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Below is a description of the Slide Guitar Lesson series as well as a description of each individual lesson. All lessons can be purchased individually using our Eyeguitar Store Widget at the bottom of this page below the descriptions. You can sample a slide lesson for FREE on YouTube here.

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Slide Guitar Lessons

Add a new flavor to your playing.

This course is ideal for a beginner interested in trying out slide guitar playing, and consists of an eight lesson course, that will get you up and playing slide guitar quickly.

We cover alternate tunings, slide techniques, rhythms, scales and phrases, and then put them all together in a ‘bluesy’ sounding framework.

Slide is a lot of fun and opens the door to new sounds and ideas.Lesson 1

• In this first lesson we will be learning some of the basics that are essential for you to know in order to play some very cool blues guitar with the slide.
• We cover the various types of slides available and the advantages and disadvantages of each, alternate tunings with step by step methods to tune to them quickly, how to hold the slide, proper string damping and right hand techniques for finger style playing or using a pick.

Lesson 2

• In this lesson we look at vibrato, which will give your slide playing more expression.
• We look in more detail at right hand fingering using the thumb and fingers and picking techniques for slide playing.
• Then we do a basic blues rhythm with the slide, which incorporates the techniques learned so far.

Lesson 3

• In this lesson we build on the blues rhythm adding high slides up the neck and single note leads.
• This will develop the ability to move around the neck with the slide as well as develop a feel for mixing rhythm and lead playing.

Lesson 4

• In lesson four we learn the G slide scale for single note lead playing.
• We look at lead phrases, which add flavor to your playing as well as provide practice for proper string damping.

Lesson 5

• In this lesson we will continue building on our repertoire of lead phrases. We will also look at some new chords to play using our fingers with the open G tuning and how to integrate the lead phrases with these chords.
• We map out a typical blues chord progression to provide a framework for combining the lead and rhythm material covered so far.
• We then go on to learn the slide scale to use over chord five.

Lesson 6

• In this lesson we will continue to learn some more complicated lead phrases.
• We will also examine the scale in a little more detail and look at other notes that can be added to the slide scale to add color to your phrases.

Lesson 7

• In this lesson we will be looking at the slide scale in G played in the open position and some new phrase ideas in this position.
• We then look at combining the major and minor third to give a blues flavor to your playing and we introduce doing a hammer on with the slide.

Lesson 8

• In this lesson we will be adding a new scale, which gives a country-sounding flavor.
• We will look at some sample phrases using this scale and we will look at how to keep a repetitive bass line going on the 5th string while playing slide phrases.
• We then go on to look at playing in standard tuning as well as the scales for other alternate tunings.