Chords for Slide guitar playing on the National Reso-Phonic Guitar

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_ _ _ _ _ National Resonaphonic guitars were first created in the 1920s in an attempt to make guitars louder.
In fact, what they created was an original instrument with original tone, original sound.
Original blues players began to pick up on [Bb] the instrument [G] and develop their own style
around its unique tone.
The unique properties of the Resonator is that it is virtually a metal speaker cone
within the instrument, which is activated by the strings strumming against [B] the bridge
and sending [D] vibration to the cone.
That [G] unique sound is then amplified within the body of the guitar to create the national
sound used by such players [Dm] as Robert Johnson and [E] Charlie Patton in the early [Eb] 20s and 30s
and Taj [G] Mahal and Ry Cooter in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
To this day, many [Dm] players prefer the sound of the [G] National Resonaphonic to any other
[Gm] instrument when playing [G] acoustic slide [A] guitar.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ [D] Initially, you want to play an open G tuning, which is [G] D, G, D, G, B, D, _ and then [N] learn
to hold the slide correctly on either your third or your pinky finger with your first
and second fingers behind it holding a mute [G] position.
_ [Bb] _ [C] _ [D] _ [F] _
[G] _ _ _ [B] _ [D] _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [F] Initially, you want to start by playing small sliding moves from the 10th to the 12th fret
on the third string, second string, first string, fourth string, and then put the package
together to create unique patterns and licks.
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[G] _ [B] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ [Fm] _ [G] _
_ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
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Then, in addition, you [N] can play using the open position, third fret, fifth fret, seventh
fret, tenth fret, twelfth fret, and create lines from all of these frets, including using
the open strings against the third [Bb] fret.
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_ _ A combination of all of these ideas allows you to express [G] yourself and create original
ideas for yourself [B] on the national [E] guitar. _
[B] _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ This particular instrument is a 14 fret neck.
Many of the original guitars were a 12 fret neck, which did [Dm] not allow you to get up to
the upper [G] positions beyond the 12th fret.
There are some models [C] nowadays which are cutaway, but this 14 fret guitar allows you to get
most [G] of the high sounds you would get with a cutaway as well.
It has the unique singing tone [Gm] of a national.
[D] The quality of a national or any dobro resonator style guitar [G] is that haunting tone that you hear.
You hear it in commercials.
[D] You hear it [Bm] in television shows and movies.
Often people [N] don't recognize what it is, [G] but they certainly love that tone. _ _ _
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_ [Cm] _ [D] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [F] _ [Em] _
[Eb] _ [D] _ _ _ [Db] _ [G] _ _ _