Playing Slide Guitar: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started
Want to try playing slide guitar but not sure where to start? You’re in the right place. Slide guitar looks complicated, but the basics are…
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Slide Guitar Tuning & Setup: Action, Strings & Choosing Your Slide
Before you start playing slide guitar, you need your guitar set up properly. The wrong setup will fight you at every turn – strings buzzing…
12 Bar Blues in Open D7: Playing the 1-4-5 in Dominant 7th Tuning
Once you’ve got your guitar in Open D7 tuning, the next step is putting it to work with your slide guitar. The 12 bar blues…
Open D7 Tuning for Slide Guitar: The Dominant 7th Sound
Open D7 is a variation on standard Open D tuning that gives you a dominant seventh chord when you strum all six strings open. This…
Open E Tuning for Slide Guitar: How to Tune & Where Your Chords Live
Open E is one of the classic tunings for slide guitar, used by everyone from Duane Allman to Derek Trucks. Like other open tunings, it…
Open G Slide Guitar Riffs: Picking, Expression & Single Note Lines
Now that you’ve got your Open G progressions down, it’s time to add some riffs. These are the melodic phrases that fill the spaces between…
Slide Guitar Riffs in Open G: Picking, Expression & Single Note Lines
Once you’ve got your chord positions and progressions down in Open G, it’s time to break out of the “bar everything” approach. This lesson focuses…
Open G Slide Guitar Progressions: 1-4-5 Fretting & Slide Tricks
Once you’ve got your guitar in Open G tuning and you know where your I-IV-V positions are, it’s time to start building actual progressions. This…
12 Bar Blues in Open D: Finding Your I-IV-V for Slide Guitar
Open D tuning is the other major open tuning for slide guitar, and it’s perfect for playing in the key of D. The 12 bar…
Open G Tuning for Slide Guitar: Setup, Chord Shapes & First Moves
Open G is one of the most popular tunings for slide guitar – and for good reason. The tuning gives you that big, open sound…