Beginning Slide Guitar

9 Lessons

1. 1 2:13 Lesson · 2m Slide Guitar - Introduction Welcome to this introduction to slide guitar playing! First of all, this will not be a song tutorial, where you learn to play riffs or solos. Rather, this is a technical overview and reference guide to help...
2. 2 3:17 Lesson · 3m Slide Guitar - The Tools of the Trade Which type of slide you choose to use are largely a matter of taste. Different materials produce different tones. If you lay acoustic (Dobro, lap, regular acoustic) might mean you choose a copper or metal...
3. 3 4:55 Lesson · 5m Slide Guitar - Choosing your Slide Finger and Muting Which finger you choose to use your slide with, also affects your playing to a large extent. Traditional blues players often used their slide on their pinky, perhaps not because of technical considerations...
4. 4 4:57 Lesson · 5m Slide Guitar - Open Tuning pt.1 In this segment we discuss the open D-tuning and how this is used in slide guitar playing. We also discuss the issues with tuning the major third to equal temperament pitch, or to a harmonically correct pitch.
5. 5 3:19 Lesson · 3m Slide Guitar - Open Tuning pt.2 In this part we discuss how the intonation of your guitar is affected by raising the string height. As I mentioned in my setup tutorial about string height vs. intonation, the pitch of a string raised it the...
6. 6 2:42 Lesson · 3m Slide Guitar - Pitch Accuracy Pitch accuracy is together with correct muting the most important aspect of slide technique. Having bad pitch is like a violinist having bad pitch, it just won’t do! The similarities with violin players do... Tab
7. 7 3:05 Lesson · 3m Slide Guitar - Separating Lead Lines pt.1 In this example we take the muting technique a step further by adding individual finger muting techniques in our right hand. This is the key to creating clean and singing lead lines with the slide. It will be... Tab
8. 8 5:24 Lesson · 5m Slide Guitar - Separating Lead Lines pt.2 In this example we are covering more strings but using the same right and left hand muting technique as in the previous examples. Try using this technique in any type of scale or arpeggio shape to further your...
9. 9 6:39 Lesson · 7m Slide Guitar - "Experimental" Slide This final chapter deals with some more experimental slide techniques. Many slide players play slide above the range of the fret board to access notes normally unavailable for them. Duane Allman, Jeff beck...