I dont really have an extra guitar i can dedicate to an open tuning and also all the scales i know would change a bit if i were to go to an open tuning. This edition of in deep will focus on open g tuning and how it is used in blues slide guitar playing. The slide guitar part is a fender stratoscaster plugged into a mannys fuzztone box, run through a hammond organ leslie speaker set on chorus. Chords for open tuned slide guitar and standard tuned slide guitar. Twelve string guitars produce a more ringing tone, however, they are a bit harder to play and maintain than the standard guitar and are usually confined to niche roles, and. A brief overview of basic slide playing in standard tuning. Open tunings have been exploited for use with slide guitar since the earliest days of delta blues. It seems like everyone is kinda mystified about how to play slide guitar in standard tuning. Rock guitar instructional material fred sokolow music.
Now that we have explored a wealth of licks in an open d tuning, lets try some slide techniques using our standard tuning eadgbe. You gotta move text guitar tab by rolling stones songsterr. Standard tuning slide guitar is a compilation of slide guitar techniques accumulated by author and uberguitarist greg koch for over 30 years. Nothin but the blues americas truly original music form get answers to questions about the blues learn interesting stuff about blues performers discover some great blues cds you can buy not from me check out the bluez projekt my own blues recordings. The use of alternate tunings nonstandard tunings are found throughout the history of the classical guitar and are a major factor in the playing of blues slide guitar. Each video is accompanied by a lesson tab pdf file containing the instructional text and guitar tab from the book. Vic lewis looks at the basics of playing slide guitar in standard tuning, which is a great thing to know if youd prefer to not keep changing your tuning every other. Open g tuning songs open g blues guitar tuning the video above opens with an old clip of me playing crossroads by robert johnson on an old johnny joyce model aria, and at 1. Standard tuning can be easier to play because your melodic instincts dont have. Follow the videos in the exact same order and you will see a huge positive change in your slide guitar playing. Premier guitars john bohlinger reveals his personal playing tips and tricks in short, bitesized lessons.
He lived and performed in new york during the blues revival of the 1960s. Oct 12, 2015 the most commonly used open tunings for slide are e, d, g and a. Most of my slide playing is in standard tuning, though, unless i just need that sound and feel that only open tunings get. Standard tuning eadgbe doesnt really lend itself to slide playing unless maybe you are sliding in 4ths, using the 1st and 2nd strings, or maybe in thirds using the 2nd and 3rd string. Phil calvin blog pictures on flickr pictures on wunderground planetalking. In this article well take a look at slide guitar and try some riffs and a blues solo in open d tuning. Nothin but the blues americas truly original music form get answers to questions about the blues learn interesting stuff about blues performers discover some great blues cds you can buy not from me check out the bluez projekt my own blues recordings learn about openg tuning, opene tuning and slide guitar. A great way to get started with slide guitar is to play in standard tuning, which allows you to focus on all the essentials of frethand touch and. The term guitar tunings may refer to pitch sets other than standard tuning, also called nonstandard, alternative, or alternate.
Not a drum machine, because what were doing is learning intonation. This classic guitar tuning is a starting point for every guitarist and the primary tuning for playing scales and chords. This lesson shows you how to get around with a slide in standard tuning. The twelve string guitar is usually an acoustic instrument, but electric twelve string guitars exist, usually in the form of a doubleneck guitar. The technique involves placing an object against the strings while playing to create glissando effects and deep vibratos. Slide guitar can present players with a myriad of reasons not to get started. January 7, 2019 may 14, 2011 in free slide guitar lessons. Essentials to playing slide guitar in standard tuning. In video podcast 57 learn how to play a standard tuning slide guitar lick in the style of warren. Standard the electric slide part downtunes the top e string separate solo. Slide guitar can be played in standard or open tunings, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. Playing and improvising acoustic blues doug young acoustic blues workshop notes q 96 our goal is to be able to play a simple, but effective solo blues guitar piece, hopefully with some improvisation. G open and d open and a series of blues with several riffs and turnarounds to learn how to use the slide the best acoustic blues guitar lessons to learn how to play in the style of the greatest bluesmen such as robert johnson, big bill broonzy, son house and many others. This tuning is used on the fender bass vi and similar instruments.
