How to Play Slide Guitar

Video Transcript

"Another way of manipulating our notes to make a different kind of sound is sliding. So moving from one fret to another, with one finger, we really involve a slide. So say, this also is great, by the way, for linking up, say one minor pentatonic or regular scale with its relative major or another mode. So watch. So say we're going to slide from this minor, A minor pentatonic area, right. Seventh fret of the D string, fifth fret. So play it around here. Now we pick the seventh fret of the G string, third finger on the fret. And we slide up, in one pick sweep, so we can either pick and immediately slide, or we can hold for a second before we slide. And now we're in the territory of the major, the relative major. You can also slide back down. So sliding down, pick the ninth fret, or third fingers, and then slide back. So no problem with returning right back down after a slide too."