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Introduction to Playing Slide Guitar
The Best String Gauges for Playing Slide Guitar
Finger Placement for Playing Slide Guitar
How to Use a Slide on Guitar
Choosing a Slide to Play Slide Guitar
How to Use a Pick on Slide Guitar
Practice Techniques for Playing Slide Guitar
Playing Slide Guitar With Vibrato Technique
The G Minor Scale for Slide Guitar
Drop Tunings for Slide Guitar
Open D Tuning for Slide Guitar
Open Tunings for Slide Guitar
The Pentatonic Scale for Slide Guitar
Root Notes in Slide Guitar
How to Play High Notes on Slide Guitar
Diagonal Double Stop Technique for Slide Guitar
Advanced Electric Slide Guitar Techniques
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Summary: Learn how to use the slide to play slide guitar in this free music lesson video.
John Armstrong has been teaching guitar at Keller Music for over 15 years now. He has played with countless musicians over the years, and in bands ranging from classical ensembles to...read more
"Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com. I am a professional guitar instructor and today we will be discussing slide guitar and slide guitar techniques. Alright, the next thing I would like to discuss today is the actual slide technique regardless of which finger you choose to use. What you will do when wanting to achieve a note, when wanting to achieve a tone on the guitar using slide. When fretting a normal note as you press down on the fret wire, the point of contact on the string is made at the actual fret wire, so regardless of where you press down in the fret itself the note is shortened at the fret wire, the string is shortened at the fret wire. With slide though we are not pressing down into the string that is the whole idea behind it, is that you get a nice smooth sliding sound between notes, because there are no fret wires. There is no use of the fret wire. So in order to achieve an exact tone for example if I wanted to play this D note right here at the seventh fret of the third string, here it is fretted. In order to achieve that tone using slide, I have to get as directly above that fret wire as possible. If I am a little off, if I am little above the fret wire or little behind it, it is not going to be the exact pitch, which is sometimes one of the cool things about slide, that we can achieve a kind of note between notes what we refer to as a semitone. You kind of go outside the realm of the twelve note musical alphabet that we have."
eHow Article: How to Use a Slide on Guitar
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kweb9774 said
on 3/8/2009 thanks. I watch alot of your videos and think they are very helpful. I have a specific question, though. When you slide, do you still hold down the fret with a different finger?