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I have played guitar since 1964. Over that time I have focused on playing many types of music.
Sometime in the 1980s I found the blues.
For the most part since then, I have focused on listening to and playing the blues.
One of the characteristics of the blues is the sound of slide guitar.
Many times, I have tried to play slide guitar and I ended up with a screechy mess.
It just never sounded good.
I recently found the following books from Fundamental Changes (FundmentalChanges.com).
As far as I can tell, they are only available through Amazon in the US,
I have only been working with the books for a short while.
I finally believe that my dreams of playing true slide guitar are coming true.
I am certainly no Duane Allman or Derek Trucks.
However, my slide guitar playing is improving. It is also sounding a lot better.
Please take a look at these books. If you choose to buy any of them, I will receive a small commission. It will not increase the book’s price. These books are available as Kindle books at FundamentalChanges.com but I recommend the print editions.
Delta Blues Slide Guitar: Master Authentic Techniques and Classic Sounds
Learn the fundamentals of Delta Slide Guitar. Discover the unique techniques that define this genre.
Delta Blues Slide Guitar teaches bottleneck acoustic blues, a style rooted in the Mississippi Delta. This genre predates the popularization of blues by artists like Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton.
Build Your Delta Slide Skills with Hands-On Guidance
Learn flawless slide guitar technique through detailed exercises and full-length songs. Develop musical confidence as you master essential Delta Blues skills. Gain insights from the pioneers, including Robert Johnson, Son House, and Bukka White.
Essential Techniques and Styles
- Master Open D and Open G tunings for Delta Blues.
- Perfect slide fretting for accurate pitch and smooth tone.
- Learn the secrets of expressive vibrato and melodic phrasing.
- Use emotive techniques for powerful, dynamic solos.
- Explore authentic slide scales, patterns, and approaches.
Find Your Unique Voice
Delta Blues Slide Guitar helps you develop a personal style. Learn the roots, then shape your own expressive sound in the Delta Blues tradition.
What’s Inside
- Step-by-step guidance that builds from basic to advanced techniques.
- Hundreds of exercises, licks, and tricks.
- Three authentic Delta Blues songs with complete playing guides.
- Free studio-quality audio examples to guide your practice.
The Complete Delta Blues Guide
Delta Blues Slide Guitar isn’t just a method book—it’s a musical journey. Buy now to unlock the authentic sounds of the Mississippi Delta and find your place in blues history.
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The art of playing the slide guitar in a modern expressive manner.
The slide guitar is currently enjoying a huge renaissance. Contemporary players like Derek Trucks, Joey Landreth, Brett Garsed, AJ Ghent, and Jack White are responsible for its revival. These great innovators are carrying the flame for the next generation. And our new how to play slide guitar book teaches you how.
Learning slide guitar can change your entire guitar approach. It is one of the few techniques that offers such a transformation. It can transform the guitar into a whole new instrument. In this book, you will master the art and technique of modern electric slide guitar playing.
What You’ll Learn:
Discover essential open tunings for slide. Learn scale shapes for innovative soloing.
Master advanced guitar techniques such as playing behind the slide, false harmonics, and legato.
Explore slide guitar licks in the style of Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, and Johnny Winter.
Study modern techniques from Derek Trucks, Dan Auerbach, Joey Landreth, and Brett Garsed.
Learn the rarely taught skill of playing slide guitar in standard tuning!
In Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques, virtuoso guitarist Levi Clay teaches you perfect slide guitar technique from its first foundations. You’ll master accurate intonation, string muting and expressive vibrato before learning to expressing yourself musically on slide guitar.
You’ll discover how to play with a full range of expression and emotion. You will master the most useful chords, inversions, and playing positions used by the world’s best players.
You will learn slide guitar in all the common open tunings. We’ve even included chapters on how to transfer any open tuning lick to standard tuning. This way, you can grab any guitar and instantly make incredible music.
Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques offers full-length study pieces and complete slide guitar solos to learn. It includes hundreds of licks, tips and techniques of your favourite players. It is the ultimate guide to the art of modern creative slide guitar.
Here’s What You Get:
Expressive and authentic modern slide guitar lessons.
Dozens of exercises and slide guitar techniques. You can use them to make beautiful music instantly.
Tips on choosing the right slide, guitar setup, and nailing the perfect amp tone.
Perfectly notated examples with tab and studio-quality audio. You can download them for FREE.
Bonus: Learn complete solos and dazzling performance pieces. This way, you always have something meaningful to play for a crowd.
Hear it!
Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques contains over 150 supporting audio examples, so you can hear exactly how each one should sound.
Learn how to play slide guitar. Enhance your performance skills as a guitarist. Take them to the next level today.
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Master 100 Slide Guitar Licks & Learn the Language of the 20 Greatest Blues Guitar Players
- Play in the style of the 20 greatest slide guitarists
- Master 5 genre-defining guitar licks for each player
- Combine and personalize vocabulary into your own unique style
- Get creative jamming over original backing tracks
- Discover extensive biographies and essential discographies for every player
100 Classic Slide Licks for Blues Guitar
- Are you struggling to learn the language of slide blues guitar?
