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A Beginner’s Guide To Slide Guitar Tunings

A Beginner’s Guide To Slide Guitar Tunings

WRITTEN BY THE HAPPY BLUESMAN If you want to start playing slide guitar, I would recommend experimenting with different slide guitar tunings. There are a variety of these different tunings, and each one has its own sound and feel. Not only this, but each tuning alters the relationship between the strings of your guitar in a unique way, forming different shapes and patterns on your fretboard.As such, before you start experimenting with different tunings, it... read more.

A Beginner’s Guide To Guitar Slides

A Beginner’s Guide To Guitar Slides

Since the blues was first ‘discovered’ by W.C. Handy at the beginning of the 20th century, slide guitar has been a fundamental part of the genre. It was first used by a wide variety of Delta blues guitarists to create their haunting compositions. And later - players like Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter and Duane Allman electrified slide playing - using the slide to create a totally different set of sounds.Even now, slide guitar playing remains... read more.

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