Electric Slide Guitar

This Hal Leonard video tutorial series presented by guitar great David Hamburger will introduce you to the exciting world of playing electric slide guitar in the open G and open E tunings!

Videos

• Open G Tuning (04:10) - In this first video, we meet slide guitarist David Hamburger and are shown the open G tuning.

• The Major & Minor Pentatonic Scale (07:14) - Next, we go over two common scales and incorporate the slide into them.

• Picking (08:35) - Here, we talk about picking using finger picks and are shown examples.

• Inflections (05:09) - David goes over different inflections that can be used when going from note to note using the slide.

• 12th Fret (08:45) - In this video, we go over what we have learned applied to the 12th fret.

• Closed Position (05:54) - We continue our discussion on playing up near the 12th fret and how versatile using the closed positon can be.

• The Capo (05:47) - Next David goes over the capo and how it can be used for transposing by keeping the open tuning relationship of notes the same.

• Open E Tuning (04:33) - David goes over another tuning for the slide in E.

• Elmore James (10:03) - In this final video, we discuss Elmore "King of the Slide Guitar" James and are shown several of his famous licks.