- Want to combine slide blues guitar licks into meaningful, personalized solos?
- Do you need a complete theoretical and technical breakdown of slide guitar soloing?
100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar goes way beyond every other ‘boring’ lick book. It teaches you 100 essential slide guitar licks. These are in the style of the world’s 20 greatest slide guitarists….
Here’s What You Get:
- 100 slide guitar licks closely mimicking the language of the 20 most important slide guitar players.
- Playing advice and breakdown for every lick, from fingering to musical application.
- Perfectly notated examples with tab, and studio-quality audio to download for free.
Bonus One: Essential discography for every player.
Bonus Two: Tips on phrasing, articulation and how to make each lick your own.
Go Way Beyond “Traditional” Slide Guitar Lick Books
100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar is different to every other guitar lick book available. It’s not simply a cold list of licks. It provides a breakdown of the playing style of the world’s most important slide guitarists. You won’t just copy lines verbatim. You’ll internalize the language of the slide guitar masters. Then, you’ll incorporate it into your everyday playing.
Extensive biographies are provided. The musical style and language of the 20 greatest slide guitar players is discussed and analyzed. Five defining, “in the style of” licks for each player are broken down note by note.
You will learn guitar licks in the style of:
Duane Allman | Ry Cooder | Brett Garsed | A.J. Ghent | Billy Gibbons | Warren Haynes | Son House | Elmore James | Robert Johnson | Sonny Landreth | Joey Landreth | Bonnie Raitt | Chris Rea | Tampa Red | Gary Rossington | Derek Trucks | Joe Walsh | Muddy Waters | Bukka White | Johnny Winter |
Hear it!
Learning slide guitar licks from paper is one thing, but once you hear how to apply them, they become music. 100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar provides 100 audio examples. These examples help you get inside the music. It also includes backing tracks to apply each new lick quickly in any real musical situation.
Buy it now to bring the authentic language of the slide blues guitar legends into your playing.
This is the book I bought. After reading the descriptions, I realized I wanted to buy all three books. It contains all of the information in the previous three books. I saved about $15.00.
3 Definitive Slide Blues Guitar Books in one Great Compilation
The Slide Guitar Soloing Collection brings together three bestselling books. These books help you master slide guitar. You will learn from the authentic roots of the Delta Blues. They also cover the styles and techniques of the modern slide blues masters. There is no more comprehensive guide to slide playing! This compilation includes:
Delta Blues Slide Guitar
Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques
100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar
Delta Blues Slide Guitar
A complete guide to the techniques and music of “bottleneck” acoustic blues. This ground-breaking book teaches the art of flawless Delta slide guitar technique. It includes hundreds of exercises. These exercises help you master each skill in a musical and confident way. Learn licks in the style of the Delta Blues slide pioneers. Some of these pioneers are Robert Johnson, Son House, Bukka White, and Tampa Red.
- Master the two most common tunings of Delta Blues: Open D and Open G
- Perfect your slide fretting technique to develop a solid foundation and build great tone
- The secrets of great vibrato and how to use it to create expressive melodies
- Emotive slide guitar techniques for powerful solos
- Accurate pitching and intonation. Play slide guitar in tune – every time!
- The best scales to use for slide guitar soloing, presented in easy to read diagrams
- Hundreds of authentic slide guitar licks and tricks
Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques
Slide guitar is experiencing a renaissance. Contemporary players like Derek Trucks, Joey Landreth, Brett Garsed, AJ Ghent, and Jack White are contributing to its resurgence. In this book, you will master the art and technique of modern electric slide guitar playing.
- Essential open tunings for slide, & scale shapes for innovative soloing
- Advanced guitar techniques such as playing behind the slide, false harmonics & legato
- Slide guitar licks in style of Duane Allman, Ry Cooder and Johnny Winter
- Modern techniques from Derek Trucks, Dan Auerbach, Joey Landreth and Brett Garsed
- The rarely taught skill of playing slide guitar in standard tuning!
100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar
100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar goes further than other lick books. Here you will find a complete breakdown of the playing style of the world’s most important slide guitarists. You won’t just copy blindly. You’ll internalize the language of the slide guitar masters. Then you’ll incorporate it into your everyday playing. The book provides extensive biographies. It also discusses and analyzes the musical style and language of the 20 greatest slide blues guitar players. After this analysis, 5 defining “in the style of” licks are broken down, note by note. Learn slide in the style of:
Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Brett Garsed, A.J. Ghent, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Son House, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Sonny Landreth, Joey Landreth, Bonnie Raitt, Chris Rea, Tampa Red, Gary Rossington, Derek Trucks, Joe Walsh, Muddy Waters, Bukka White and Johnny Winter.
Bonus 1: Along the way, you’ll gain insights into many important technical aspects of slide playing. These include choice of slide, which finger to wear it on, string action, amp setup and tone, and more!
Bonus 2: An amazing 400+ studio quality audio examples, complete FREE to download, so you’ll know how every lick and trick should sound
All the slide guitar secrets you need are right here – don’t miss out!