Example 2 GIT517 Slide Guitar Lesson: how to play slide in standard tuning. Starting on a similar theme, this example also benefits from the extra muting facilitated by playing fingerstyle.

In this tab and video lesson, we show you how open C tuning is great for slide, it can present adventurous players with fresh chords and help them reach notes they couldn't in standard ...

5 essential blues guitar turnaround solos Elmore James was an influential slide player who often used an open D tuning (DADF#AD) for slide. Open D lets you play the notes of a six-string major barre ...

Something magical and profound happened to American blues guitar when some innovative early-20th-century blues players, taking a cue from Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars with their ...

Though they have frequently been used on electric guitar (think Keith Richards and Jimmy Page), open tunings are particularly ...

The first slide guitar recording (and first instrumental blues recording) was made by Sylvester Weaver for Okeh Records (No. 8109) in 1923, the A-side being "Guitar Blues" and the B- side "Guitar Rag.

Eric Clapton called Sonny Landreth the most underestimated guitarist on the planet and probably the most advanced, lauded for his slide guitar and picking techniques alike. The King of Slydeco has ...

Minor blues riffing This simple minor blues rhythm combines low, single-note riffing with high string chord ‘chips’ played on beat 2 of each bar, creating the illusion of two guitars. For more like ...

World renowned blues rock slide guitar player, Eric Sardinas, returns to perform in Hawaii on October 08, 2016 at Nextdoor Cinema Lounge and Concert Hall to promote his latest CD. The 'Boomerang ...