ELECTRIC SLIDE GUITAR. Hamburger.
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This book/audio method explores the basic fundamentals of slide guitar: from selecting a slide and proper setup of the guitar, to open and standard tuning. Plenty of music examples are presented showing sample licks as well as backup/rhythm slide work. Each section also examines techniques and solos in the style of the best slide guitarists, including Duane Allman, Dave Hole, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter and Elmore James. CD TABLATURE
Series: Guitar Educational
Softcover with CD - TAB
Author: David Hamburger
This book/audio method explores the basic fundamentals of slide guitar: from selecting a slide and proper setup of the guitar, to open and standard tuning. Plenty of music examples are presented showing sample licks as well as backup/rhythm slide work. Each section also examines techniques and solos in the style of the best slide guitarists, including Duane Allman, Dave Hole, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter and Elmore James. 80 pages
INTRODUCTION
The aim of this book is to present you with the essential techniques required to play electric
slide guitar, while providing a hands-on understanding of the variety of slide styles that exist within
the blues idiom. The book begins with the open G tuning, proceeds to open E tuning, and concludes
with playing in standard tuning. While there is material at a variety of levels throughout the book,
important matters of technique are introduced chapter by chapter. E tuning is not "harder" than G tuning,
or vice versa, but as the chapters on open E tuning come later in the book, that is the point at
which more advanced techniques are discussed, whereas basics of right and left hand technique are
covered in the earlier chapters on G tuning.
A Note About the Tunings
There are four tunings that are considered standard for the electric slide guitar: open G, open
D, open A, and open E. Open G and open A offer essentially the same sound as one another, a whole
step apart (open G= D, G, D, G, B, D; open A= E, A, E, A, C#, E, low to high). Open D and open E
likewise offer essentially the same sound as one another, a whole step apart (open D= D, A, D, F#, A,
D, open E= E, B, E, G#, B, E, low to high). For this book, I have chosen to present all of the examples
(except for those in standard tuning) in either open G or open E tuning, rather than distinguish
between various artists' use of G or A tuning, and D or E tuning. I have done this for two reasons. The
first is to enable you to compare examples from different styles of playing within a given chapter
quickly and easily, without having to retune or capo by a whole step, or transpose in your head. The
second reason is that G and E tunings share some familiar fret positions and bar chord locations with
standard tuning. This makes orientation to each of these open tunings a little easier. More importantly,
it makes it much easier to translate what you have learned in open tunings back into standard tuning,
should you wish to play without t::hanging to an open tuning-for instance, if you use a slide for just
part of a song.
Electric slide guitar is at the heart of electric blues, from the pioneering postwar recordings of
Muddy Waters and Elmore James to the blues-rock of Duane Allman, Johnny Winter and Lowell
George, from timeless, genre-busting originals like Earl Hooker and Ry Cooder to contemporary
artists like Bonnie Raitt, Roy Rodgers and Dave Hole. The diversity among slide players is remarkable.
Far from being limited to the generic sound stereotyped in every bar band's version of "Dust My
Broom," the world of electric slide guitar is as broad, deep, and eclectic as the blues itself.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 Slide Essentials
Choosing a Slide .
Guitar Set-Up .
Left Hand Damping .
Left Hand Exercises .
Right Hand Muting .
Fingerstyle .
Right Hand Exercises .
More Right Hand Practice .
Playing with a Pick .
Vibrato .
Chapter 2 Open G TIming
Tuning Up .
The Fretboard in Open G Tuning .
Scales .
Damping/Muting Exercises on One String .
Major and Minor Pentatonic Licks .
Call and Response .
Combining Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales .
The Blues Form .
Chapter 3 Improvising in Closed Position
Closed Position Scales in G .
Precision Exercises .
Blues Vocabulary .
Transposing: Blues in G .
Combining Open and Closed Positions, ala Muddy Waters .
The Upper Extension: Adding Notes above the 12th Fret .
Transposing the Upper Extension: Blues in C .
The Dorian Mode
Chapter 4 Backup in Open G
The Style of Muddy Waters .
Changing Keys-Using a Capo .
The Style of Bonnie Raitt .
The Style of Ry Cooder .
The Style of Johnny Winter .
The Style of Dave Hole .
Chapter 5 Open E TIming
Tuning Up .
The Fretboard in Open E Tuning .
Scales .
Exercises .
The Style of Ry Cooder .
The Style of Johnny Winter .
Chapter 6 Broom Dusters, House Rockers, and the Closed Position
Scales .
The Style of Elmore James .
The Style of Hound Dog Taylor .
The Style of Duane Allman .
Pulldowns, Escape Notes, and Gradual Slides .
Duane's World .
High Energy Blues/Rock: the Styles of Johnny Winter and Dave Hole
Chapter 7 Backup in Open E
The Style of Elmore James-Elmore's Shuffle .
The Style of Hound Dog Taylor .
The Style of Ry Cooder .
Beyond the Key of E .
Stop Time Boogie .
Double Stops .
Chapter 8 Standard TIming
Translating Open G Tuning to Standard Tuning .
Translating Open E Tuning to Standard Tuning .
Standard Tuning .
Adapting Classic Open Tuning Licks to Standard Tuning .
Combining the Open and Closed Positions in Standard Tuning .
The Style of Robert Nighthawk .
The Style of Earl Hooker .
Standard Tuning Licks .
Chapter 9 What to Do Next .
A Selected Discography
About the Author .
Notation Legend .
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