The minor pentatonic scale in the key of em will be our first concern, with additional notes added as needed. Then we move on to the caged box patterns that are found up the neck in the key of am and learn how to shapeshift. Slide guitar is an essential part of the blues, i had to start with it. This is essential as you may not always have time to tune your guitar to another tuning while playing with other musicians. A fasttrack learning program for standard tuning slide guitar. You dont have to tune to an open tuning to play slide guitar in the blues. Heres how to tune your guitar to open d from standard tuning. These are not lessons, but supplements to my lessons.
Slide guitar in standard tuning guitar tips from guthrie govan guitar. Standard tuning slide warren haynes lesson youtube. Slide guitar is a lot of fun to play, partly because it is so different from how youd normally play a guitar, and partly because it can be so expressive. Plus well cover a slinky slide lick in g to get you started on your way.
All freds books have tablature unless otherwise noted. I have been messing around with slide for a couple months in standard. It typically involves playing the guitar in the traditional position flat against the body with the use of a tubular slide fitted on one of the guitarists fingers. Guitaralternate tunings wikibooks, open books for an open. When playing particular music types, its often easier to tune your guitar so that chords are played instead of individual notes. In this lesson colin daniel from teaches how to play a few slide riffs in between the rhythm. Feb 14, 2014 slide guitar pro tab by goo goo dolls. The human voice is capable of the sweetest vibrato. The first decision is what kind of slide to use glass, metal or. Learn how to play some standard tuning slide guitar licks in the key of g in this guitar lesson video. Sometimes playing your guitar in standard tuning just isnt enough. A great way to get started with slide guitar is to play in standard tuning, which allows you to focus on all the essentials of frethand touch and pickhand articulation without having to address the issue of relearning the fretboard and chord forms in an alternate tuning.
Jerry invented the c6th tuning jerry says it was at least 1938 on page 119 of his autobiography. Why you should learn slide guitar in standard tuning. How to play blues slide guitar lessons burninguitar. You just drop the low e 6th string one whole step from e to d. Goo goo dolls slide guitar pro ultimate guitar archive. It is, of course, the perfect accompaniment to the acoustic blues guitar unleashed course, but it can be done on its own as well if you are already an intermediate player. Fretboard, lessons, beginners, music book standard tuning slide guitar. Topics include string bending, vibrato for both traditional and slide guitar, phrasing, and more. On a standard guitar you can skip the capo and thus play it in e minor major. Use my search bar to find exactly what youre looking for. Learn blues guitar from eric madis with an intermediate guitar lesson for a tuning and slide guitar. Blues guitar instructional material fred sokolow music. And from this scale we will learn some nice phrases or licks. In this lesson, well cover the main reason why you should learn slide guitar in standard tuning.
Check out my free video lessons on my free lessons page. Learn blues guitar from hawkeye herman with an intermediate guitar lesson for slide guitar and open d tuning. Guitarists have their intonation set with a tuner and a screwdriver, but if you play slide, you have to be like violinists and have intonation in your. If you look at the standard tuning that the guitar is played in, you will immediately notice something odd. Before anyone says that this has been answered before, i would just like to say that although there are quite a few questions on forums asking about b. New greg koch lessons on slide guitar in standard tuning. Guitaralternate tunings wikibooks, open books for an. Each video comes with a downloadable pdf file containing newly transcribed and edited guitar tab for the lessons musical examples. Beginning with guitarists in the american south and hawaii in early 20th century, slide guitar styles have developed in a variety of musical settings. Of course no lesson on delta blues guitar would be complete without a look at bottleneck slide and this lesson is no exception with feldmann closing with two trailblazers of bottleneck slide, son house and charlie patton. The standard tuning works best with light to extra light gauge guitar strings.
