Slide Guitars
Steel String Acoustic
Steel String Acoustic
The steel string is mainly used with fingerpicking acoustic guitar players. More recently Leo Kottke and Ry Cooder have dominated the steel string acoustic.
Electric
Popular Electric Slide Guitars
The Chicago Blues era of the fifties gave birth to a new age of slide guitarists. The Chicago Blues Men influenced many guitar players in the sixties onwards, such as Johnny Winter, Mick Taylor, George Thorogood and Duane Allman.
Dobro
Dobro
The guitar which perhaps relates to the slide sound more than any other is the Dobro. It has a metal resonator which helps produce a bright, metallic sound perfect for slide guitar.
Class Sessions
1- SECTION FOUR - STANDARD TUNING SLIDE GUITAR
2- INTRODUCTION
3- Types of Slides
4- Open Tunings
5- Open G and A Tuning
6- Left Hand Technique
7- Fingerstyle Exercises
8- Right Hand Technique
9- Slide Scales
10- Open E and Open D Tuning
11- Basic Slide Exercises
12- Setting up the Guitar
13- The Major Bar Chord - Open G/A
14- Chord Diagrams
15- The Major Bar Chord - Open E/D
16- Standard Tuning Slide Scale
17- Open G or Open A Tuning Slide Scale
18- Notation
19- Slide Guitars
20- Slide Solo
21- Vibrato
22- Standard Tuning Exercises
23- Open G/A Tuning Scale Exercises
24- Music and Tablature Symbols
25- Slide Solo No. 1
26- Open E or Open D Tuning Slide Scale
27- Slide Solo No. 2
28- Open G or Open A Tuning Slide Scale - Open Position
29- Open E or Open D Exercises
30- Slide Solo No.4
31- Open E/D Tuning Slide Scale - Open Position
32- Open Position Slide Scale - Key of E
33- Slide Solo No. 3
34- Open G/A Tuning Slide Exercises - Open Position
35- Open Position Exercises
36- Standard Tuning Exercises - Open Position
37- Slide Solo No.5 - The Turnaround