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?
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One of the hardest, yet most important things to master when playing slide guitar is "intonation" - playing in tune.
In this slide guitar lesson, learn how to work on your intonation, with some simple but effective exercises.
Slide guitar can sound amazing! It can also sound terrible… :-(
In this in-depth slide guitar lesson, learn how to mute strings properly so you can clean up your slide guitar technique and sound 1000x better.
Want to make your slide guitar really sing? Want to develop the expressive skills to to say what you want with your slide guitar playing?
You need to work on your slide guitar vibrato!
This short slide guitar lesson goes through the most important principles, deals with some controversial slide guitar myths and will give you the tools to work on your slide vibrato.
Playing slide guitar doesn't mean you can't use your fretting hand fingers too!
Even if you're a "One Finger Guitarist" you can still
(1) solo normally with your remaining fingers
(2) combine slide and fingers using the "behind the slide" technique
In this video we'll look at all these areas, and in addition, focus on specific techniques for playing double-stops with slide and fingers, plus how to convert chords into smaller fragments to take advantage of this technique.