawer resonator, and certainly not a top drawer price, but for the money, I don't think you'll find much better. The best thing about it is the pickup - when you plug it in, it still sounds like a resonator - you have full tonal control and can pitch the sound just as you like it.

With stage monitors, it does feed back quite a lot, so I find that I have to have very little monitor level to avoid that, but once you get ued to that, and let the guitar do the work, the audience get the full value.

The Walking Blues arrangement is one that I lifted directly from Eric Clapton's Unpugged recording - and why not - it's a great little arrangement - although over the years of playing it, it's probably moved away a little from the Clapton note-for-note and picked up a slightly different feel.

It's a pretty simple slide guitar 12 bar blues piece in Open G tuning - D G D G B D - but don't forget the extra half bar at the end of bar 4 before going to the C chord!