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Albums I Recommend for Learning Blues and Slide Guitar

May 12, 2010

I got an email a while back from someone asking what CDs I recommend to him for learning to play blues guitar. I thought I would do that right here in this blog post.  I cut my teeth on these albums and recommend anyone serious about learning blues guitar and slide guitar to at least [...]

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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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Slide Guitar Lesson: Play like Duane Allman

March 4, 2008

So you’ve always dreamed of playing like the late slide guitar master, Duane Allman? Well I’m here to tell you it can be done, with a little practice and knowledge. In this slide guitar lesson, I’ll show you 3 key things in Duane’s playing that stand out in my mind as “must know” techniques. Here [...]

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Slide Guitar Lesson: Blues Scale in Open E Tuning

March 3, 2008

So you know how to play the blues scale in standard guitar, but you’ve not yet figured out how to play it in Open E Tuning. No slide guitar lesson would be complete without an explanation of this highly used scale. The Blues scale is simply “The Scale to Know” when playing blues slide guitar.  [...]

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Slide Guitar Lesson: Learning Slide Guitar Licks from Duane Allman

January 28, 2008

Is slide guitar something you would like to learn how to play? If so, then you’re probably trying to figure out how to play like Duane Allman. Duane Allman was one of the key innovators of electric slide guitar in Open E tuning. He took some very basic licks and gave them soul. You see [...]

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Learning Slide Guitar: Slide guitar scale lesson in Open E

January 26, 2008

So you want to start learning slide guitar, and you’ve got your guitar tuned to Open E. You probably asking, “Now what?” Well that is a good question. One of the first things you need to do is learn the Minor Pentatonic scale in this tuning. It looks like this in the key of Am. [...]

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Learning Slide guitar: slide guitar licks

January 25, 2008

In todays slide guitar lesson, I’m going to break down 2 blues, slide guitar licks in the open E slide tuning. First let’s get the tuning sorted out. All of these licks are in Open E tuning which is low to high, E B E G# B E. 3 things to remember before we start: [...]

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