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Sep 25, 2019 · The #1 Tip for Beginning Slide Guitar | Blues Slide Guitar Lesson. R.J. Ronquillo. 184K subscribers. 52K views 4 years ago #slideguitar #guitarlesson #rjronquillo. ...more. 🔴Sign Up...
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Oct 8, 2021 · In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn the techniques behind playing slide guitar and will learn a standalone blues composition to practice it.
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- Active Melody
- The Guitar
- The Slide
- The Finger
- The Tuning
- The Technique
- Example in Open-G: Mean Old World
- Statesboro Blues
You can use both acoustic and electric guitars, as long as they don’t have nylon strings. If you want to play much slide guitar, prepare a guitar just for this job. That means using heavier strings (no “super slinky”…) and a high action (distance of the strings to the fretboard). If you have an extra guitar only for slide, you can also try out the ...
Slides are usually made of glass or metal. In the early days of Blues the players also used a bone (like Mississippi Fred McDowell, who gave some of his slide guitar secrets to Bonnie Raitt) or a knife. Glass and metal produce a different sound and it’s just a matter of your taste which you prefer. A general rule is that heavier slide create a bett...
Which finger should I use for slide playing? You have the choice between middle finger, ring finger and the pinky. The index finger does not work, because you need a least one finger to mute the other side of the strings. All fingers have advantages and disadvantages. 1. The middle finger.The biggest finger (I said finger!) can hold a big slide and...
As mentioned above most slide players use open tunings, especially on acoustic guitars when used for backing. That means all strings are tuned in a way that the open string notes belong two a major (or sometimes a minor) chord. That does not necessarily mean that they are tuned note for note using a chord! Some notes can be left out. The advantage ...
At first you have to put the slide on your finger. Try different sizes and fingers and play a simple note or chord. You have to figure out what’s best for you – no one else can. Usually the slide should reach from the middle finger knuckle to the end of the fingertip. No need for extra long slides, you should only cover the strings played. Next, yo...
This song from Marion Walter Jacobs, better known as the great harmonica player Little Walter (1930-1968), was played by EC and Duane Allman during the sessions for the Layla album in 1970. It wasn’t released on the original Layla album, the first official release was Duane Allman’s Anthology, later EC’s Crossroads I collection and the Blues sample...
Statesboro Blues is a very old Blues, originally written and recorded 1928 by William Samuel McTell, better known as Blind Willie McTell (1901 – 1959). Statesboro is a town in Georgia. The song was covered by artists like Taj Mahal or David Bromberg, the most popular version is from the Allman Brothers Band and was released 1971 on the album At Fil...
May 18, 2017 · Dig in with 6 hand picked licks from Andy Aledort’s 30 Beginner Slide Blues Licks You MUST Know. These free online guitar lessons will help demonstrate essential techniques, tunings and concepts that are key components to slide and will help expand your approach to playing blues music. Grab your guitar and get started!
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Oct 21, 2022 · Slide guitar is a fun technique used in many styles including blues and folk. It’s fluid, expressive and novel, and adds another string to your bow. Slide guitar can also be quite tricky at the beginning.
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Intro to Blues Slide Guitar. Learning some basic slide guitar skills can really add dimension to your guitar playing and overall musicianship. In this introductory course, I show you exactly what I have learned in the 2 years that I have been studying how to play slide guitar.
