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Slide Guitar

7 Reasons Why You Quit Playing Slide Guitar

August 25, 2010

With the rise in popularity of Slide Guitar, partially due to Derek Trucks, many people are now wanting to play the most expressive way of playing the guitar. Playing slide guitar is as close to the human voice as you can get. If you want to play a soulful melodic sound, then there’s no better [...]

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How to Emulate Pedal Steel with Slide Guitar in Open E Tuning

July 20, 2010

If you want to expand the sounds you can get on slide guitar in open e tuning, then check out this tutorial on emulating pedal steel. Pedal Steel is a really cool instrument and can be extremely difficult to learn, carry around, and they are quite expensive. So what if you want to get that type [...]

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Slide Guitar Lesson 3 Month Video Challenge.

June 24, 2010

I keep saying over and over again about the importance of recording yourself to find out what you need to practice to get better. Well now I’m going to give you a real life example of this in action. A customer of Learning Guitar Now has agreed to record himself playing slide guitar, observe where [...]

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Slide Guitar Lesson: Guitar Setup For Slide

April 9, 2010

In this slide guitar lesson, I’m going to show you exactly how I set my action for playing slide guitar. It is really not that hard, but is the first thing you MUST do if you want to get anywhere playing slide guitar. This tutorial is for Gibson Style guitars. Strat type guitars are a [...]

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When I started playing slide guitar….

March 9, 2010

You know, I get a lot of email and questions about how to start playing slide guitar. When I answer, I try to remember what it was like way back then when I first started playing. Although it has been about 17 years since I first started, I can still remember sitting in my bedroom [...]

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Playing Slide Guitar Like Duane Allman

February 5, 2010

Pretty much if you mention playing slide guitar, you will no doubt hear the name Duane Allman come up. He is considered the innovator of the electric slide guitar. Drawing from Robert Johnson, Elmore James, and Muddy Waters, Duane developed his own unique slide guitar style that no one has been able to duplicate. There [...]

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Slide Guitar Lesson: What kind of strings should I use?

February 4, 2010

Almost every week, someone asks me what kind of strings I use on my SG. In this post I want to let you know what I believe are the best strings for playing slide. Is this answer set in stone? No. If you find something you like better, then by all means use them. This [...]

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Are you experiencing the Dip?

January 22, 2010

Seth Godin put out a book entitled, “The Dip”. This is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it to anyone trying to learn something, or run a business. In this book Seth talks about the process of how one goes about learning a specific skill. He says in the beginning it’s all new, and [...]

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$500 Sweetwater Pro Audio Gift Certificate – This Contest has ended.

January 7, 2010

Win a $500 Sweetwater Pro Audio Gift Certificate by adding a comment below telling what you would buy if you won. The winner will be announced on Thursday, March 4th 2010. You have until 5:00pm EST Tuesday, March 2nd to enter. Important Note: This Gift Certificate cannot be redeemed for cash or lessons at Learning [...]

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Slide Guitar Lesson Video Podcast 31

December 19, 2009

In this weeks Slide Guitar Lesson Video Podcast I’ll show you a lick in open E Tuning played in the Key of G. This lick is part of a lesson included in Slow Blues Slide Guitar – Open E Tuning part 5. You can get the free tabs to this podcast here. Playing slide guitar [...]

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