Slide Guitar

Nothing sounds as bluesy as a slide guitar, and this 70 minute DVD shows you how it s done on electric and acoustic, solo or with a group. Using classic blues tunes Little Red Rooster, Sittin On Top Of The World, Reconsider Baby, The Sky Is Crying, Farther On Up The Road and One Way Out Fred Sokolow shows you how to play and improvise slide in the styles of the great bluesmen Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Duane Allman.

If you're a guitarist just beginning to explore the sounds of slide guitar-maybe you've picked up a slide and tried a few licks but you haven't quite got it figured out-here's your opportunity to learn smokin' slide guitar from Texas guitar powerhouse, Kirby Kelley. In almost a full hour of video featuring close-ups of the hands and scrolling music display, you'll watch step-by-step demonstrations of every essential slide technique as performed by the master himself and be introduced to all the most important slide tunings.

Slide guitar blues is produced when a player uses some kind of tubular finger covering (usually made of metal or glass, like a bottleneck) to depress the strings of a guitar over the frets so that the strings are stretched and bent, producing a wavering tone. Traditionally slide guitar blues was played on resonator guitars, but a variety of acoustic and electric guitars have also been used. Blues slide guitar originated in the Mississippi Delta region where it was popularized by a number of blues players, including Robert Johnson. Electric slide guitar blues developed along with other electric blues styles with the migration of African-Americans north to Chicago in the 1940s.