Some of ricks favorite slide guitar tunings with some licks and tips for each of them are focused on in the third section. Playing slide guitar in standard tuning guitar noise. Exploring slide guitar in open e tuning guitar world. Would you like to add a different style and technique to your guitar playing. Highquality online guitar lessons taught by professional guitar teachers and top recording artists. Steve miller band the joker tab ultimate guitar archive.
Playing slide guitar in standard tuning vic lewis guitar lessons guitar tuning, slide guitar lessons for beginners over the years, ive had a lot of different guitars, and ive used a lot of different tunings to play slide. Furthermore, like standard tuning, alternate tunings may also have one, two, or more identical notes but all in different octaves like you see with open c e. Dennys guitars slide guitar in standard guitar tuning. A detailed tabmusic booklet is included as a pdf file on the dvd.
You can make it sound as if it was in standard tuning by changing the pitch. Aug 29, 2016 i was stretched out on the hood of an old car, playing guitar, looking for shooting stars and it just seemed to write itself. Slide technique in standard tuning by justin johnson. Drop d is a popular tuning for slide guitar thats easy to tune. The key of g is a great key to play slide guitar in standard tuning with due to the open strings you can utilize. Ive played guitar in a few bands and like to get on stage at the monaghan. This is played in open d tuning, and ill show you an easy way to tune to open d, without even needing a tuner. There are, of course, others that are utilized, with many distinctive variations, depending on the musician and style of music. Open chord tunings are very practical for slide playing, because when a music ian uses a slide or a knife. The slide guitar of muddy waters taught by tom feldmann. This course is the most direct and to the point complete slide guitar course for beginner slide players. This information is also applicable to almost any open tuning.
Below are five different types of open tunings open d, open c, open g, open a, and. Go to to download the pdf file lesson content for free. Some tunings are used for particular songs, and might be referred to by the songs title. Course catalog how to play blues guitar with blues guitar. In this lesson, we are going to take the same licks from our open d tuning examples and play them in our standard tuning. Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in bluesstyle music. Covers standard tuning slide, as well as open g and open d tunings. Standard tuning slide guitar lessons my free blues. To avoid this, ill first explain slide guitar on standard tuning, so all you need is a slide. In this guitar lesson ill show you how to play basic, delta blues style slide guitar on an acoustic. Jan 03, 2011 in this lesson we will be learning the g slide scale. Learn how to play slide guitar in open e tuning with these free slide guitar lessons. Dec 01, 2018 many guitar players use alternate tunings, which differ from standard tuning. Great book for learning slide guitar if you want to play in d tuning.
The most commonly used open tunings for slide are e, d, g and a. Dec 26, 2017 a detailed tabmusic pdf file is included on the dvd. This will be the only slide guitar course you will ever need to take. This edition of in deep will focus on open g tuning and how it is used in blues slideguitar playing. For the longest time ive wanted to imitate the human voice on the guitar, and the way to do this, i ultimately discovered, was slide guitar. When and why you change your strings will depend on a number of factors including. You can also use the 4th, 3rd and 2nd string to slide ma. It typically involves playing the guitar in the traditional position flat against the body with the use of a tubular. This dvd unlocks the secrets to seamlessly weaving classic slide riffs into standard tuning. Finally come sections on slide guitar playing in standard, open g and open d tunings. For players that are familiar with basic slide techniques. The dvds have pdf file tab books instead of paper books that you can access when you put the dvd in your computer. The use of alternate tunings non standard tunings are found throughout the history of the classical guitar and are a major factor in the playing of blues slide guitar.
