Hi! I”m Ed Dowling from eddowling.com. I'm here to talk about slide guitar techniques. Basically, how do we play the slide guitar, on behalf of expertvillage.com. I've tuned this is open A, true open A, and we're going to talk about basically how do you play the slide guitar. The strings have to flat. This thing is flat; there's no arch like on a fret board. Down here they're flat, so when you put this thing down, the strings vibrate against it just like a fret. If you've pushed it on fret, the fret's upside down. This is a fret. Notice that I'm just touching it. I'm not shoving it down. Just let the thing right on top until you get a clear tone. Now, this is open A. This is the chord A. In a normal blues in the key of A, I'm going to be playing A, D, and E. This if this is an A note and I go A, B, C , D. This is a D note. This is a E note. This is the A chord. This is the D chord. This is the E chord. Just for grins, this is an F, this is a G, and now we're back to A. If you've learned A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Now to play A, D and E, I'm going to go like this. A, D, E, D. Now, in open A at the 12th fret, we've got another A. It's the octave. So whenever you're playing in open tuning, you have the option when you're playing the route for the open chord, you can play it open or the 12 fret. Let's play a progression that goes A to G. Well Gs 2 frets lower than A, let's go to D. Do it again. A, G, E, A. Basic slide guitar.
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straddlecreek
Aug 02, 2008
