Can we play slide guitar in standard tuning?
What are the benefits and disadvantages compared with open tunings for slide guitar?
Who plays slide guitar in standard tuning? / Sounding like "slide guitar" in standard tuning / BONUS - "Tronzo tuning" / Example soloing ideas for standard tuned slide guitar
Do you need a separate guitar for your slide playing, or can you play slide on your favourite guitar?
Do you need to set your guitar up differently for slide guitar?
What gauge strings do you need to play slide guitar?
Let's look in detail at this :-)
This tutorial (Part 1 of 3) is on the slide guitar intro to Statesboro Blues, from Taj Mahal's first album and featuring the great Jesse Edwin Davis on slide.
It's a great standard tuning slide guitar solo to learn :-)
This is a great solo to start your blues slide guitar journey in standard tuning, and a lot of fun to play.
Taj Mahal’s version of Statesboro Blues, featuring Jesse Ed Davis on slide, inspired Duane Allman to pick up a slide, so this isn’t a bad place to start :-)
To really do it justice you will want to refine your slide technique (nothing is really “easy”!), but there’s certainly enough in here for even beginner players to get their teeth into.
In Part 3 of my Statesboro Blues lesson, here are all the fills that Jesse Ed Davis plays.
These are all played over an E7 chord, so give you great vocabulary in the key of E.
There’s a huge lesson in the deceptive simplicity of these ideas - many are based on similar shapes /ideas, but he creates all sorts of variations.