101 Razor-Sharp Slide Guitar Licks in Open E Tuning: Electric Urban / Chicago Style

Comb-bound electric slide guitar instruction book and CD.

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This superb electric slide book teaches how to play open tuning slide guitar with a blues band and singer. It is the only slide (or bottleneck) guitar instruction book devoted to learning how to play slide behind a blues vocalist.

The term slide guitar refers to a style of playing in which the guitar strings are fretted with a piece of metal, glass or ceramic. Usually, the fretting device is a finger sized cylinder (the slide) that is worn on either the third or fourth finger of the fretting hand. Bottleneck blues guitar players have been known to play bottleneck blues guitar with makeshift items such as knife blades, bones, and spoon handles.

Slide guitar is also known as bottleneck guitar or knife guitar. Slide guitar setup: A guitar used for slide playing is usually tuned to an open chord; the strings are raised at the nut to accommodate the pressure of the slide.

A fill-in is a lead guitar lick played behind a singer. This slide guitar guide teaches 101 authentic slide guitar fill-ins in open E tuning. Songs are presented in a way that makes learning efficient, enjoyable, and pertinent to real music.

For your convenience, all of the songs are performed in open E tuning, allowing you to jam with the entire CD without having to retune. After absorbing the licks, apply them to songs of your own choice.

Songs include standards such as Joe Turner Blues, St. Louis Blues, Sporting Life Blues, House of the Rising Sun, Midnight Special, and several new songs based on standard blues changes.

Supplementary Materials

• Open E Tuning (Diagram)
• The E Minor Pentatonic Scale in Open E (Diagram)
• Tones in the Basic Blues Chords (Diagram)
• Tips for Slide Guitar Players

All this for a low price that is less than the cost of a single private music lesson.

Prerequisite Ability

• Early intermediate and intermediate musicians.

User Profiles

• Serious hobbyist musicians looking for an electric slide guitar book.
• Any guitarist who wants to learn how to play slide guitar.
• Any gigging musician who wants to learn blues slide guitar in more detail.
• Dobro, National Steel, or steel guitar player who desires slide guitar instruction.
• Guitar teachers who teach slide lessons and blues guitar lessons.

Goals and Purposes

• Learn bottleneck guitar licks that can be played in a band.
• Learn basic slide guitar techniques by playing along with a recorded band and singer.
• Improve slide guitar technique.
• Develop more rounded skills as a blues guitarist.
• Study open E tuning.
• Beginning slide guitar book, slide guitar basics for ambitious students.
• Helps an early intermediate understand blues progressions.
• Learn to play tasteful guitar licks behind a singer.

Author-Recommended Supplemental Listening for Slide Guitar Players

The author recommends that guitarists who use this book supplement with listening to as many of the following slide guitar players as possible. Listening to these classic blues slide guitar players will provide unlimited enjoyment and inspiration.

Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Bob Brozman, Ry Cooder, John Fahey, John Hammond, Earl Hooker, Elmore James, Homesick James, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Son House, J.B. Hutto, Leo Kottke, Taj Mahal, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Nighthawk, Bonnie Raitt, Tampa Red,Tom Rush, Hound Dog Taylor, George Thorogood, Derek Trucks, Muddy Waters, Merle Watson, Bukka White, Johnny Winter.