Learn Slide Guitar is the ultimate DVD instructional guide to playing slide guitar like a pro. Designed for beginning-to-intermediate guitar players, this DVD contains more than two hours of lessons that will help you develop such skills and techniques as playing in open and standard tunings, slide scales for soloing in all keys, improvising, open-tuning chord forms, muting, vibrato, Delta and electric blues, plus much more!
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The Learn Slide Guitar DVD contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
- Performance/DVD Objectives
- Wearing the Slide: What Finger?
- String Action/String Gauge
- Picking: Fingers vs. Pick
- Slide Types/Materials
Chapter 2: Open E Tuning
- Open E Tuning: E B E G# B E
- Chord Forms in Open E Tuning
- Slide Scales for Soloing
- Slide Positioning/Intonation
- Right-and Left-Hand Muting Techniques
- Expanding Basic Scale Position
- Using Open Strings
- E Major Pentatonic
- E Major Hexatonic
- Medium-Slow Shuffle, Elmore James Style
- Medium-Slow Shuffle, Johnny Winter Style
- E Shuffle, a la Robert Johnson
- Duane Allman Style
- Ry Cooder Style
- Derek Trucks Style
Chapter 3: Open D Tuning
- Open D Tuning: D A D F# A D
- Johnny Winter Style
Chapter 4: Open A Tuning
- Open A Tuning: E A E A C# E
- Chord Forms in Open A Tuning
- Slide Scales for Soloing
- Using Open Strings
- John Lee Hooker Style
- Johnny Winter Style
- Robert Johnson/Sleepy John Estes Style
- Muddy Waters Style
Chapter 5: Open G Tuning
- Open G Tuning: D G D G B D
- Slide Scales for Soloing
- Muddy Waters/Johnny Winter Style
- Keith Richards Style
- Mick Taylor Style
Chapter 6: Standard Tuning
- Slide Scales for Soloing
- Slow Blues in E, Robert Nighthawk Style
- Earl Hooker/Wah-Wah Slide Style
- a la "Statesboro Blues"
Chapter 7: Vibrato
Chapter 8: Standard Tuning with a Twist
- Stevie Ray Vaughan's G String up One Half Step to G#
Model No.GWD-SLIDE
A longtime contributor to Guitar World magazine, and the author and producer of literally hundreds of artist transcriptions, books, and instructional DVDs, Andy Aledort has influenced and inspired guitarists around the world for many years. During his long tenure at Guitar World, Aledort has written lesson features on such metal artists as Dimebag Darrell, Zakk Wylde, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Alexi Laiho, Yngwie Malmsteen, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Nevermore and many others. He has also created many of Guitar World's best-selling instructional DVDs, including How to Play Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and Guitar World's best-selling DVD, How to Play the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as Love. A brilliant guitarist in his own right, he has worked with Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell and the Band of Gypsys rhythm section of bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles.