Slide guitar licks in standard tuning guitar heroes. Jun 29, 2018 learning how to string a guitar is a vital skill for any guitarist. Works for blues, rock, country, acoustic and electric. Alternate guitar tunings software free download alternate. The second shows the complete slide guitar intro lesson. Unlocking the mysteries of slide guitar in open g tuning. The most common open tunings for slide guitar playing are open e, d, g and a. You dont want to have to have to take your guitar into a shop or have a friend change a string any time you break one or when those old strings all need changing. Watch out for the harmonic played together with a fretted note, in the standard notation the harmonic is diamond shaped. The above video is a good example of a slide guitarist making a great sound come from a standard acoustic guitar not a resonator guitar. Pound for blue pound, bukka white gave ol son house a run for the money as being mississippis most visually spellbinding guitar man. Blues guitar champ warren haynes of govt mule and the allman brothers band discussed his fondness of an uncommon practice playing slide guitar in standard tuning.
The definitive list of alternate guitar tunings musician tuts. Also known as bottleneck guitar the necks of bottles make good slides. In this slide guitar lesson, im going to break down a slide guitar lick that is played in standard tuning and can be used over any 12 bar blues progression. Slide guitarists are musicians who are wellknown for playing guitar with a slide, a smooth, hard object, held in the fretting hand and placed against the strings to control the pitch. Some tunings are named for the chord that is sounded when the open strings are played open g, d minor. It is, however, more challenging to play slide guitar in standard tuning. Standard tuning is used by most guitarists, and frequently used tunings can be understood as variations on standard tuning. Usually in standard, but in open tunings, i tune the third a little flat.
Here are some free pdfs used to supplement my free video lessons. As you can see, there are notes in the above alternate tuning that arent present in the collection of notes in standard tuning. Book with online video lessons how to make your electric guitar play great softcover guitar player book 101 razorsharp blues guitar rhythm patterns in the electric urban chicago style book and cd red dog music books razorsharp blues. How to play traveling riverside blueslearn beginning slide guitar and open g tuning. You will learn how to tune the guitar from standard tuning to open e. Return to slide index go to homepagesite map if any of the terminology on this page is not readily apparant in meaning. He was fortunate enough to play with and learn from many musicians who would go on to. On the baritone i play it with a capo on first fret to get in the original key of c minor major. He also invented the c diatonic tuning later on in 1952, which few steel guitar enthusiasts are familiar with. This lesson set covers classic open chord riffs in standard tuning, complete songs, accompaniment riffs, rhythm riffs, slide technique, singlestring melody playing, right and.
Elmore james master of the electric slide guitar pdf. In this lesson, i want to show you how to play some standard tuning slide guitar licks in the key of g. In slide guitar lessons are two of the most famous open tunings. The pdf file is a selfguided tour of portland, oregons geology. With detailed notation and tablature for over 100 playing examples and video demonstrations, koch demonstrates how to play convincing blues, rock, country, and gospeltinged slide guitar while in. Guitar of bukka white stefan grossmans guitar workshop. Learning the various different methods to tune for slide guitar will give you more options to let you suit the tunings to your playing style. Essentials to playing slide guitar in standard tuning guitar world. Learn to improvise slide licks, solos, chord, and backup in several open tunings and standard tuning. For the examples in this lesson, im using a bottletype slide, worn on my ring finger. Sam hurrie slide guitar in standard tuning download. Six full steps one octave down from standard tuning. Sweet child o mine is a song by guns n roses from the album appetite for destruction.
It can bend notes sharp, slide in and out of them, and, of course, create sounds between them. Some are named from an instrument that tunes in that same way charango, dobro, cittern. The low e has the same fundamental frequency as a bass guitar, essentially the same standard tuning as a bass guitar but with a high b and e added to mimic a regular guitar. Open position e blues scale video master class lesson by greg koch. Eric introduces open a tuning and shows how some of the licks. Im assuming a little bit of basic knowledge and ability on the guitar. Slide guitar tuner software free download slide guitar. Many guitar players use alternate tunings, which differ from standard tuning. What is the best way to play slide guitar on standard tuning. Jerry byrd 19202005 was a brilliant steel guitar artist who set the standard for generations to come. He explains how to play a 12 bar blues progression with a slide in this tuning.