A lot more than meets the eye goes into playing slide Guitar. This course will give you the skills you need to sound great and avoid the most common mistakes people make when they try slide.

You will start by learning how to play on just one string but by the end you will be moving around all the strings and up and down the neck. You’ll find out how to play in ‘G open tuning’, learn some great sounding Blues licks as well as learning a classic Delta Blues tune. You’ll be getting to grips with fundamental finger picking technique so you can play bass and melody together. And most importantly, you’ll develop crucial techniques like vibrato and ‘double muting’ which are the things that will set you up to sound like a pro.

  • Never played slide before? Don’t worry. This mini course will take you from the absolute basics (like which finger to put the slide on) to playing and improvising across the whole fretboard and all the strings.

  • The lessons are set out in a logical progression route. You will master one idea before moving on to the next and you can go through the lessons as slowly or as quickly as you like.

  • Some knowledge of Music theory is useful but not essential as everything is explained in a way that is simple to follow. However, this is not a beginner Guitar course - it’s a course for people who have some experience playing Guitar and are beginner slide players.

Course curriculum

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    • THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SLIDE TECHNIQUE

    • 'YOU GOTTA MOVE' - classic slide Blues riff

    • SLIDING SCALES

    • WHEN THE SAINTS

    • OPEN G TUNING

    • 12 BARS OF BLUES, ALL 6 STRINGS

    • 12 BAR IN OPEN G (Part 2)