Slide Guitar

In Rock Slide Guitar Danny takes an in depth look at the art of slide guitar from the rockers point of view. Along with licks, scale patterns, open tunings, and chord shapes, Danny will guide you through many of the techniques shared by the greats including vibrato, intonation, muting and phrasing. Each idea is played in context with a backing track and then demonstrated slowly with full explanations on the scales and techniques used.

Here's some of what you will learn: damping techniques pentatonic licks for slide guitar right hand techniques movable slide patterns played around basic bar chord shapes mixing rhythm and lead playing for slide guitar turnarounds famous open-tuning licks moved to standard tuning country blues licks slow blues and lots of fun, jamming licks!

Keith Wyatt, one of the country's foremost blues and rock educators, takes you through all aspects of acoustic slide playing including choosing the right slide, open tunings, use of a capo, fingerboard patterns, vibrato, special intonations, and muting techniques. Keith also shows you how to mix slide with standard guitar technique for fills and self accompaniment.

How to play SLIDE GUITAR
for acoustic Guitarists
2 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 56m total length
2023-09 | e-Learning | English | MP4, PDF | 3.20 GB

Everything you need to know to get started. Fundamental slide techniques. Open G tuning. Your first songs and licks.

Mississippi born and raised, Elmore James learned his trade in the Delta in the 1930s, emerging in the early 1950s as the godfather of modern electric guitar, and no guitarist who ever plugged an instrument into an amp is free of his influence. Not only did he create the template for electric slide players everywhere, he also reworked his amps until they delivered a raw, overdriven sound that became endemic in pop and rock music a decade later, and no punk band ever sounded more ragged or passionate than Elmore James in full stride. James recorded for some dozen labels during his short recording career (he died in 1963 of a heart attack at the age of 45), and he is one of those rare artists whose recorded output was seamless from the first to the last…