Slide Guitar

Covers various slide materials: metal, glass, brass, and alternatives like bottle necks and jars.

Adjustments to guitar for slide playing involve selecting fretboard, nut, and string configurations.

Introduces steel string slide guitar styles and players like Leo Kottke, Ry Cooder, and the Dobro sound.

Correct left-hand techniques for slide guitar focus on thumb position, slide usage, and damping to achieve clean tones and smooth transitions.

Develops comfortable slide guitar playing through techniques for right-hand mastery, including styles, grip, and positions.

Vibrato techniques and applications for enhancing musical expression.

Techniques for right-hand fingerstyle on slide guitar cover four essential positions.

Vibrato and right-hand damping are demonstrated through exercises that cover fundamental slide guitar principles.

Techniques for playing three slide guitar solos are covered.

Covers fundamental techniques for playing slide solos over a 12-bar blues progression in E.

Techniques for playing a 12-bar blues solo with a slide and utilizing Major chords on the guitar are covered.

Introduces techniques for playing a solo in the key of A by combining and expanding previously learned licks.

Progressive slide guitar techniques in standard tuning are introduced, covering applications to rock, blues, and other styles.

Introduces fundamental music scales, including Major, Minor Pentatonic, and Blues, illustrating their note patterns.

Introduces the Movable Standard Tuning Slide Scale, combining Major and minor Pentatonic scales, demonstrated through exercises in E, D, and F keys.

Standard tuning exercises covered through movable licks and expanded slide scales incorporating new notes.

Introduces the E standard tuning slide scale solo applied to a 12-bar blues progression.

Introduces the E slide scale, incorporating open strings and bluesy tonality.

Standard tuning exercises for open position guitar cover slides, hammers, pull-offs, and pinches.

The turnaround is a fundamental blues lick applicable across various keys.

Open tunings simplify slide guitar playing by offering richer, fuller chord voicings.

Tunes guitars to open E and D tunings, examining their distinct features.

Barre chord techniques are applied for mastering open E and D major chords across all strings.

Introduces the slide scale in Open E/D tuning, emphasizing pattern and position on the fretboard.

Open E/D tunings are explored for playing Major chords with arpeggios, slides, and double notes.

Introduces techniques for playing the slide scale in open E/D tuning, combining open strings and fretted notes.

Develops skills in open position slide scale exercises using open E and D tunings.

Tunes guitars to open G and A tunings using step-by-step procedures.

Applies principles of open G/A tuning to generate major bar chords.

Introduces the Open G/A tuning slide scale pattern, blending major and minor pentatonic notes.

Open G and A tunings are covered alongside slide scale exercises for different chords.

Introduces the open position slide scale in Open G/A tuning, blending fretted and open strings.

Introduces the basics of open position slide exercises in Open G/A tuning.