Slide guitar

Guitar slides are great tools to change the way your guitar sounds. These are used to produce smooth bluesy sounds and have been used by legendary artists such as the Allman Brothers, the Rolling Stones, and Muddy Waters. If you want to...

“He gets more of an open, slidey sound. But here’s the way to really tell: He played the Fender, and I played the Gibson. The Fender is a little bit thinner and brighter, a sparkling sound, while the Gibson is just a full-tilt screech.” – Duane Allman on EC’s slide playing, interview “This Boy, Willie … Continue reading "Slide Guitar For Beginners"

Learn slide guitar in the style of Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Rory Gallagher, Derek Trucks and more

Coax extra mileage from a familiar lick by slipping in some sly slide moves.

The guitarist from Jimmy Page's "favorite American band" had a phenomenal gift for using different styles tastefully

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Open tunings have been exploited for use with slide guitar since the earliest days of Delta blues. The most commonly used open tunings for slide are E, D, G and A. There are, of course, others that are utilized, with many distinctive variations, depending on the musician and style of music. This edition of In Deep will focus on open G tuning and how it is used in blues slide-guitar playing.

[ padding=”0 20px 0 20px”] Slide guitar or Bottleneck guitar is a technique where a Slide is worn on the third or fourth finger.It is lightly […]